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Ohio Players - Ecstasy-Pain- Pleasure Pleasure, This is probably one of the hardest funk / jazz cuts from OP
Junie goes totally off on the vocals especially at the end. Musicianship is off the chart Ecstacy Another musical gem. I love the organ and piano interplay. Not many could touch OP in their prime. Pain Junie and the boy tear it up again. Sadly I dont think we will hear this kind of creativity and musicianship again. Those that ever got to see this group live consider yourself blessed those that didn't you still have CD's and youtube. We gonna come on with the come on, gonna get down with the get down! | |
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speaking of the Ohio Players,I recently purchased four of their CDs (available as "twofers")
"Skin Tight/Fire" "Honey/Contradiction" I guess these are the essential CDs to have,right? | |
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Sadly I dont think we will hear this kind of creativity and musicianship again.
Those that ever got to see this group live consider yourself blessed those that didn't you still have CD's and youtube.[/quote] Man, that's the real Ohio Players before they became 'softer' Junie was the truth. | |
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SoulAlive said: speaking of the Ohio Players,I recently purchased four of their CDs (available as "twofers")
"Skin Tight/Fire" "Honey/Contradiction" I guess these are the essential CDs to have,right? Those are great along with the Pain, Pleasure and Ecstasy albums. Also I have "Junie The Westbound Years" which is a great CD. We gonna come on with the come on, gonna get down with the get down! | |
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Damn no love for OP. I guess they need to hook up a computer, turn on a drum machine and talk through a vocoder like T-Pain. We gonna come on with the come on, gonna get down with the get down! | |
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elem55 said: SoulAlive said: speaking of the Ohio Players,I recently purchased four of their CDs (available as "twofers")
"Skin Tight/Fire" "Honey/Contradiction" I guess these are the essential CDs to have,right? Those are great along with the Pain, Pleasure and Ecstasy albums. Also I have "Junie The Westbound Years" which is a great CD. Yeah I've been cruious about that "Westbound Years" CD.I wanna hear their early material,before their mid-70s heyday. | |
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SoulAlive said: speaking of the Ohio Players,I recently purchased four of their CDs (available as "twofers")
"Skin Tight/Fire" "Honey/Contradiction" I guess these are the essential CDs to have,right? Skin Tight, Fire & Honey are the essential OP albums... but that doesn't mean that their other albums aren't worth getting too 
The Players are badass musicians!  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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FuNkeNsteiN said: SoulAlive said: speaking of the Ohio Players,I recently purchased four of their CDs (available as "twofers")
"Skin Tight/Fire" "Honey/Contradiction" I guess these are the essential CDs to have,right? Skin Tight, Fire & Honey are the essential OP albums... but that doesn't mean that their other albums aren't worth getting too
do you got all their albums? | |
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SoulAlive said: FuNkeNsteiN said: Skin Tight, Fire & Honey are the essential OP albums... but that doesn't mean that their other albums aren't worth getting too
do you got all their albums? I'm stilling missing a couple, but I do have most of them. 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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Saw Sugarfoot at the bar last week. Oh I just love living in Dayton, Ohio. Upper persuasion for the lower invasion | |
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daytonohioplayer said: Saw Sugarfoot at the bar last week. Oh I just love living in Dayton, Ohio.
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Westbound baby..... | |
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Most people believe that the Ohio Players started with the Westbound years (Pain being the first album released on that label in 1971).
But in reality, the Ohio Players started in 1968. They first put out this 45 om Trip Records. 
The track A Little Soul Party ended up on the group's debut album First Impressions, which was released on Compass/Trip. It's pretty hard to find these days. 
They released a second 45 from that album, a track called Trespassin'. 
They put out another album that year, Observations in Time, which was also released on Compass, but distributed through Capitol. Both releases flopped, and the band didn't record another album until they signed with Westbound. But obviously, the Ohio Players was meant to happen. I have a copy of a 1968 Downbeat magazine issue, which featured a James Brown interview. Brown, based out of Cincinnati at that time, was asked about new talents. He mentioned a young group out of Ohio, which would carry the Funk of the 1970s - the Ohio Players. Brown was pretty dead on with his prediction.  [Edited 11/14/08 14:07pm] | |
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MrSoulpower said: Most people believe that the Ohio Players started with the Westbound years (Pain being the first album released on that label in 1971).
But in reality, the Ohio Players started in 1968. They first put out this 45 om Trip Records.
The track A Little Soul Party ended up on the group's debut album First Impressions, which was released on Compass/Trip. It's pretty hard to find these days.
They released a second 45 from that album, a track called Trespassin'.
They put out another album that year, Observations in Time, which was also released on Compass, but distributed through Capitol. Both releases flopped, and the band didn't record another album until they signed with Westbound. But obviously, the Ohio Players was meant to happen. I have a copy of a 1968 Downbeat magazine issue, which featured a James Brown interview. Brown, based out of Cincinnati at that time, was asked about new talents. He mentioned a young group out of Ohio, which would carry the Funk of the 1970s - the Ohio Players. Brown was pretty dead on with his prediction.
[Edited 11/14/08 14:07pm] ....I think I have 1st Impressions.  | |
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They use to be Wilson Pickett's backup band also  | |
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funkpill said: They use to be Wilson Pickett's backup band also
I never knew that. | |
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Graycap23 said: ....I think I have 1st Impressions. I'll buy it from you. My copy is as beat up as Sugarfoot's face.
There's actually another record that came out in 1969, it's a compilation of the first two albums.  | |
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Graycap23 said: funkpill said: They use to be Wilson Pickett's backup band also
I never knew that. They actually worked as a backing band for various artist before they recorded their first album as a group. Their history dates back to 1959, when they were founded by Robert Ward as the Ohio Untouchables. They worked with Pickett and also backed Helena Ferguson on Where Is the Party. Before they recorded First Impressions, they were basically the houseband for Compass. | |
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MrSoulpower said: Graycap23 said: I never knew that. They actually worked as a backing band for various artist before they recorded their first album as a group. Their history dates back to 1959, when they were founded by Robert Ward as the Ohio Untouchables. They worked with Pickett and also backed Helena Ferguson on Where Is the Party. Before they recorded First Impressions, they were basically the houseband for Compass. yup....  that's right | |
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Ohio Players seem to be one of those acts whose fans favor one era way more than the other. Like people who love Funkadelic's Westbound stuff but don't really feel One Nation Under A Groove.
I like both editions of the Ohio Players. The Junie material is more adventurous, but the Mercury records have more sophistication. Maybe it's due to the Mercury engineer, because those records have a sheen to them that most funk bands don't have. | |
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FunkyGraf said: Ohio Players seem to be one of those acts whose fans favor one era way more than the other. Like people who love Funkadelic's Westbound stuff but don't really feel One Nation Under A Groove.
I like both editions of the Ohio Players. The Junie material is more adventurous, but the Mercury records have more sophistication. Maybe it's due to the Mercury engineer, because those records have a sheen to them that most funk bands don't have. A bit too polished for me. To me, Skin Tight was the last truly great Ohio Players album. They became a bit too stale after that. I think my favorite album is Ecstasy. The title track blows my mind, and Sleep Talk is their masterpiece. | |
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MrSoulpower said: A bit too polished for me. To me, Skin Tight was the last truly great Ohio Players album. They became a bit too stale after that.
Fire and Honey are stale?!? 
... "Cocaine is a helluva drug!" 
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who's this Junie chick
and why don't I know her?  because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." | |
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DirtyChris said: who's this Junie chick
and why don't I know her? He, not she. Walter "Junie" Morrison used to write, sing and play keyboards with the Players. He left the band in 1974, recorded three solo albums, and then joined Parliament/Funkadelic. He also recorded some solo material in the 80's, and released an album called 'When The City' in 2004. Here's a pic of Junie,  [Edited 11/14/08 16:32pm] 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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FuNkeNsteiN said: DirtyChris said: who's this Junie chick
and why don't I know her? He, not she. Walter "Junie" Morrison used to write, sing and play keyboards with the Players. Later on he recorded solo material and was a part of Parliament/Funkadelic. Here's a pic of Junie,
wooops! 
thanks for filling me in for a while I thought ya'll were referring to: 
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DirtyChris said: FuNkeNsteiN said: He, not she. Walter "Junie" Morrison used to write, sing and play keyboards with the Players. Later on he recorded solo material and was a part of Parliament/Funkadelic. Here's a pic of Junie,
wooops!
thanks for filling me in for a while I thought ya'll were referring to:
No probs! 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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Here is some rare Junie.
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funkpill said: They use to be Wilson Pickett's backup band also
I was just going to state that. The original guys along with sugar are up their in age. Anyone else wonder if it's a surprise that the band didn't sue jimmy jam and terry lewis for lionel richie's I wanna take you down off his 1996 louder than words cd. It sounds like a carbon copy of ecstasy. Some of OP's westbound tracks were okay but personally i preferred the mercury years. Don't laugh at my funk
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FuNkeNsteiN said: MrSoulpower said: A bit too polished for me. To me, Skin Tight was the last truly great Ohio Players album. They became a bit too stale after that.
Fire and Honey are stale?!?
... "Cocaine is a helluva drug!"
 Don't laugh at my funk
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