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EWF & Michael McDonald to play Orange County on Sept. 27 at 7 p.m.

EWF & Michael McDonald to play Orange County on Sept. 27 at 7 p.m.

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/sept-family-comedy-2167604-music-free

Music - Earth, Wind & Fire with Michael McDonald - Pioneering funk legends Earth, Wind & Fire and former Doobie Brother Michael McDonald come to Orange County on Sept. 27 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $35-$75. Pacific Amphitheatre, 100 Fair Drive, Costa Mesa.

 

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  • Saturday night was amazing! blew me away!!! keep on keepin on =)
  • of course you know that i was joking or have a fantasy. they played in memphis back in July and it was great. the band the voices. i took my children ages 8 and 9. i just wished that we could have seen the stage a little better. my children enjoyed them. i teach school and i play the last album illumination (great cd) start to finish. check it out if you havent allready. my students by the middle of november request ewf song during tests and quizzes.
  • i was an original member of the group. back when it was Earth Wind Fire and Water. i was Water. they put me out of the group because i gained a little weight. didnt look good in the jumpsuits.
  • "THE LIGHT IS WITH OIR BROTHER WHO IS ALWAYS WITH US"
  • I would'nt expect any less from Philip or any member of Earth Wind and Fire ............Old School lots of Respect.I saw them in Barbados at the Jazz festival they were awesome.I've beem partying to their music for years and still will.What a Great example for musicians all over. CiCi cicijazz.com
  • Maybe Philip Bailey had a point there, Bill-O. Did you really think he was trying to run down America from the stage? Call me cynical, but I'm too used to hearing some performers .
  • EWF rules but Bill OReilley can suck my left nutsack.
  • I am a True EWF Fan since the age of 6 years old . I have all EWF's Albums. Let's groove , Shinning Star , and Fantasy are my Favs
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    Earth, Wind & Fire still generates sparks at Nokia

    Earth, Wind & Fire still generates sparks at Nokia


    http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-ewf_0710gl.ART.State.Edition2.4d744bb.html


    12:00 AM CDT on Thursday, July 10, 2008


    By MANUEL MENDOZA / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News
    tvboymanny@yahoo.com



    BRANDON THIBODEAUX/Special Contributor
    Earth, Wind & Fire band members (from left) Verdine White, Ralph Johnson, David 'Tigger' Whitworth and Philip Bailey brought layered rhythms, punctuated by Mr. Bailey's trademark falsetto, to Nokia Theatre in Grand Prairie on Wednesday.


    GRAND PRAIRIE - PBS should've been taping Wednesday night's Earth, Wind & Fire concert at Nokia Theatre. It would make a great pledge-drive special.


    About 3,000 potential contributors swayed as the 11-piece band, including longtime members Philip Bailey, Verdine White and Ralph Johnson, re-created the 1970s of soul, funk and fringe. Transporting of the audience back almost 40 years began as soon as the houselights went down, as the stage became bathed in warm purples and blues, and the group launched into "Boogie Wonderland."


    If cameras had been rolling, they would have been trained for much of the 90-minute show on bassist White, who rarely stopped pacing or bouncing around the stage. He was a ball of energy, shaking his finger and his backside at the crowd and flailing on the floor.


    "Oh, goodness gracious," singer and percussionist Bailey said somewhere during the transition from "Serpentine Fire" to "Evil." "We got a party going on here."


    The band didn't waste any time getting to the hits, following the stuttering Latin beat of "Boogie Wonderland" with the hit workouts "Sing a Song" and "Shining Star," the latter featuring the first of a series of tasty solos from the horn section and keyboardist-musical director Myron McKinley.


    These solos revealed Earth, Wind & Fire's roots in jazz. Founder Maurice White, who no longer performs with the group live, started as a jazz drummer. At times, the show turned into a jam with little delineation between the end of one song and the start of another. Fueling the grooves were saxophonist Gary Bias, trumpeter Bobby Burns Jr. and trombonist Reggie Young.


    Until Mr. Bailey took center stage midset and proved that his trademark falsetto was still in full working order, the vocals tended toward the underpowered. The group made up the difference with layered rhythms. It seemed like everyone was playing drums of one kind or another at one point or another.


    Mr. Bailey started to build his case with a couple of ballads, "I'll Write a Song for You" and "After the Love Is Gone," which had some women in the audience levitating out of their seats. But it was a moment near the end of "Reasons" that sealed the verdict.


    Mr. Bailey kept reaching for higher and higher notes until there appeared to be no more room on the musical scale. Then he took it just a little bit higher. A few times a night, it turns out, the most famous upper-register singer between the careers of Little Richard and Prince can still hit the stratosphere.