Maceo Parker and Phelps Collins, the guitarist, provided momentary breathers with delightful solo improvisations, but the group's music never really seemed to shift gears. But one longed for something besides the unrelenting diet of funk and more funk. The audience was standing on chairs most of the way through it. This is not to say that the show was dull far from it. But to an extent, his show suffered from the same fault that afflicts his albums-lack of variety. With a visual style that is equal parts Sly Stone, Jimi Hendrix and Marvel Comics and a funny, insinuating line of jive talk, he is an engaging presence. One, Maceo Parker, the saxophonist, is a gritty and imaginative soloist, and the horn section is as crisp and biting as one could wish.īootsy Collins is succeeding with young audience partly because of his band's performing savvy and partly because of the persona he has developed. Like the rhythm section, several of the horn players used to be with James Brown. The band's rhythm section, which features Bootsy Collins on bass, has been playing together since 1968, and the experience shows in the effortless way it lays down an entire set of danceable grooves. BOOTSY and the Rubber Band, which was at the Felt Forum on Saturday night, is a roadseasoned funk band, and what It does it does very well indeed.
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