Van Halen – 2012 Tour Opener in Louisville, Kentucky @ KFC Yum! Center (HD VIDEOS)

VAN HALEN RETURNS!

UPDATE: The DVD is done and is available to download at dimeadozen.

While Van Halen might not be the typical band you’d find here at Funk It, this video project just came out too great not to share it!

UPDATE: NEW VIDEO:
Van Halen 2/18/12 Louisville, KY @ KFC Yum! Center
Jump (3-cam)

Van Halen 2/18/12 (teaser clip) Louisville, KY @ KFC Yum! Center
The Trouble With Never (clip)

Van Halen 2/18/12 (Part 1) Louisville, KY @ KFC Yum! Center
You Really Got Me, Runnin’ With The Devil, Romeo Delight:

Van Halen 2/18/12 (Part 2) Louisville, KY @ KFC Yum! Center
Everybody Wants Some!!, Somebody Get Me A Doctor, Mean Street, Unchained, The Trouble With Never:

Van Halen 2/18/12 (Part 3) Louisville, KY @ KFC Yum! Center
Dance The Night Away, I’ll Wait, Hot For Teacher, Ice Cream Man:

Van Halen 2/18/12 (Part 4) Louisville, KY @ KFC Yum! Center
Panama, Eruption, Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love, Jump (ending):

Big thanks to ironchef for his amazing audio recording, which can be downloaded here. Also, big thanks to all others involved in this project, notably Matt Thomas for the 2nd video angle.

D’Angelo & The Soultronics – July 16, 2000 North Sea Jazz Festival – The Voodoo Tour

So, we’ve been waiting exactly 11 years for D’Angelo to make his comeback. Some of us kept the faith, while others lost it at various points over the past decade. For me, it was merely a matter of patience. I knew he’d be back eventually. And if I ever needed a reminder i’d just pull out a live recording of his Voodoo Tour with The Soultronics to dismiss any of my doubts.

Lately, we’ve begun to hear rumblings of a come back, with live dates booked and selling out in Europe for late January and early February 2012. Then Questlove informed us that the tour is real, that Pino Palladino and Chris Dave just committed, and that D’s new album is 97% done and has to be turned in to the record label 3 days before Christmas.

So I dug deep in my archives, and I’m bringing you the FM radio audio of the July 16, 2000 North Sea Jazz Festival performance.
DOWNLOAD LINKS: MP3 (upgraded with missing first 5 minutes!) / FLAC.

I also took the audience shot video and synced it up the FM audio. The full video can be downloaded in DVD format here or you can view it on youtube in 4 parts below. Now we just cross our fingers that the tour goes off without a hitch and that some new live recordings show up. Oh, and fingers crossed that the tour continues in the U.S. and that the album actually gets released, finally!

Before you watch this first video, read this except from D’Angelo’s recent interview for GQ Magazine: He was beginning to sense a darkness beckoning. He recalls a particular moment onstage at the North Sea Jazz festival in 2000. The band was in the middle of “Devil’s Pie,” his song about the spell fame casts upon the weak—Who am I to justify / All the evil in our eye / When I myself feel the high / From all that I despise—when he felt an ominous presence in the crowd. “That night I felt something that was like, whoa,” he tells me. E-vil.

(1 of 4) Devil’s Pie > Funk Jam > Send It On:

(2 of 4) Feel Like Makin Love > Chicken Grease:

(3 of 4) Shit Damn Motherfucker,
Brown Sugar Interlude > Untitled (How Does It Feel?):

(4 of 4) Lady > Funk Jam > Jonz In My Bonz > Funk Jam:

D’Angelo: vocals, keyboards
The Soultronics:
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson: drums
Frankie “Knuckles” Walker: percussion
Pino Palladino: bass
June Bervine (or sometimes James Poyser): keyboards
C. Edward “Spanky” Alford & Samuel “Norris” Jones: guitars
Anthony Hamilton, Shelby Johnson & Jack King: background vocals
Jacques “Brother Jacques” Schwarz-Bart: tenor saxophone
Russell Gunn (or sometimes Roy Hargrove): trumpet
Frank “Root” Lacy: trombone & trumpet

Dr. Klaw on the Creole Queen Riverboat, NOLA Jazz Fest 2011

IS IT BEAR CREEK YET?

Before I hit the road to my first Bear Creek Music Festival, I have to unleash my videos of Dr. Klaw on the Creole Queen Riverboat during New Orleans Jazz Fest 2011. The full video is on youtube in six parts, listed below. I recommend watching in HD in 1080p or 720p. Also, if you are so inclined, the DVD is available to download at The Trader’s Den.

I’ve posted about Dr. Klaw before. For those that don’t know, Dr. Klaw is a supergroup featuring Nick Daniels III and Ian Neville (both of Dumpstaphunk), along with Adam Deitch, Eric Krasno & Nigel Hall (of Lettuce, Soulive, Chapter Two, etc.). Basically, Dr. Klaw is a special conglomeration that only plays shows at Jazz Fest and Bear Creek (and sometimes Jam Cruise). Word is that they’ve been in the studio and will be releasing their new album at Bear Creek next week.

This video documents their only performance this year (until Bear Creek next weekend), and features several original tunes, as well as two Parliament covers that feature The Shady Horns (Ryan Zoidis, Sam Kinninger, & Rashawn Ross). The video was shot from right up front (because there really was no other way to see the band considering that the stage was only a few inches tall) with a Canon Vixia HF21 video camera and a Sony ECM-MS908C stereo mic. The audio is raw, dominated by Deitch’s cymbals and rim shots, but is still very listenable compared to the quality of most of the stuff you find on youtube. Enjoy, spread the word, and I’ll see you after what is sure to be an incredible Bear Creek Music Festival weekend!

Dr. Klaw – Part 1 of 6 – Beef, I Believe It: