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I donâ€™t know what was going on but I wasnâ€™t able to make it to the gig that happened the 
week before. I was excited about this one though, as I have always been a big fan of Brian 
Stoltz and wanted to see what he would do in a more improvisational atmosphere. I had 
seen Brian play once outside of the Funky Meters at this time. This was before PBS had 
started playing. Brian was great on this gig. I figured he would be very comfortable having 
played with played with George for so many years. I donâ€™t know if he had played with 


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As a group there was no question these guys knew what they were doing and at the time I 
would have presumed the guitar trio would mesh together better than any other 
instrumentation. This wasnâ€™t exactly true as the trio with Tony DaGradi was near flawless 
in being a improvisational unit. Brian played real well but this show had more formal 
songs albeit not done in the ways I was accustomed to. A good example of this is Funkify 
Your Life. The way itâ€™s done is different than The Funky Meters of Runninâ€™ Pardners 
renditions Iâ€™m use to. They slowed it down and space it out more. 

The first set was pretty steady and had a bluesier vibe than usual. This was interspersed 
with Johnny doing some drum solos that mixed it up. There was a back and forth of 
Johnny doing his poetry tunes and some slow blues jams. Itâ€™s hard to say how well it 
worked, but it keeps you on your toes. It all descended into a nasty Voodoo Chile that Brian 
got down on. The vocal performance was okay but the guitar work was great. Brian clearly 
adores Hendrix but puts his own stamp on it. When Johnny announces the set break he 
quickly mentions how disgusting the bathroom was. He was not wrong. Not the place you 
want to get caught with some stomach issues. 

This second set was fun. George took the foreground far more than the first set were they 
played a nice grouping of Johnny tunes and funk classics. George was playing a 
supporting Bass in the first set but took the lead during many sections and gave people a 
little something to shake to. There was much more funkiness going down in this set in the 
Jam sections at the beginning and the tunes toward the end. George did a short but hot 
Use Me and an encore with the classic Lee Dorsey tune Get Out My Life Woman followed by 
a little Meters cap. 

I Know that Toussaint wrote Get Out My Life Woman but I think of the Dorsey version. I think that 
would be the version George references as well but not certain. If anyone has an opinion please 
comment. 


This was another good Trio show. Check it out. 

On The Recordings: 

I did this one same as the previous two and was happy with it except that the Guitar may 
be overly prominent in the mix. 


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