As music lovers, we may have come across 2 the understanding , of the many style of funk music. First you got the southern James Brown funk. Even though we know he's the father of soul, his style is very different from yet another legandary funkster George Clinton... While George Clinton was funking up one way, Sly (from sly & the family stone) put his own signature on this certain music genere.


So if I was a first time funk listner and didn't quit understand the orgins of funk, how would u desribe the differences.

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[This message was edited Sat Nov 8 6:02:42 PST 2003 by DigitalLisa]

Funksters, where are you? Wish I could help you there. I know it when I hear it but I haven't gone that deep with it. I just sit back and feel it.

I would say start with music history.

Jazz, James Brown, Sly and then George Clinton

James Brown came from the 50's rhythm n´blues
scéne with Little Richard,Louis Jordan & a very
gospelish influence.Raw dirty & sexy sound
developed with more & more complexed rhythms.
James worked a lot with rhythms,the bass & the drums.
Sly Stone on the other hand was of course like James
very influenced by the gospel & the blues,
artists like Ray Charles.
Sly also adapted the ongoing rock circuit going on at that
time,the flower power era & Jimi Hendrix.
George Clinton kinda developed his sound out of that
whole scéne,like a mixture of the James Brown funk
with the looseness off Sly & the Family Stone
but took it 2 another level,or another planet
with more spaced -out,freaky formula.
P-funk,uncut funk...the bomb!
/peace Manki

Wow, this is a hard question, Lisa, because I can only list the similarities in funk music. To me, it all lies in the 'base' guitar.

Just start with James Brown, Sly Stone and George Clinton and it will take you every where else.

You just have to dig back to around 56' for both JB and GC's origins though.


EVER FONK-N ON!!!

it's all about the rhythm section.



but then, that's what most popular music is about, so perhaps that's not the best way to describe the differentiations.

DigitalLisa said:

No. He's just one of its early progenitors. Soul was being performed before James Brown.