Waking up this morning after returning home from Lucid Music's debut at the Lemon Grove Cafe in Ohio,I can only say one thing...I love Youngstown!...really...We got out there around 7pm and met up with our homie Ralph aka Dj Ludo who let us kick it at his crib before hitting the venue...The Lemon Grove Cafe is a cool spot that provided the perfect scenario for an out of town band...it reminded me of Pittsburgh's Quiet Storm if i had to compare it to some place...the walls were decorated with local art and we could tell that the owner and staff really supported Youngstown's creative community...very refreshing to see...also refreshing to see monitors and a pretty good sound system on stage...you should have seen Marcus's face when he realized that we would have not one,not two but THREE monitors at our disposal!!...we weren't scheduled to go on til about 11:30 so we hung out and did the usual Lucid Music pre show ritual...discussing our favorite family guy episodes and Dave Chappelle routines...around 10pm Dj Ludo aka Micheal Knight(check his car you'll see what I mean) got things started on the ones and twos...dude is CLEAN on the wheels...cuts and juggles on point...people started pouring in...when it was all said and done,about two hundred people were chilling and there was still plenty of elbow room...easily our biggest out of town crowd so far...11:30 rolls around...we do a mic check and proceed to get down and I would just like to say thanks to the great Lemon Grove crowd...we dropped "invisible" and nobody looked at us like we had just landed our spaceship from Pluto...much love was shown throughout the entire set...next up was local Youngstown hero Baker who got down to business accompanied by a live band...he rocked the mic with a mix of hiphop and punk songs...closing out the night was Dr Goo...due to some of us having to work the next day we had to dip a little early and unfortunately missed his set but honestly,this is a city and venue that we plan on coming back to...
All and all,it was a great night...thanks to all the acts for sharing the stage,thanks to the Lemon Grove staff for taking care of us and allowing us to perform,thanks to Youngstown for coming out to show SO MUCH love,thanks to all of y'all that bought cds, and of course Dj Ludo for handling business the way it should be handled...that's how you put a show together!!!...okay,I think I'm going back to bed...PEACE!!!
oh yeah Rockpound and Adamatic,the two producers who remixed "bringin it back" and "instant love" respectively...we performed both versions and they knocked!!
and a shout out to liza P and Johnny Fresh...
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