Wow, it was great to watch despite knowing about Dayton Ohio's influence on the Funk. I knew he'd give Prince love and that was nice too, but the Rick James Omission was a bit awkward. Like him or not he had his chapter and the effort lost something when he jumped from Parliament/EWF to Prince. Was Amir Thompson kissing up to Prince and George who was also not a fan of Slick Rick?. It kinda stunk like Isiah Thomas being left off the Dream Team, I didnt like him but he deserved to be there. I feel the same about Rick, i'm a Prince guy but you cant tell the story of Funk without RJ.

dreamshaman32 said:

Wow, it was great to watch despite knowing about Dayton Ohio's influence on the Funk. I knew he'd give Prince love and that was nice too, but the Rick James Omission was a bit awkward. Like him or not he had his chapter and the effort lost something when he jumped from Parliament/EWF to Prince. Was Amir Thompson kissing up to Prince and George who was also not a fan of Slick Rick?. It kinda stunk like Isiah Thomas being left off the Dream Team, I didnt like him but he deserved to be there. I feel the same about Rick, i'm a Prince guy but you cant tell the story of Funk without RJ.

I feel the same way, but I think it has to do with editing of the telecast of the documentary on VH1. I believe the documentary is 2 hours long, which will probably be released in full a couple months from now, and VH1 wanted 90 minutes to show. Out of that 90 minutes only 60 minutes of it was shown. They omitted Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, Curtis Mayfield, Jimi Hendrix to name a few.

it wasn't quest's doc. he was just the narrator. the doc was written and directed by nelson george

gotta admit the rick omission was a def head scratcher along with jimi, curtis, meters and chaka.

to me jimi had as much as an influence on the funk along with sly and james.

too much time spent on d'angelo if you ask me

.....aaaand rftw was from flint not detroit

good to see someone try and shed some light on a genre of music that's all but forgotten in 2014

this was the edited version, i will save my apollo boo's if none of the above are spotlighted in the unedited version.

yeah this was good

don't really get why D'Angelo was in it though

Sly is a vegetable

bashraka said:

dreamshaman32 said:

Wow, it was great to watch despite knowing about Dayton Ohio's influence on the Funk. I knew he'd give Prince love and that was nice too, but the Rick James Omission was a bit awkward. Like him or not he had his chapter and the effort lost something when he jumped from Parliament/EWF to Prince. Was Amir Thompson kissing up to Prince and George who was also not a fan of Slick Rick?. It kinda stunk like Isiah Thomas being left off the Dream Team, I didnt like him but he deserved to be there. I feel the same about Rick, i'm a Prince guy but you cant tell the story of Funk without RJ.

I feel the same way, but I think it has to do with editing of the telecast of the documentary on VH1. I believe the documentary is 2 hours long, which will probably be released in full a couple months from now, and VH1 wanted 90 minutes to show. Out of that 90 minutes only 60 minutes of it was shown. They omitted Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, Curtis Mayfield, Jimi Hendrix to name a few.

@bashraka ahhhh so true, i DVR'd it and had to FF through a ton of commercials. Maybe theres a DVD set with a lot more stuff in it. At the time it was glaring though, i love me some Steve Arrington but he could have gotten the ax if there was a Rick segment.

revolution75 said:

it wasn't quest's doc. he was just the narrator. the doc was written and directed by nelson george

gotta admit the rick omission was a def head scratcher along with jimi, curtis, meters and chaka.

to me jimi had as much as an influence on the funk along with sly and james.

too much time spent on d'angelo if you ask me

.....aaaand rftw was from flint not detroit

good to see someone try and shed some light on a genre of music that's all but forgotten in 2014

this was the edited version, i will save my apollo boo's if none of the above are spotlighted in the unedited version.

I'll wait then, but something tells me he wont be in the unedited because his contribution was so significant that people far less historically informed than Nelson George would remember. The Isiah Thomas Dream Team analogy goes as such, he did not belong on the team over Christain Laettner the college kid he belonged over John Stockton and Chris Mullin. He should have been like the 4th person you thought of due to resume. Rick James was the King of Punk/Funk, Prince did not go into the 80's thinking he had to knock George Clinton or Zapp off. Get your Boo's ready LOL

Street Songs alone is enough to put Rick in the funk Hall Of Fame. Throwin Down doesn't hurt his status either! Rick pushed boundaries and pointed the way forward for the brilliant Prince.

I agree with all of the above!!! There's a debate going on right now as to whether Rick was considered Funk...some say flat out no and he wasn't respected amongst us funkateers (ha), some say his funk was light (ha...again). Personal opinions aside, Rick has his place.

duplicate thread already posted

http://prince.org/msg/8/404980 Finding the Funk VH1 Documentary