Beats & BBQ: The Labor Day Edition in Bklyn

[Reggie]

Back back popular demand!!!! Beats & BBQ: The Labor Day Edition will offer the same formula that made first one so successful. Soulful Dance Music, BBQ and YOU!!!! In the neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn

The Lineup will be:

Kervyn Mark (Melting Pot NYC)

Winter Santos (Liquid Sound Lounge)

Ali Coleman (Voice of Voices NYC)

Siren (Save the Robots)

Sakaki (Sushi Samba)

Ruby Red (Ruby Time)

Once again there's no cover, free BBQ (first come, first serve) and 2 for 1 domestic beer special until the party's end. What's new is the hours, now 3 pm to 2 am.

And from 2 am to 4 am is the Acid Jazz afterparty featuring DJ Jedi 9

Its happening at the retro cool, neo-bohemian:

Art Land Bar
609 Grand St
Wiiiamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
(L train to Lorimer St.)

For info
acidreg@gmail.com
MySpace.com - Reggie - 39 - Male - BRONX, NEW YORK - www.myspace.com/deepdance
RSVP for BBQ @ Beats & BBQ: The Labor Day Edition

[Rugger57]

Sounds pretty nice there!

We have a similar thing here in Indianapolis, except on a much larger scale, and with live artists. There's the Military Park downtown, and the Labor Day celebration lasts from Friday thru Monday. Some of the artists slated for this year are Pat Benetar, KC and the Sunshine Band, Metallica...and a few more I don't remember off the top of my head. All the entertainment is free, and they bring in all these guys who make barbeque...there must be about 60-80 vendors. They charge for the food and drinks, but the admission and shows are free. I caught KoKo Taylor there one year. She was phenominal.

And, about 30 miles down the road in Columbus they are having a free concert with the Temptations Review featuring Dennis Edwards. I'm not really familiar with the members of the Temps, but the flyers say Dennis Edwards joined the group in '66, so I assume he was there for SOME of the major hits. Does anyone here know anything about this????? Was he indeed a major part of this group in the mid sixties? I ASSUME he is the only surviving member, or the only "original" member, as they are NOT going by the Temptations, but the Temptation Review. Maybe some legal issues with Motown owning the name??? I dunno.

[ol'skinflint]

Originally Posted by Rugger57

Sounds pretty nice there!

We have a similar thing here in Indianapolis, except on a much larger scale, and with live artists. There's the Military Park downtown, and the Labor Day celebration lasts from Friday thru Monday. Some of the artists slated for this year are Pat Benetar, KC and the Sunshine Band, Metallica...and a few more I don't remember off the top of my head. All the entertainment is free, and they bring in all these guys who make barbeque...there must be about 60-80 vendors. They charge for the food and drinks, but the admission and shows are free. I caught KoKo Taylor there one year. She was phenominal.

And, about 30 miles down the road in Columbus they are having a free concert with the Temptations Review featuring Dennis Edwards. I'm not really familiar with the members of the Temps, but the flyers say Dennis Edwards joined the group in '66, so I assume he was there for SOME of the major hits. Does anyone here know anything about this????? Was he indeed a major part of this group in the mid sixties? I ASSUME he is the only surviving member, or the only "original" member, as they are NOT going by the Temptations, but the Temptation Review. Maybe some legal issues with Motown owning the name??? I dunno.

Dennis Edwards replaced David Ruffin and sang lead on many of the Temptations later hits (like "I Can't Get Next to You" and several others). Very soulful but to me not nearly as unique as Ruffin...Ruffin was one of a kind. But Edwards is not the only surviving member from one of the Temptations' early lineups. Otis Williams is still very much alive. By the way, in case you get the chance to hear or pick up their 1966 album "The Temptations Sing Smokey", with all the songs written or co-written by Smokey, I can almost guarantee you'll like it as it contains several songs ("What Love Has Joined Together" and "You'll Lose a Precious Love") every bit as good as the album's biggest hit, the immortal "My Girl".