Philly Music!
I think it was about the same time that I was going out to live shows for the first time (2005-2006) that Philly band "Peppers Ghost" was winding down. I did get to see them once in 2007 which I think was one of their last shows before they went on a "hiatus". It was at M Room.
One of their standards was "Friday Night in Philadelphia" which was the final song on their 2005 album "Shake the Hand That Shook the World". BTW on that big album, they were "Peppers Ghost", but on their next album a year later ("The VET EP"), they were "Pepper's Ghost". Websites didn't seem to combine the two, so you'd have to look up both separately.
They did go on a hiatus and came back for a reunion show at Grape Room in 2011. Here is a video of the band playing "Friday Night In Philadelphia" at that event. Unfortunately the video starts up without the first verse.
Fast forward to 2015, and Robbie Bennett, an alumnus of Peppers Ghost, came out with a solo version of the song, this time a video in the song's entirety. Without the full band and party vibe of the shows, darker aspects of the lyrics come through.
I normally write about current music, but this week was a short diversion into Philly's past. :)
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