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The Zapp Band: Funk Stars at the Rrazz Room

Rrazz Room @ Hotel Nikko (222 Mason Street San Francisco, CA 94102)
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The Rrazz Room welcomes The Zapp Band. One of the top funk acts of the '80s, Zapp's trademark vocoder talk boxes and bumping grooves earned them such hits as "More Bounce to the Ounce," "Dance Floor," and "I Can Make You Dance".

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The last date listed for The Zapp Band was Friday July 10, 2009 / 10:00pm.

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Rrazz Room @ Hotel Nikko
222 Mason Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
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It was SLAMMIN'!!!! It was great to see people over 40 to be in the house...partyin' ole'skool style!! My only thing is that the Rrazz Room is a great venue, but way to small for truly enjoying music like the Zapp Band. You gotta git up!! It was kind of hard to do in the Rrazz Room. Other than that...it was great.
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From the time Lester Troutman said we gonna get funky in her ZAPP tore the place up. I have never seen so much Funk explode at The Rrazz Room. Even Dartanian was movin to the beat.The Showmanship,tightness of the Group, the audience which was very diverse was into it."It was definitley More Bounce 2 The Ounce".
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LOVE the Zapp Band. They are energetic, funny, and uplifting, considering their lead singer (and brother) Roger was murdered by another one of their brothers. On a personal note, I was kind of freaked out by the talk box - I hadn't seen Zapp perform close up before and the visual of a person singing with a tube in his mouth freaked me out, similar to how some are freaked out by clowns. That being said, it was overall a wonderful show!
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High energy; great smallish room; excellent acoustics; friendly maitre d'; slightly disappointed at delayed (20minutes) start time
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One of the most underrated funk groups of the 1980s, Zapp revolutionized the computer pop of electro with their trademark vocoder talk boxes and bumping grooves, emulating the earthier side of Prince and Cameo, with a leader in Roger Troutman who was more than efficient at polished production.

The family group, with brothers Roger , Lester , Larry , and Terry Troutman, grew up in Hamilton, OH, influenced by hometown heroes the Ohio Players as well as Parliament and other funk groups. Terry was the first to begin recording, with an obscure single for Gram-O-Phon Records, "I Truly Love You," which scraped the R&B charts in 1976. Joined by his brothers (with Roger on vocals and guitar, Lester on drums, Larry on percussion, and himself contributing bass) and christened Zapp, the group played around the Midwest and gradually picked up backing vocalists (Bobby Glover , Jannetta Boyce), keyboard players (Greg Jackson , Sherman Fleetwood) and a horn section (Eddie Barber, Jerome Derrickson , Mike Warren).

Zapp's following quickly gained notices, and Bootsy Collins himself was hired on to work with the group on their debut album. Released in 1980, Zapp hit the Top 20 on the pop charts, thanks to the single "More Bounce to the Ounce." The following year, Roger worked on Funkadelic 's The Electric Spanking of War Babies and released his solo debut album, The Many Facets of Roger. His special cover of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," complete with vocoderized talk box, pushed the album into gold territory (as Zapp had done). Zapp II appeared in 1982 and proved just as popular as the group's first, including Zapp's only number one R&B single, "Dance Floor."