paligap said:

Certifiable for sure!! We MUST be related...

Slave2daGroove said:

Their early stuff was more funk than disco/r&b but later on they catered to the masses with the more discoish stuff like September. I never said they didn't do funk. What I said was that there are badder cats out there when it comes to funk. EWF did some serious funk but later on started playing poppier/discoer/R&B stuff.
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FuNkeNsteiN said:

Hence, "With EW&F, I only go for the pre-76 stuff. The latter years are way too pop for me." from above.

PFunkjazz said:

Had to clarify this stuff to Slave2daGroove. I'm not saying EWF is not funky. I'm saying there are better hardcore funk bands out there than EWF. They became too poppy later on.

Somehow, I'm just now seeing this thread?! Anyway, there were soooo many great bands from the 60's to the 80's. Here are my "main fave":

Parliament/Funkadelic
Sly & The Family Stone
James Brown
Bootsy's Rubber Band
The Isley Brothers
Graham Central Station
The Ohio Players
E,W & F
Commodores
Zapp/Roger
Cameo
Slave
Prince
The Time

PFunkjazz said:

I ran a thread awhile back asking which Funkadelic did u prefer? The Westbound years or the Warner Bros years? It was interesting. Got several posts. Which showed people are serious about their Funkadelic. Like me.

Bali said:

...

The first three on WESTBOUND


plus the Parliament debut
OSMIUN/RHENIUM



(collected as FIRST THANGS) are essential.

FuNkeNsteiN said:

Easy there, I'm not the sheriff of Funk town, I was just having another opinion. I'm not a huge fan of the disco stuff either and really know it's not funk (even though Maurice White is a musical muthafuckin genius).

That opinion still stands that especially with songs like "Fan the Fire", "Bad Tune" and "C'mon Children" they are, in fact, one of the original greats of funk. I'm not trying to argue about musical opinions as that would go against the joy that is funk (and I stopped that in high school)

I never did put together a list, here's mine.

EWF
James Brown
Trouble Funk
Dyke & The Blazers
Herbie Hancock (Headhunter Era)
Miles (electric)
Sly
Aretha
AWB
The Bar-Kays
Betty Wright
Betty Davis
Billy Preston
Bobby Byrd
Maceo Parker
Fred Wesley
Fatback
Stevie Wonder
Galatic
Medeski Martin Wood
George Clinton (in EVERY incarnation)
Gil Scott-Heron
The Isley Brothers
The J.B.'s
Johnny "Guitar" Watson
Kool & The Gang (first 3 albums)
The Meters
Mickey & The Soul Generation
The Ohio Players
Prince
S.O.U.L.
Sam & Dave
Shorty Long (and a ton of Motown)
The Temptations
The Sugarman Three & Co.
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
Tower Of Power
Wilson Pickett
Booker T & The MGs
Jimmy Smith

I'm missing so many...

I guess I believe it starts with the JB's. James himself is the essence of funk. Bootsy, George Clinton, Bernie Worrell and the entire Parliament/Funkadelic thang...

Then u have to have Sly and Larry Graham.

Stevie Wonder is a one man band.

I think the Ohio Players (skin tight!), E, W & F, The Isley Bros., the Bar-Kays, and Cameo (extra funky!) and them were next for me. Con Funk Shun is in there.

The #1 band in the land - the midwest music mobsters; S-L-A-V-E!

The Clarke/Duke Project was big in my funk box. Brass Construction.

The Time (Prince), Zapp (More Bounce was a monster!). ...I saw Lakeside live in the Fantastic Voyage days. They rocked!

...The Reddings!

The Tony's, Chuckii Booker's "University".

And Mint Condition!!!

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FuNkeNsteiN said:

A one man band.

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chewwsey said:

Most definately! You really know your stuff and get major funk points for remembering that jam. Ebonee Webb was produced by Allen Jones from The Barkays. When "Something About You" first was played on the radio in the summer of 1981, I thought it was Prince's new song. It sounded exactly like him from the music to the falsetto. They had another jam in 1983 called "Too Hot To Be Cool". I would have loved for them to do some more albums.

theAudience said:

Same group??

CinisterCee said:

Not quite. Nite-Liters is the band, New Birth the vocalists. Kinda like the Funkadelic/Parliament/s thing.

BOY!, all of the fore mentioned.

+ deeez

Shock
Ozone
Midnight Star
Dazz Band
Sweat Band
L.A. Connection
Chocolate Milk
Kwick
War
Tease
Mantra

StarMon said:

Damn Star! Your ass named Tease! One of my first bands got a chance to open up for Tease! At the time, I was only hip to them from a single that they had out. It was my band, then another band called Messenger, and then Tease.

PFunkjazz said:

Yes. I remember u posting some on my thread. I wish I could bring that back up.

blusapphire said:

Parliament Funkadelic
Graham Central Station
Bootsy's Rubber Band
Drugs: The Misamericans
FreekBass
OctavePussy

The last 3 are new Artists and very funky. Check them out on myspace. If you like funk you'll love them.

blackguitaristz said:

Hey that first lp pretty good.



I remember hearing Flash on the radio, purchased it at Sound Warehouse to use that same night. The record promoter was too slow to issue it to me.

Wow that is cool.. was Chuckii still in the group then.

StarMon said:

Man i remember kwick from when i was in middle school. I can't find them anywhere. Another group i will throw in the mix here is ebonee webb. I would
love to find some stuff from them. Something about you was the jam from ebonee
webb.

Here's a few I don't think have been mentioned yet.
T-Connection
Skyy
The System
Lakeside
S.O.S Band
Starpoint
The Brothers Johnson
Atlantic Starr

ThePunisher said:

FuNkeNsteiN said:

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They´re not all bands but whatever.
Prince
James Brown
Jamiroquai
Monkey Business - a great czech band

StarMon said:

wow! I have never seen this lp by tease before. when did it come out?

PFunkjazz said:

amazing, just when I think that I have seen all the parlament/funkadelic lp's here are more.

chewwsey said:

Late '83.