{"id":1042,"date":"2012-07-17T16:31:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T16:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parkergambino.com\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2016-12-04T13:24:13","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T13:24:13","slug":"charles-bradley-july-12-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/?p=1042","title":{"rendered":"Charles Bradley – July 12, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charles Bradley\u00a0 –\u00a0 World Financial Center\u00a0 –\u00a0 July 12, 2012<\/p>\n

Here’s my suggestion for an SAT analogy question – oops, they’ve been discontinued.\u00a0 Okay, let’s make it for the GAT – the Gambino Attitude Test:\u00a0 Tina Turner is to Bettye LaVette as James Brown is to….Charles Bradley.\u00a0 I would say he’s ripping him off, except upon learning of his hard-knock backstory, Bradley acknowledges the seminal influence that Brown has had on his entire act – singing voice and style, persona, wardrobe, dance moves, heck, even the facial expressions!\u00a0 So it’s more of an homage.\u00a0 To his credit, no JB covers were detected by me.\u00a0 Instead a soulful cover of N. Young’s “Heart of Gold”.\u00a0 Fortunately, at the end of the set he wanders the audience giving hugs of love, etc. so I could pounce early and get his autograph.\u00a0 Band leader Brenneck comes from the DAPtone family, lending additional credence to the forging-ahead modern R&B vibe.\u00a0 Opening group He’s My Brother She’s My Sister have a name too long to put on my header here.\u00a0 Their interesting semi-psychedelic musical blend is matched by the outfits.\u00a0 The rudimentary percussion setup is complemented by the drummer tap-dancing on a sound-platform.\u00a0 The headliner for this gig was actually Neko Case, but light had faded by the time she started, so no sketches.\u00a0 Unfortunately, for me, too much of this indie- alt- music has hewn to a formulaic sound; by now, about 15 minutes of such is plenty for me, and that was the case here, especially when the words are at least half unintelligible.\u00a0 Oh well.<\/p>\n

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Charles Bradley<\/p><\/div>\n

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Extraordinaires Horns<\/p><\/div>\n

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Thomas Brenneck<\/p><\/div>\n

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Lauren Brown<\/p><\/div>\n

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Oliver Newell<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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