Xavier feat. P-Funk Sampling in Sonic CD

This live show (audio only) recently popped up on YouTube from 1982:

In a couple songs, George can be heard leading chants which strike me as derivative of “Work That Sucker to Death”. However, I think he is saying “Suck that worker to death” in the live recording, which I don’t recall hearing in the Xavier version.

This is an interesting show in general. I believe it has Dennis Chambers on drums, and you can hear some of the arrangements the band used on the Atomic Dog tour developing, though the lineup is missing some of the “All Star” players that came back in ‘83 (no Bernie or Maceo and I think Skeet was out at this point, though it’s hard to say exactly who all was in the lineup just based on the audio as there are no band member introductions as there were for the Atomic Dog Tour).

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