Saturday, December 5, 2009

Saadiq's Solid Gold Soul.

Saw Raphael Saadiq last night at Terminal 5 in NYC. My first time for both the venue and the artist, and I was thoroughly impressed. The show was high energy, Saadiq and his band were drenched in sweat by the end of the first song. He covered "Dance Tonight", did a medley of Tony! Toni! Tone! new jack swing tracks, and kept a high energy thing going for almost two hours. His encore was almost as long as the show itself. And my girlfriend and I agreed, his little pocket-rocket female back up singer was the most exciting band member apart from Saadiq himself. She was five feet and 90 pounds of fury.

If you don't own his 2008 release The Way I See It, you should be ashamed of yourself. 8 year olds to 80 year olds dance their asses off to this thing.

Here's a medley of shaky video but awesome songs from the night at Terminal 5

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