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The Time Reuniting In Las Vegas Tomorrow
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
PHOTO: Bita Honarvar
It’ll be 1981 all over again June 24, 2008.
That’s when pioneering funk band The Time — led by Atlanta’s Morris Day (above) — will reunite for a concert for the first time in two decades, in Las Vegas. (Where else?)
Prince’s proteges came close to a reunion earlier this year, at the Grammys, but Jesse Johnson did not join Day, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, Jelly Bean Johnson, Monte Moir and infamous valet Jerome Benton.
However they are all scheduled to be on stage June 24-July 5, and July 29-Aug. 2 at the Flamingo Las Vegas.
“We don’t know what the show will be yet,” Day said in a press release. “It’s just like the beginning of sex. You know what the goal is, but you don’t know what the path is to get there.”
“I never planned on playing again, since I had already been in the best band,” added Jam in the release. “It’s only MY band that could make me get back on stage…It’s a great hang. I don’t have to think about what everyone else is doing. I just have to get my part right and enjoy myself!”
Would you travel to Las Vegas to see the original Time again? Think Janet Jackson, Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey or any of the other acts Jam and Lewis have produced since they left the Time may show up? (Maybe even Prince - who gave them their start?) What’s your favorite Time song from their four-CD catalog?
Comments
By James Stewart
June 25, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this
They are to R & B and Funk what the Beatles are to POP music. Since music programs have been cut in so many school and Hip Hop has taken off (which samples many groups anyway) many kids have never known the energy of a live band that is TIGHT as performers and excellent musicians and really having fun while ripping a stage Morris, Monte, Jerome, Jellybean Jesse, Jimmy Jam, And Terry show them how it’s done!!!!
By James Stewart
June 25, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this
They are to R & B and Funk what the Beatles are to POP music. Since music programs have been cut in so many school and Hip Hop has taken off (which samples many groups anyway) many kids have never known the energy of a live band that is TIGHT as performers and excellent musicians and really having fun while ripping a stage Morris, Monte, Jerome, Jellybean Jesse, Jimmy Jam, And Terry show them how it’s done!!!!
By exqueeze me?
June 25, 2008 2:06 PM | Link to this
They are to R & B and Funk what the Beatles are to POP music.
You have GOT to be sh*tting me.