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Solid show, very solid show. Unfortunately, I assumed that someone else in the world would have attended this concert from the other night and posted pictures, videos or at least a playlist. So far, zippo, nada, zilch. Disappointing indeed, but I guess I have learned the lesson to look to get this stuff yourself when you are going to blog on it. Regardless, here is a video from a recent live show in Austin, about a year ago.

I had not seen The Roots play a concert in quite awhile and one of the things that really amazed me was that there was no traditional hip-hop equipment out on stage at all. No turntables, no booming speakers, no eight-man posse, walking around sage with mikes and a bottle of hooch. I had forgotten about that.

Unfortunately, this Roots concert was merely average, as they played no real encore and had no special guests (a definite hallmark of a Hip-Hop concert played in NYC). It was still awesome to see their cover of Bob Dylan’s Masters of War, which included some sampling of Jimi Hendrix’s Machine Gun in the middle of it.

What made the show worth it for me was seeing ?uestlove dominate the drums (what a drummer!) and Tuba Gooding Junior provide the bands’ baseline with a full on Sousaphone.

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