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Bernie Worrell
& the WOO Warriors



Review 05/29/99
From: Dr.Brookenstein

At The Knitting Factory - NYC                                            
[Cosmic Core Festival, $12]                                              
[Opening act: Project Logic]                                             

I AM SO, SO GLAD THAT I CAME TO THIS WOO SHOW FOR SEVERAL REASONS:       

1. I WAS ABLE TO SEE JUDIE WORRELL AGAIN......AND SHE LOOKS MORE         
BEAUTIFUL AND RADIANT THAN EVER!!                                        
2. I WITNESSED A SHOW THAT'LL GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS THE BEST WOO SHOW    
EVER!!!                                                                  
3. I GOT A CHANCE TO COMPLIMENT CATHERINE RUSSELL ON HER EXCELLENT       
CONTRIBUTION TO THE WOO!!                                                
4. I SAW MRS. SHEILA BRODY AGAIN.....THE SEXY GODDESS FROM THE BRIDES OF 
FUNKENSTEIN!!  HEY SHEILA, "SOMEBODY SAID THERE'S A PARTY GOIN' ON, UP IN
HERE!"  HA HA!!  YOU GOT ME SENDING UP SMOKE SIGNALS FOR YA!!            
5. GABE GONZALEZ (THE CREATOR/INNOVATOR FOR E-SQUADELIC FUNK--ENEMY      
SQUAD-- AND WOO DRUMMER) AUTOGRAPHED MY SOUVENIR DRUMSTICK...MORE ON THAT
LATER!!                                                                  
6. WOO WARRIORS PERFORMED "SEVEN LAWS OF WOO" --- YES!!!  A NASTY, FIERCE
CONCOCTION OF FIERY HARDCORE ROCK MUSIC, LACED WITH HEAVY ORGAN RIFFS,   
DRIVING BASS CHORDS AND INTENSE GUITAR RIFFS!!!!                         


The WOO show started at 12:00 midnight, with a funky intro called "P.Funk
(Wants To Get Funked Up)", featuring the narrator voice of Gabe "Undisco 
Kidd" Gonzalez!  Gabe played some funky-ass, heavy bass drums and Mike   
Reuben did a crazed guitar solo!  Atmospheric, spacy keyboard-synthesized
sounds pour from the one and only Joseph "Amp" Fiddler, while Ms. Donna  
McPherson provided lots of noxious bottom (from her bass, of course!)!   
Ten minutes past before Bernie Worrell showed up and played the circus   
theme on WOO-keys.  A few minutes past before Bernie started playing BY  
HIMSELF, and he played some insane, freaked-out shit and ended it with a 
welcomed fucked-up version of "The Entertainer"!!  All from the truly    
psychotic mind of B. Worrell, the craziest member of Funkadelic!!!  A few
funky bars from the WOO Wizard preceded Parliament's "Gamin' on Ya".     
"Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself Again" (a Sly Stone track) was       
followed with the appearance of the beautiful, talented Ms. Catherine    
Russell, who performed excellent vocals of "Red Hot Momma".  "Y-Spy" was 
good, but "If You Don't Like The Effects, Don't Produce The Cause" was   
much better, with Catherine on melodica.  Amp provided a WOO-esque,      
freakish keyboard solo and Mike set the Knitting Factory afire with his  
frenzied guitar riffs!!  "Straight Ahead" followed, along with "Re-Enter 
Black Light (Entersection)"....featuring a funky-as-nine-cans-of-wet-    
Magic-Shave, tight drumming by Gabe.  Bernie and Amp left the stage,     
leaving the trio (Donna, Gabe and Mike) doing their thing.  A few minutes
later, Mike left the stage, leaving the funky backbone (Donna & Gabe) in 
effect!!  "Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication" was grooving, but "Comin'
Round The Mountain" was ultra-funky with the smelly keyboard work of Mr. 
Worrell.....however, I miss the low-pitched "Lowdown, can you do the     
lowdown!" by original WOO drummer, Van Romaine!!                         

There were some problems with the sound equipment, so Catherine could not
play her mandolin for the intro to "Baby I Owe You Something Good"!  Mike
played her part on guitar.  Cathy & Bernie sang the opening lines to the 
song in a manner that mocked all of these opera singers!! Mike played his
ass off, while Cathy provided some powerhouse vocals. "Can You Get To    
That?" was next and it featured the freakish keyboard solo of "Amp"      
Fiddler.....actually, I definitely prefer Amp's solo over the artsy,     
classical sounds of Greg Fitz.                                           

What followed was the definite highlight of the show:  "SEVEN LAWS OF    
WOO"!!  Bernie started it off with a majestic organ solo (as only the    
Wizard could) that ends hauntingly (as to summon the satanic spirits),   
before Gabe played a couple of rimshots and the band joined it in this   
horrific-sounding, high-intensity metal frenzy!!                         
Mike did his heavy guitar jamming, but he is no match to the sounds of   
Buckethead!!   Donna provided some heavy, driving bass riffs to stir up  
this angry stew of hardcore rock!  (By the way, you can find this song on
the Praxis CD "Transmutation"!)  The WOO Warriors settled down the heavy 
madness with a danceable P-Funk tune "Flashlight", which segued into     
"WOO-Lite"!!  The WOO-funk is your funk, the motherlode of y'all funk!"  
The show ended at 1:55am.                                                

There was an encore at 2:00am.  The WOO Warriors played a funky version  
of "Smokey", with Amp on lead vocals......personally, I like Greg Fitz's 
lead vocals on this song better.  The band also did an off-key version of
"If You Got Funk, You Got Style", with Amp providing a funkified, choppy 
keyboard riff!  Personally, this version of "If You Got Funk.." was not  
all that.  The encore performance ended at 2:15am.                       


To recap, the song set listing was:                                      

P-Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up)                                          
Bernie solo (w/ "The Entertainer")                                       
Gamin' on Ya                                                             
Thank You (For Letting Me Be Myself Again)                               
Red Hot Momma                                                            
Y-Spy                                                                    
If You Don't Like The Effects, Don't Produce The Cause                   
Straight Ahead                                                           
Re-Enter Black Light (Entersection)                                      
Supergroovalistic                                                        
Comin' Round The Mountain                                                
Baby I Owe You Something                                                 
Can You Get To That?                                                     
Seven Laws of WOO                                                        
Flashlight/WOO-Lite                                                      

ENCORE:                                                                  

Smokey                                                                   
If You Got Funk, You Got Style