lmao I have this album. Love is on the one is a standout track on it

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WTF?

Who's Xavier? A tribute act? A pen name for George Clinton moonlighting outside his contract?

Wanna know the story behind this cut and whatever it has to do with the real P-Funk crew.

I like this interpolation of Work that Sucker to Death
with Big Daddy Kane and Lo-Key.

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Damn Andy...I'd forgotten about this. You just made me get up outta my chair and start gettin' down. I lurrrrvveee that song.

"Featuring George Clinton and Bootsy Collins"...and that's all I need to know.

phunkdaddy said:

Speakin' of BDK...I am sooooo at the "Freshfest" concert 2-5 here in Chi. Slick Rick, Doug E Fresh, Salt n Pepa, Whodini, Biz Markie, BDK, and I can't remember who else. Probably will not see them together again. I still have my ticket stub for the last time I saw them. Although LL, Eric B & Rakim, and the Fat Boys were there too...must have been 1990 when I last saw them together.

DakutiusMaximus said:

The Band "Xavier" was the brainchild of a guy Named Rahni P. Harris.

He also did production work for other bands, most notably the band "Dayton".

In 1981-82, Bootsy & George were embroiled in numerous contract disputes, hence their solo work & productions from the main P-Funk Mob was limited (hence George's line in the track "I thinks we's EMPLOYED").

It was also around this time that the first 12" from the P-Funk All-Stars.."Generator Pop" appeared (on "Hump Records" here in the States...credited to "Sly Clinton & George Stone). Hard to find today on vinyl....but a much longer mix than the version that later appeared on the All-Stars first album.

The collabo with Xavier is also what probably let to Bootsy's later cameo on Dayton's album "Hot Fun"....GREAT song called "Krackity Krack".

The basic link I always suspected was just an Ohio one: Dayton is the epicenter for MANY thangs funky.

Yes, it's one of those forgotten jams that monopolized radio doesn't want to touch. If it ain't something completely worn out, they will kick it to the curb. That's alright though because I'm pulling them from my stack, shaking the walls, and distubing the neighbors with them. I just hope the policeman that comes to my door is hot with a big nightstick.

JamFanHot said:

OK, thanks for that Jamfan... I knew there musta been some arcane story behind this record. Gotta love the org for gettin' behind the scenes shit. Amazing peeps in here.

From the first few seconds you could hear that there was a huge P-Funk influence happening although sonicly speaking it sounded like someone doing a very good cover.

Then you hear Bootsy's unmistakable (I think; more on that in a sec) voice come in and it's like WTF? It sounds like "them" but why is the artist listed as Xavier and how come the sonics don't quite have the same production value standards as a real P-Funk record?

You see, I was one of the ones that got fooled by Bootsy when he released his collabo laden Play With Bootsy disc and there was someone singing and playing on a couple of cuts who sounded 99% like Prince referred to as "One."

I knew it didn't sound exactly like P but I wrote it off to the fact that this being Bootsy's record, P didn't have production control over the sonics.

That's the same way I felt about this Xavier record... it sure sounded like the real P-Funk gang but it wasn't zackly the right quality of sound to be a real P-Funk record.

There are enough tribute acts touring out there that sound very much like the real artists. I thought, "Damn? Is there a P-Funk unit working out there that I didn't know about? Now that would be some shit to pull that off!"

Here are the Bootsy with "One" cuts that had me fooled:




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I have this song on one of my 'Phat Jams' compilation CDs Do you guys remember those CDs? I wish Rhino Records would continue that series.There are alot of jams that could be included on future volumes.