Vinyl Wednesday: The Brides Of Funkenstein - Funk Or Walk

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! - Wikipedia tells us that The Brides Of Funkenstein were backing vocalists for Sly Stone before they joined the P-Funk Collective in the mid 70's. The Brides consisted of Lynn Mabry and Dawn Silva, later Sheila Horne and Jeanette McGruder replaced Lynn Mabry. This is the first of their albums, released in 1978.I am especially proud of the fact that 2 musicians of this amazing album play on my Saxify: Michael Hampton (guitar) and Rodney Skeet Curtis (bass).Check out the whole album on Youtube: