did george clinton die?

Nevermind.

bernie was in the house too, apparently the mothership is being prepared for liftoff...

George Clinton Goes 'Gangster' On New Album
George Clinton

June 27, 2008 , 2:40 PM ET

Gary Graff, Detroit
George Clinton is getting by with a little help from his friends on his next album -- a list that includes the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Carlos Santana, Sly Stone, RZA, System Of A Down bassist Shavo Odadjian, El DeBarge and gospel singer Kim Burrell.

They all show up on an assortment of covers on "George Clinton and Some Gangsters of Love," which Clinton will release Sept. 16 on Shanachie.

"It started out with me doing some doo wop songs," Clinton, who grew up singing on street corners in Plainfield, N.J., tells Billboard.com. "As we got going, people started coming through to be on it." Among the first, he says, was Santana, who plays on a version of the Impressions' "Gypsy Woman," and then Stone and DeBarge, who sing on Marvin Gaye's "Ain't That Peculiar."

"Then I got serious about other people joining in with me," Clinton says. "It still is a concept album, but it's taken a little bit of a different turn."

On "Gangsters" Clinton also covers Shirley & Lee's "Let the Good Times Roll" with the Chili Peppers -- whose "Freaky Styley" he produced in 1985 -- Barry White's "Never, Never Gonna Give You Up," Johnny Ace's "Pledging My Love," Shep & the Heartbreak's "A Thousand Miles Away," Bobby Rydell's "Kissin' Time" and Ruby & the Romantics' "Our Day Will Come."

The album includes one new song, "Mathematics of Love" (which features Burrell) and a new take on the Parliaments' "Heart Trouble." Much of the album was produced with longtime Eminem cohort Mark Bass.

Clinton and Bass have also teamed for a Parliament-Funkadelic Motown covers album to salute the label's 50th anniversary. The album incorporates samples from a speech by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World is Today)" and also includes versions of "Bernadette," "Heat Wave," "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" and "The Hunter Gets Captured By the Game." Clinton says he hopes to add some guests to that set as well.

Meanwhile, P-Funk plans to celebrate its 40th anniversary with a party and performance on July 22 in Los Angeles. And Clinton says he plans to release an album of new P-Funk material in early 2009.

r.i.p.

his voice actually is dead.

did george clinton die?
i just heard he died, but i don't think it's true. i figured you people would know first.

-- billstevejim, Tuesday, 30 September 2003 23:29 (4 years ago) Bookmark Link
He's meant to be playing Oakland!

-- adaml (adaml), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 23:30 (4 years ago) Bookmark Link
Haha

VeronaInTheClub who were you previously on ilx?

I've NEVER been on ILX before. Honest to god, do you need ID to join in here?

Sorry that was a bit harsh. I understand your curiosity but I swear on every current cast member of CSI's life that I've never been on ILX before as anyone else. I'm VeronaInTheClub and that is all.

at first I was cringing at that nightmarish list of collaborators, but then I saw he's working with El DeBarge and perked right back up!

btw, did anyone catch him hanging out in the studio for a few hours on KPFA last friday. hes still "got it" as much as any artist 1/3 his age..incredible...half-mc-ing-half-singing at double tempo over old funk and disco records...and all sorts of anchovy pussy.... he mentioned something about an upcoming "techno-doowop" album, which might seem like sound like some sort of pipe dream except that he said he loves techno (and headlined at DEMF), and when some doowop records came on, he sang along and didnt miss a word...
bernie was in the house too, apparently the mothership is being prepared for liftoff...

-- carmen (carmen), Thursday, October 2, 2003 11:09 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

Does anyone have any of this?

The KPFA stuff, that is.

Jesus, there had to have been a better-named Clinton thread to revive than this one.

I've NEVER been on ILX before. Honest to god, do you need ID to join in here?

― VeronaInTheClub

You got it wrong, George Clinton didn't die. But I heard SPM did die (South Park Mexican).

He's alive imo

he was still alive last night.

Did u have sex with him

i just heard he died, but i don't think it's true. i figured you people would know first.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 30 September 2003 22:29 (eighteen years ago) link

George PLIMPTON
― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 22:31 (eighteen years ago) link

oh
― adaml (adaml), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link

So George Clinton is taking over The Paris Review?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 22:39 (eighteen years ago) link

LMAO

Play like George Clinton died.

This thread sucks.

Anyhow, he is almost 81, spends half the performance sitting down yet is still one of the greatest performers I've ever seen.

People were SHRIEKING with joy during Maggot Brain.

yeah it was an incredible show when I saw him in 2020

The "Tales from the Back of the Tour Bus" about George Clinton is just epic.

can we all agree not to bump this thread anymore?

I was added accidentally. Please remove me from this thread immediately!

xxxp Same here. It also had a proud papa vibe to it, like he had quite a few sons and grandsons there (including one who flew in from L.A. just to be there) and he was beaming the whole time, like "my boys turned out great, didn't they? They've done me proud!" By the end, I could see this being like the Sun Ra Arkestra, still laying down the funk long after Clinton has left us.