Woke up this morning with the baseline from mothership connection stuck in my head. Listened to it twice now before deciding I want my funk uncut and need to listen to the whole album.
those of use who came of age in the 70s, will tell you this was the best decade ever for music any style you like. George Clinton with leading the pack along with Earth Wind and Fire Led Zeppelin and the host of others
I saw the Mothership Connection Show THREE TIMES in London, as well as Bootsy Collins TWICE, James Brown ONCE, Earth, Wind and Fire TWICE, War TWICE, Heatwave FOUR, The Equals FOUR times. A lifetime is not enough to see the Heroes of FUNK.
Hell Yeah!!!!!! Stationed in Germany when this broke over there. Everybody got on board the Mothership. I was hooked for life. So good it's good to me.
Bumpin' Parlaiment Funkadelic back in the day......76'-79' in a Low Rider with your Rabbit Ear Antenna in the back so as to make you look "Cool" cruisin' down Mission St in San Fran or San Jose Story Rd. Those were Fun and Crazy times......... 40 years went by TOO FAST....... If your still here on this God's Green Earth, and are fortunate to have survived, then you know how precious life is, I feel you.............. Some of my Closest friends weren't so fortunate. Swing Low..... Swing down, sweet chariot Stop and let me ride, .... God Bless........
P-funk change the landscape far as music. Parliament will forever be a relic in music. Modern R&B is birth out of this. Thank you. George Clinton. The only Clinton that matters.
So easily how younger people, overlook James Brown. Half of the JB'S went to p-funk. The chorus in Mothership Connection comes from Brown, hit me, ain't it funky now,on the one, just to name a few things that Clinton took from Brown. Bootsy and Catfish came from Brown. Collins introduced the one to Clinton, and p-funk was born. Better recognize.😎
@@jamesgraham3116 James Brown was a guitarist with George Clinton, playing in his band as a guitarist. So, if he was already in a FUNK band, playing FUNK, how could he invent FUNK?
Perhaps funk is the genre that will survive us, making its way into the incommensurability of the cosmos, shaking the memory of our bones beyond the dust and oblivion. Praise the funk and all his entourage of cats!🌋
Miles Davis,Sly Stone,James Brown,Sun Ra,Larry Graham.Slave,Rick James,Ohio Players,Roger,Aurra,Bootsy,Bettye Davis,Jimi Hendrix,John Coltrane,Eddie Hazel this to me is the real music also Bob Marley,Black Uhuru.Long live the Funk!!!
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How does almost 50,000 people see this and only 500 giveit a like? Personally, I just 'like' things so i know how to get back to it later. Why wouldn't you wanna hear this again?
That's a good song .. my husband he like too. And the background footage is nice .. i like the instrument and the wonderful boice of the singer.. i injoy listening... You guys takecare
George said he didn't know this album was going to be that successful. When it first came out in Dec 1975 nobody paid attention to it because P Funk was the first single. It's a great song but people thought it sounded too much like Chocolate City. When the next single Give Up The Funk came out in March 1976 the album went through the roof. George used the Ohio Players technique of keeping the arrangement simple and turning up the drums in the mix
Back in the 70s this was the only dope that was legal. It was the epitome of hip for a young "black" man in the 70's, in the south, to know P-Funk. Everything else was "bubble gum, party music and love songs", with a few exceptions (EWF, Jimmy Castor Bunch, George Duke, etc.). This was the psychedelic music for the "black" man. For me the "white" equivalent was KISS, which I dug also.
I don't think there was anything, like this music, being made by anybody else at the time. It's absolutely incredible to have cohesively realized such a unique musical vision. All the influences, all the personalities and egos, all the talent, all the ideas and all the directions such a conglomeration could have gone into, yet it all congealed, under Clinton's direction, into this one of a kind funky musical universe. Amazing. Deo sit Gloria.
rembeadgc Yeah, I hated most of that pop bubble gum bullshit. My friends and I were into Heavy Funk ,Fusion and some Prog-Rock. But it was unavoidable, if you wanted to get with the girlies, you had to pantomime to that crap.Casablanca Records was the perfect record label for bands like Parliament and Kiss.
rembeadgc - there was plenty... and harder...Miles davis...bitches brew, jack johnson, on the corner. Herbie hancock - head hunters. Ohio Players, sly and the family stone, jb's, isley brothers, dap kings, james brown, curtis mayfield, meters...i could go on.
Kevin Williams No need. Point well made. All mentioned definitely made "consciousness expanding" music. For me, when I first heard "Mothership Connection", I wasn't aware of Miles and those he influenced (even though some of the P-Funk crew were influenced by him, I didn't know it) at the time. Out of those that I knew and the work I'd been exposed to, no one was doing what Clinton was. As a matter of fact, it seemed that many groups started emulating P-Funk. Even though James Brown gave birth to the funk, George raised it, nurtured it and gave it a life and a universe of it's own.
I get it - this is what you first heard...totally agree...its the first real funk i heard...well maybe funkadelic is the first - parliament is the second. and it opened up everything to me...and is without a doubt pfunk early records are my all time favorite music.
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Tripped across this selection and the algorithm is offering a 'do not dispare, someone Lives you!' type postcard and right under that is an NPR Tiny Desk Concert; Hadestown... Just say'n.
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