ZDNet is highlighting Funk MP3's on their site with
a nice collection of downloadable MP3's from Prince, George
Clinton, James Brown, Maceo Parker, et. al. The Prince
tracks are the same ones available from NPGOnlineLTD, but
overall the site offers a chance to download some classic
funk. Here's the intro to the Prince part of the site
which I found humorous:



In this age of musical genre "ghettoization," Prince stands
alone. The Artist can get funky, he can rock up a storm, he
can croon a soulful ballad, he can spin out webs of jazz
piano, he can hip and he can hop. And he can do it all,
often brilliantly. Prince takes chances and often fails -
especially on the (hopefully abandoned) film front - but
every one of his albums is chock-full of gems. Prince
hasn't sustained the massive popularity he earned in the
Purple Rain-crazed '80s, but that seems due more to bad
publicity surrounding his tabloid lifestyle than his
musical output. He can't hide the fact that he is an odd,
fuzzy little man, but genius doesn't come in perfect
packages. While legions of his contemporaries crash and
burn, he sits in his Minneapolis tower and continues to
expand the boundaries of popular music.



**-> I think that's a great description of Prince:
"an odd, fuzzy little man"!



Here's the link: http://music.zdnet.com/mu...sten_funk/