Philadelphia: IMC-07 Holiday Inn at the Philadelphia Stadium

Philly... Oh Philly!
Dost thou not loveth indie music?

I rocked at the Independent Music Conference this weekend at the Holiday Inn at the Philly Stadium. I brought along some great performers too. DJ Polarity, Coole High and Homeboy Sandman.

Coole and Homeboy Sandman rocked Thursday for a thin crowd, then I rocked Friday, Coole and I rocked again on Sunday. DJ Polarity rocked throughout!












I did an impromptu performance in the main corridors of the Conference Friday afternoon to promote for the show later on They had a whole rig set up to record people live and nobody was taking advantage of it, so I dove in! Did a quick mic check and then Mic 101 live with DJ Polarity on the Beatbox. Shane from Racetrack Sound Studios held me down on the boards. Peep the link... U can hear it for yourself. Hey... U can even download it for free!!
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Friday nigh 9pm ...what an odd venue. Big stage, great sound people... Mike and Technical John...

Funny, it kinda gives a Jay and Silent Bob type of ring doesn't it? But yo... these were some of the best if not the best sound team I've worked with in a long time. Very pro, very patient and on top of things. Big ups to sound people everywhere! I know how hard your jobs are.

Anyway... DJ Polarity Opened up the set with a bit of turntablism.

The people in the spot didn't seem like they had ever seen anything like it. Here we go again culturing the unwitting of Hip-Hop. It's cool though. The Loved it. The crowd was very attentive and I believe they dug the digs. I put some chalk boards out like I did at Freddy's Back Room but somehow. It didn't work out the same way. I guess some things are best kept for smaller more intimate venues. I did, however have the cordless mics going so I took the freestyle out into the crowd and they LOVED it.



Yes... for the first time in history when I asked if there were any plumbers in the house someone actually just blurted out. "Yeah man... I like to Lay That Pipe!" It was a dude well into his 50s maybe even beyond that.
His name is Rudy. We nicknamed him "Rudy the plumber" for the rest of the conference. He wore it proudly!


Don't know what happened Sunday night but it's all good. Polarity Handled it while we got the system up and running.

The wireless mics didn't agree with the rest of the equipment, Coole High's show CD wasn't working and we got stuck in a mess of traffic on the way to the show. The crowd was waiting for us. So Coole High and I decided to combine our sets into one. Kinda like what we did at the last IMC in 2006. What a success!!! I ran the set off of my laptop computer and Coole, Polarity and I did a tag team set.


It got rave reviews. I mean RAVE reviews. We were all over the place and then at the end of the set Coole beatboxed and I hit the freestyle. Standing ovation!

And guess what. I was on two different panels... Tah teaches the people! Aren't you proud?






More to come.