Search - King Curtis :: Live at Fillmore West

You should all be ashamed!!

Byrone | Los Angeles | 06/26/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"How can I be the first person to rate this masterpiece of funk soul perfection? If this album was any funkier you'd have to build a whole new universe just to hold it all. The heaviest funk band ever assembled. Period. Billy Preston, Bernard Purdy,
Cornell Dupry, Jerald Jermott, Groover Thomas, Pancho Morales, and the Memphis Horns HAVE MERCY!! If you have ANY soul at all you should have this album. If you have no soul you NEED this album. Look out for Curtis's version of "Whiter Shader of Pale" it will leave you breathless and in tears. In the words of a man in the audience(listen close and you'll hear him) "Well go ahead and play it then!" Billy Preston follows Curtis's first solo with THE most stunning organ solo EVER played. Billy goes on to ride that Hammond B-3 like a wild bull on "Them Changes" and the
Memphis Horns define the words Turn This Motha OUT! Sheer funk genius. Buy it. NOW! DO IT!"