muzebox

Knee Deep is a fine tune by funkadelic. check it out to find out where de la soul pinched that killer hook from for their classic hip hop track

Beyondofficial

incredible

Jeff_T

I just discovered "Maggot Brain" a few months ago. It blew me away. Beautiful and moving piece of music, incredible guitar solo.

theSubMan

have you heard this tune? Funkadelic - Promental****backwashpsychosis Enema Squad
it's soooo good!

611

Absolutely.

Funkmaster Red

Yez sir PF sure are on tha one so much so that they're still are tha number one FunK in tha land. James Brown is tha grandfather of tha FunK and George Clinton is tha King of it! My favorite all-time favorite band!

Lord Larehip

I saw George quite a lot at the studio where I went to school and interned. His projects were BY FAR the most ambitious I'd ever seen. He'd have recording sessions marathons of 24 hours straight with different musicians and singers coming in at different times to lay down their tracks. We had a massive old API mixing board with 6 recording busses on it. You would route the inputs to the busses in such a way that no matter how many tracks you had, you would never need more than 6 busses. Very few people used more than 2 or 3. Using 4 was unusual. The only person I ever saw that needed to use all 6 was George Clinton. George loved that board.

Once some guys were in the studio using Funkadelic tracks for hip-hop tunes they were doing when George suddenly walked in. The guys stood there in shock not knowing how George would take it that they were swiping his tracks. George just sat down and helped them lift the tracks they wanted with no talk of payment or copyrights. And even though I detest hip-hop and rap I thought that was very cool of him. That's the way he is.

I never got to know him well as I never worked directly with him but only for his musicians. But occasionally he'd walk in and he'd be coming down the hallway just as I was going the other way. This great legend I'd been listening to ever since I was a little kid with my transistor radio. He'd just nod and smile and say, "Howzit goin' man?" I never saw him with a posse or anything. A great genius. He just has a presence. I never met anyone else like him. He has a commanding presence. He's sort of like a divine being in that you know you're in the presence of someone who is not like anyone you'll ever meet.

And I think he knows he's got that presence but doesn't use it to intimidate or snub you. He's just a regular guy in spite of it.

I still have this old 45:


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Braedencheese

Who's a Funkadelic (AKA Connections and Disconnections) 1980

The album by the original Parliament members Fuzzy, Grady and Calvin.
I've heard mostly bad things about it, what are your thoughts on it?

Necromancer

It doesn't have that slow drive, dirty and nasty P Funk sound and vibe Funkadelic/Parlament had with the earlier 70s funk.
It has too much of a disco influence sound for my taste, but that's what some folks like.

Who would've ever thought there are people out there that actually enjoy listening to disco.

PANICGAL

LOVE George Clinton. Shows are always a riot.