Suzie Super Groupie, the third of his Westbound trilogy that was released in 2 years...

I heard When We Do first, of course, then I found Freeze and Suzie Super Groupie

and I like SSG the most, there is something about the tone of the album as a whole

that is so nostalgic of the late 70's.. and the songs are just catchy

I'm always humming the theme music from his "Junie" Suite

and "gimme that Super Groooupie" LOL or "Suzie Thundertuuuuussy".. LOL

the music from this thing is great.. especially the jazzy break in

"If You Love Him".. and the outro part for "Stone Face Joe"

my favorite is "What Am I Gonna Do"

I dig the album as a whole..

any fans of Junie, or of this album?

I got the feeling this dude gets love here

because he did the whole "one man band" thing

before Prince, but after Stevie...

this is a song from his 2nd LP Freeze that struck an

emotional chord within me one day:

and this one is plain funny (the intro)

"don't listen to them! buy me!"

ORG-marking this thread. Thanks mane.

Nice thread ...

I'm on a little buying spree, I have to search for this one. Right on Chris, this is alright.

Instrumental & song-writing genius (I love his stuff with Funkadelic). Vocally, those tracks above fall short. But I can get down with that music.

I almost came on myself when

I heard this for the first time:

immediately I recognized the part D'Angelo resang

for Common's "So Far To Go" from the Be album

and for the record, before I watched the Ohio Player's UNSUNG episode

I always thought Junie's voice belonged to Sugarfoot

controversy99 said:

Instrumental & song-writing genius (I love his stuff with Funkadelic). Vocally, those tracks above fall short. But I can get down with that music.

the first movement of this suite

(found on When We Do) reminds my hubby of The Wiz

I hear that part in my head ALL DAY sometimes!

thanx @Timothy, LBC, UncleGrandpa, & controversy

I knew others here would appreciate this dude!!!

ever since I saw that UNSUNG I been on the hunt

for his solo stuff... it's really hard to find!!! GOOD GAWD!

and I had to go through a tedious process

to get Freeze & SSG on CD.. but it was soooo worth it!

out of all my years of vinyl digging (dating back to the 80s)

I have NEVER run across either of his LPs...

well neither of the three Westbound ones

I'd KILL for a copy of Suzie Super Groupie

I think I'm gonna ask Santa for that this Christmas

HuMpThAnG said:

controversy99 said:

Instrumental & song-writing genius (I love his stuff with Funkadelic). Vocally, those tracks above fall short. But I can get down with that music.

THANX 4 POSTING!

I read somewhere that he was also responsible

for "Cholly" one of my FAVORITE p-funk tracks EVER!!!

Dude wasn't even 18 when he did "Pain" and "Funky Worm"...

I know he got paid off J Dilla's and D'Angelo's borrowing of him on "Tightrope".

LittleBLUECorvette said:

I wonder how him and Bernie felt about each other? Did they get along, butt heads?

yeah I would like to know myself..

so was his transition the following way?:

OHIO PLAYERS > SOLO WESTBOUND > P-FUNK?

I'm unclear about when he joined the p-funk camp

did they jack him from OP?

HuMpThAnG said:

THIS!!!!!!!!!!

love that record, love that song

I didn't discover Junie til

last quarter of 2011

so imagine my excitement right now

finding out he's contributed to

alot of my favorite songs!!!

Timmy84 said:

Dude wasn't even 18 when he did "Pain" and "Funky Worm"...

I know he got paid off J Dilla's and D'Angelo's borrowing of him on "Tightrope".

I'm listening to the Pain album right now

and wow.. .. I never owned this record

I will be looking for this!!!

DirtyChris said:

Timmy84 said:

Dude wasn't even 18 when he did "Pain" and "Funky Worm"...

I know he got paid off J Dilla's and D'Angelo's borrowing of him on "Tightrope".

I'm listening to the Pain album right now

and wow.. .. I never owned this record

I will be looking for this!!!

Yeah he was 16 when they recorded "Pain" (17 when "Pain" was a hit and led to them being on Soul Train) and 17 when he recorded "Funky Worm" (the latter song being a hit after he turned 18).

Brides Of Funkenstein with Joons

Cat lifted the Ohio Players to 'nother level. Glad that got memtioned at the Players' unsung ep.

"Super" was Joon's key word at moments lol.

Awesome to see him appear in the last-posted video, on George Clinton's Hall Of Fame induction, with his J.S. Theracon outfit @ 8:08

DirtyChris said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

I wonder how him and Bernie felt about each other? Did they get along, butt heads?

yeah I would like to know myself..

so was his transition the following way?:

OHIO PLAYERS > SOLO WESTBOUND > P-FUNK?

I'm unclear about when he joined the p-funk camp

did they jack him from OP?

Yeah, there might be somewhat of an explanation about that in either the OH Players' or George Clinton's unsung ep. During and after the P-Funk era he kept doing his own solo-thangs though.

I didn't know he was behind this ditty till recently,,,,

And this is one of my fave 'work out' songs from him,,,

Chris with a $ sign cut it out with the lurk mode already.

It seems that every maniac who couldn't be controled creatively, found solace in George Clinton's crew.

Ricky Vincent, author of the book "Funk", interviewed some members of Ohio Players, and they said that he(Junie) was TOO crazy to be among that bunch, that George Clinton would be the only natural employer who could let him raise hell anyway he wants. Reminds me of Bootsy Collins' scenario when he left the JBs.

Harlepolis said:

It seems that every maniac who couldn't be controled creatively, found solace in George Clinton's crew.

Ricky Vincent, author of the book "Funk", interviewed some members of Ohio Players, and they said that he(Junie) was TOO crazy to be among that bunch, that George Clinton would be the only natural employer who could let him raise hell anyway he wants. Reminds me of Bootsy Collins' scenario when he left the JBs.

what I would've given to be a part

of the P-Funk.. during any era..

Bootsy's UNSUNG was a great knowledge

of those times as well!

speaking of crazy & wild

who comes up with this?:

LMFAO

...

This the first Junie I ever heard...

When We Do

and the title tune of Motor Booty Affair was Pure Junie...

...

Awesome thread. We want the funk ... We got the funk!

Not ready for this thread to die just yet, this also needs a mention,,,

^ Nuttin' but the in me Joons loves to quack

Harlepolis said:

Not ready for this thread to die just yet, this also needs a mention,,,

thanx for posting... I fucking love it!!!

Shango said:

^ Nuttin' but the in me Joons loves to quack

found the first clip on youtube

after I read about the albums of the 80s

love the intro...

the 2nd clip I never heard

thanx for posting!!!