"Now this, I like."

July 29, 2023 4:47 PM

Cypress Hill with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra

Following their Tiny Desk Concert, they played all of Black Sunday. With an orchestra. On the 30th anniversary of the album's release. (Here are fan videos of 'How I Could Just Kill a Man,' and 'Insane in the Brain.')

posted by box (17 comments total)

Obligatory "Simpsons did it first" comment
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 5:13 PM on July 29, 2023 [8 favorites]

This I definitely like!
posted by dazedandconfused at 5:40 PM on July 29, 2023 [1 favorite]

CSO! Yay!
posted by Don.Kinsayder at 6:03 PM on July 29, 2023 [1 favorite]

→ Obligatory "Simpsons did it first" comment

Obligatory "did you even watch the opening seconds of the main video?"
☺
posted by scruss at 6:03 PM on July 29, 2023 [26 favorites]

I was wondering why Peter Frampton was spotted wandering around Denver muttering about something about his orchestra being stolen.
posted by Your Childhood Pet Rock at 6:12 PM on July 29, 2023 [7 favorites]

Really great
posted by Windopaene at 6:57 PM on July 29, 2023

i just saw rev al green with cso at red rocks. soul was heard. terrific show.
posted by j_curiouser at 6:58 PM on July 29, 2023

Between this and the Mannie Fresh / Juvenile Tiny Desk Concert, all my favorite 90's hiphop is getting a sort of "high culture" 2020's revival.

I still listen to "Hits from the Bong" so I'm a little disappointed they didn't play it.
posted by Hume at 7:58 PM on July 29, 2023 [2 favorites]

How the hell did they record the sound? They didn't use the soundboard output? The sound was awful.
posted by zouhair at 9:15 PM on July 29, 2023 [2 favorites]

Yeah, I really expected to love this, but I agree with zouhair about the sound.
posted by Flunkie at 9:26 PM on July 29, 2023

the production crew was all baked so they said fukkit. left it with the intern who had a nice iphone. the production crew moved up to the front seats and got some popcorm AIN GOIN OUWWW
posted by not_on_display at 11:23 PM on July 29, 2023

They are crowd recordings, so literally recorded with an iphone. No production crew involved.
posted by deadwax at 4:21 AM on July 30, 2023 [4 favorites]

I find it nearly impossible to imagine that this wasn't recorded for later release, so that's probably why it's only lo-fi for now.
posted by nevercalm at 8:00 AM on July 30, 2023

i'm tellin ya, the whole production crew of three-hundred PAs, cinematographers, camera operators, floor directors, everyone in the production van, the broadcast crew, everyone, the whole 500-person production crew—they was baaaaaaked, and they left all the expensive equipment they rented, all $500,000 it took to fund that night's worth of shooting, all 750 crew members, left it all with the intern and their iphone, to go and get some donuts and look at the mountains. Cypress Hill took a big hit that night.

A big hit FROM THA BONG
posted by not_on_display at 10:24 AM on July 30, 2023 [2 favorites]

Here are fan videos of 'How I Could Just Kill a Man,

Dude looks like he's about to go into the coffee shop I'm at and tell the barista how he could just kill a double vanilla soy latte.
posted by alex_skazat at 1:03 PM on July 30, 2023

I was wondering why Peter Frampton was spotted wandering around Denver muttering about something about his orchestra being stolen.

That's usually Gordon Gano of the Violent Femmes.
posted by alex_skazat at 1:06 PM on July 30, 2023

Audio in this one isn’t great either, but it sounds a little better to my ears, and video is much closer to stage.

Amazing post, thank you for this!
posted by FallibleHuman at 6:41 PM on July 30, 2023 [1 favorite]