Mayer Hawthorne is coming back home to Ann Arbor to play at the Blind Pig Saturday. Mayer, real name Drew Cohen, is a high school friend of mine. Another childhood friend of mine from the old neighborhood, and brilliant guitarist, Topher Mohr will play with Mayer’s band, the County. Special guests Buff-1 and 14 KT, formerly of Athletic Mic League will also be featured. Buff and KT are also good friends of mine and fellow hoopers from Ann Arbor Huron. So I’ll be there! It’s so great to see these guys achieve success because they’ve been working hard for years and years and they’re all extremely talented. Word is it might sell out so you might want to get your tickets ahead of time here.

I’m going to dig around tonight and try to post some old school Funktelligence and AML tracks.

Could only find my Funktelligence tape, posting that would take a little work :) Here’s some vintage Athletic Mic League, title song from their “Sweats and Kicks” LP. Note that Mayer Hawthorne was AML’s DJ, going by the name of Haircut. Also of significance was that they used to play the hell out of the Blind Pig back in the day, as did Funktelligence. This song is a good example of the influence that Funktell had on AML, as they were all tight friends. Stay tuned, I might dig up some more stuff.

 

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Here we go…Funktelligence, their last show they did, with all the former members, at The Pig. I was there!

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