saw them live...was my first concert ever...i was 14! back in 86 or 87...it was PHENOMENAL...only prince or kraftwerk were EQUALLY cool...oh and george clinton, too.....
If you guys that like Cameo. And live in L.A .They are performing at the greek Amp. Aug 25 2006 at 7 pm with morris day and the time, sos band, and whodini.
I was a deckhand on a cameo show I helped that guitar player they all cool fellows singer hung out before the show with us too, it was all good an jamin they headlined.
Saw them and The Barkays back in 70s when Funk Funk was out, I can't remember who they opened for though. I saw them again in Stuttgart around 1988 and they rocked, Big Boy was smoking them drums. They only stayed on for 45 minutes and i believe they went out with this song then the house lights came on. We had to pick our jaws off the ground and go home...
Simply funky! Greatest funk band argument is debatable. I personally like the barkays. In their heyday they simply put on the wildest live show i have ever seen with the flash cannons, snakes, and fire. It also helps that the music was funky as hell too.
saw these immortal funk icons..in st louis mo..at rib fest..i love them..da boys r bad,il skip work to see them or Prince..i wish i had a video of there live show.
It's on now! The Bar-Kays were rippin' it up before Cameo was born. The Bar-Kays were Otis Redding's and Isaac Hayes band before they started their own career. The Bar-Kays combined funk and rock before it was cool. The Bar-Kays used pyrotechnics and had the baddest drummer (Michael "Buckboard" Beard) in the industry. Larry still uses the python snake during Freakshow! The Bar-Kays will be at the Funk Festival in ATL this year, not Cameo. People walked out on Cameo in Cincinnati. SOS!
For those doggin' the Mighty Barking Bar-Kays, they are truly the best funk band alive! Long before Cameo were the Bar-Kays so who's copying who? Larry Dotson will blow Larry Blackmon off the stage. The Bar-Kays are the best!
gisteren geweest naar Cameo in paradiso in amsterdam, ze waren echt geweldig, jammer genoeg geen toegift, en Charlie Singleton zag er echt nog strak uit man, Larry Blackman was volgens mij een beetje moe.
For those asking what did the Bar-Kays produce: Son of Shaft, Too Hot to Stop, Attitude, Let's Have Some Fun, Holy Ghost, Do It, Anticipation, Hit & Run, She Talks to Me, Shine, Nightcrusin', Traffic Jammer, Move Your Boggie Body, I'll Dance, Shut the Funk Up, Shake Your Rump to the Funk, Boggie Body Land, Let's Git Bizzy, Give Me My Heart Back, etc. Allen A. Jones was the man! He was the original producer of the Funk!
Cameo last album was "Sexy Sweet Thing" that dropped back in 2000. When is Cameo coming out with a new album. Does anybody know? Mr Cool wants to know what's up? What's the word? Peace Mr. Cool
@hickoid69 I thought they were from New York. I heard in an interview a while back that when they first started and in the process of picking a name for the band, they came up with the New York City Players. Their manager thought it would be confused with the Ohio Players. They were in Canada and saw a billboard with a cigarette ad - Cameo. Their manager suggested that name, and you know the rest.
Barkays were alright, but they were too derivative for my liking. always biting off of other band's sounds...seriously check it out. What great CDs did the Barjays ever release ? Cameo is simply on another level. Cameosis 4EVA!!
Jock-man (dzire99) made me do this history lesson. Funk is from Ohio. Here's the playas list: DAYTON - Ohio Players, Roger Troutman & Zapp Band, Slave, Lakeside, Heatwave, Shirley Murdock, Sun, Dayton, Faze-O, Aurra, Deja, Steve Arrington, New Herizon, The Human Body, Xavier, Rufus Troutman. CINNCINNTI - Isley Brothers, Bootsy Collins, Midnight Star, Deele. CLEVELAND - The O'Jays, Dazz Band, Levert. AKRON - Howard Hewitt, Switch
I think Cameo is way out better than Parliament/Funkadelic who I also like but even live Cameo are way more structured whereas Parliament is just one big jam.
Nathan is not gay, Tomi is not gay and Larry is not gay. Neither is Aaron Mills or Anthony Lockett or Charlie Singleton. Some people just let envy and jealousy get the best of them.
Oh I see you just can't let it go "dzire" just like you can't let go of Larry Blackmon's jock! The reason Cameo has to travel so far is because they can't see tickets to their own family members! Memphis honor and adore the Bar-Kays. ATL can't wait for Cameo to fall over! You're the only one holding on (Jock-boy!) And just where are you from: Idaho? Cameo is probably the only band you've ever seen. Please don't let me take you to school on Ohio Funk! Please don't go there Jock-man!
@risaasrisa Mistaken :-) I'm posting. CAMEO are just so COOL! Just listen to this legendary Bass-Line...da dam dam dadda. It's soo simple - and just sooo good and powerful. The Lord himself has stepped down to teach them' this...at least - this will remain forever - and furthermore these guys just have the groove!
It's just a different style. nothing more and nothing less. But P Funk changed the music and i think cameo is just a very good funkband. I like them both
That's right I'm all over the place. I'm not the "domesticated unachiever" you thought. I know more about the funk than you know about food stamps. Mother's Finest will run Cameo out of ATL. Mother's Finest is my funk band from the ATL. Sounds like you're all about the "Comatoses" just like your band Comatose, oops I meant Cameo. You shouldn't have dropped out of high school because you missed a lot of funk during those years you spent in the slammer. "Something's In the Air!"
The codpiece became his trademark. Mostly related to gay men and I think that people and especially men who are so focused on it are homophobic, get over it and focus on the important thing, the music, the stank!!
You're beginning to make me think "99" is your age. What have you been smokin'? I'll put Zapp Band on ConFunkShun. That's the end of that comparison! It's not about just spinning records but also about stage performance and how they work the crowds. The Bar-Kays are a better performance band than Cameo. Larry Blackmon is lazy on stage. Too lazy to change his jock! Same ole Jock! The Bar-Kays will rock the crowd into a frenzy Jock-man!
This the best Cameo Live
All over the world they play. Just a great group. Cameo fan for life. Darrell Butler Warren Ohio.
please a quality version of why have i lost you. the most underated ballad of all time.
saw them live...was my first concert ever...i was 14!
back in 86 or 87...it was PHENOMENAL...only prince or kraftwerk were EQUALLY cool...oh and george clinton, too.....
These guys are one of the best funk bands and most underated ones too! 'STRANGE! AND I LIKE IT' TUUUUUUUUUUNE!
Love these cats. Been a fan since I was a kid.
Serious Funk. No one today is even close to this.
If you guys that like Cameo. And live in L.A .They are performing at the greek Amp. Aug 25 2006 at 7 pm with morris day and the time, sos band, and whodini.
Yeah man you´re right. Cameo, the best funk band of 80´s. Tengo todos sus vinilos, los colecciono desde 1981. Chile.
Saw them in Vancouver in late 2004,great show.I only wish the show had been a little longer:(
I was a deckhand on a cameo show I helped that guitar player they all cool fellows singer hung out before the show with us too, it was all good an jamin they headlined.
Saw them and The Barkays back in 70s when Funk Funk was out, I can't remember who they opened for though. I saw them again in Stuttgart around 1988 and they rocked, Big Boy was smoking them drums. They only stayed on for 45 minutes and i believe they went out with this song then the house lights came on. We had to pick our jaws off the ground and go home...
Simply funky! Greatest funk band argument is debatable. I personally like the barkays. In their heyday they simply put on the wildest live show i have ever seen with the flash cannons, snakes, and fire. It also helps that the music was funky as hell too.
you do you have it yeah it is i love it
Sounds better in concert than on record.
saw these immortal funk icons..in st louis mo..at rib fest..i love them..da boys r bad,il skip work to see them or Prince..i wish i had a video of there live show.
Wow! Larry Blackmen a snob? My brother is a musician and Larry is one of his funk idols along with Larry Dotson from The Bar-Kays.
they still alive awsome that bass is kicking
It's on now! The Bar-Kays were rippin' it up before Cameo was born. The Bar-Kays were Otis Redding's and Isaac Hayes band before they started their own career. The Bar-Kays combined funk and rock before it was cool. The Bar-Kays used pyrotechnics and had the baddest drummer (Michael "Buckboard" Beard) in the industry. Larry still uses the python snake during Freakshow! The Bar-Kays will be at the Funk Festival in ATL this year, not Cameo. People walked out on Cameo in Cincinnati. SOS!
Thumbs up, I am the artist formely known as dzire99! I remember that war of words defending my boys for life, CAMEO...no doubt!
cameo is currently on tour, just left chitown in august.
For those doggin' the Mighty Barking Bar-Kays, they are truly the best funk band alive! Long before Cameo were the Bar-Kays so who's copying who? Larry Dotson will blow Larry Blackmon off the stage. The Bar-Kays are the best!
gisteren geweest naar Cameo in paradiso in amsterdam, ze waren echt geweldig, jammer genoeg geen toegift, en Charlie Singleton zag er echt nog strak uit man, Larry Blackman was volgens mij een beetje moe.
For those asking what did the Bar-Kays produce: Son of Shaft, Too Hot to Stop, Attitude, Let's Have Some Fun, Holy Ghost, Do It, Anticipation, Hit & Run, She Talks to Me, Shine, Nightcrusin', Traffic Jammer, Move Your Boggie Body, I'll Dance, Shut the Funk Up, Shake Your Rump to the Funk, Boggie Body Land, Let's Git Bizzy, Give Me My Heart Back, etc. Allen A. Jones was the man! He was the original producer of the Funk!
Cameo is the best funk band ever!!
hahahahaha! why hatin it? i LOVE it! (seriously!)
Cameo last album was "Sexy Sweet Thing" that dropped back in 2000. When is Cameo coming out with a new album. Does anybody know? Mr Cool wants to know what's up? What's the word?
Peace
Mr. Cool
Does anyone have any more live performances. Back and forth keep it hot any thing new.Thanks
@hickoid69 I thought they were from New York. I heard in an interview a while back that when they first started and in the process of picking a name for the band, they came up with the New York City Players. Their manager thought it would be confused with the Ohio Players. They were in Canada and saw a billboard with a cigarette ad - Cameo. Their manager suggested that name, and you know the rest.
they need 2 come out with a new album
DOes any one have that song back and forth by them live
if two guys walk onstage, one in a bride's outfit and the other in a groom's outfit and go into a mock wedding...what would you think?
any one got a clip of Sparkle i saw the one from the Tom Joyner show but i want an original or a different version
Barkays were alright, but they were too derivative for my liking. always biting off of other band's sounds...seriously check it out. What great CDs did the Barjays ever release ? Cameo is simply on another level. Cameosis 4EVA!!
that sound system they was using is off the fuckn hook...Got damn that bass sound good, and the reverb on the mic..out of site...
Jock-man (dzire99) made me do this history lesson. Funk is from Ohio. Here's the playas list: DAYTON - Ohio Players, Roger Troutman & Zapp Band, Slave, Lakeside, Heatwave, Shirley Murdock, Sun, Dayton, Faze-O, Aurra, Deja, Steve Arrington, New Herizon, The Human Body, Xavier, Rufus Troutman. CINNCINNTI - Isley Brothers, Bootsy Collins, Midnight Star, Deele. CLEVELAND - The O'Jays, Dazz Band, Levert. AKRON - Howard Hewitt, Switch
Real Funk 4 Real
yup
what do you call that device around his package??
rad song "single life"
what song is this?
Man dat shit was tight. Preciate cha. Somebody need to tell Larry Blackmon it's time to let da codpiece go. He cool doe.
Is your father the one playing keyboards in the Aligator Woman videos?
what song is this
just posted clips of this concert. not the best footage, but check em' out.
Oh my God, I'm gonna die!
NO, Larry blackmon, Tomi Jenkins, Charlie Singleton,and Nathan Leftenant are not gay. Actually Nathan might go both. YA neva know!
the best funk group, period. word up! she's straaaaange, but i like it!
bad news you guys. Bass player Michael Burnett died jan 8 o7.
I think Cameo is way out better than Parliament/Funkadelic who I also like but even live Cameo are way more structured whereas Parliament is just one big jam.
Cameo's original name was THE NEW YORK CITY PLAYERS but changed it not ti be confused with OHIO PLAYERS....
Nathan is not gay, Tomi is not gay and Larry is not gay. Neither is Aaron Mills or Anthony Lockett or Charlie Singleton. Some people just let envy and jealousy get the best of them.
Oh I see you just can't let it go "dzire" just like you can't let go of Larry Blackmon's jock! The reason Cameo has to travel so far is because they can't see tickets to their own family members! Memphis honor and adore the Bar-Kays. ATL can't wait for Cameo to fall over! You're the only one holding on (Jock-boy!) And just where are you from: Idaho? Cameo is probably the only band you've ever seen. Please don't let me take you to school on Ohio Funk! Please don't go there Jock-man!
@risaasrisa
Mistaken :-) I'm posting. CAMEO are just so COOL! Just listen to this legendary Bass-Line...da dam dam dadda. It's soo simple - and just sooo good and powerful. The Lord himself has stepped down to teach them' this...at least - this will remain forever - and furthermore these guys just have the groove!
ohioplayer witch one is gay?
people gotta stop hatin on the codpiece...
It's just a different style. nothing more and nothing less. But P Funk changed the music and i think cameo is just a very good funkband. I like them both
That's right I'm all over the place. I'm not the "domesticated unachiever" you thought. I know more about the funk than you know about food stamps. Mother's Finest will run Cameo out of ATL. Mother's Finest is my funk band from the ATL. Sounds like you're all about the "Comatoses" just like your band Comatose, oops I meant Cameo. You shouldn't have dropped out of high school because you missed a lot of funk during those years you spent in the slammer. "Something's In the Air!"
The codpiece became his trademark. Mostly related to gay men and I think that people and especially men who are so focused on it are homophobic, get over it and focus on the important thing, the music, the stank!!
Would call it a codpiece myself....LOL
Although they were groundbreaking in their own way, I personally like Cameo much better. Better songs.
You're beginning to make me think "99" is your age. What have you been smokin'? I'll put Zapp Band on ConFunkShun. That's the end of that comparison! It's not about just spinning records but also about stage performance and how they work the crowds. The Bar-Kays are a better performance band than Cameo. Larry Blackmon is lazy on stage. Too lazy to change his jock! Same ole Jock! The Bar-Kays will rock the crowd into a frenzy Jock-man!
dident wayne cooper die from aids!
Cameo's original name was THE NEW YORK CITY PLAYERS but changed it not ti be confused with OHIO PLAYERS....