Martin's funk thread

lolololol u mad

And which bands are you talking about here?

Funkadelic's Standing On the Verge of Getting It On, from '75.

For one, Foghat smoked Funkadelic's feeble stabs at hard rock. They
had a way better singer, too. Deep Purple. Anyone with a white Hendrix imitator generally did better than Eddie Hazel, in this case Trower comes to mind. Even Come Taste the Band -- which is Purp's explicity funk record -- is better than Standing. Frank Zappa smoked Funkadelic, and they seemed to be copying from him quite a bit in term of committing weird and zany to vinyl. But if you need some
barrel-scrapers, Tin House, the And part of Johnny Winter And, Stretch, Hustler, REO's first and second album when they were still
barrel-scraping...

Collectables put it on a 2-for-1 disc last year with Hardness of the World. The sound quality is quite good.

I love Slave.

I just noticed this thread, and I like it a lot. May comment more on it later.

of course lots of 70s hard rock has funk in it. Especially the Tommy Bolin album w/"Post Toasties" on it. But saying Deep Purple are funkier than an album containing the likes of "Red Hot Mama" and "Sexy Ways' just seems provocative. Wahtever. And hey, I like the first few REO albums. It's easy to imagine Geo Clinton never having heard Zappa but then again when I interviewed him ca. 1984 he cited Vanilla Fudge and Sgt Pepper as major influences so who knows? But accusing him of copying Zappa seems a stretch. For my money, There's A Riot Going On is more "artsy-fartsy" than any P-Funk but it's still funky as a mosquito's tweeter. Like the man said, different strokes...

actually I think he smoked Winstons. And we all know George inhaled anything/everything he could get his hands on.

this is not to say there's a huge similarity/interesting parallel between their bodies of work. comparison VS competetion

Also, on Funkadelic's 'Alice In My Fantasies' from 1974, there are the lyrics "Mama said, never eat the yellow snow".

In 2002, George Clinton used the intro horn vamp from 'I'm the Slime' during a show at the Electronic Music Fest in Detroit."

ALEXANDER: I once heard a story that Frank Zappa tried to snatch you, Gary Shider and Glenn Goins.

COOPER: It's a true story. Yeah, that was the week that we played the L.A. Coliseum in '79. Frank Zappa offered me a gig. Stevie Wonder offered me a gig. That's just the way it was. We was hitting hard, and a lot of people was coming after us.

I wish there was more eclectic bills today.

For one I don't think Funkadelic's hard rock was feeble at all.

Anyone with a white Hendrix imitator generally did better than Eddie Hazel

Is nonsense IMO.

Of course you wouldn't, but here, like on Rolling Metal, you never explain why or even feebly expand the point.

For one I don't think Funkadelic's hard rock was feeble at all.

It was. It has very little thud. No concussion on Standing On the Verge as far as I can tell. And, unfortunately, there were a number of other popular Hendrix-like men who made things lots lots better than "Alice In My Fantasies," "Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts," and "Maggot Brain." Jim McCarty comes to mind. Trower sticks out like a sore thumb.

aying Deep Purple are funkier than an album containing the likes of "Red Hot Mama" and "Sexy Ways' just seems provocative.

Well sure it is. But Come Taste the Band, for practical purposes, was Deep Purple's funk record -- Bolin's on it -- and its hard rock rocks harder than the stuff I heard that was alleged to on Verge. What made me move Verge quickly off to the side piles was that it sounded half-assed and silly in a dopesmokers-took-over way. Were they fans of Cheech 'n' Chong?

So disagree. First time that's happened in the last five minutes. Black/white; red/green; oil/water; ja!/nein! It's the stuff Rolling Metal is grown on.

Fans of fucking interminable '70s rock guitar solos may like this better than I do.

Boy, that's me sometimes. These thumbnail reviews are great.

the record buying public sure didn't - but reportedly Miles Davis and numerous other luminaries of the day were quite taken with it. I think the album's hugely underrated... (and xpost but I'm not gonna bother arguing with chuck and George, a real lost cause there)

Madhouse album is fun, I just got that recently. Recorded in something like two days, apparently!