Unique production style, goofy characters, some of the most entertaining hip-hop record sleeves ever - groups with a unified aesthetic always appeal to me, and I've always thought they really were as close to a hip-hop P-Funk, w/Shock G as Clinton (Humpty = Bootsy, obvy), as could be... no one seems to care about their more recent albums but me - "Future Rhythym" in particular is excellent - and even when they're slack they come through with a couple tunes that are funny and incredibly funky, always with some out-there production touches. Shock G's smart, funny, crude, and righteous - the classic funk frontman.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 00:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 00:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
...I loved the Digital Underground, I was sad that they kinda lost the plot. Certainly "The Humpty Dance" is one of the finest singles of all time, no?
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 00:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
"the new Murs joint "Risky Business" with Shock / Humpty is the shit!"
Buh? What is this and where can I get it!!
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 00:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 00:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 00:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
a young girl sees you on the TV showshe's only six. She says, "Momma, I don't like my nose!"Now why'd you have to go and mess up the child's head?So you could buy another gold waterbed?You fake-hair, contact-wearin', liposuction article [?] exhibitListen to my rhyme, you need to hear it
Doh-dee-oh-doh, there'll be no nose jobI said doh-dee-oh-doh no nose job
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 01:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 01:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
Funny story about "Good Thing That We're Rappin'" (I love it as well) - there was a "Free Mumia" rally in Dolores Park a couple years ago and the DU were supposed to be the headliners. They came out (late of course) did a couple songs, the hits, and then they slowed it down and Shock launched into "Good Thing..." and the crowd response was decidedly tepid. One guy changed his sign to read "Mysogynistic lyrics will not free Mumia!" That made me laugh for days, it was just some old hippy who totally missed the point of the song... anyway, Shock stopped after a verse or two, said "that was more of some late-night kinda shit" and then did that Luniz song "I Got 5 On It". Alas, this is the only live performance of the DU I've ever seen - although I did get to meet Shock once when he showed up at an Aceyalone show and did some keyboard-cameo shit (he's an amazing organist/piano player). Nice guy - he asked me what time it was and by pure coincidence I had a copy of "Future Rhythym" on me, which I had just bought that day, so I eagerly whipped it out for an autograph.
Okay, groupie story OVER!
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 01:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
But that's part of what makes DU so incredibly interesting and great -- Humpty is real! He's part of Shock G: maybe an idealized part, maybe a radical reimagining of the Id insofar as he's an Id with a conscience i.e. Humpty is usually called in to talk about the booty and whatnot, but is always extremely good-natured. I honestly can't think of a more canny use of the alter ego in pop music, period.
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 01:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 01:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 01:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
Shock/Humpty = Outkast's "poet/player"?
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 01:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
J0hn: I went around for weeks afterwards saying "[annoying thing] will not free Mumia!" I coulda argued w/said sign-holder but what woulda been the point...
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 01:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
shock G's site looks amazing, i wish my connection speed were higher :(
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 01:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 01:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 01:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
I love how he gives options AB and C and then always picks D so its like a song full of trick questions and booty.
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 05:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 09:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 23:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 23:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
Also, I am "The one who put the satin on yr panties." I Get Around is classic as well obv.
― djdee2005, Monday, 19 April 2004 18:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 19 April 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago) link
They really were fucking great..
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 19 April 2004 18:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 19 April 2004 18:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 00:36 (twenty years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa-X8D1K998&feature=related
missin you Humpty
― go Nick go! Scrub that paint! Scrub it!! Yeah!! (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 21 August 2009 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link
nice streatteam there bud
http://www.pr-inside.com/money-b-of-the-digital-underground-releases-r1432263.htm
or: money isnt everything, shakey
― disgusting ass co-op (tremendoid), Saturday, 22 August 2009 01:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Underwater Rimes was recorded when Shock was still in Tampa, I believe.
And 2 Live Crew were still in Cali.
Both groups M&D'd by Macola.
Then they swapped states/legacies.
― Flea Kuti (PappaWheelie V), Saturday, 22 August 2009 02:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I've only heard Sex Packets and whatever singles got played on Sirius 43 Backspin when that channel existed.. Based on this I don't see how they're anything but classic.
― billstevejim, Saturday, 22 August 2009 03:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I miss the radio edit which censored non-swears: I once got busy in a***********bathroom I'm crazy allow me to amaze me they say I'm ugly but it just don't phase me I'm still getting in the*BARKBARK*and I even got my own dance
― billstevejim, Monday, 24 August 2009 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link
on good days, "Kiss You Back" is the best single of the 90s
― Merzbox and whale songs (The Reverend), Monday, 24 August 2009 15:17 (fourteen years ago) link
So can anybody explain to me why the cassette version of Sex Packets is different/better than the CD/Vinyl.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 2 April 2011 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
dj harvey opened w/ some awesome house mix of 'doowatchulike' last nite lol
― timbo slice (D-40), Saturday, 2 April 2011 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
http://mp3skyline.com/rid-0x1bac2-house-arrest_-_version-1.0--ha001--mp3-download.htmlthis mayb
― timbo slice (D-40), Saturday, 2 April 2011 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Reason I'm asking is I came across a torrent of it today and it piqued my curiosity, here are the notes.
- Sex Packets Pro Cassette Transfer Version -
"There is only one version of this classic - the cassette version. For this I bought an unopened tape and sent it to a pro transfer and mastering service to record it to cd. If they aren't gonna release it, I'm gonna give it away. This IS the version you memorized back in 1990 (if you're my age) if not do your homework son because this is the shit."
― MaresNest, Saturday, 2 April 2011 20:56 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe it has the og 'freaks of the industry' or something? the freaks 12" i have has both the cd one & one that heavily samples the first part of 'love hangover'
― timbo slice (D-40), Saturday, 2 April 2011 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Dropping this off the CD was criminal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pw5OdbMuwU
I assume it was for running time. Could you put 80 minutes on a cd in 1989? Shame it hasn't been rectified, but deluxe remasters are still rare in hip hop.
The other dropped cuts are "Sound of the Underground" and "Tribute to the Early Days"
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 2 April 2011 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Yep Yep, appears to have 3 extra tracks and and unedited version of 'Gutfest 89'
― MaresNest, Saturday, 2 April 2011 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
From an Amazon review:
This CD does not contain all of the songs from the original album.
Another reviewer mentioned that the original casette of Sex Packets had three extra songs and a full version of "Gutfest." Well, if you just want "The Humpty Dance" then this CD is fine. But know that if you're getting this current version of Sex Packets, you aren't getting the real thing. Some of the songs missing are fantastic and superior to some of the tracks which do remain on the CD. Also, the missing complete 8 minute version of "Gutfest" explains more about its concept in fuller scope and allows the groove to set in better - it was a funky highlight on the cassette issue, but here it seems irrelevant and awkward.
If I'd realized the CD was missing the original songs and sequencing, I wouldn't have paid for it, I would have just downloaded the tracks. I advise you to do the same, and wait for someone to acquire Tommy Boy=(now defunt)'s original version to reissue as the whole album in its entirety.
That said, "Humpty Dance" is one of the funniest, wittiest songs ever, as well as extremely funky. "Dowutchalike" is equally funky.
The "Sex Packets" theme of the rest of the album is okay, a kind of juvenile attempt at creating a George Clinton-like concept, but overall it's just sort of silly, unexceptional joke and nothing more. And not until the bouncy "Packet Man," built around a Fred Wesley sample, does the concept really do anything musically entertaining, making it all worthwhile.
Several songs are missing from the mix, as I've said. I remember one called "Hip Hop Doll" and my one of personal favorites "Tribute to the Early Days."
As it stands, 4 stars. But the complete version of the original cassette tape, if you ever can find it, is worth 5.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 2 April 2011 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, the LP didn't have all the cassette tracks either (or even a short version of Gutfest), I didn't hear them until a few years ago off some mp3 blog. bless you, some mp3 blog
― Neo Tony (sic), Sunday, 3 April 2011 00:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Excellent synopsis of The Humpty Dance here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpty_Dance
The classic Regulate synopsis was taken down last autumn, inspiring this excellent retort: "Active banana is a humorless idiot and should stop ruining funny, informative articles in non-serious subjects. Getting laid/smoking marijuana might also ease his anal-retentive tendencies." Wikipedia got beef.
― Strictly vote-splitting (DL), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 09:46 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=82861
― 51 suggest gang (The Reverend), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
Despite the fact Mr. Hump is by most standards not a very attractive man he still manages to find himself in situations where women allow him to rummage around in their trousers
― lots of janitors have something to say (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
sex packets (cassette version) has finished downloading
― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
finally listened to sex packets and sons of p last year when i was listening to a lot of tupac.... really amazing records. this sucks
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 23 April 2021 13:11 (three years ago) link
This sucks. "Kiss You Back" was one of the first songs I ever taped off the radio. Somebody needs to release "Nothing But Trouble" on Blu-Ray ASAP.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 23 April 2021 13:18 (three years ago) link
I got cassettes of Sex Packets and Public Enemy's Fear of a Black Planet in the same batch of 13 (or whatever it was) cassettes from columbia house when I was 12-13. I listened to those two albums over and over again. They were my first musical obsession.
― silverfish, Friday, 23 April 2021 13:37 (three years ago) link
Yeah same. Digital Underground were my favourite group when I was 10/11. I used to tape songs off the radio and turn them into mixtapes... "Same Song" and "Do You Really Want Me?" were mainstays
― zaddy’s home (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 23 April 2021 13:44 (three years ago) link
I love the use of Herbie Hancock here. Tupac on fire too imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6mx3feZLF8
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 April 2021 14:17 (three years ago) link
Was seeing twitter praise for his contributions to Tupac record. I need to dig into that.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 April 2021 14:31 (three years ago) link
He produced the best 2pac song: so many tears
― i was too much listening to your accent (Spottie), Friday, 23 April 2021 14:35 (three years ago) link
and the other best 2pac song "fuck the world"
― voodoo chili, Friday, 23 April 2021 14:37 (three years ago) link
just kidding
― voodoo chili, Friday, 23 April 2021 14:38 (three years ago) link
it is pretty good beyond that first verse tho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgMRgu7BpbY
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 April 2021 14:53 (three years ago) link
Damn. Fiona Apple just hit & told me this cool story about her pushing a cart in the Home Depot parking lot, & saw Shock G (97) & both were mutual fans (DU was her 1st rap purchase/He would spin “Never Is A Promise”at gigs) they would email/exchange lyrics to each other. 😥— B.R.O.theR. ?uestion (@questlove) April 23, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 April 2021 15:06 (three years ago) link
Shock G was part of the era to me as a child that rap stars were more like super heroes. It holds a dear place in my heart. The way it was packaged, introduced , & the way imagination/aliases/characters were valued. We lost that later on in the game. Rest In Peace Legend.— Statik Selektah (@StatikSelekt) April 23, 2021
― candyman, Friday, 23 April 2021 15:45 (three years ago) link
RIP, Sex Packets was such a key album for me and my friends back in the early years of high school. The sense of humor and playfulness was really key and kept us coming back. For all the rappers and producers that were sampling P-Funk back then, I can only think of a handful that were as good at these guys at capturing the essence of Clinton's world-building and playfully inhabiting characters.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 23 April 2021 15:50 (three years ago) link
statik selektah and jvc2.0 both otm
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 April 2021 15:53 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcEM8b7lnNE
― voodoo chili, Friday, 23 April 2021 16:12 (three years ago) link
"Can only think of a handful that were as good at these guys at capturing the essence of Clinton's world-building and playfully inhabiting characters."
Yup. Tbh he was just fun AF. His songs and imagination just brought me lots if happiness as a teenager. And still do actually. I need more ppl like that.
― candyman, Friday, 23 April 2021 17:28 (three years ago) link
It's weird how all the p-funk stuff seemed like ancient mystical history when that record came out but 'aquaboogie' was released only 12 years before 'underwater rimes'
Like some indie band now coming out now and honoring the long forgotten GAPDY history of 2009.
― joygoat, Friday, 23 April 2021 17:51 (three years ago) link
It's true, but there was nowhere to find this music. I remember reading about Maggot Brain and other Funkadelic records sometime in the mid 80s, and it might as well have been describing something in King Tut's tomb.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 23 April 2021 17:58 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I remember reading about Clinton, Parliament and Funkadelic as reference points, but (especially in central Illinois) there wasn't a lot of opportunity to actually hear it. My first big exposure was, sadly, 1994's PCU after which I went out and picked up this, which was literally the only P-Funk the campus store had at the time:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51AVeIKajEL.jpg
So, I came to Digital Underground several years before I came to Parliament/Funkadelic, but both gave me a really similar sense of playful exploration and just starting to crack into wholly imagined worlds.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 23 April 2021 18:03 (three years ago) link
yep that's the only one i ever remember seeing
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 April 2021 18:03 (three years ago) link
yeah that's the one I eventually got from bmg or columbia house
― joygoat, Friday, 23 April 2021 18:06 (three years ago) link
Now this is a thread
I once went to Rakim’s house, and on his studio wall, he had an amazing poster-sized cartoon of himself on top of a giant cement block, crushing all the other MC’s beneath it. At the top, it said “The Master Poet.” When I looked closer, I couldn’t believe my eyes. #ShockG pic.twitter.com/YWkCLJXJuz— J.PERIOD (@jperiodBK) April 23, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 April 2021 18:25 (three years ago) link
Friend of mine is a rare book and record dealer. Many years ago he found what appears to be a Digital Underground demo tape. D/l available here
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Friday, 23 April 2021 20:01 (three years ago) link
an absolutely huge figure. just about as underrated, as well. literally the man who put 2pac on.
rest in p.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 23 April 2021 20:34 (three years ago) link
I said it already but while its great that shock g introduced Tupac, saafirs first album (saafir debuted on body hat syndrome) is one of the great underground/leftfield/weird/experimental rap albums of the 90s. Admittedly not heard it in at least 20 years but I'm sure it's still good.
― candyman, Friday, 23 April 2021 20:35 (three years ago) link
this demo tape is fascinating, thanks!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 April 2021 20:35 (three years ago) link
My pleasure! Friend has a lot of gems.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Friday, 23 April 2021 21:51 (three years ago) link
I love the song where it was clearly like "we need to make a Tone Loc song"shades of Girl I'll House You by the Jungle Brothers in another one
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 April 2021 22:58 (three years ago) link
Huh, I don't really remember P-Funk being particularly obscure or hard to find when "Sex Packets" came out. Was it? Who was the first to sample P-Funk? De La did it pretty prominently in '89. EPMD was around the same time. MC Hammer was a bit earlier, right? "Groove Is in the Heart," iirc I knew who Bootsy was by then. Dr. Dre was pretty much the bookend apex of P. Funk in hip-hop, wasn't he?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 April 2021 23:14 (three years ago) link
i hung out with humpty/shock g recently backstage of a pfunk show drinkin and smokin trees and i told him my name was chaki and he said he liked that and did a rap about chaki!― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:52 (eighteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:52 (eighteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 23 April 2021 23:15 (three years ago) link
man that demo tape
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 23 April 2021 23:35 (three years ago) link
mc blowfishhhhhhhhhh
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 24 April 2021 01:08 (three years ago) link
De La sampled “not just knee deep” but it was one of like 1000 samples on 3 Feet High, while p-funk was like a foundational element of DU and was always mentioned in stuff I read about them. I grew up in a county that is 95% white with a 0.5% black population 7-10 hours away from Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago, and Detroit and had no family or friends in any of those places so had zero soul/funk/r&b exposure if it wasn’t on MTV or American Top 40. At least we knew how to mail order records by the punk bands we read about in Thrasher magazine.
― joygoat, Saturday, 24 April 2021 02:20 (three years ago) link
That bass sound in "Humpty Dance" is one of the best riffs ever in music and was always a big WTF is that when I first heard it. Sex Packets was a big party record in college.
― earlnash, Saturday, 24 April 2021 07:28 (three years ago) link
I mean, the fact that Humpty as a persona was ‘uncool’ enough to mimic the bass line — like we all do when we’re trying to approximate something about a song we like — is what made him/them all the cooler. A ‘check this shit out!’ move.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 April 2021 13:02 (three years ago) link
When I was a kid, I wanted to buy Sex Packets so bad. I loved the Humpty Dance and the album cover was so tantalizing to me. But I had just been through an ordeal with my parents where I had bought GNR Lies under their noses and it didn't end well, so I was kinda laying low with my music explorations. I really didn't think I could swing Sex Packets. So I kinda forgot about them until now, although I've definitely seen them get praise on ILM and elsewhere. I'm listening now and this stuff is great. I wish I'd gone for it.
― peace, man, Saturday, 24 April 2021 15:32 (three years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/CODmEYahzCv/?igshid=1gqzghw6nywtn
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Saturday, 24 April 2021 20:39 (three years ago) link
peace, man... wow, that is a seriously long game.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 24 April 2021 21:00 (three years ago) link
That demo tape definitely isn't Digital Underground - Shock G doesn't rap, sing or play on it - but it's fascinating hearing a no-name group (who don't quite have it together yet) try out so many styles of the moment, as upmiss says. Mon shouts out "Mac Mone" and "DJ Goldfinger (with the 24 karat cuts)," which was Fuze's name in the early days, and there's a second rapper on a couple of tracks, so this is very probably MGM, Fuze and Money's early trio with Mac Mone.
(Relistening while typing: he mentions MGM, Mac Mone and Goldfinger in the Delicious Vinyl-sounding track as well as the long shout-out section in the second-last track. That's definitive enough for me!)
It could almost be 1987, with the very just-post-electro style of most of the tape, or the more 1988-ish songs at the start might have been recorded later. Goldfinger/Fuze auditioned to do one showcase for Tommy Boy as a fill-in on the strength of liking the first DU single, from 1988. When asked to go on tour in Europe bcz DU's regular DJ was still unavailable, he insisted that Money B getting to join was his condition, as the two of them were a group: that was in time for Mon to do a couple of hype-man vocals on Doowutchyalike in 1989, so I'm guessing the trio MGM reduced to the duo Raw/Fusion during 1988.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Sunday, 25 April 2021 11:15 (two years ago) link
thanks for sharing, tabes and pal!
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Sunday, 25 April 2021 11:24 (two years ago) link
damn sic bringin the knowledge like nardwuar
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 25 April 2021 11:45 (two years ago) link
Thanks sic! My friend literally found that as an unlabeled tape in a box.
He also has an early demo of Tupac's Changes that he found in the same box. Pretty sick.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Sunday, 25 April 2021 15:01 (two years ago) link
Latter one is definitely and unmistakably Pac, btw.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Sunday, 25 April 2021 15:02 (two years ago) link
The cassette of Sex Packets had a couple of exclusive (and a couple more exclusive-ish) tracks, including this one by Fuze & Money alone - absolutely sounds in the same style as that demo tape, right down to ending the song by just shouting out other members of Digital Underground for ages.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 10:47 (two years ago) link
Great obit, with illuminating biographical details:
https://www.vulture.com/article/obituary-shock-g-digital-underground.html
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 22:49 (two years ago) link
Bootsy gave a memorial statement to Rolling Stone, which they excerpted and interjected:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bootsy-collins-digital-underground-shock-g-tribute-1160570/
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 1 May 2021 08:45 (two years ago) link
That vulture piece is excellent.Played by 12" of humpty dance yesterday and was shocked at how huge that bass is.
― candyman, Saturday, 1 May 2021 13:49 (two years ago) link
my buddy treblefree located a copy of and uploaded the "ultragroove" remix of 'no nose job' for your listening pleasures.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 7 May 2021 22:54 (two years ago) link
Looks like there’s Shock G solo piano on the way:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4WOOUd1Msg
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Friday, 4 February 2022 17:26 (two years ago) link