http://www.youtube.com/wa...rm4U028m28


Spellbound

http://www.youtube.com/wa...HBas0phtQs

I get high even thinking about this album. These tunes facilitated many a great buzz!

funkpill said:

hmmm interested...this has nothing to do with Paula Abdul's Spellbound now has it?
[Edited 12/11/07 19:36pm]

xperience319 said:

Totally unrelated. Spellbound was on the barkays too hot to stop album of 1976.
Paula Abdul just happened to have an album of the same name in 1990.

phunkdaddy said:

Spellbound is also the name an Martha Reeves and the Vandellas album featuring unreleased material.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

They also had an album in the late 60's called black magic.

This album is the mothafuckin' BOMB!
Great from start to finish

nice...thx 4 the heads up!

EDIT: who da white boy on the keys?

http://www.youtube.com/wa...re=related
[Edited 12/12/07 0:26am]

xperience319 said:

I have no idea. He wasn't around later on and I haven't seen this clip of Soul Finger before so I didn't even know they had a white member at one point

EDIT: Could be the guy is just sitting in for an actual member in this video.
[Edited 12/12/07 1:44am]

FuNkeNsteiN said:

Where do you find albums like this in Helsinki?
Last Saturday I went through three record stores looking for a copy of Street Songs by Rick James and all I found was one dodgy compilation. I desperately need to expand my funk collection but it seems like I already own all 17 funky albums sold in this unfunky country.

mistymeadows said:

where are you?

my geography fails me...

mistymeadows said:

Which record stores did you visit?

xperience319 said:

Finland.

FuNkeNsteiN said:

Oh and, just out of curiosity, what albums do you already own?

FuNkeNsteiN said:

Fennica Records, Popparienkeli, Stupido and Keltainen Jäänsärkijä.

I'll just list the artist and the amount of albums I have
(I'm in a bit of a hurry):

Parliament: 3
Funkadelic: 2
Sly & the Family Stone: 4
Ohio Players: 3
James Brown: 2
Rick James:1 (bought it from cdon.com, arrived yesterday)


Seems like the number is actually only 15

FuNkeNsteiN said:

Yes the original barkays lineup that toured with otis did have a white
member which was not surprising since stax artists were totally integrated
particularly booker t & the mg's. All members of the original barkays lineup
except trumpeter ben cauley and current barkays member james alexander perished
in the crash with otis redding. James Alexander missed the flight because he
was returning a rental car and ben cauley was the only survivor.

And yes funkenstein this barkays album is downright funkaaaay!
[Edited 12/12/07 19:17pm]

ok newbie here, what crash? so they are all dead?

well thats a bummer now isnt it!

.
[Edited 12/13/07 0:24am]

xperience319 said:

The originals members of the Bar-Kays were on the same plane as Otis Redding.
Cauley survived the crash and, like phunkdaddy said, Alexander (the bassist) missed the flight.
They formed a new version of the Bar-Kays and continued their recording career (they only released one album, 'Soul Finger', with the original line-up).

FuNkeNsteiN said:

yup


that's right

Bang bang
Stick 'em up
Gonna getcha love, getcha love

Great album.