Rydell and I saw MC Chris last night. If ya don’t know.. you don’t know.
First the opening acts. The first was a duo who sang with what sounded like demo patterns from your ordinary Yamaha keyboard. It did have good sound some how. They were pretty crazy/goofy and it was their job to bring smiles to the crowd. They did. The second was Tres Bien who had guitars and drums. They brought more musical professionalism to the stage. Their energy made people mosh which made me raise my elbows in defense.
I truely appreciated the third crew. They go by the name Yip-Yip. They’re synths + beats with a stage show. From what I saw and after talking with them, they use a Korg MS-10, Novation K-station, MiniMoog, Roland JP-8000, two cheesey mixers and various other gear including a funky voice modulator. Lots of resonance + cutoff filter tweaking with these avant-garde artsy beat dropping bastards. Like I said, I appreciated them a lot.
And finally MC Chris.
MC Chris owns. Great show. My fav part was during the outro of his show he rhymed the first verse of PE’s Bring the Noise. When he met EVERYONE after the show, I made sure to shake his hand, get my ticket signed and tell him that was one of my favorite moments of his show. He then asks (correctly) if I was the guy in front that was rhyming along with him. Hell yeah that was me. So know you know that MC Chris and funky49 are down with PE. I regret I didn’t ask him the question “What’s the future of Public Enemy?”
Chris took a picture of Rydell and me. Rydell complimented him in the way he used the camera correctly. MC Chris’ reply? “I’m a renaissance man”. True. That sounds like the topic of a future song if you ask me.
If ya don’t know, you know a little bit now.
