![]() ![]() He’s coughing a little bit, drooling, like man what the fuck are you doing? ![]() I walk over to him in the dream and I tapped him on his cheek, and he fucking wakes up. Somebody was like ‘ayo, Zack, we need more beer, can you go down to the basement and find a 30-pack of Budweiser.’ I go down and I pass this hallway and I’m looking, there’s a couch, and Mac Miller is sleeping right there on it. We were partying hard, you know what I mean? Really sending him off. “We were partying, but we were all mourning Mac. Fox, who was also a close friend of Miller’s, shared an intimate story with the audience about a dream he had a few days after Mac passed. Thundercat brought out friend and collaborator Zack Fox, comedian and former host of the now-defunct Vice Live. The band dazzled for another half hour or so, and it was time to wrap up the show. My mom fell down the stairs: well what the fuck am I gonna do? Just sit down and let it happen.” ‘Just sit down and let it happen.’ My girlfriend just broke up with me: just sit down and let it happen. “We’d say it no matter what was happening around us. “Me and Mac had this saying in the studio,” Thundercat said, letting the audience in on an inside joke between him and Miller. They alternated keys, switched time signatures, and adjusted to each other’s energies, all in real time, producing sounds that three-piece bands just aren’t supposed to be able to make.Īnd yet, despite the absurd skill on display, the moments in between made the music almost seem secondary. Each song he performed normally included a 2-3 minute improvisational interlude, where he and the other two musicians accompanying him onstage made every jaw in the building drop. His fingers glide effortlessly up and down an enormous six-string hollow body bass with four pickups, flicking strings at speeds that rival a piano player on amphetamines. ![]() Here’s this person right in front of you doing this thing that a human being shouldn’t be able to do, and yet there it is. Watching Thundercat play bass live feels much like watching LeBron James performing a chasedown block. He transitioned from that into his song "A Fan’s Mail (Tron Song Suite II)" from Drunk, where he sings morosely about wishing he had nine lives, and envying felines as a result. I mean, I guess I tell stories in the songs, but you know. The stage, and Thundercat’s debut in Miller’s hometown, gave him some opportunity. Like many of the other artists who were close to Miller, including ScHoolboy Q and Vince Staples, Thundercat has found it difficult to speak about his friend's death publicly. Their personal relationship was strong, and Miller passed while Thundercat was on his way back to Los Angeles to see him. ![]() The two worked together on numerous projects, including Miller’s final album, Swimming. Mac Miller, who passed in September 2018, was a frequent collaborator and close friend of Thundercat. As it ended, he shouted to the crowd “Are y’all ready to go down a fucking rabbit hole?”Īnd thus began a night of what seemed a lot like catharsis, both for the attendees and the artist on stage. He began the notes to "Rabbot Ho," the opener to his 2017 album, Drunk. “Thanks,” Thundercat said when he got to the mic. Thundercat emerged from backstage with his pink dreadlocks tucked under a dad hat, adorned in a Pittsburgh Pirates jersey with “MAC MILLER” in the name plate, the number 92 (Miller’s birth year) on the back of the jersey. Thundercat Before he had even reached the microphone, the crowd at Roxian Theatre in McKees Rocks erupted. ![]()
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