That's right - I got the title wrong - my apologies. "Blues ain't
nothing but a good woman gone bad" is the chorus in the song.
My housemate sent me the following forward. Does anyone have the
411 on it or can confirm the incident?
>
>MOTHERSHIP ACCIDENTLY DESCENDS ON HOOTIE CONCERT.
>
>ROSEMONT, IL--Confusion and awkwardness resulted Monday when the P-Funk
>Mothership, outer-space chariot of Dr. Funkenstein and the Star Child,
>accidentally descended upon a sold-out Hootie and the Blowfish
concert at
>the Rosemont Horizon arena in suburban Chicago.
>
> "Thumpasaurus Peoples! You have summoned us through the Groove, and we
>have returned to refunkatize the planet!" said Dr. Funkenstein, the
>fur-bedecked, disco-booted Mothership Supreme Commander, moments before
>the popular South Carolina-based band was about to launch into the song
>"I Only Wanna Be With You."
>
> Members of Hootie and the Blowfish, whose 1995 release Cracked
Rear View
>sold over 14 million copies, were caught off guard by the arrival of the
>Mothership.
>
> "The man who came out of the spaceship attempted to shoot me with
>something he called a 'Bop Gun,'" lead singer Darius Rucker told
>reporters. "Somehow I sensed it would be detrimental to my career as a
>singer."
>
> Added a visibly distressed Rucker: "He also seemed to imply that if I
>let my mind go free, something would happen to my bottom."
>
> Bandmate Dean Felber was equally disturbed by the appearance of the
>cosmic visitors. "Their mode of dress was, frankly, garish," Felber told
>reporters, "not at all like the muted, earth-tone flannels and oversized
>cable-knit sweaters appropriate for concert wear."
>
> Sources speculate that an inadvertent hip shake by Rucker, who briefly
>lost his balance stumbling over a stray mandolin, may have accidentally
>summoned the Mothership.
>
> It is also speculated that Rucker's powerful baritone voice may have
>exceeded Hootie and the Blowfish's normal safety standards for "bass,"
>inadvertently summoning the intergalactic funk saucer.
>
> Said band member Mark Bryan,"We had just finished a really super
>rendition of 'Let Her Cry' that sounded exactly like on the CD, when out
>of nowhere these strange men came down shouting about getting up
and doing
>the backstroke, or something."
>
> According to police, no serious damage was caused by the incident, but
>it did result in a 45-minute concert delay, causing many in
attendance to
>go to bed later than they had wanted to.
>
> "I had a 9 a.m. meeting the next day with a very important
client," said
>concertgoer/stockbroker James Norridge, 42, who did not go to
sleep until
>well after midnight. "I really needed to be at the top of my game."
>
> Norridge's disappointment was typical of the 17,456 whites in
attendance.
>
> "I did not wish to get 'funked up,'" said Roger Kleist, 33. "If I did,
>I would have attended a Dave Matthews Band concert.
>
>
>
>
shanti,
ashwin
ashwin@visgen.com