Thursday, December 16, 2004

I like peanut butter, I like toast and Super Love Jam

Because I've purchased tickets online at various times, I occasionally receive e-mail bulletins from the good folks at Ticketmaster promoting upcoming events that, for whatever arcane reasons, they think I might enjoy. Usually I trash these notices without even opening them, but this morning's offering caught my attention:

Valentine Super Love Jam. Can you not dig that name?

It was as though Don Cornelius himself had sent me a personal invitation.

The Valentine Super Love Jam (I get a bit giddy just typing it) will get down with its funky self on Saturday, February 12, at Sacramento's Arco Arena. For a mere $25.50 (plus Ticketmaster service charges, of course — which can total almost as much as the face value of the tickets themselves), you can shake your moneymaker to the R&B sounds of such near-legends as Midnight Star ("Freak-a-Zoid"), Heatwave (I'm sure they'll be riding on the "Groove Line" that night), the Mary Jane Girls (featuring JoJo, the ad says — the last I heard, he'd left his home in Tucson, Arizona for some California grass), James and Bobby Purify (who, after all these years, can still "Shake a Tail Feather," hopefully without winding up in traction), and A Taste of Honey (who will no doubt encourage attendees to "Boogie Oogie Oogie" till they just can't boogie no more).

As Don would say, you can bet your last money it's all gonna be a stone gas, honey. I'm wiping a tear to think that Barry White won't be there to see it.

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