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Reply #30 posted 10/07/08 10:46pm

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Timmy84 said:

paisleypark4 said:

he can pass for black ha?

Because initially the leader of "disco" was Barry White. lol

Then the Bee Gees added some vanilla... falloff

And that damn John Travolta... mad

But what about KC & The Sunshine Band?!? They were funk AND disco.

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Reply #31 posted 10/09/08 2:41am

Mara	Actually, I want EURO-DISCO. I want spoons, I want lines. I want upbeat, I want oblivion. I love a black voice singing over European-produced disco rhythms. That said...
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Reply #32 posted 10/09/08 2:43am

Mara	A SCANT RESONANCE OF MY ECSTASY, REALIZED. ALBEIT BRIEFLY.
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Reply #33 posted 10/09/08 3:45am

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I love disco, don't get me wrong. But it was too easy to make bad disco. I never once heard bad funk. It was all good. It had to be. And you had to have talent to play it. Now, you didn't have to have talent to do disco, you just needed a good beat and a good producer. Although even the worst disco singer has more talent than most singers today.
Disco is brittle, whereas funk is the root of the earth. The soil from which we all sprung from.

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Reply #34 posted 10/09/08 3:47am

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I love disco, don't get me wrong. But it was too easy to make bad disco. I never once heard bad funk. It was all good. It had to be. And you had to have talent to play it. Now, you didn't have to have talent to do disco, you just needed a good beat and a good producer. Although even the worst disco singer has more talent than most singers today.
Disco is brittle, whereas funk is the root of the earth. The soil from which we all sprung from.

TAWK!!!!

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Reply #35 posted 10/09/08 3:51am

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scriptgirl said:

Kind of sound like the best part of my post where I stated; "Funk is the "beginning" and deeper still, musically, funk is the Alpha and Omega."

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Reply #36 posted 10/09/08 3:53am

Timmy84	TonyVanDam said: Timmy84 said: Because initially the leader of "disco" was Barry White. Then the Bee Gees added some vanilla... And that damn John Travolta... But what about KC & The Sunshine Band?!? They were funk AND disco. Man KC was the man. Fuck what ya heard.
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Reply #37 posted 10/09/08 4:01am

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Don't front on the Bee Gees and KC. They may have been white, but they GOT DOWN and real talk, their music is the reason a lot of people even know about disco today.

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Reply #38 posted 10/09/08 4:16am

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Don't front on the Bee Gees and KC. They may have been white, but they GOT DOWN and real talk, their music is the reason a lot of people even know about disco today.

Man I fucks with them. I'm just saying when the BG's did SNF, it was slamming but it was the exposure afterwards (and Vinnie Barbarino rolleyes

) that helped to kill disco's commercial scene. And some artists did some corny ass disco records that just wasn't cool.

Of early disco, I loved the music of not only KC and Barry but First Choice and Gloria Gaynor pre-"I Will Survive" and Donna Summer.

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Reply #39 posted 10/09/08 7:18am

Mara	scriptgirl said: whereas funk is the root of the earth. The soil from which we all sprung from. Nah, I sprung from Disco.
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Reply #40 posted 10/09/08 6:55pm

funkpill	Mara said: scriptgirl said: whereas funk is the root of the earth. The soil from which we all sprung from. Nah, I sprung from Disco. Which sprung from Funk Which sprung from R & B Which sprung from Blues Which sprung from Gospel
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Reply #41 posted 10/09/08 7:06pm

Mara	funkpill said: Mara said: Nah, I sprung from Disco. Which sprung from Funk Which sprung from R & B Which sprung from Blues Which sprung from Gospel You're right. A lot of my gay brothers & sisters sang first in the Church. Most notably SYLVESTER who came out of the C.O.G.I.C. in South Los Angeles.
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Reply #42 posted 10/09/08 7:11pm

Timmy84	funkpill said: Mara said: Nah, I sprung from Disco. Which sprung from Funk Which sprung from R & B Which sprung from Blues Which sprung from Gospel AMEN!
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Reply #43 posted 10/09/08 7:17pm

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JAZZFUNK.

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blackguitaristz said:

As a kid, I could tell the difference between funk and disco. It was MAJOR differences between the two. Musically, lyrically and conceptually. I know many don't hear the differences and plus many listen with their eyes and NOT their ears. For me, as a little kid, who grew up listening to everything, disco had it's place just like funk, i.e. Parliament, rock, i.e. Zeppelin, pop, i.e. Olivia Newton John did. And although disco borrowed heavily from the funk, they to me are two entirely different animals. Funk, unlike any other genre, can be and is anything. Funk is the "beginning" and deeper still, musically, funk is the Alpha and Omega.

Been sayin this for years

Funk can do airthang.... cool