Ok,, let me explain something to you, we had no idea that when someone calls out a Queen, meaning Queen Ladee Dred, they are so very serious.[youtuber youtube=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_FFw8-DdqQ’]
In one, two hour time framed show, the Dred of all the dred ladies, turned the ATX Kitchen 12000 out, the Atwater Village neighborhood out, and any person, animal or extraterrestrial within hearing and seeing distance, OUT. Â The Ladee’s performance was definitely worthy of a Grammy nomination. There were literally folk mesmerized with the aura and energetic music of Ladee Dred and her band, “The Bluntest”. Â The band members, drummer, “Ferndog”, Bass, Jonathan, guitar, Benjamin on keys with a guest solo by the horn player, Â whose name,we’re told is hush, hush, no matter, they kicked some royal, “behind”.[youtuber youtube=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBXd4NCyGk4′]
Check it, Sister Dred became a collective on stage, and while all on the dance floor got jiggy wit it, the collective meaning family, friends and special guests who took things to a whole notha level
Queen invited members of her Queen-dom, one in particular, Tamatria.
[youtuber youtube=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B45CmNlIfkA’]The two Queens together lit a a spark with a resonance so deep that one could feel the rippled effect, clear across the heavens.
The setting in the ATX was magnetic, featuring mother nature’s own organic, soft evening winds.
An essential part of the ATX ambience is the train which runs behind the venue and is separated by a wired fence. Meanwhile The Bluntest, sizzled, and popped and as Dred would say, “BOOM”. Guest vocalist, “Fabio Jahgun”, a cool looking cat, dressed in a grey and blue striped t-shirt, mixed up the set with some, as Cheryl a close friend of the group would say, gave us some rap-scat”, perfect for what we heard, and yes, you would have had to have been there. He made the whole crowd feel like they were in “Jamaica”. Rapper, “Innocent Mind” slid up on stage with such a fiery presence that we could feel the flames blazing  from the back of our heads. Trust, we got the photos showing a wave of hands, all up in the air, and could give a hoot about who saw, heard and of course, joined in. To take it up, a notch and shoot it right off the top, the, grandson, yes, you heard me, Ladee Dred’s grandson, bashfully came up and blew everybody, away. Young blood can spit too and calls himself, “Young Maj”.
The back-up vocalists included spoken word artist, vocalist, “King Arhomuz, Queen Emily and Sistah Carolyn who rythmically chimed in sending out a smooth concoction of melodic sounds.
If you should ever be so fortunate as to see the Queen’s name somewhere or hear that she is in town,, run to the nearest entrance and beg, borrow or
steal a seat. Worth the time and a wait in line.