For me, it's tough. I love Steve Arrington's voice and only like the songs he sung lead on. But I like the Ohio Players overall body of work better, although I am not fond of the lead singer's voice

scriptgirl said:

Both bands are my musical textbook and I grew up on all their music, but I'll give the edge 2 Ohio 'cause I saw them THROW DOWN live at the 2003 3 Rivers Music Festival in Columbia,SC. Unfortunatley Slave like a lot of funk bands have fallen victim to in-fighting so now you got two bands "Slave" (Mark Adams, Danny Webster) and Marc "Drac" Hicks and "The New Slave".








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Slave - they were a little more [N word snip - luv4u]

What do you mean, Slave was more [N Snip - luv4u]

[N word snip - luv4u]

Slave had some great jams and could get the party started. Drac was the man on guitar. "Volcanic Eruption" is right up there with "Maggot Brain"..But I love the Ohio Players' ballads. And LeRoy is my man.

Some of the members from Slave are from myhometown but I'm going with the boys from Southern Ohio.

chuckaducci said:

Out of line.

SPYZFAN1 said:

I thought Ohio Players were from Dayton too? They're litteraly family 'cause Ralph "Pee Wee" Middlebrooks is either Mark Adams' or Mark Hick's uncle.

I think some of them are from Dayton. Didn't know they were related. That's cool.

Slave, absolutely.

@ everybody getting all bent outta shape over Chuck

And for me is...

Nah I'm not bent out of shape, just a little surprised.

And P even said "they come in all colors". Actually I need to STOP using the word myself.

..but back to the music.

chuckaducci said:

WTF is [N word snip - luv4u]

Some people

Apparently nobody here on these boring, cliquey boards watches The Chappelle Show. Cheese and crackers you guys take yourselves so seriously.

I stand by my initial post - I'll take the more [N word snip - luv4u] band.

chuckaducci said:

The mods don't go for word like that around here.

And, yes, I have been forced to watch Dave...and no, I'm not a big fan of his.

daPrettyman said:

The mods don't support the First Amendment?

Besides, I was just joking - I'm pretty sure the mods know that I'm an invaluable contributor to these zany boards.

chuckaducci said:

I know you were joking, but it's in bad taste around here. Read the rules, everyone gets reprimanded occasionally for breaking them.
http://prince.org/msg/rules.html

daPrettyman said:

But bad taste is the norm around here. And bad taste is wholly subjective.

That being said, I'd rather listen to Mandrill than either of the bands in question. Out of the three, Mandrill released the more stronger albums consistently than the others.

THEE! Ohio Players, 8dayz a week..


...twice on Saturday .

Players are much better IMHO. 1st concert I saw as a child, 2nd James Brown, 3rd Parliament, Funkadelic, Parlet, & Horny Horns. Believe it or not, before my teenage years in the 8os
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chuckaducci said:

[The N word is a racial slur. The moderators do not tolerate the N word in any form. You agreed to the rules of the org when you signed up - luv4u]

I know it was the 70s, but those clothes the Ohio Players were wearing.. they had to have been high to think that shit looked good

Ohio Players originators and Slave the imitators...nuff said.


Ohio Players influenced---EWF, Commordores, P-Funk, Barkays, Cameo the list goes on.....

There clothes are tight! That is funky as hell for that time period.

scriptgirl said:

It was slick for that time period. Just like the box hair cut and those
loud ass shiny suits new jackers were wearing in the 90's, people now
see that shit as


Both bands are tight as hell. Sorry can't choose.
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"Ohio Players" is one of my all time favourite bands.
Sugarfoot on the lead and Diamond on the drums
/peace Manki

I love both bands but i gotta say SLAVE wins out.The Players never released two lp's as tight as Stone Jam and Show Time.

babysinister said:

saaaaay whut!
Fire & Honey

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Guess you can tell by my avatar which one I'm goin' with....

All respect to the 'Players', because they were the Original blueprint for Midwest Monsterfunk, but they Never made me feel the way That Slave did-- that really raw funk--Everytime I hear Slide, Stone Jam, Just Freak, Never Get Away, Sizzlin Hot, Party Lites--My Jaw still drops.....and Mark Adam's basslines still make me stop what I'm doing, listen and groove....just my opinion.....

(btw, I Hate that Warner/Atlantic had all the Slave stuff removed from youtube)

















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What the hell? Why did Warner's do that and since when do they own Atlantic?