Soulive Tickets

Soulive: first time seeing these guys live, they blasted Terminal 5 away. Really awesome, really looking forward to see them again. I was glad that it didn't turned out to be a karaoke show filled with golden oldie Beatles songs. Just the right dose between songs from their latest album and previous ones. Too bad Roy Hargrove gave us just a few bits and pieces of his awesomeness, did not really contribute to the whole. Support acts: - Raul Midon: AMAZING! When will be his big international breakthrough? I hope soon, because he would totally deserve it! - DJ something liked himself better than most of the crowd... - Rahzel was an amazing beatbox experience, I was just afraid that he would pass-out at a certain point because he went so fast... - Lettuce: really bad name for a band, without the Soulive support it wouldn't have been much: left because the music was boring...

The Royal Family always puts on an unbelievable performance. The energy is indescribable. Only thing I would have done differently was leave my friend home so I could have hit the after party!

Totally happenin' show! The bands killed. Soso funky

Stellar! Hope they come through again. Could not have been better than to see all the projects together in one night!

FANTASTIC ! This show was off the hook. Break Science, Soullive & Lettuce, brought the funk and soul to P-Town and did not dissapoint. Great vibes, good venue and a special night with the family form New York. It is my hope that the Royal Family make the ball a yearly nationwide event ! Start @ JazzFest and then go coast to coast.......Funkify your life and catch these guys any chance you have !

The music was great, all the musicians are top notch. My only complaint is that it was supposed to start at 8pm and the first band did not go on until 9:30. Soulive went on at 10:35 and we had to leave close to midnight and Lettuce had not gone on yet.

A thoroughly funk-starved mob of approximately 800 turned out Tuesday night here in Portland Oregon, to feast on a big helping of funk / jazz / soul from this crew from the Northeast. OPENERS: Break Science- The essential DNA is here for something rhythmically dynamic. Live beats (ala a pretty trick drummer) and hard breaks (ala a hard drive). Zero for stage presence, they do succeed in modestly warming up the house. Think of a lukewarm set from, say, Z-Trip, and you get the idea. If only they had his panache. Soulive- They took the stage with suave confidence & proceeded to lay into enthusiastic crowd for the first 2 tracks. Make no mistake, the Evans brothers on keys & drums..and Krasno on guitar come to PLAY. This is groove-driven jazz / funk of the first order...and at wide-open throttle, this trio can musically growl like a Lambo. Nice tight pocket drums, wailing Hammond work & transcendent mellifluous soloing from Krasno work a definite magic. Only misstep in this set is a 3 song Beatles covers detour (which sucked the life out of a fairly hot room). They are worthy covers, they just don't belong in this set. Sticking to their core material, they are definitely top-shelf in their genre(s). HEADLINER: Lettuce- At the top of the bill for a REASON. Straight-up jazz / funk assassins, Lettuce goes right for the jugular, with no excuses, no apologies & no chaser. The horns & bass (the only things Soulive potentially lacks) are a welcome arrival...and nicely round out the mercilessly tight rhythm section. A bit like DMB, The Mothership & Phish in a 3-way collision with JB showing up as traffic cop.......every bit the funk / jazz groove attack that you'd expect, this crew solidly delivers. All-in, it's twenty odd bucks WELL spent. Only dings I'd give them were the rather "embryonic" set from Break Science, and the Beatles wanderings. Grade: "A" minus

Solid show all around. This venue sounds great. Soulive kills it, and just when you think these three guys are enough, they bring out the big guns for the Lettuce set. Fun cameos from Incubus guitarist Mike Einziger. One bummer was that I upgraded to a pit ticket at the box office, but they didn't check tix for the pit so it was too packed to enjoy the show from there for most of the night.

The opening act, Break Science, was way too loud. Guys, we don't like it no matter how loud you are. Turning it up more isn't going to change that. The guy on the laptop (yeah, that was his instrument) was really into his music by the way he was grooving to it, unfortunately the crowd wasn't that into it. Maybe because they came to hear real musicians play jazz and funk, not two guys mess around with electronics. The second band, Soulive, was absolutely amazing. All three of them are so talented, I was blown away. It was my first show and won't be my last. Then it got really strange... Lettuce, the funk band came on... they sounded good mainly because the band includes the guitarist and organist from Soulive. The horns were a nice touch as well. But I don't understand the two little fellas... the one on guitar was so-so but doesn't come close to Kraz, the guitarist from Soulive, and the little guy on bass.. omfg! That guy was such a clown... cut your hair and do less blow before the show please! It didn't look like he was playing anything... the organist was playing the funky bass lines. The midget with the bass was just dancing around like an idiot, pretending to play sometimes and making stupid hand gestures at people in the crowd. He was like a special ed kid or something, way too excited to be up there. You could tell he thought he was the SHlT and thought everybody loved him. His stage presence was way off and a distraction. Meanwhile the skilled musicians on the stage are totally humble. I don't know why they are involved with that clown on the bass. Must be a pity project or something. As for the venue, the drinks were expensive and security made sure no one had too much fun which was unfortunate. People still managed to sneak some good times on the smokers patio ha ha ha.

Incredible show, fantastic atmosphere, great venue. I absolutely loved the performance. I will go see Soulive every time they are playing in Atlanta :-)

For just being a three person band, their sound is tight.

soulive was great, opener was to melow for me and my girl.

Epic... Karl Denson is the man! They even had the sax players from our home town heroes, Rustic Overtones, get up and Jam out!

Show was really fun a little short only an hr and 45min but the badn was playing the whole time only a couple pauses no intermission. show had tons of energy and soulive kept fresh bringing out guest horn players like the saxaphonist from rustic overtones. good show lots of energy my only complaint is that it was not sold out

1st of all Soulive is super soulfull and funky, and you add in Nigel Hall and Karl Denson and dude from Lettuce and you get a funk throwdown. I would pay to see that everynight no doubt, period.

Really good energy at this event, great crowd- everyone was really in to the show. Great music to dance and groove to. They brought on 2 local acts who were really good, especially the Saxophone player from Rustic Overtones who absolutely killed on stage. Love this show!

Awesome show! Danced my ass off! I didn't want it to end.

First song was great. Beatles were boring. If another beatles song had been played we were planning on leaving. Thankfully Karl denson came on stage to fill a definite void. Royal family member Ryan Zoidis was a great addition too. Soulive is one of my favorite bands but I think portland is ready for another family member ... LETTUCE please!!!

venue was great. and soulive was amazing. such awesome energy. they encored, and built a connection with the crowd

Seen this band a bunch of times, they rock the house. The Beatles covers rocked, lot of energy throughout the show. Only bummer, they come out later and and play for less time, but still at a good price.