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Bernie Worrell
& the WOO Warriors



Review 03/13/98
From: Dr.Brookenstein

At Plainfield High School - Plainfield, NJ                                

I would like to say thanks to Richard Panse (pfunk53@aol.com) for driving 
me to Plainfield, New Jersey, so we can check out Bernie Worrell & The WOO
Warriors. The event was a benefit concert for Emmanuel Burris who lost his
mother to a tragic shooting.  Judie Worrell came out at 8:00pm to announce
the importance of this event and introduced everyone to 11-year-old       
Emmanuel.  She is a very beautiful woman who doesn't look a day over 35   
years of age!!!  (Love ya, Judie!)                                        

The first opening act was a group called the Shawn Rivas Trio.  The music 
was basically alternative rock and the performance went from 8:10pm to    
8:45pm.  The songs that were performed included "Blue Mark", "Bermuda" and
a track from a group called Weather Report.  I really wasn't impressed by 
the group.                                                                

The second opening act was a group called BB & The Stingers, and they     
performed some blues-rock music, which also didn't really appeal to me.   
They performed from 9:00pm to 9:40pm.  They did a song from Jimi Hendrix's
second album, and a song by Robert Johnson (not the guy from the P-Funk   
Allstars).                                                                

After that group,  a couple of guys came onstage to perform a uplifting   
hip-hop song for Emmanuel, with parts of Rene & Angela's track "You Don't 
Have To Cry".                                                             

The real show began at 10:05pm with Judie Worrell thanking some people who
were responsible for putting this event together, and Emmanuel introducing
the group Bernie Worrell & The WOO Warriors.  First of all, Van Romaine   
(WOO-regular), Catherine Russell (WOO-regular) and Mike Campbell were not 
at the show! Michael Rubin took Mike Campbell's place on guitar, and a guy
named Lou took over for Van Romaine.  B.J. Nelson was present for lead and
background vocals, while Donna McPherson was on hand thumping the bass.   
Greg Fitz was on the right side of the stage on second keys, while Bernie 
was on the left side.  I heard that Catherine Russell was so tied up with 
many commitments, hence the no-show!!!                                    


The track listing:                                                        

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                    
Fingers                                                                   
Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication                                       
Comin' Round The Mountain                                                 
Baby I Owe You Something Good                                             
Can You Get To That?                                                      
Flashlight/WOO-Lite                                                       

ENCORE:                                                                   

Night of The Thumpasorus Peoples                                          


HIGHLIGHTS:                                                               

The "If You Don't Like The Effects" song came complete with a sprinkle of 
"Mary Had a Little Lamb", courtesy of YOU-KNOW-WHO!                       

"Baby I Owe You Something Good" is one of the best songs that Bernie      
performs live. It's light-years ahead of the Funkadelic studio version.   
The mandolin part was played by Michael Rubin, using his guitar.  What was
interesting was that Bernie ended the song by dropping the last 2 words   
from the final chorus ("Baby I owe you.......") before seguing into "Can  
You Get To That?", a psychedelic funk jam that had the guys in the        
audience singing "I WANNA KNOW!" during the chorus!!                      

WOO-Lite is great......"The WOO-funk is your funk, the motherlode of      
y'all funk!"                                                              


The show ended early at 11:30pm!!                                         


What a wonderful night!  So many wonderful things happened:               

Offering to contribute to the Emmanuel Burris Fund by paying $10.00 for   
the event and making a 11-year-old boy's life a little better!            

Meeting Kregg Ajamu, Stozo The Clown, "Joshadelic" & "Winky" (Funk-Kin's  
manager), after seeing them at FUNK-O-RAMA III.  (Are you guys following  
me around?!)                                                              

Meeting Judie Worrell in person.....like I said before, Judie is a        
beautiful woman!                                                          

Greeting Greg Fitz with the P-Funk sign                                   

Sitting across from Bernie backstage and asking him, "Why he never plays  
'Cosmic Slop' live?"  Bernie replied that he is trying to concentrate more
on HIS stuff and not the P-Funk catalog.....of course, I was referring to 
him modifying his song set a little bit from show to show!  Come to think 
of it, Bernie should probably cut back more on the P-Funk catalog and play
stuff from the "Free Agent" album!                                        

Sitting in on a heated discussion concerning politics in the music        
business, the dominant voice being Judie.