MF Doom/Dangermouse etc in NYC tonight

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Public service announcement. This show at the Bowery Ballroom has just been cancelled (well, found out yesterday). Which is really disappointing, cos I'm a big Doom fan. Wonder what went wrong?

― paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Am I just imagining this or do Hip-hop shows get cancelled way too much?

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Hip-hop shows don't get cancelled enough.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh heh heh.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

moving along......

i went to the Doom show in SF about a month ago and it was the worst experience ever. first, the opening acts were all really crappy backpacker shit (i'm used to going to shows where the majority of audience are white, but when there are 6white guys on stage, i'm just not really into it). and then the DJ and the show MC got into a fight about who should be on the stage. DJ even broke one of his records to show his anger. DJ was crap too. at one point he even said some shit like, "I don't play records for you to dance, I just wanna rock out" or some shit. What kinda DJ doesn't play records for someone to dance?

Finally Doom showed up at like 1 Fucking 30 and only played a 25 minute show. and he's all fat and wore sweats with cargo pockets. but he did wear the mask the whole time.

and then i went to the car and had a ticket!

fuck doom and his shows

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

hmm, yeah, ok. it's true that hip hop shows are often big ol let downs. and that rappers somehow don't notice the way other musicians do when they're putting on a bad show. or they just don't care. jedi mind tricks and GZA in Williamsburg last Saturday kindof sucked too: lots of (mostly white) people posturing on stage, bad sound (MCs were shouting), unaltered DAT tape backing...

― paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 5 March 2004 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

he's all fat and wore sweats with cargo pockets.

if that's not reason enough to go...

― ddb, Saturday, 6 March 2004 03:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been to many a hip hop show in my years and I still don't know why I kept going after I saw De La Soul back in '88 with a completely unknow 3rd Bass opening for them. 3rd Bass got booed off the stage after about 4 songs (they sucked) and then De La came out, mimed through "3 Feet High...", ate ketchup from the bottle and twizzlers and all that shit and sucked, too. I love my hip hop but live it has more than often always, always blown.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Saturday, 6 March 2004 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Except when you catch some kids battling, building ciphers on the train or something.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Saturday, 6 March 2004 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i stopped going to hip hop shows some time ago. ive been fucked over too many times to ever pay for one again. worst offender: anything to do with the wu tang (affiliates).

― ewrew, Saturday, 6 March 2004 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm generally very happy at hip-hop shows, but I listen to groups that seem to tour quite a bit, like Atmosphere, Sage Francis, Brother Ali, Buck 65, Dose One (in all his incarnations), etc.

― subgenius (subgenius), Saturday, 6 March 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

say what you want about the Roots, but they put on by far the best hip-hop show i've seen. Def Jux crew are also surprisingly entertaining onstage. everything else, bling and backpacker, has been pretty boring.

― ryan kuo (ryan kuo), Saturday, 6 March 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

the roots are awesome. what they do seems to go beyond hip-hop - stuff they played at Brixton last year zipped from metal, through funk, out to some reaches electric Miles never dreamt of, while never seeming self-indulgent at all. they're live hip-hop, not because of the MCs (or not solely), but because what they play spans the eclectic embrace of hip-hop (ie whatever you can slap onto a turntable and sample from), only they're playing it *live*, like they're being manipulated by some invisible DJ deity.

Great live hip-hop shows i have seen - Roots Manuva, Public Enemy, Quannum, Hiphoprisy (and Spearhead until the 21st Century), Mos Def & Talib Kweli at the Subterranea in '98, and Mike Ladd bombing so bad at the Scala that he just bugged out and spent his set leaping at the moshpit before stopping short and running into the walls and speakers instead.

― stevie (stevie), Sunday, 7 March 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

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MF Doom/Dangermouse etc in NYC tonight - cancelled