― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 19 February 2006 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 19 February 2006 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 19 February 2006 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 19 February 2006 14:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 19 February 2006 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 19 February 2006 14:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 19 February 2006 15:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Monday, 20 February 2006 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link
Zappa sucks.
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 20 February 2006 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 02:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link
If the hard rock numbers, of which there are about three, are supposed to be great, in 1975 these boys easily get stomped by second and third tier white boy blooz bands in the arenas. "Alice in My Fantasies" is the best of them, but it's brief. "Red Hot Mamma" has way too much George Clinton cough syrup and speed freak vocal bullshit at the beginning. "Jimmy's Got a Little Bit of Bitch In Him" is average -- probably seemed audacious at the time because it was about the down low -- but Frank Zappa & the Mothers were doing a lot like it a few years earlier. "Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts" is sub-Hendrix guitar wank from Eddie Hazel who I assume often did better and more George Clinton theology through cough syrup recitation. Album art is great, so are the liner notes. Title cut is OK but the funk ain't THAT funky and the best part again is Hazel's guitar. It's better as the single edit on the bonus tracks because it's shorter. And "Vital Signs" is a funky hard rock instro which is fair, included as a bonus cut.
Title of songs, I've noted in the Funkadelic catalog, are often actually better than the songs themselves, what I've heard of them, anyway.
I don't think any of those white blooz bands could stomp on Funkadelic somehow.
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 18:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 18:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link
try P Funk All Stars Urban Dancefloor Guerillas
you might like the later Slave LPS better or solo Steve Arrington
great thread
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 23 February 2006 21:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 23 February 2006 21:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 23 February 2006 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 23 February 2006 21:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 23 February 2006 21:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 23 February 2006 21:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 23 February 2006 21:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 February 2006 22:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 24 February 2006 10:29 (eighteen years ago) link
lolololol u mad
― snakeshit ;] (eman), Friday, 24 February 2006 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link
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. Theyhad 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 somebarrel-scrapers, Tin House, the And part of Johnny Winter And, Stretch, Hustler, REO's first and second album when they were stillbarrel-scraping...
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Sunday, 26 February 2006 12:48 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Sunday, 26 February 2006 13:40 (eighteen years ago) link
I just noticed this thread, and I like it a lot. May comment more on it later.
― xhuxk, Sunday, 26 February 2006 19:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Sunday, 26 February 2006 19:52 (eighteen years ago) link
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...
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 26 February 2006 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link
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
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 26 February 2006 20:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 26 February 2006 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link
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."
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 26 February 2006 20:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 26 February 2006 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 26 February 2006 21:11 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 26 February 2006 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link