dj shadow was terrific! latyrix was pretty cool, i thought their
free--style was pretty bumpin'. the crowd wasn't into them at all, but
who can rap over shadow with out falling short of the challenge?
julie-ann
Michael Aregood wrote:
>
> ahaaa! a Philly listee! :) Spinning at the Bongo Room Saturday night...
> Sorry i neglected to review the rest of the show.
>
> This is just a personal opinion of course but you didn't really miss
> much. Maybe my expectations about what Shadow was going to do were
> different. He dropped some really fat hip-hop but there were no dancing
> girls...(just kidding!!)
> Seriously, i expected a little more experimenting. He pretty much just
> went from song to song bringing it in with the same scratch. Don't get
> me wrong I was really diggin' it but....
>
> Latirx and Lyrics Born nearly got booed off the stage. I can't say i
> thought it was all that good but they came on strong and confident and
> continued to bust some fat free-styles with people chanting "Jeru" at
> them and i gotta respect that. Highlight of their set was when they both
> were rapping a mile a minute at the same time completely different
> lyrics, occasionally meeting up and saying the same thing. Pretty cool.
>
> Argo
>
> > ----------
> > From: Carolyn Reinhardt
> > Sent: Friday, April 25, 1997 9:51 AM
> > To: acid-jazz mailing list
> > Subject: Philly-DJ Shadow
> >
> > Hey everybody!
> >
> > I was just wondering if any of the listees from Philly saw DJ
> > Shadow, Jeru, etc. at the T.L.A. last night (Yeah, I'm talking to you
> > Michael Aregood! ;) I missed it because of circumstances beyond my
> > control, and I was wondering if anyone could give me a review,
> > descriptions, opinions, etc. Thanks a million and more!
> >
> > Carolyn
> >
> >