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[photopress:e4_1.jpg,full,pp_image] Erykah Badu’s performance was less singing than spectacle at the Fillmore on Monday, but she still gave the crowd what it wanted. Photos by Laurie Scavo. Instrumental hip-hop innovators the Roots and the chameleon neo-soul diva Erykah Badu shared the bill at Denver’s Fillmore Auditorium Monday night. The longtime collaborators unleashed an eclectic show that had the sweat-soaked, near-capacity crowd grooving through more than three hours of music and theatrics. Led by the booty-shaking sousaphone player Tuba Gooding Jr., “Philadelphia’s legendary Roots crew” entered [...]