Fat Freddy's Drop in the house!
by lboogiebeers on 6/25/10The Music Box - HollywoodRating: 4 out of 5The boys from New Zealand hit it out of the park again. Amazing show.
The first set was incredible, very high energy and slick rifs, transitions and solos.
Not sure where they picked up the white rapper from Mendocino though, he was a complete distraction and not at good one. For me, I think the band pretty much lost the crowd and the spell bounding hold they had on everyone after that. It just wasn't able to recover at quite the same level even after dude was off the stage.
This show was definitely more mellow than their last LA show at the Roxy, which was totally uptempo and killer the whole set. This had a lot of space, a lot of solos and a lot of groove, which is typical FFD magic, but I would have preferred a more high-energy, intense performance, which I know they can deliver. I think the only bad call was letting an amateur get on stage with them and funk everything up.
Awesome band, awesome show - so blessed that they are making it big and hope they come back to Cali soon!