If you watch the Arsenio Hall performance of ‘Funky Dividends’ just after listening to the LP version, you can hear flourishes, improvs, and piano washes that Chuck is doing in realtime, live. He really played that Mo-fo, lol.
And DJ Woody Wood’s mini mega mix at the very beginning was how they started their shows back then.
I’m a little bit older than you (
@terry.330 )-allowed to watch this late-night performance on a school night…Philly people were BUGGING OUT that 3xD got so large so fast, and bringing our styles nationwide. Yes, Jeff and Will hit it bigger, and first; but they were Laurence Welk compared to 3xD being Ausitin City Limits. It was a watershed moment.
I was at the Gallery Mall when security kicked them out because ‘no one was shopping.’ They were getting mobbed like The Beatles. Stopping foot traffic at a damn mall, for autographs.