FEATURE: A HOLLYWOOD ‘Cool’ BOWL of ‘Thank You’ Experience! (Help Somebody Edition)
The following is a review from theBLACKsummersnight tour MAXWELL featuring Chrisette Michele and Common w/Bilal in Los Angeles, CA at the Hollywood Bowl October 16, 2009. Also, it is a thank you to MAXWELL’s amazing band members for taking the time out of their busy schedules to care. It really warmed my spirit when I read this, hope it puts a smile on your face!
Help me to give myself the way that you’ve given you
Help me to be the helping hand that makes a dream come true…
“Help Somebody” – Maxwell
Pleasant sayings are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and a healing to the bones.
Solomon – Proverbs 16:24
As Apples of gold in silver carvings is a word spoken at the right time for it.
Solomon – Proverbs 25:11
No truer words to be spoken, especially for this situation…The following display of gratitude radiates from my Best Sistah girlfriend of 18 years, Ms. Kathy M. Green, who was unable to due any extensive typing herself, due to her disability. Even though dwelling in the midst of illness, Kat was determined to journey from her San Diego, California residence (with her niece, Tiffany) so that we could execute having her bask in Maxwell’s phenomenal musicianship, etc.., to be bestowed upon her at The Hollywood Bowl!
To the sweetest, most empathetic musicians ever to be assembled in one band, it is imperative to express an intense debt of Love and gratitude upon Derrick Hodge, Saunders Sermons, the very personable, Keyon Harrold (felt like we were sitting a good long while at a backyard BBQ with you, thanks for the CD’s and don’t be tryin’ to jack the Hachitachi 7000 camera! LOL); and The Hod, That Hod, The Hod David, for his loving, approaching greetings of attentiveness upon entering The Bowl before the show and then voluntarily giving up even more love after the show! YOU, “Sweeti Pie”, are in-DEED unbelievable! (cheese). Thank you! Thank you! Thank you from her (and us)!
And allow me to say, from me to you my dearest, Best, Bosom Buddy, ole Pal, ole Chum, Grandest Big Sis of mine, Kat… May our invisible umbilical cord that flows from each other’s beings, continue to afford us the opportunity to complete each other’s very thoughts and sentences, I pray, for many years to come! (smile) It was your amazing EXTREMELY SELF-LESS, humanitarian aura upon my life that incited me to place “The Industry” behind me once and for all and dedicate myself within a career of Educator and caregiver to Special Needs toddlers, full time; and oh, how enriched my life has been, metamorphosing into a “nurturing mother” figure to hundreds of viable, vital human beings over the years! BAM! I convict you of “Helping Somebody”; and I love you for this incredible saga that permeates my life! (sniff, sniff)
We have had many a fun and exciting “musical” adventure over the years we have been blessed to know each other! (grin) Through the good and bad, through good health and ill health, “come rain or come shine”…You are pertinent within the core of my very soul…
Thank you for partaking in REAL music with me at The Hollywood Bowl!
“You and me us never part, La-Ti-Dah-Dah..
Ain’t no ocean ain’t no sea, La-Ti-Dah-Dah..
Can keep my Sistah away from me…” (Celie & Nettie – The Color Purple)
P.S. (and we had no idea that one or the other would also be wearing Purple..ha)
Kimi, on behalf of Kathy- and to Kathy!
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Here are some pictures:
The Performance Stage
The Packed Crowd
Myself, Hod & Kat
Kat, Tiffany (her niece) & Saunders
Kat, Keyon & Tiff
“A HOLLYWOOD ‘Cool’ BOWL of ‘Thank You’ Experience! (Help Somebody Edition)” feature concert review for The Latest Maxwell News presents “Fan Concert Experiences“.
Copyright Kimi on behalf of Kathy © 2009. All words were used with permission of the owner. Special thanks to the owner for allowing The Latest Maxwell News to feature the concert review.
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Dr. V. Williams October 18th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
WOW, Beautiful, just simply BEAUTIFUL!!!!