Great show last night by Amp and the gang at SOB's. I missed Tortured Soul, they must have started playing really early. DJ True was spinning a mix of downtempo and soulful house...sketchy mixing but the crowd didn't seem affected. Amp went on at around 11pm and played for roughly an hour and forty minutes. There was a really good turnout for a tuesday night crowd. Although SOB's has a tiny stage, the group of six were all really animated. Amp switched from a standing by a vocal mike to sitting at the keyboards and back...within the same song. Two song highlights for me were 'Love and War'(an anthem here in Ft. Greene Brooklyn) and an extended 'I'm doing fine' which got a bit punk for a second. Everyone sang happy birthday to Paul Randolph who did a great job on bass. In the tradition of crowd walkup's at SOB's, there were two surprise guests, N'Dea Davenport from The Brand New Heavies contributed vocals to 'I'm doing fine' and Sheila Horne from P-Funk ccontributed vocals to 'Possibilities'. Both have amazing voices and left the crowd pretty stunned.
Amp's playing Detroit thursday night at St. Andrews. So get out and see this show. dave
