Vinyl Wednesday: CAMEO- WE ALL KNOW WHO WE ARE

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! - We All Know Who We Are is the second album by the funk band Cameo, released early in 1978. It's quite a rare album, first we had a broken copy, later we found a mint condition version in a record shop all the way in Paris.Growing up in the 80's the only tune by Cameo I knew was Word Up; the song with the red jockstrap singer. As a kid I thought it had to be a strange gimmick and certainly not an established funk band who had many hits before. To be honest I still don't know why you would reduce yourself to a red jockstrap image. The lead singer, Larry Blackmon, is also an excellent drummer and producer. Currently they seem to be performing in Las Vegas.I hope they are coming soon to Amsterdam again.