Reggie Watts is my hero.

amazing show last night

― Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 23 June 2011 16:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/21/reggie-watts-a-classicall_n_881263.html

― Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 23 June 2011 16:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

love that

― rebel yelp (gbx), Thursday, 23 June 2011 16:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

― Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 23 June 2011 16:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

Still wish I could travel back in time and re-see the show I saw at Bumbershoot with Reggie, guys from Critters Buggin' and Michael Shrieve on drums, or at least had DVD/audio of same. Mind = blown.

― Have not gotten over my dancing phase (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 23 June 2011 16:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

Here's a review I could google:

Not much of a fan, I cut out after a few songs and headed back towards the Bumbrella Stage where Trilon were performing. Consisting of Brad Hauser (bass) and Skerik (sax) from Critters Buggin', Michael Shrieve on drums, Maktub's Reggie Watts on vocals and an additional percussionist, these five laid down some sweet, liquid grooves that had the packed flag pavilion shimmyin', shakin', laughin' and hangin' on their every move. It's always fun to watch Hauser kick out his trademark mercurial bass grooves, regardless of who he's playing with. Locked tight with Shrieve's drumming, they were the underlying current upon which Skerik and Reggie surfed. Those two were meant to play with one another and were simply amazing to watch! Playing a game of tag with each other's lines, Reggie would sing something and Skerik would blow the same line back at him through his tenor; sort of an ongoing musical knock-knock-who's-there. At one point Reggie started singing lines like he was calling out the rhythm to a tabla piece (in general, tabla players will sing the percussive lines they play before performing the piece on their tabla), and I couldn't help but wonder if he was aware of the practice. Memories of tabla maestro Vishal Nagar and his workshop at WOMAD USA came to mind [check out Earpollution's exclusive coverage of WOMAD USA 1999. --ed.] Reggie crooned, crowed, cockled and cackled, creating a large palette of monkey noises to amuse us. 100% improvisation, you could do nothing but smile and get down to the groove as Trilon held the crowd mesmerized with their performance.

― Have not gotten over my dancing phase (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 23 June 2011 16:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

one of the good things about reggie is that every show is pretty much unique. youtube is packed with dozens of one-off songs
also a fan of this album: http://tofuhut.blogspot.com/2007/02/engagingly-surreal-stage-presence-who.html

― Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

I actually just found/emailed a trader who has that Bumbershoot show. Am awaiting a reply.

― Have not gotten over my dancing phase (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 23 June 2011 18:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

― ain't nuthin but a chicken waaaang (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 2 July 2011 01:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

Dan (or anyone else) did you see his Synthclub performance at Bumbershoot a few years back? It was great (but I'm under the impression it was a one off thing?)

― these goons were made for waka (The Reverend), Saturday, 2 July 2011 03:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

the way dude fucks with expectations and then swoops back in with brilliance never ceases to press my buttons

― ain't nuthin but a chicken waaaang (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 3 July 2011 15:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

fuck
shit
stack

― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 17 July 2011 00:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

i can't help but love this -

― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 22 July 2011 23:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

:D

― Booger T. Jones (sic), Saturday, 23 July 2011 00:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

http://www.reggiewatts.com/movies/cuban_1.mov
Let's make him famous please.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, November 5, 2005 10:03 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Is that the dude I once saw scissor kick Angela Landsbury?
― hydrallus (hydraulis2), Saturday, November 19, 2005 11:31 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

3 years pass...

:(

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 23:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9U7OGOSH8A

― herbie mann on some gully shit (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 07:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

this guy is really funny

― Mississippi Butt Hurt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 13 April 2012 18:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

SummerStage show on Comedy Central, was an amazing good time, highly recommended

― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 May 2012 06:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 May 2012 06:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

― bailiwick bill (forksclovetofu), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:57 (11 months ago) Permalink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=zthCPWGSk4s

― i petted a bodega cat today. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 24 March 2013 21:03 (1 month ago) Permalink

^^^ this made my morning, thanks. Dude is like Prince, Lee Scratch Perry, Kool Moe Dee, Zap Mama, Damo Suzuki and Ken Nordine in one crazy afroed package.

― Basil Ironweed (Dan Peterson), Monday, 25 March 2013 22:28 (1 month ago) Permalink

was the best part of the movie imo

― bnw, Monday, 25 March 2013 22:35 (1 month ago) Permalink