Reggie Watts is my hero.

why shit so crazy is a frontrunner for my fave album this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es3H0_IMLvo

amazing show last night

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

love that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH9yBVie72c

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.

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.

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ici7sPW8_1I

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?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBOr4x2mvro
the way dude fucks with expectations and then swoops back in with brilliance never ceases to press my buttons

fuck
shit
stack

i can't help but love this -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3fd9mzfRoQ

:D

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...

:(

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

this guy is really funny

SummerStage show on Comedy Central, was an amazing good time, highly recommended
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1P2AgQUQUQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpCArGNKLR8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxg2JbWA7Nk

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

^^^ 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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwSVkhCNC2s

was the best part of the movie imo

so there's a market for this shit now apparently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqh7eDQw9zg

i mean i guess he's okay with it and dude has some skills, it's just so baldly a direct lift of his style.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkWxOTS9Ans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0Z5RHPLRio

touche

Beardyman's been around since the mid-00s at least

also lol at writing "there's a market for this shit now apparently" and then posting a video from two years ago
xpost

1 - you'd argue that reggie's popularity isn't why this guy is getting attention now?
2 - i just saw him for the first time while flipping past youtube's COMEDY CHANNEL BONANZA thing, first i'd ever heard of him

why this guy is getting attention now?

haven't rly heard anything about him since his Essential Mix a couple of years ago, I'd say 2006-2008 was when I was hearing bits & pieces & youtubes

btw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUCdQDL3cUg

this guy showed up at the summer festival I work at and ppl were really excited, I think he is getting kinda famous now?

yeah, it kinda happened. I've seen him sell out 1500 seat places easily.

had an 'ugh this guy again' feeling when i checked out the new Late Late Show and saw that he's the house bandleader.

Same here when i saw you update this thread

How was he? Hard to imagine his CBB shtick going over on CBS, but I have no idea what Corden's show is like.

i mean so far he's mostly just playing keyboards and singing a little, he's not like a full-on sidekick like on Comedy Bang Bang or anything

started taping this; much prefer him doing his thing as opposed to scripted comedy. comedy bang bang always felt like him at his least interesting.

CBB is garbage. I'm glad he's basically doing a Paul Shaffer thing here. Also? Show is more fun than I'd expected it to be. James Corden was more together his first night than Seth Meyers is even now, and he's been on for over a year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J8G9qNT7gQ