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Darondo - Prince before prince?! My God! I can't believe I slept on Darondo for soooo long! This guy is like a combination of Sly Stone and 80's Prince. And it sounds so fresh now. Not dated at all, and funkier than your mother! | |
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mattperry said: My God! I can't believe I slept on Darondo for soooo long! This guy is like a combination of Sly Stone and 80's Prince. And it sounds so fresh now. Not dated at all, and funkier than your mother!
My mother is not very funky 
 It is not known why FuNkeNsteiN capitalizes his name as he does, though some speculate sunlight deficiency caused by the most pimpified white guy afro in Nordic history.
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now this is interesting
Biography by Jason Ankeny allmusic A major favorite in funk collectors' circles, sweet soul crooner Darondo was born William Pulliam in Berkeley, CA. After receiving his first guitar at the age of eight, he later teamed with a handful of school friends to form the house band at the Lucky 13, an area teen club. According to Oliver Wang's profile in the April/May 2006 issue of Wax Poetics, Pulliam later trained as an electrician but retained his musical aspirations, and in 1970 cut his first Darondo single, "How I Got Over," for the fledging independent label Ocampo. Suggesting an earthier, street-smart Al Green, the record was hampered by distribution problems but nevertheless became a fixture on local radio station KSOL, earning Darondo the attention of Ray Dobard's Music City imprint. Despite recording an entire LP's worth of material, the label issued just one lone single, the lush "Didn't I." Darondo also opened for James Brown and enjoyed an extended residency at the famed San Francisco club Bimbo's, but following a third single, the obscure Af-Fa World release "Legs," his music career ground to a halt. He spent the remainder of the decade as a pimp before abandoning the life in 1981 to host a series of local cable television showcases including Darondo's Penthouse After Dark, Doze Comedy Videos, and the children's program Tapper the Rabbit. After spending the late '80s on the Fiji Islands, Darondo returned to Berkeley and studied physical therapy. When the acclaimed 2005 compilation Gilles Peterson Digs America vaulted "Didn't I" to the attention of soul aficionados across the globe, the race to discover the singer's current whereabouts was on, and in 2006 the Luv 'N Haight label released Let My People Go, collecting Darondo's three classic singles as well as several unreleased cuts from the same sessions. it wasn't hard to figure out that he spent most of the 70's as a pimp from the picture  | |
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Meloh9 said: now this is interesting
Biography by Jason Ankeny allmusic A major favorite in funk collectors' circles, sweet soul crooner Darondo was born William Pulliam in Berkeley, CA. After receiving his first guitar at the age of eight, he later teamed with a handful of school friends to form the house band at the Lucky 13, an area teen club. According to Oliver Wang's profile in the April/May 2006 issue of Wax Poetics, Pulliam later trained as an electrician but retained his musical aspirations, and in 1970 cut his first Darondo single, "How I Got Over," for the fledging independent label Ocampo. Suggesting an earthier, street-smart Al Green, the record was hampered by distribution problems but nevertheless became a fixture on local radio station KSOL, earning Darondo the attention of Ray Dobard's Music City imprint. Despite recording an entire LP's worth of material, the label issued just one lone single, the lush "Didn't I." Darondo also opened for James Brown and enjoyed an extended residency at the famed San Francisco club Bimbo's, but following a third single, the obscure Af-Fa World release "Legs," his music career ground to a halt. He spent the remainder of the decade as a pimp before abandoning the life in 1981 to host a series of local cable television showcases including Darondo's Penthouse After Dark, Doze Comedy Videos, and the children's program Tapper the Rabbit. After spending the late '80s on the Fiji Islands, Darondo returned to Berkeley and studied physical therapy. When the acclaimed 2005 compilation Gilles Peterson Digs America vaulted "Didn't I" to the attention of soul aficionados across the globe, the race to discover the singer's current whereabouts was on, and in 2006 the Luv 'N Haight label released Let My People Go, collecting Darondo's three classic singles as well as several unreleased cuts from the same sessions. it wasn't hard to figure out that he spent most of the 70's as a pimp from the picture He really was a pimp?! | |
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FuNkeNsteiN said: mattperry said: My God! I can't believe I slept on Darondo for soooo long! This guy is like a combination of Sly Stone and 80's Prince. And it sounds so fresh now. Not dated at all, and funkier than your mother!
My mother is not very funky
Yeah she is. She was a freak last night in the bedroom!  he he he
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 sorry, I'm sure your mother's a nice person. | |
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mattperry said: FuNkeNsteiN said: My mother is not very funky
Yeah she is. She was a freak last night in the bedroom! he he he
he he
he
sorry, I'm sure your mother's a nice person.
It is not known why FuNkeNsteiN capitalizes his name as he does, though some speculate sunlight deficiency caused by the most pimpified white guy afro in Nordic history.
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