After a long trip from Harlem involving the bus, subway, train, and a car, my crew and I landed at the Stone Pony. It’s a sweet venue right on the beach in Asbury Park, famous for the many artists that have launched careers there. Bruce Springsteen can credit them!
We arrived a bit late and missed Stephen Marley, the first act. I’ve seen him at Bonnaroo before, so I’ll vouch for him. He puts on a great show. Whenever you see any of the Marley brothers you always get an overwhelming feeling when they sing Bob’s songs. It’s like Bob sings through them now. It always gives me chills.
No tour could be called the Blazed and Confused Tour if it didn’t feature the old school West Coast connoisseur of smoking pot himself – Snoop Dogg. As soon as he hit the stage, a cloud of smoke hovered over the audience, much to Snoop’s approval. He was rocking a knuckle plate that read, “Snoop” that was three times larger than his hand. He was armed with a bassist, guitarist, drummer, DJ LT, and the Dogg Pound – Daz Dillinger and Kurupt. Not to mention two bodyguards in suits stood on either side of the stage. To make Snoop feel more at home, he lines the entire stage with fake cannabis plants.

Besides performing Gin and Juice from Doggystyle and Drop it Like it’s Hot from R&G (Rhythm and Gangsta): The Masterpiece to completion, Snoop bounced around his decades worth of songs, doing one verse from each. The crowd was pretty young but seemed to appreciate his oldest songs from Doggystyle the most. It Ain’t Fun (If The Homies Can’t Have None), Who Am I? (What’s My Name), and his remake of Slick Rick’s Lodi Dodi were big sing-alongs. He even brought out Lady of Rage for her song Afro Puffs.
At one point he played Jump by House of Pain and several mosh pits broke out. After he rapped the first verse he said, “Damn, what you call them things? Whateva, it don’t matta, that s$@* was gangsta than a muf%$&*!” He also did a tribute to Pac with their famous collaboration on Gangsta Party. DJ LT spun Pac’s Hail Mary while Snoop gave his RIP shotouts.
Snoop wanted to make it extremely clear to everyone that his life’s passion is smoking marijuana. “I got a serious question for yall,” he announced, “How many of yall smoke weed?” Of course the crowd went crazy and Snoop let Kurupt step up to do Dr. Dre’s Let’s Get High from 2001: The Chronic. The Dogg Pound leader ends all of his shows by getting the crowd to sing, “Nah Nah, Na Na Nah Nah, Hey Hey Hey, Snoop Dogg!
The set changed over and the stagehands brought out all these props out on the stage. There were two giant skulls with marijuana leaves on them and all the giant psychedelic trees. Smoke billowed out from behind the drum set and a crazy light spectacle began as Slightly Stoopid started up.

The band consists of keys, bass, guitar, drums, sax, trumpet, and an aux percussionist. From the minute they began, the reggae vibe was on lock. They started out with some classics like Mellowmood, Colllie Man and Wiseman from the Everything You Need album. Then they moved onto songs from their latest album Slighly Stoned Not Stoned Enough To Eat Breakfast Yet Stoopid. Sensimilla, Fruits “Legalize Them” and I Would Do For You brought the dub mode into full effect.
Slightly brought out several guests. A reggae singer Half Pint came out and did One in a Million. At the end Spragga Benz came out to do a dance hall rap. Trumping them both, Stephen Marley and his brother Julian came out to do their father’s Roots, Rock, Reggae. Even with all these big appearances during their show, Slightly shined the brightest. The band never skipped a beat and lead singers Miles Doughty and Kyle McDonald, who switched off between bass and guitar/vocals for the encore, never stopped jumping up and down.
Slightly likes their punk rock too so they would go into a two minute punk rage every now and then. The Jersey boys loved it and Security guards scattered to break up the mosh pits. In true Blazed and Confused style, Slightly ended the night with a song from their album Closer to the Sun called This Joint. Blazed and confused, the crowd made their way to the beach where the moon was reflecting off the ocean, giving all the stoners the perfect conversational piece!














Officially a band since 2007, they have released various remixes, including a great rendition of ‘It Don’t Move Me’ by