Spring Break
The Roots, Slightly Stoopid rock URI Ryan Center
Caity Cudworth
Issue date: 4/29/09 Section: Entertainment
04/29/09 -
The weekend's warm weather and good vibes lingered as the crowd filtered into the Ryan Center Sunday night to see Slightly Stoopid and the Roots lay down a night of reggae, rock and funk-fueled hip-hop.
The show, sponsored by the Student Entertainment Committee, opened with San Diego-based reggae band Slightly Stoopid, which went on at 8 p.m., bringing its signature So-Cal sound to the stage. Spacey grooves melded with mellow horn riffs as the band, which opened with "Till it Gets Wet," launched into a muddle of hyper-speed reggae. Steel drums backed warm, lo-fi jams.
Slightly Stoopid got progressively tighter as the set went on, and towards the mid-point, as a steady stream of kids hopped over the gates into the general admissions area, the audience engaged in a bit of light moshing and crowd surfing.
The band, at various points throughout its set, chastised the audience for not smoking enough weed. As a weak cloud of smoke rose from the audience, singer Miles Doughty urged, "We gotta get some people smokin' in here!" This was followed by statements ranging from "What's up with Rhode Island, y'all be blazin' that chronic?" and the enthusiastically met, "Y'all want some bud?"
Slightly Stoopid finished off its set on a strong note, incorporating infectious, lively reggae covers of John Denver's "Leaving on a Jet Plane," and Old Dirty Bastard's "Baby I Like it Raw." Although the band disappointingly refrained from playing some of its better-known hits like "2 a.m.," and "Bandelero," Slightly Stoopid still put on a feel-good set.
And then the interminable wait for the Roots began: Though Slightly Stoopid left the stage around 9:45 p.m., the audience was left in the lurch for an hour and a half as a disc jockey stalled on stage, trying, futilely, to keep the audience engaged despite the delay. But cuts of "Big Pimpin'," and "The Next Episode" can only keep an audience entertained for so long - the empty stage, still decked with Slightly Stoopid's gear, grew increasingly harder to ignore and the crowd started to boo. After an hour with no word from the stagehands or emcee, frustrated audience members started to trickle out.
The weekend's warm weather and good vibes lingered as the crowd filtered into the Ryan Center Sunday night to see Slightly Stoopid and the Roots lay down a night of reggae, rock and funk-fueled hip-hop.
The show, sponsored by the Student Entertainment Committee, opened with San Diego-based reggae band Slightly Stoopid, which went on at 8 p.m., bringing its signature So-Cal sound to the stage. Spacey grooves melded with mellow horn riffs as the band, which opened with "Till it Gets Wet," launched into a muddle of hyper-speed reggae. Steel drums backed warm, lo-fi jams.
Slightly Stoopid got progressively tighter as the set went on, and towards the mid-point, as a steady stream of kids hopped over the gates into the general admissions area, the audience engaged in a bit of light moshing and crowd surfing.
The band, at various points throughout its set, chastised the audience for not smoking enough weed. As a weak cloud of smoke rose from the audience, singer Miles Doughty urged, "We gotta get some people smokin' in here!" This was followed by statements ranging from "What's up with Rhode Island, y'all be blazin' that chronic?" and the enthusiastically met, "Y'all want some bud?"
Slightly Stoopid finished off its set on a strong note, incorporating infectious, lively reggae covers of John Denver's "Leaving on a Jet Plane," and Old Dirty Bastard's "Baby I Like it Raw." Although the band disappointingly refrained from playing some of its better-known hits like "2 a.m.," and "Bandelero," Slightly Stoopid still put on a feel-good set.
And then the interminable wait for the Roots began: Though Slightly Stoopid left the stage around 9:45 p.m., the audience was left in the lurch for an hour and a half as a disc jockey stalled on stage, trying, futilely, to keep the audience engaged despite the delay. But cuts of "Big Pimpin'," and "The Next Episode" can only keep an audience entertained for so long - the empty stage, still decked with Slightly Stoopid's gear, grew increasingly harder to ignore and the crowd started to boo. After an hour with no word from the stagehands or emcee, frustrated audience members started to trickle out.
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