Performances earned rave reviews from critics and publications , who praised D'Angelo 's energy and " charisma as a live performer " , as well as the Soultronics group , and received comparisons to outings by the legendary funk bands Parliament and Sly & the Family Stone . Tanya Bell of '' The Gazette '' wrote that the group " displayed enormous talent as it took them two hours to play 11 songs . " A staff writer for the '' Chicago Defender '' lauded his performance at the Chicago Theatre , calling it " an explosive mixture of R&B , soul and funk . " '' Rolling Stone '' called him " abundantly gifted , eye-poppingly spectacular " , " confident and worldly " in his performance at the House of Blues in Los Angeles . It compared the performance to his past concerts , stating " he 's alive onstage now , dancing , touching the audience , slamming his microphone down , lying on the ground at the lip of the stage to sing ' One Mo ' Gin ' while girls grab his legs , his stomach , his crotch . " In a review of D'Angelo 's tour-opening performance at the House of Blues , David Wollock of '' The Hollywood Reporter '' called it a " three-hour old-school soul marathon that was part ' Get Up ( I Feel Like Being a ) Sex Machine ' , part ' Let 's Get It On ' , part ' Move on Up ' gospel exuberance ... with call-and-response and other crowd-rousing church conventions " . He added that , " like the best hip-hop emcees who can rock a crowd with two turntables and a microphone , D moved the crowd with pure voice and charisma . " Kaia Shivers of the '' Los Angeles Sentinel '' commented that his Los Angeles tour stop placed the city " under a spell that it seems hard pressed to shake . " Reviewing his March performance at New York City 's Radio City Music Hall , rock critic Robert Christgau dubbed D'Angelo " R&B Jesus " and proclaimed himself a " believer " . Christgau praised D'Angelo 's delivery and compared the concert to a 1981 P-Funk outing at the Apollo Theater , stating " D'Angelo sang and danced and preached and flexed and crooned and humped the floor and covered Roberta Flack and snapped a mike stand in two and danced and sang and sang some more . Everything meshed ; all stops were pulled out . It was already the greatest concert I 'd seen in years when Redman and Method Man propelled the climactic ' Left and Right ' through the vaulted ceiling . I flashed on P-Funk 's ' Sadie ' , Apollo 1981 . What a privilege to experience such a thing again . " He also compared it to Marvin Gaye in concert , writing that " I saw Marvin Gaye at this venue shortly before he was murdered , and it was no contest . Gaye was fine , but self-indulgent and riddled with blank spots . "
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