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Maceo Parker



Review 10/17/97
From: Dr.Brookenstein

At Philly - 10/17/97                                                      
[Funk-Music Festival at Electric Factory]                                 

This is the worst night to see Maceo Parker in concert--the electricity   
went out at 8:00pm, because a transformer blew up in a building about 2   
blocks away.  For the next 3 hours, the place was dark, with the exception
of some small "backup" lights and flashlights.  Two groups performed      
before Maceo; they were Group Collective and The Dirty Dozen.  At 10:45pm,
the lights finally came back on, and the Maceo Parker band joined the     
stage at 11:00pm.  A few minutes passed and Fred Wesley walked to the     
stage......people began to really applause for Fred!  Fred was followed by
the star himself, Maceo!!                                                 


The track listing included the following songs:                           
(NOT in chronological order)                                              

Pass The Peas                                                             
Shake Everything You Got                                                  
Proud Mary                                                                
Mustang Sally                                                             
Psychoticbumpschool                                                       
Up For The Down Stroke                                                    
The Way You Make Me Feel                                                  
Georgia on My Mind                                                        
House Party    (performed by Fred Wesley.....and a great performance)     
The "Bootsy Bootsy" chant followed by the famous intro announcement from  
 "Aah...The Name is Bootsy, Baby"                                         
"Na Na Na Na"  (really FUNKY.....sounds like a Funkadelic-type song, the  
 guitar licks sounded like the opening riff from "Let's Take It To The    
 Stage")                                                                  
An instrumental sounding close to "America Eats Its Young" (some          
 psychedelic shit!)                                                       


The highlights of the show:                                               

Seeing the percussionist perform "Mustang Sally".  I've never seen a      
performer move his hips and kick his leg up like that........it was pretty
entertaining!!  At the end of the song, he walked to the left of the stage
and pretended to drop his pants, and shook his ass to the crowd!          

The bassist (I believe his name is Jerry) spent 3 minutes doing a Bootsy  
solo!!!!!  This guy sent out some bass riffs that was so identical to     
Bootsy that I thought this was the "Almost Bootsy Show".  All that he was 
missing was the "star" glasses!  Hey, this motherfucker was "stretchin'   
out"........he must have attended the Psychotic Bump School for jamming!  

The guitarist followed the "Almost Bootsy" performance with a little bit  
of Eddie Hazel-type playing, the ending sounding like the feedback sounds 
of Eddie Hazel's guitar.                                                  

During the performance of "Shake Everything You Got", Maceo declared the  
show to be the "Ooh Yeah!" show!   Everywhere he got a chance, he had the 
crowd shouting "Ooh Yeah!"                                                

Maceo's son, Corey, came out during the last 30 minutes of the show to    
perform an original jazz-hip-hop tune, complete with his rapping.         


The show ended at 1:20pm!                                                 


All in all, it was a great Maceo Parker performance, not to be            
forgotten!!!!