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Imaginative

George Clinton credits The Beatles as main inspiration for Funkadelic

This came up in another thread, so I thought I would share George Clinton personally speaking about The Beatles influence on HIS music at 10:30 in:

[apologies: meant to post this to "Non-Prince Forum." Mod, please move.]

[Edited 6/18/11 17:53pm]

"There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind."
Louis Armstrong
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Reply #1 posted 06/18/11 10:43pm

Harlepolis

Yeah, I remember him citing Sgt.Pepper as a great influence on a couple of occasion. I agree with his reasoning, it certainly fused and mixed many styles.

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Reply #2 posted 06/18/11 11:06pm

Timmy84

Eh I knew that from jump street. I thought it was a well known fact anyways.

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Reply #3 posted 06/18/11 11:33pm

Imaginative

Timmy84 said:

Eh I knew that from jump street. I thought it was a well known fact anyways.

You would be surprised how many here seem to want to deny it for whatever reasons.

"There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind."
Louis Armstrong
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Reply #4 posted 06/19/11 1:38am

Timmy84

Imaginative said:

Timmy84 said:

Eh I knew that from jump street. I thought it was a well known fact anyways.

You would be surprised how many here seem to want to deny it for whatever reasons.

I haven't seen it lol

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Reply #5 posted 06/19/11 9:32am

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The Beatles and Funkadelic. In my top 5 all time fave artists. My go to music for getting rid of the blahs. And for musical inspiration. cool I think I will listen to both of them today. smile

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