27th and Oxford Street , North Philly in the early 70s WDAS FM , with DJ Butterball playing the quiet storm on Sunday evenings, growing up in Philadelphia in the 60s and 70s was really fun , class of 75, Simon Grats Senior High School!!!

DJ Tony Vito! I really do appreciate your words. That Prospect Park Brooklyn was my first gig back with the band I remember it like it was yesterday. I remember feeling my drum solo. I have a video of that show I should put some songs up.

I have no words to describe that evening... I mean, to see Mandrill playing live IN BROOKLYN no less... just blocks from where they basically grew up.... and then also to have listened to, and played their music (with my own funk band, ECSTASY, Newburgh, NY)... it was too much for the senses. I couldn't even really relate it to the chick I brought to that concert because she was much younger than I. it was TOO real. Tony

Finally? They've been playing for 50 years! Love em.

@@usesumlogicmanlogicman4334 I’m well aware of how long they’ve been around. I bought every album they had done since the beginning. I’m talking about live performances where so many bands play their songs too fast !!

I second that

It still is!!

It still is

You need to check out 'Tne Pocket Queen.' Six years since you post this so I hope you're alive and thriving to get this message fam.

@Gee Boges Oh Yes "Taylor Gordon" Your Musicology Knowledge is A+

Loved all of these groups. Crown Heights Affair was my favorite back in the day. This song has a special groove.

Amazing...just amazing! BECAUSE there aren't people dedicated to the crafts of instruments today and in the past to bring what MANDRILL delivered to the stage.....meaning THE WORLD. PARLIMENT SAID ....TO......TAKE IT TO THE STAGE.....SUCKERS.......HE WAS TAKLING TO THESE LAZY MUSICIANS.

@@lawrencebarr3820 I wouldn't say that. There are plenty of young people playing instruments, but there has been a concentrated effort to take the arts in general out of many school systems...public school music programs in particular. Back in the day, kids in the hood had access to instruments and at least one instructor at school. Today, schools are lucky to have a part-time instructor and parents have to fend for themselves when it comes to getting instruments. Meanwhile, the more affluent families send their kids to private schools and vote to de-fund the public schools. Their kids have access to the instruments and instructors...and today some of these trust fund kids are getting credit for "saving the music" (Snarky Puppy, the whole Daptone thing, etc.). Studying music has become a luxury unfortunately.

@@Odawg96 can't argue with the war ON inner city CHILDREN. I see your point.I guess I was frustrated with drum machines and that STUPID electric voice SOUND "T". PAIN does.EVERY KID WANT TO RAP......AND DONT HAVE THE DISCIPLINE AND KNOWLEDGE TO UNDERSTAND THE LOGIC INVOLVED OR THE TRUTH OF THE FOUNDATION FOR RAP.....LIBERTY OR DEATH.... DEATH IS ALL WE GET.....OUR PEOPLES...OUR CULTURAL HERITAGE...OUR OWN LANGUAGE....OUR OWN RELIGION...OUR WEALTHY INHERITANCE, WE ARE THE MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE ON EARTH...YET THE MOST DISRESPECTED. WHY?! ....WE ALLOW IT....

@@lawrencebarr3820 I hear you, and my opinion initially was similarly harsh...particularly since I'm a musician myself. Having school-age children in public school has been an eye-opening experience. Searching for a residence near a school with a FULL compliment of FULL-TIME fine arts instructors was a challenge. Then there is the magnet school issue. Kids audition for these magnet school programs for middle and high school. If your child is not zoned for an elementary school with full fine arts, they're already at a disadvantage. If your parents can't afford private lessons, the kids are at a deeper disadvantage. Yet when the magnet school audition happens, those kids have to compete against kids who have the best of everything during their elementary school years (maybe they even went to private school)...and inevitably they don't make the cut (and this is happening with more than just music; check out your own public school system for proof). So you can't be too hard on the young people today. They can't miss what they never had. Hip-hop--the commercial version--is what most of them know. It took me a long time to see that. But there are young people of color playing...in church, getting help from family, and even in some of those magnet programs. There's still hope.

@@Odawg96 yes....the church...the one time foundation of the so-called "BLACK "community. Don't know what the " CHURCH " has become. The church used to be the bullseye ....know what I'm saying...these institutions you speak of used to target the church first.Now since the church is LITERALLY hiding behind RELIGION and separatist dog mentality we don't have a shield of faith so to speak. YEAH I lived in an impoverished area and watch my genius CHILDREN...I have two genius CHILDREN who suffered from impulsive nonrestrictive environmental penal trained educational design projects. I learned the basics then self TEACH...more like self medication in KNOWLEDGE. My children are brilliant but handicapped under the same systematic area code discrimination that you speak of.NOW WE ARE BEING DISTRACTED FROM THE REAL ISSUES .SMOKE AND MIRRORS DOG AND PONY SHOW .TRUMP.BIDEN.SANDERS.HARRIS....OBAMA AND THE WHOLE STAGE IS SET TO PUT ON A SHOW WHICH YOU WILL NEVER FORGET. Like night mare on elm street....better stay awake!

Juan, Neftali! that's great! we were there in 2002 did you not get to go?