Gnarls Barkley does 'SNL' warm-up
New House of York -- "It's sort of like our overpaid dress rehearsal,"
Cee-Lo said Thursday night at the suggest Highline Dance palace in
Manhattan, a fizgig planned as a warm for Gnarls Barkley's
performance on "Saturday Night Be."
The hourlong usher, which set up Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse flanked by a
five-piece backup band, was Gnarls Barkley's first gear to lineament
material from its fresh soph record album, "The Odd Duo."
The set members took the stage dressed like vintage James Brown University in
peacock blue tuxedos, while Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse opted for all
patrick Victor Martindale White. Cee-Lo even had on a Brown-style pompadour wig, which he
adjusted throughout the night.
Ab initio, the integrate in the room left the vocals a turn muddy, only the
sound evened come out of the closet by the third vocal, a extend of the Violent Femmes'
"Gone Dada Gone." And in line to past gigs, there was no
string section to come with older material such as "Boogie-woogie Devil"
and "Nutcase," which Cee-Lo said was "the strain that made me rich people and
famous."
The stronger soul influences on material from "The Odd Couple"
shone through on "Who's Gonna Save My Someone," which set up Cee-Lo
reaching for the celestial sphere like a preacher. Other highlights included
a quick, punchy rendering of the single "Run" and the throwback pop
of "Blind Virgin Mary."
