Any Funky People Here?

Anyone here listen to 70's & 80's Funk music? Like James Brown,Sly Stone, P-Funk,Roger Troutmam,BT Express etc? This is some good innovative music overall. Larry Graham of Sly & The Family Stone reinvented the bass guitar with the songs "Dance To The Music" and "Thank You Fa lettin Me Be Mice Elf Agin" and Parliament-Funkadelic were one of the first bands to use the synthesizer as the bass with the song "Flashlight". I've also noticed that Funk from back then was one of the few popular music styles that used horns.

 

Sly Stone and George Clinton (Parliament/Funkadelic) are easily amongst my all time top 10 favourite artists. I'd put Parliament's "Mothership Connection" in my top 5 albums. Parliament's "Funkentelecy vs the Placebo Syndrome" album that includes "Flashlight" is another favourite of mine as is Sly and the Family Stone's - "Stand!", for me these albums and others like them represent some of the best feel good/good-time party music that's ever been written.

 

Woo how about rick james? give it 2 me babbbyy wutcha sayyy...how bout chaka kahn...she counts right? haha

 

everybody's funkin' and don't know how, ya shoulda seen the bull when he funked the cow...funked so hard she saw some smoke, she said "let's git in da bed and funk like folks, laughin' at cha....funk used to be a bad eord.....

 

i mean bad word...

 

One of my favourite genres..

With Graham Central Station being one of my favourite bands of said genre. :H

 

Check out "Standing On the Verge of Getting It On" (Funkadelic) Tjat's on of my personal favs anyway. A great blend of funk and rock...really anything from the Eddie Hazel years kicks big ass ie Maggot Brain....goood shit man.

 

i'll learn to type (and spell) in a minute,maybe.

 

dig it!!

 

{spoken:}
A luscious bitch she is, true
But it's not nice to fool mother nature
The proud mother of god like all ho's
Is jealous of her own shadow
Who is this young Vic Tanny bitch
Who wish to be queen for a day?
Who would sacrifice the great grandsons and daughters of her jealous mother
By sucking their brain until their ability to think was amputated
By pimping their instincts
Until they were fat, horny and strung-out
In a neurotic attempt to be queen of the universe
Who is this bitch?

{sung:}
Red hot mama from Louisiana
Thumbin' her way to Savannah
She been cooped up too long

Red hot mama lookin' to the city
Taxi dancers and big time spenders
She's been groovin'

Red hot mama was gettin' down
Scoping the places where fun to be found
She was smokin'

Ride on, red hot mama
Girl, you sure look good to me
Ride on, red hot mama
Girl, you sure look good to me
Ride on, red hot mama
Girl, you sure look good to me
Ride on, red hot mama
Girl, you sure look good to me

Red hot mama was really bad
She was badder than bad, bad as she want to be

Red hot mama was a real gas
Doin' it good and doing it fast
She was smokin'

Whoa, {etc}!

Ride on red hot mama
Girl, you sure look good to me
Ride on red hot mama
Girl, you sure look good to me
(Come on baby!)
Ride on red hot mama
Girl, you sure look good to me
(Right on!)
Ride on red hot mama
Girl, you sure look good to me

Be my dog!
You look good, girl
Carry on!
Hey!
Get funky?

Hey baby
Be my dog

Come on, baby!
Red hot mama
Right on
Play, boy
Play on

 

What I like about songs like "Flashlight" and "Word Up" by Cameo is that these song will never sound old. If you were to play these songs 15 years from now to someone who has never heard them,they would probably think that both songs were new songs.

 

Ahhh, Parliment, how I do love thee.

 

I've alwaysed thought that a Rick James produced Chaka Kahn album would work. Chaka Kahn's voice and siniging style would sound good with Rick's music.

 

Absolutely, "Flashlight" is completely timeless, and just look at newer outfits like Outkast for instance, they are completely indebted to the likes of Parliament and Cameo for their sound.

 

I've only listened to Sly, they're so kick ass. I've never heard Graham Central Station though, better than Sly?

 

As far as Funkadelic,has anyone heard their album "America Eat's It's Young"? What do you think of it? I mostly have heard Parliament albums and not many Funkadelic's. I'd like to buy one,but I'am not too familiar with most of them yet.

 

I have a bunch of Funadelic/Parliment vinyl. You really can't go wrong with any of it. The main difference in Funkadelic and Parliment is that Funkadelic is more guitar driven. My personal favs as far as Funkadelic goes are "Satanding On the Verge of Getting it on", "Maggot Brain" and "Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow". America Eats It's Young is good though, to me, they all pretty cool.

 

Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow is my favourite Funkadelic, then the S/T and Maggot Brain equally, One Nation Under a Groove is superb also.


this is a great Funkadelic album site you might find useful

http://www.duke.edu/~tmc/motherpage/discog-funkadelic.html

 

ahem ..... I do, as the children call it, like to get down with my bad self.

 

" im rick james bitch! "