Podcast: the author discusses his book

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George Clinton with his copy of the book

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Daniel Bedrosian, keyboardist and musical director for George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic, released his second book, “Make my Funk the P-Funk” on October 16. In it, the historian and musician, who has worked with Clinton and the collective for over two decades and is part of the group’s Third Generation, chronicles Parliament-Funkadelic’s “meteoric rise” in 1975 from cult-funkateers to influential household names. Through interviews and archival research, Bedrosian has compiled an illustration of the collective’s experience while developing and releasing Parliament’s “Chocolate City,” and Funkadelic’s “Let’s Take it to the Stage,” culminating in their landmark release “Mothership Connection,” which propelled the group to new heights of stardom with the single “Give Up the Funk.”

“I thought it would be not just a good idea to touch on all three albums — because the only way you can truly understand the platinum success of “Mothership Connection” is to see what George and them did right before that — but it’s also important to see the general paradigm shift of P-Funk as it stood in that specific time frame,” Bedrosian told the AmNews in an exclusive interview via Zoom from a tour stop in Honolulu, HI. “No year marks a better year for the paradigm shift that was happening in P-Funk than 1975 because you have the band in the first half of the year still riding in station wagons — they were sort of the underground darlings of the chitlin circuit,” Bedrosian explained, referencing a touring network for Black musicians in the segregated U.S. during the mid-1900s. “The term P-Funk hadn’t even been coined yet, and they were still very much trying to “make it” even though they had been a band by that point for almost 20 years.

since this book focuses on 1975,let's play a P funk jam from that particular year.

"No Head,No Backstage Pass" by Funkadelic (1975)

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btw...I just want to say that those Funknstuff podcasts are incredible! Go to youtube and subscribe.Lots of great interviews!! Scott Goldfine,you're doing a fantastic job!

for those who may buy this book as a Christmas gift...here's another little stocking stuffer you can add to it