Pop Music Reviews : Funk Semi-Luminaries Call Classic Numbers

Mostly resembling a backyard party band, Trulio Disgracias--an ad hoc salt ‘n’ pepper assemblage of Hollyweird funk scene semi-luminaries--got biz-ee at the Coconut Teaszer post-midnite on Sunday.

Featuring 14? 18? 25? (hike!) members and as many different hair styles, these idiot sons (and daughters) of George Clinton’s original Parliament-Funkadelic gangstas threw down on about a half-dozen classic gemz in about an hour-plus, calling the Ohio Players’ “Pain,” King Floyd’s “Groove Me,” Jimi Hendrix’s “Spanish Castle Magic,” Sly Stone’s “If You Want Me to Stay,” and a pair o’ burnin’ P-Funk numbers, natch.

With several smokin’ solos, one dude whose funktion was to parade various handwritten slogans/signs across the stage all night, and a bit of rapping (for flavor), the evening’s events certainly pushed the club’s sound system almost--but not quite--to the point of meltdown, inspiring at least one of the funkikazes who packed the pillbox to crawl across the sprinkler system suspended from the ceiling, dancing all the while. Loose? Yeah, you right.