Arrested Development @ B.B. King's, July 16, 2007

This show really brought me back -- I saw the package tour of Arrested Development, Me Phi Me and Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy at Max's on Broadway in Baltimore in 1992. At the time, it really seemed that Disposable Heroes and Arrested D were going to be huge. Disposable Heroes were opening the US ZooTV tour and you couldn't turn on the radio or TV without hearing Arrested Development. Well...a short time later, Dionne Farris left Arrested Development, the second CD tanked and the band faded from sight.

I was completely unaware that most of the original band reunited in 2000 and have been recording and touring.


The band sounded great and seemed much more comfortable with themselves than when I last saw them in the mid-90's. The crowd at B.B. King's seemed to think so too. Opening act Myself tried very hard to get people (other than the terrible wanna-be break dancer) on the dance floor. The crowd took to the floor from the moment Arrested Development took the stage. In fact, the crowd moved up so quickly, some of the B.B. King's wait staff seemed rather alarmed that they still had unpaid dinner/drink tabs in their hands.



It has been too long since I have active listened to Arrested D so I couldn't even begin to put together a set list. Some of the songs that I can remember are "Tennessee", "Africa Inside Me", and a moving cover of Bob Marley's "Redemption Song" (see the picture below).


Obviously, Arrested Development is back with a vengeance. They performed a strong show and drew a decent sized crowd. I am looking forward to hearing the new CD "Since The Last Time" when it is released.

Links:
Arrested Development's Website

Myself @ B.B. King's, July 16, 2007

I hadn't heard of Myself prior to catching the man/the band open for Arrested Development last night at B.B. King's. I had trouble finding much information on this band as it appears their MySpace page has been "reassigned" (hacked?).

For those who were as uninformed as I was -- Myself is a hip-hop band. There were at least 7+ members in the band. Myself (the band) played a 50 minute set and Myself (the man) tried his best to work the crowd but I think most people were either eating or not open-minded enough to listen to the opening act. It was both sad and amusing that there was a gentleman (who looked somewhat like Napoleon Dynamite), who had to be the worst break-dancer ever, that spent most of the set on the dance floor showing his "moves"(...and his white socks with sandals were way too classic).

For fans of Bob and Ziggy Marley, Myself is well worth checking out.




Myself was in the crowd multiple times. Unfortunately, I was unprepared for him to come by my table.