The Stylistics Tear The Roof Off The Lyric

On Saturday Night April 11 2009, the 70's Soul Jam came to Baltimore at the Lyric Theater featuring, Jimmy J.J. Walker as the MC, The Main Ingredient, The Delfonics, The Dramatics, and The Stylistics.

I was having a problem enjoying the show because first of all, I was not feeling well anyway, in addition to being under the weather and being exausted, the main reason that I was not enjoying the show was because of the poor sound quality that I was hearing, (which is something that I am definitley not used to when checking out a show at The Lyric).

The other thing that kind of got my goat was the fact that 3 of the 4 groups took a moment to depart from the 70's Jam Theme, to give us a little bit of what most of us did not go to the show to hear, (which was rap).

It's not that they did a whole lot of this, but it was just enough to irritate most of the people who were in the audience.

Most of the people that I talked to about this part of the show did not feel that it was necessary for these classic groups of the 70's to demonstrate their ability to rap.

But other than the few moments that these groups spent impressing us with their agility at rap and the struggles that the sound crew had in getting the proper mix, they were otherwise okay.

However, at the end of the evening, I fianlly got what I came for, when The Stylistics took the stage, and the audience back in time, and to a new level of pleasure that had not been experienced until they came on stage.

You know how most of us pure Old School People cannot bear to see The Miricles without Smokey Robinson, or the Four Tops without Levi Stubs, or The Temptations without David Ruffin, Paul Williams, Eddie Kendricks, and Melvin Franklin, well you will not have that problem with The New Stylistics.

The new group has only 2 original members left, and 2 new members including a new young man who was only 2 years old when "Your A Big Girl Now" came out, and who just happens to sound just like, Russel Thompkins JR, (the original smooth silver tenor lead vocalist).

This new guy is awsom, and all of other members of the group, and of course the band were all on point.

This was my first concert of 2009 that I saw, and I am telling you that The Stylistics made it well worth the time, effort, and money that it took to get there.

The next time they come to town, I highly recommend that you check them out for yourselves.

I am sure you will agree.

The Main Ingredient



The Delfonics



The Dramatics



The Stylistics



G.R.C.



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Republicans Stimulate The Economy Of The Tea Industry

Republicans and many of their poor disadvantaged base members finally did something to stimulate the economy.

Of course they did not stimulate all sectors of the economy like the new administration is in the process of doing, because that is far too much of a broader problem for a party to tackle that cannot even tackle the issue of what the hell they stand for and who the hell their leader is.

But I must give them credit for taking an active stand and finally contributing something positive to the economy that can be measured, and not something that just produces a very foul stench as a result of clinging to ideologies and policies that have and continue to fail the American People as opposed to changing things that do not work for the benefit of the American People.

For the most part, it appears that the welfare, (let me rephrase that since the word welfare stirs up such a negative connotation for them); that the safety, security and well being of the American People means less to these people then clinging to old warn out ineffective ideas.

The benefit of the country comes second only to seeing that they’re stinking thinking survives, and that the majority of the people in this country continues to suffer in order to make them, (such a small and insignificant number of selfish idiots), comfortable.

Yesterday April 15 2009, which is the dreadful last day to pay taxes to the government if they are owed money, was also a time for many of these conservatives who love this country so much, (so much), that they do not want to pay their fair share of taxes to it, to protest the increase in government spending which President Bush started for no definable long term positive purpose, which President Obama has further increased for a definable long term positive purpose.

It is also important to recognize that millions of Americans also received money from the government this tax season in refunds from the taxes that they have paid throughout the year.

But anyway, these people, (less than FOX News and the rest of the right wing media had anticipated), showed up to protest the actions taken by President Obama and the new administration.

Ideas which they have studied hard and long and determined to be actions that will benefit the economy in the long term; and in spite of the fact that many of these actions have already began to create improvements in our economy, these people, (many who had no idea what the hell they were out there for), did show up across the country to these so called “Tea Parties”.

I applaud all of you for finally making a positive contribution to the economy of the country.

As a result of what you did across the country yesterday, the tea industry saw a significant rise in sales over the last few weeks. Other than that, there was not much else that was accomplished by these so-called tea parties, which were sponsored by “Grassroots People”, from corporate news agencies such as FOX.

What you don’ t understand about Grassroots Movements is the fact that they start with and end with the people, and not with right wing corporate sponsorships. So your movement is not of the people, by the people or for the people and as a result, does not benefit the people.

However, what they did do is fool many of the people who actually benefit from the new policies of the new administration into believing that they are losing something that they do not have, wealth.

This is typical manipulation designed to get poor people to do the dirty work of and protect the wealth of the riches people in America.

So I thank you, the shareholders thank you, and the employees of the all of the tea companies in America thank you, and we look forward to your next massive purchase of tea which will help to at least stimulate this industry.

Now! How about we start working on something to benefit the other segments of the economy that are suffering.

We really need everyone’s help (including yours), to bring us out of the recession that we are currently in, and we will be waiting to hear from you and your leaders with
New Ideas for improving these poor economic conditions in America.

Of course if we do not get this contribution from you, then we will not be disappointed, because doing something good for the entire country, (all of it’s people) is not your forte.

You all would rather bitch and moan and complain about the people who are trying to make the country better; wouldn’t you?

G.R.C.


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