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| 53.1 | Fried ice cream | ESGWST::RDAVIS | Available Ferguson | Thu Nov 07 1991 16:39 | 12 |
| "Connections & Disconnections" doesn't ring a bell. Was this the album
by the "fake" Funkadelic? (Or was that called something like "Mutiny
on the Mothership"?)
Mommy, what's an "Under a Nouveau Groove"?
Also, the two "Brides of Funkenstein" albums should go onto any Clinton
discography: they're the same gang with a different name and the women
singing lead. One was called "Never Buy Texas from a Cowboy"; can't
remember the other's name.
Ray
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| 53.2 | P-Funk, the quiz | VERGA::CLARK | | Thu Nov 07 1991 20:14 | 67 |
| As promised, here's the "P-Funk Trivia I" quiz, previously posted in
MUSIC_V3. (The author no longer works at DEC, but I happened to catch
him before he left and he took the time to provide the remaining
answers.)
I've edited in the answers confirmed correct by Darren so far. Any more
answers, guesses, out there??
IMO it's a real loss that Darren won't be checking in on this conference
anymore. - Jay
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Note: All answers are Characters or Places from Parliament Albums
Who is "Deeni-Who" and what did he do??(Tuff)
Name the three "Bionic Idiots"??(so-so)
> Yeah, I also peg Motor Booty's aquatic DJs as the three
> Bionic Idiots.
> Mr. Wiggles is ONE of the Three Bionic Idiots. Name the
> other two?
Who Doesn't rust and can swim??(so-so)
Who is "The cool-ghoul with the funk transplant"??(easy)
Who is Loopzilla??(Tuff)
> Loopzilla was also the name of the computer game in Pedro
> Bell's drawing.
> Loopzilla is practically correct. It is the name of the
> video game, but the game was named after "The Atomic Dog"
> who carried the name originally.8^D.
What album has J.Wellington Wigout as the DJ??(so-so)
Who is "The Protector of the PLeasure-Principal"??(easy)
> Star Child is the Protector of the Pleasure Principal ("I
> love those meeces to pieces").
> Star Child(Protector of the pleasure-principal) Is
> Correct! 8^D.
Where is "Downtown Beimany Road"??(so-so)
Last, but not least, Who is the "Subliminal-Seducer"??(easy)
> And the proper place for Sir Nose D'Void O' Funk is as
> champion of the Placebo Syndrome, the Subliminal Seducer,
> raht?
> Sir Nose D'void o'Funk(The subliminal-seducer) Is also
> correct!8^D.
"efil4reetaknuf"
Darren
****************Bonus Booty***************
(With a Booty-Back Garrantee)
Which album featured The Villianist "Nasty NO-Nose"?
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| 53.3 | | VERGA::CLARK | | Thu Nov 07 1991 20:15 | 18 |
| In case any P-Funk fans missed this late posting in the V3 MUSIC file:
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Note 203.34 George Clinton - Parliament/Funcadelic 34 of 34
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> They P-funk Mob suppossedly had a movie in the making but I think that
> deal went sour too...
The current issue of Musician magazine claims the P-Funk movie is still
a going concern. They describe it as "black sci-fi fantasy" or
something like that.
That issue also has a feature article on the guitarists of P-Funk, and
they've had several good ones. In the process it lays out the history
of the Parliaments, Funkadelic, Parliament, George Clinton, and P-Funk
spinoffs pretty well. P-Funk fans should have a look. - Jay
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| 53.4 | | VERGA::CLARK | | Fri Nov 08 1991 13:29 | 22 |
| > "Connections & Disconnections" doesn't ring a bell. Was this the album
> by the "fake" Funkadelic?
Uhp, you're absolutely correct; this was the non-Clinton, "fake"
Funkadelic.
> Mommy, what's an "Under a Nouveau Groove"?
Whatever it is, it's on Warner, and must have come out immediately
before, or simultaneously with, "Cinderella Theory". The disc # is
virtually identical (1 instead of 4 in the ones column, something like
that). [What's with the Beav?]
> Also, the two "Brides of Funkenstein" albums should go onto any Clinton
> discography: they're the same gang with a different name and the women
> singing lead. One was called "Never Buy Texas from a Cowboy"; can't
> remember the other's name.
Right again (the other one's "Funk or Walk").
There are so many mistakes in that discography, including label names, I
think I should edit and repost (groan). - Jay
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| 53.5 | corrected discography | VERGA::CLARK | | Fri Nov 08 1991 13:59 | 56 |
| FUNKADELIC
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Funkadelic Westbound [label]
Free Your Mind & Your Ass Will Follow "
Maggot Brain "
America Eats Its Young "
Cosmic Slop "
Standing on the Verge of Getting It On "
Let's Take It To the Stage "
[Greatest Hits -- superseded by later Best of] "
Tales of Kidd Funkadelic "
Hardcore Jollies Warner
Best of the Funkadelic Early Years Vol.1 Westbound
One Nation Under a Groove Warner
Uncle Jam Wants You "
[Connections & Disconnections -- fake Funkadelic] LAX
Electric Spanking of War Babies Warner
PARLIAMENT
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Osmium Invictus
Up for the Down Stroke Casablanca
Chocolate City "
Mothership Connection "
Clones of Dr. Funkenstein "
Parliament Live/P-Funk Earth Tour "
Get Down & Boogie <- ?never heard of this one "
Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome "
Motor-Booty Affair "
Gloryhallastoopid "
Trombipulation "
Greatest Hits (The Bomb) "
BRIDES OF FUNKENSTEIN
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Funk or Walk Atlantic
Never Buy Texas From a Cowboy "
[Other spinoffs include PARLET (Clinton's less worthwhile girl group),
BOOTSY'S RUBBER BAND, the HORNY HORNS.]
P-FUNK ALL-STARS
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Urban Dancefloor Guerillas Uncle Jam/CBS Assoc.
GEORGE CLINTON
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Computer Games Capitol
You Shouldn't-Nuf Bit Fish "
Some of My Best Jokes Are Friends "
R&B Skeletons in the Closet "
Clinton/P-Funk: Mothership Connection (Live From Houston) "
Best of "
Presents Our Gang Funky Warner
Under a Nouveau Groove "
Cinderella Theory Paisley Park/Warner
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| 53.6 | 5 more quiz answers | VERGA::CLARK | | Mon Nov 11 1991 12:53 | 30 |
| Time for a few quiz answers. I left one unanswered, mainly because I
don't have the answer.
> Note: All answers are Characters or Places from Parliament Albums
>
> Who Doesn't rust and can swim??(so-so)
ANSWER: Rumpofsteelskin
> Who is "The cool-ghoul with the funk transplant"??(easy)
ANSWER: Dr. Funkenstein
> What album has J.Wellington Wigout as the DJ??(so-so)
ANSWER: Gloryhallastoopid
> Where is "Downtown Beimany Road"??(so-so)
ANSWER: Atlantis (Motor-Booty Affair)
> ****************Bonus Booty***************
> (With a Booty-Back Garrantee)
> Which album featured The Villianist "Nasty NO-Nose"?
ANSWER: Gloryhallastoopid
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UNANSWERED: Who is "Deeni-Who" and what did he do??(Tuff)
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| 53.7 | | ASABET::HOWARD | | Fri Nov 22 1991 13:52 | 9 |
| Should the Sweat Band Album also be on the discography? I think it's
produced by Bootsy and it definitely has the P-Funk sound.
Also, any word on CD availability of Funkadelic albums. Some of the
better known Parliament albums are on CD but without the Pedro Bell
cover art or the Sir Lleb essays.
Darnley
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| 53.8 | | VERGA::CLARK | | Sat Nov 23 1991 00:17 | 4 |
| > Also, any word on CD availability of Funkadelic albums.
I've seen a few of them while shopping in Cambridge MA. The Westbound
ones, so sign of the Warners. - Jay
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| 53.9 | | VERGA::CLARK | | Fri Jan 10 1992 20:16 | 8 |
| If I managed to persuade anyone that Clinton's "Computer Games" is out
of print (MUSIC_V3?) -- that's no longer correct. I just scooped it up
my own atomic self.
A look at the Winter '91/2 Schwann catalog further informs me it was
re-reissued in 8/91, along with "Some of My Best Jokes Are Friends".
Preceded in 7/91 by "R&B Skeletons (In the Closet)" and "You Shouldn't
Nuf Bit Fish". - Jay
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| 53.10 | Best Funkadelic Album? | ISEQ::MKEENAN | | Tue Jun 09 1992 14:03 | 5 |
|
Can anyone recommend some of the better/funkier Funkadelic material
to start my collection with?
Mark.
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| 53.11 | | RAVEN1::B_ADAMS | The Mountains of Poke! | Tue Jun 09 1992 19:25 | 6 |
| re-1,
I think that "Aqua Boogie" or something like that is one of the
better ones that I've heard, along with Dr.Funkenstein(sp).
B.A.
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| 53.12 | | VERGA::CLARK | | Tue Jun 09 1992 21:51 | 6 |
| > -< Best Funkadelic Album? >-
I assume by Funkadelic you mean Parliament as well; I think the disks
mentioned in .-1 would be found under Parliament... It's all George
Clinton of course. (I think I cited a couple in earlier replies; I
don't think Funkadelic "One Nation" is on CD yet (?).) - Jay
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| 53.13 | thats right.Aliens!! | WMOIS::MAZURKA | Son of the Dawn | Wed Jun 10 1992 01:12 | 5 |
| There's a cut called"Spankin Unborn Babys"that I feel grooves.
I don't know if they have an album intitled that tho..
Crazy_I_at_the_young_age_of_5_was_adopted_by_Aliens_Al
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| 53.14 | | WHELIN::OMALLEY | Happy Happy Joy Joy | Wed Jun 10 1992 13:57 | 4 |
| There's a Parliament/Funkadelic greatest hits album out there,
I saw it on CD at Strawberries (local MA store) this week...
Peter
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| 53.15 | more suggestions in MUSIC_V3 | VERGA::CLARK | | Wed Jun 10 1992 14:36 | 34 |
| > There's a Parliament/Funkadelic greatest hits album out there,
In case this is the same thing as "Best of Parliament", I'm
cross-posting a note from TIMBRE::MUSIC_V3, which lists its contents.
FWIW, some people listed their P/Funk favorites once before, in the
string of replies following TIMBRE::MUSIC_V3 #203.20.
-< Music V3 >-
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I might have cited the same two, but just to be different: Motor Booty
Affair and One Nation Under a Groove.
The best-ofs are pretty good for fragmentary highlights: Parliament's
Greatest Hits, Funkadelic Best of the Early Years Vol.1, Best of George
Clinton.
FWIW, the titles on Parliament's Greatest Hits are:
Up for the Down Stroke
Chocolate City
P Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)
Mothership Connection (Star Child)
Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)
Do That Stuff
Bop Gun (Endangered Species)
Flash Light
Aqua Boogie (A Psycho-alpha-disco-beta-bio-aqua-doloop)
Theme from the Black Hole
- Jay
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| 53.16 | Big catalog | THEBAY::WIEGLEBDA | Push the button, Frank! | Wed Jun 10 1992 22:50 | 4 |
| I thought I saw "One Nation Under a Groove" on CD. It is the only
album (vinyl) I have of theirs.
- Dave
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| 53.17 | | SOLANA::BROWN_RO | marginal utility of noting | Thu Oct 22 1992 17:39 | 17 |
| I saw George interviewed on BET the other night; he was pretty
interesting. He seems to be undergoing a revival of career, between
being sampled by numerous rappers, and discovered, by all people,
Deadheads, who have somehow transferred some of that endless groove
interest onto P-funk concerts. He says that he gets a much more mixed
audience; some of the original fans turning out, young rap fans turning
out, some affiliation with the Red Hot Chili Peppers that brings that
crowd out, and the aforementioned Deadheads.
I was also surprised that a woman I've known for a couple years has
revealed herself to be a former Bride of Funkenstein.....toured for
three years, recorded with P-funk for another two.
ya just never know about people!
-roger
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| 53.18 | Clinton for (P)residential-Funk ;^)) | JGODCL::KWIKKEL | The dance music library 1969-20.. | Fri Oct 23 1992 08:52 | 1 |
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| 53.19 | A starting album for Prince fans (on CD)? | USABLE::GOOD | Michael Good | Fri Oct 23 1992 15:59 | 8 |
| I read review of Prince's latest album, which compared some of my
favorite cuts on Prince's newest (the fast and rowdy ones), and the
Black Album, to Clinton's Parliament/Funkadelic work. If there are
similarities like he claims, I definitely should get to know these
folks! Any particular recommendations for folks working backwards from
Prince, or about the musical similarities between the two?
Unforuntately Music V3 seems not to have made the move, so I can't find
those notes with their recommendations.
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| 53.20 | possible P/Funk starters... | VERGA::CLARK | | Fri Oct 23 1992 17:35 | 25 |
| > I read review of Prince's latest album, which compared some of my
> favorite cuts on Prince's newest (the fast and rowdy ones), and the
> Black Album, to Clinton's Parliament/Funkadelic work.
Yeah, you might say that... George Clinton is one of the figureheads in
an R&B ancestry that links James Brown -> Sly Stone & Hendrix -> Clinton
(Parliament & Funkadelic) -> today's crop (including Prince).
Appropriately enough, Prince produced a recent Clinton album, "Cinderella
Theory" (supposed to be good, haven't heard it yet).
I'm a tremendous fan of Prince, but he has a-ways to go yet to prove he
belongs in that lineage...
A good sampler of the Parliament side of Clinton is the "Best of"
compilation, a listing of which is provided in an earlier note. Other
albums frequently cited in MUSIC_V3 were "Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo
Syndrome" and "Motor-Booty Affair", as I recall.
For the Funkadelic side, "Best of Early Years Vol.1" is out of print, but
others recommended in MUSIC_V3 are, or should soon be, in print -- "One
Nation Under a Groove" leaps to mind.
From the post-P/Funk stuff under Clinton's own name, "Computer Games"
(with the surprise/accidental hit "Atomic Dog") gets mentioned a lot.
- Jay
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| 53.21 | bow wow wow yippie yo yippie yay | LAGUNA::BROWN_RO | zooma zoom zoom zoom, and a boom boom, just shake your but | Thu Jan 07 1993 19:33 | 4 |
| "Atomic Dog" is undergoing a revival of sorts, and is getting a lot of
airplay on R&B radio in the past few months.
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| 53.22 | four-hour marathon show last night! | DPE1::STARR | Now broadcasting live from the Mill! | Mon Mar 08 1993 14:43 | 19 |
| On a last-minute whim, I went to see George Clinton and the P-Funk All Stars
last night at the Orpheum. I'm not that familiar with Clinton, nor the
Parliament-Funkadelic stuff, but was convinced to go by a friend who wanted
to see the show.
Boy, and I glad I went!!! The show was AMAZING!!!!
George had a 17-piece band with him, including a 3-piece horn section,
four guitarists, two bass players, a percussionist, a keyboardist, and
assorted backup/lead singers. They played for - get this - FOUR HOURS
nonstop! They started right at 8:00pm, and didn't end until the lights
went on at midnight, being forced off the stage by a curfew. Yowza!!!
I can't tell you many of the songs they played, but I can tell you that
this band really knows how to lay down a groove! And all the musicians
were incredibly talented - each took extended solos at some point of the
night, and they were all hot! (How can Clinton pay all these guys??? 8^)
alan
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| 53.23 | from today's Globe | DPE1::STARR | Now broadcasting live from the Mill! | Mon Mar 08 1993 15:30 | 53 |
| George Clinton Delivers Some Maximum Funk
Boston Globe, March 7th, 1993
by Steve Morse
They talk about James Brown being a possessed showman. What about
George Clinton? While Brown may be the Godfather Of Soul, Clinton is the
Godfather Of Funk. He reclaimed that throne last night with a torrid,
sense-assaulting, *four-hour* marathon (no joke) that proved he can still
teach today's funk upstarts a few things about the genre.
Clinton may be 52, but he's 52 years *young*. He didn't look old
next to the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the Grammy Awards recently; and he
didn't look old last night. With hair streaked with blue, orange, white
and brown, looking as if he'd dropped in from Saturn, Clinton pumped the
funk out - literally, with fists pumping the air like pistons - until a
breathless Orpheum crowd of 2,200 fans almost had to hold up a flag of
surrender.
There was no letup. Clinton and his 17-piece P-Funk All-Stars -
including five members of his original Funkadelics and eight of his original
Parliaments - kept churning through musical styles and grooves with iron-man
intensity. Funk-rock, rap-metal, heavy metal, hard-rock ballads and heady
acid-funk collided in one delirious, nonstop journey.
It was capped by bluntly honest politicking from Clinton, who restated
his "One Nation Under A Groove" social philosophy (and that's exactly what
the Orpheum looked like, with every racial, ethnic and age group in the city
represented), but also derided those who think they have easy solutions to
the drug problem. "There's more profit in pretending we're stopping it than
in selling it", he told the crowd. To punctuate the point, he did a new
song, "US Customs Coast Guard Dope Dogs", which had the crowd in an uproar.
Most of the night, though, was pure unadulterated funk, led by a
five-guitar lineup (together with three horns and three backup vocalists)
that hit hard, harder, and harder. They overwhelmed on P-Funk classics such
as "Cosmic Slop", "Atomic Dog", "(Not Just) Knee Deep". They also did justice
to new tunes such as "Rhythm and Rhyme" (due to be on a new Clinton album
recorded for Prince's Paisley Park Records) and the self-explanatory "Party
People Pumping Their Fists".
Clinton simply commanded the stage. At times he was a lighthearted
jokester ("We just got out of funk rehab", he quipped). At others, he was an
earnest town crier, but also an attentive, fatherly type as he smiled broadly
at the slashing, near apocalyptic solos delivered by his band. Guitarist
Michael Hampton (an original P-Funk player) riffed like a wild Jimi Hendrix
on occasion. And guitarist Dwayne (Blackbyrd) McKnight, playing choppy
rhythm riffs for about 10 minutes at one point, put a watchful Clinton into
an ecstatic swoon.
Some heavy-riffing got overly long (even by heavy metal standards),
but the wall-of-sound funk grooves always rose up to sweep away any celebral
criticisms that one might have. And if the auditory stimuli weren't enough,
the visuals were. Band members were dressed in everything from a white wedding
dress (worn by Andre Williams, complete with a veil), to a diaper to an
Arabic robe. Outrageousness reigned - and Clinton reveled in in until midnight
when he finally declared, "We gotta go. They're kicking us off." This was
maximum funk - and more.
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| 53.24 | | ARRODS::DUTTONS | | Wed Mar 10 1993 15:50 | 1 |
| So when are they coming to London, England?
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| 53.25 | box coming | VERGA::CLARK | | Wed Apr 21 1993 16:24 | 5 |
| According to USA Today, a box is due out sometime soon for Parliament. If
you're a fan of boxed sets, and P-Funk, this is probably good news.
(Arguably what's really needed is a box for, or including, Funkadelic
material also -- but what the heck.) - Jay
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| 53.26 | | VERGA::CLARK | | Thu Apr 22 1993 14:12 | 5 |
| > (Arguably what's really needed is a box for, or including, Funkadelic
> material also
I stand corrected - there is a Funkadelic compendium of sorts: a 2-CD set
collecting their singles, on Westbound. - Jay
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| 53.27 | | LEZAH::CLARK | | Mon May 09 1994 17:11 | 17 |
| On the general subject of funk...
Rhino's "In Yo' Face: History of Funk", Vols.1-5 (midline single CDs), now
has a prequel:
"In Yo' Face: Roots of Funk, Vol.1/2" (one half). I picked it up over the
weekend, and it looks tremendous. It collects 60s (& earlier) cuts that
were precursors of funk. Before James Brown, Sly Stone, (Hendrix,) Curtis
Mayfield, George Clinton, et al. If anyone wants a cut listing, I can
enter one from home sometime. Don Covay, Wilson Pickett, Brothers Four,
Laura Lee, and so on (several I didn't recognize).
Too bad the Ohio Players wouldn't license their stuff to Rhino for this
series. (Not quite comparable to Dylan not licensing his stuff to the
Rhino "Troubadors of the Folk Era", or BB King and Merle Haggard [or
whoever owns their catalogs] stiffing the Smithsonian blues & country
boxes, but... a gap.) - Jay
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