funkpill said:

Yeah-baby!! Some of us truly know our funk!
But fellow funkateers, help me in this area, after being breast feed on funk for many many years, I have a low ear tolorance level for much of today's music. 50 cents, Usher, Beyonce, Janet, Britney, man I can't listen to none of that! I know it's not because I'm a oldhead, for I dig Alesia Keyes, Van Hunt and a few others from todays music, but if it doesn't have a live band in the studio, I can't feel it, it's stale, one dimensional.

paligap said:

Without a doubt Eddie. I've heard live and studio versions of Hampton's version and they're good but they just don't compare to the feeling that Eddie put into his playing.

jw1914 said:

Then I take it you're tuned into the likes of Maxwell, D'Angelo, The Roots, Angie Stone, Erykah Badu, India.Arie, Amp Fiddler, Cody ChesnuTT, Musiq Soulchild, Raphael Saadiq...?

Taureau said:

Maxwell-most diffinately yas, D'Angelo- naw, prince "wanna-be", The Roots- My hometown boys are highly overrated seen them many times never once was impressed not hating though big contract draws lots of attention, Angie Stone- Da Bomb!!!, Erykah Badu- sure nuff skills, India Arie-now we talking, Amp- everybody knows he's old school, Cody- again highly overrated seen it done before no originality, Musiq- Please give me a break he needs to learn how to sing first, Raphael- so-so-so?

Yes I do keep my ear to the wall.

jw1914 said:

Never!!!!

jw1914 said:

Then why the, "But fellow funkateers, help me in this area..."

Taureau said:

Because, as fellow funkateers, I wanna know how you guys stomach it? Do ya hold your nose(ears) and just swallow it as if it was green veggie? "Mommy says you can't go out and play with your guitar unless ya eat your top 40?"
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jw1914 said:

Well, the way I cope is because I'm continuously discovering 'new' old music. For instance if I go out and find that Ruth Copeland disc, it would be like discovering a brand new album Because of this, I really don't care what is going on in the charts. Now and again there will be something fresh and funky, but never as consistently as back in the day, so I never keep my hopes up. I buy CD's on such a frequent basis that I have a back-log of unheard album cuts piled up that I need to get through. I suspect some guys round here do actually lower their standards and dangerously subject themselves to the pre-processed dross, and bathe themselves in the faux-funk thinking it's hip.

Taureau said:

U better go and get those Ruth Copeland albums: "Self Portrait" and "I Am What I Am".

Yeah that Ruth Copeland stuff backed by Funkadelic is scarey! I need to buy those. They haven't at the www.thefunkstore.com

Kinda reminds you of a funky Janis Jopland.

funkpill said:

"Where you get your funk from?"

Hotlegs said:

Nothing sexier than a funky woman...
Funk on Hotlegs!!!!!
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blackguitaristz said:

I've checked and it's on amazon, so I'll fuzz it when I get the dollar in at the end of the month so to speak.

How old was everybody when they first heard Funkadelic? I mentioned in the 'March To The Witch's Castle' thread' that I was pretty young, about 7 or eight, so, while I liked the music, I thought they were pretty scary(Still do!, LOl!!), at that age, I just wasn't ready for most of the shit they were dealing with conceptually--I remember being at an older cousin's house and seeing the cover for 'America Eats Its Young:



'--

- - scared the Shit Outta Me!




...

paligap said:

funkpill said:

That's what I'm saying! I'm going to recruit her into my ZCult! The girl's bad!

Taureau said:

Man, I might have to hop witcha cuz I've basically done wore the shit out of my lps. I lucked out, cuz I have an older cousin that might as well played in P-Funk. He had EVERYTHING and I do mean EVERYTHING. So, anyway, come time for him to move to New York with his new wife and guess what? He wants to unload ALL of his shit on me. By this time, I'm like 13, so I've been hip to P-Funk for 5 years easy. He always had all this rare shit, not just the standard funk. So, that's where I got Ruth's albums, Eddie's albums, u know. I never had to hunt down for that shit when it got fashionable in the 90's and record stores were selling Hazel's lp's for 200.00 and Bootsy's "Ultrawave" for 75.00. Stoopid shit like that. But, I learned a lot of my chops from those albums, wearing the shit out of the wax. So, yeah, I ended up getting "Gimmie Shelter" which is a comp of the 2 albums on cd, import. I bump all of that shit in my ride.

paligap said:

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blackguitaristz said:

Thanks Baby!

paligap said:[quote] How old was everybody when they first heard Funkadelic? I mentioned in the 'March To The Witch's Castle' thread' that I was pretty young, about 7 or eight, so, while I liked the music, I thought they were pretty scary(Still do!, LOl!!), at that age, I just wasn't ready for most of the shit they were dealing with conceptually--I remember being at an older cousin's house and seeing the cover for 'America Eats Its Young:



'--

- - scared the Shit Outta Me!


Similar thing. I was 8 as well. 8 was the year I got into pretty much all of the "heavy shit, flashy shit, KISS, P-Funk, Bowie, Black Sabbath, Zeppelin, etc. Parliament/Funkadelic was deep on so many different levels. George was a fucking genius, man, cuz he was hip to black rock (Hendrix, Sly) and glitter (Bolan, Bowie) but he was also hip to the ghetto's (War, Mayfield, Innervisions, Marvin) and he put this cryptic ass, junkiefied, staggering down the street shit on top of black rock. That's what scared everybody. Cuz it had that spiritual vibe, gospell backed vocals and that made that shit real. That's what made it deep. George in the 70's could have ran for motherfucking president and HAD all the black votes in the country. u believe it.

"I'm so confused, I don't know what I feel, I can't feel me,"


Here we go funkateers, those lyrics are from what Funkadelic song and from what album?

"I'm so confused, I don't know what I feel, I can't feel me,"


Here we go funkateers, those lyrics are from what Funkadelic song and from what album?

paligap said:

The Dr. Funkenstein album cover use to scare me.....
Those green eyes staring.....

When I dead and gone, someone is going to inherit a ton of original P-Funk albums[not cds]. I hope they appreciate them.

jw1914 said:

Free Your Mind, & Your Ass Will Follow.....
The kingdom of heaven is within.....

funkpill said:

Funkpill you get a "A" so come up to the head of the class.

blackguitaristz said:

Yeah...I mean, look at the lyrics of Cosmic Slop---who else was writing songs like that, and with a funk/rock backdrop? Funkadelic dealt with it all-- the Social thang, the Spiritual thang, the Spaced-out, psychedelic thang... all at the same time...

jw1914 said:

WELL ALRIGHT!!!!

Let me hear it for me!!!!!

But I'm willing to share with my fellow funkateers!!!!!
Like George would say at a concert, "Everybody come on up here"!!!!!
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funkpill said:

Now here's another one,,,"A carpenter can't build his house without his tools,," Come back funkateers.

jw1914 said:

I BET CHA'!!!!!