RELISTENTOBernie Worrell and the WOO Warriors
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Bernie Worrell and the WOO Warriors
1999
5/29/99
P Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up)
11:03
First Things First
3:42
The Entertainer (tease)
0:23
Gamin' On Ya
4:42
Red Hot Mama
7:32
banter - Bernie rants about monitor issues
2:16
Y Spy
7:33
If You Don't Like The Effects, Don't Produce The Cause
8:04
banter - band intros + Fire (Hendrix) tease
2:24
Straight Ahead
5:22
Re-Enter Black Light (Entersection)
15:05
Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication
5:20
Comin' Roudn The Mountain
4:48
tuning
4:29
Baby I Owe You Something Good ->
8:05
Can You Get To That
8:32
Seven Laws of Woo
9:26
Flashlight
5:50
encore break
3:26
Smokey
5:07
If You've Got Funk, You Got Style
4:22
Burning Down the House
2:03
crowd
1:12
FIN
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Sources
Taper: Scott Bernstein
2:10:46
Rating:
10.00 / 1 rating
Taper:
Scott Bernstein
Transferrer:
Scott Bernstein
SHNID:
bwww1999-05-29
Source:
Audience DAT
Lineage:
Original Master Recording: Neumann TLM-170 (cardoids, 10' split in the balcony) -> Sonosax SX-M1 -> Teac DAP20 (@16/48 - emphasis ON) Master DAT playback: Sony R500 -> Sound Devices 722 digital input (@24/48) Mastered: Sox 14.4.2 to remove emphasis. Steinberg Spectralayers 11 to scrub loud whitles, claps, yells, and some feedback. SoundForge 13.0 for volume normalization; 24->16 bit dither using POW-r #3 noise shaping. Tracked in CDWav. IDv3 tagged in Tag&Rename 3.9.15
Taper Notes:
View Notes* = w/"Purple Rain" quotes in guitar solo + = w/"The Ants Go Marching One By One" keyboard solo ^ = w/additional "turn on your WOO light" lyrics # = I'm not 100% sure of this song title, but it sure sounds a lot like the song on his 2010 album "I Don't Even Know". Happy to correct if someone comes up with a better title Total time: 2:10:45 Project Logic (DJ Logic) was the opening band at this show, and my recording of that set can be heard here: <a href="https://archive.org/details/DJLogic1999-05-29.tlm170.flac16-48" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/DJLogic1999-05-29.tlm170.flac16-48</a> Introduced musicians (though there may have been others): Bernie Worrell - keys Catherine Russell - vocals (starting at track 5) Michael "Moon" Reuben - guitar Joseph Anthony "Amp" Fiddler - keys Gabe Gonzales - drums Donna McPherson - bass Recorded by Scott Bernstein Transferred (5/17/2012), tracked (9/10/2019), mastered (6/24-25/2024) and posted (6/26/2024) by Scott Bernstein Taper notes: For BARN260, we step away from the deep dives that I took into old Dan Bern and God Street Wine recordings and I bring you something completely different -- an unheard steaming slab of funk. This music performed by an A+ group of musicians lead by the legendary "Wizard of Woo" (keyboard wizard and author or co-author of many songs from Parliament+Funkadelic and touring musician with Talking Heads who has now passed on), Bernie Worrell. It doesn't get any better than this. The setlist is a mix of Parliament/Funkadelic songs, a Praxis tune ("Seven Laws of Woo" -- rarely performed by anyone), Bernie solo songs, and even a choice Talking Heads cover. This recording was just sitting around waiting for me to finish it up after I posted 2 other Bernie Worrell shows back in late April, 2012. It needed a small bit of polishing (somewhat loud yells/whistles/claps from the crowd and some feedback from the PA), and I put it away, intending to finish it up soon, but somehow never got around to the final polish until Bernie came up in recent discussion, and I got motivated to finish this up. Due to the delay, we all get to benefit as I have recently become somewhat proficient with a new set of tools (Spectralayers Pro) which does a MUCH better job at allowing me to scrub yells, whistles, etc. as if they were never present in the recording at all -- so that's a bonus for all of us! I believe that you will agree this show was WELL worth the wait (12 years since I started working on it, 25 years since I recorded it...) and are ready to "get funked up" with the Woo Warriors. Enjoy! Scott Bernstein Follow me on Twitter to track my postings of FREE live music and concert photography: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/scott_bernstein" rel="nofollow">http://www.twitter.com/scott_bernstein</a> Or become a "fan" on Facebook here: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Scott-Bernsteins-Live-Music-Photos-Page/166706713365451" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Scott-Bernsteins-Live-Music-Photos-Page/166706713365451</a>