This is the first album of Cameo, the funk band originally from New York City, who really changed their sound throughout their career but always stayed a true funk band. I witnessed them only once in 2009 at Paradiso, Amsterdam hopefully they will visit Europe again as they are still touring, they played in Las Vegas for a coupl of months this year... If you find the live cd form the 90's in Atlanta, so great and energetic, buy it! I got to know Cameo through the song "Word up", a big hit in the 80's. In the 70's they sounded like this:
So the first time we played the music from Royalty For Real wasn't in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, but in Bengaluru and Mumbai, all the way in India in 2023!Here you'll see me play Au Privave, Classy Cats and Royalty For Real, together with Timothy Banchet (piano), Marius Beets (bass) and Sven Rozier (drums).Au Privave is a well-known blues by Charlie Parker which I often like to start with, almost like a soundcheck tune. Although most of the time a soundcheck is done I found out it's a good idea to play a tune everybody of the band knows very well so we all can get used to the sound of the stage, the presence of the audience and it also gives the sound engineer the chance to adjust microphones last minute. During the soundcheck, the sound of the room is significantly different because of the lack of audience. All that flesh and clothes work a little bit like a totally empty room versus a room with furniture and carpets, if you know what I mean :-)Acoustics are so interesting and full of surprises.. Anyways.. hope you like it! - This is the first album of Cameo, the funk band originally from New York City, who really changed their sound throughout their career but always stayed a true funk band.I witnessed them only once in 2009 at Paradiso, Amsterdam hopefully they will visit Europe again as they are still touring, they played in Las Vegas for a coupl of months this year...If you find the live cd form the 90's in Atlanta, so great and energetic, buy it! I got to know Cameo through the song Word up, a big hit in the 80's. In the 70's they sounded like this:
