HardcoreJollies said:

mrwiggles said:

modified said: To me, your insight is quite spot on. I also feel from a critical stand point a lot of press folks basically wrote The Dr off after How Late and simply don't want to be bothered with the new record. Not unlike the proverbial boy who cried wolf. He finally put out the real deal and now no one is listening.

Hate to say it but I believe once again there is the racial factor again. Name a white act with the kind of stature of Funkadelic/GC that has sold out stadiums, millions of records, critical acclaim, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, musicians' musicians, puts out a monumental album as their first release in 33 years(!), even 10 if you go back to How Late is impressive, and gets almost no attention?! They should be on equal footing as a band like Led Zeppelin and check how much ongoing attention they get if Jimmy Page so much as passes gas. Don't get me wrong, I love Zep too, but c'mon. Massive injustice happening here.

I see where you're coming from, but, regardless of its quality, this new 'Funkadelic' album is, to the outside world, viewed as more of a P-Funk All-Stars album, just now George has finally regained the rights to use the Funkadelic name.

If it had Bootsy, Bernie, Bigfoot Brailey, Horney Horns etc all heavily featured, then critics etc would be more likely to say it deserved to be called 'Funkadelic'.

Having said that, personally, I disregard all the other band names GC and co. have used down the years, be it Parliament, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Brides of Funkenstein, P-Funk All-Stars etc.

For me, if it's a mainly funk/ funk-rock based record that's led by George, Bootsy, Bernie, Fuzzy Haskins, Bigfoot Brailey (ie Mutiny), Billy Bass Nelson, Tawl Ross or Eddie Hazel (when he was around), either all together, or just one of them, eg. any Bootsy or Mutiny album, then to my mind it's a part of the Funkadelic discography. Funkadelic is one of the great band names of all time and it pretty much always suits the contents of the records these guys have made, either together or apart. I see the band as more of a loose collective with revolving leadership, though mainly led by GC.

So it's ALL Funkadelic to me .

[Edited 1/18/15 12:34pm]