soundclash > the Roots vs Miniature Tigers

Red Bull Soundclash

Soundclash AZ > last night a live musical marvel took place in front of American Junkie in old town Scottsdale: the Roots and Miniature Tigers took the stages - yes. Stages. Plural.

The Red Bull Soundclash featured two bands on opposing stages concert, collaborate, co-create, and compete, per say, and those in attendance stood between those stages. Soundclash consisted of a warm-up and four rounds or themes: the cover, the takeover, the clash and the wild card.

The cover round began with DJ Senbad dropping 'Fire' by Jimi Hendrix. Then each band covered that classic in their own style. In the takeover round, each band performed original songs followed by one band then the other band followed suit. The Roots performed 'You Got Me' without Erykah Badu but got help on those vocals from Captain Kirk Douglas on guitar. Miniature Tiger did an okay job on that rendition but it's a tough job to continually follow an epic and iconic hip-hop band like The Roots and such was the case for the majority of their night. Nonetheless, kudos to Miniature Tigers for doing their thing in a complex and magnified format.

The clash round featured the bands performing their songs with a stylistic twist. The Roots did a cool ska version of 'The Seed 2.0' and with the exception of Questo on drums, the entire band skanked around stage in true dub style.

Finally, the wild card round consisted of a finale performance from each band with their own surprise special guest. Angelo Moore [aka Dr. Madd Vibe] from Fishbone joined the Roots on stage with his saxophone and gymnastics to do 'Freddie's Dead'.

Soundclash was such a unique touch to the concert configuration and hopefully the success of this live collaboration series brings about a new revolution.

:j Marc

[here's a vid of that 'Freddie's Dead' rendition. Sorry about the heavy cymbals - I was right under the speaker for this. If you want to see a few of the other parts of the performances check out the latest uploads onto the zBORED YouTube channel: zBOREDtube]

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