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Remember 70s Funk? Well, the Parliament/Funkadelic/Rubber Band Family have new CD/DVD out in record stores. The trio group whose Planet Earth Tour in the 70s/80s sold millions of albums over the years carving their niche are planning for a band together tour in the coming months featuring "Uncle" George Clinton and "Big Daddy" Bootsy Collins.
Check these albums out:
"Disco To Go"----Brides of Funkestein "Aqua Boogie"----Parliament "Bootzilla"------Rubber Band "Fantastic Voyage"---Lakeside "Bus Stop"----Fatback Band "Ain't We Funky"----- Brothers Johnson "Give it to Me"----Rick James and the Stone City Band "Don't Stop the Music"---- Yarbrough and Peoples "Love Clinic"-----Yarbrough and Peoples
I bin spinning da LP "One Nation Under A Groove" all day and da funk be knocking my head off.
Oh, they be talking about Jimmy Castor Bunch now touring with the teenagers. More funk to come.
What u got with da funk? Let's talk some funk. Earth Wind and Fire, Kool and the Gang, B.T. Express, Rose Royce etc., would they be classified as funk of da days?
___________________ Be Free Posts: 42 | From: Billings, MT. USA | Registered: Mar 2002
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Hmmm... Maurice White's Earth Wind & Fire and Robert "Kool" Bell's Kool and the Gang classified as funk? Me don't think so. Me watched da group play at National Theater, Iganmu in 1981 when James "J.T." Taylor was sex symbol of da group. Remember "Ladies Night" and "Celeberation?" They ain't no funk.
Yeah, Rose Royce "Car Wash" could be classified as funk though some say it's one of the soul classics of all time.
Bring down da funk, Da been around to know all da funk. I'm here.
___________________ THE MORE YOU LOOK THE LESS YOU SEE Posts: 566 | From: Sin City, Sin World | Registered: Mar 2001
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Harry Wayne Casey who founded K.C. & the Sunshine Band said he did da funk of da days with "Sound Your Funky Horn" and was top rated dance man erupting the disco fever. Ain't that funk, and if not funk, what was it?
___________________ Be Free Posts: 42 | From: Billings, MT. USA | Registered: Mar 2002
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K.C. and his buddy Richard Finch, the brains behind the commercial success of The Sunshine Band in the late seventies were cross overs. They were white folks who tried to play black music, though they did it with a huge success like Eminem's "commercial success" in rap and hip-hop. All Eminem touches is gold. Heard the 8 Mile soundtrack CD?
I would classify "Sound Your Funky Horn" from the album "Do It Good" as dance music with a little bit spice of funk.
But da funk of Bill Summers and the Summers Hit is funk, not pure funk. Spin "Call it what You Want" and see what da mean.
Bring more of da funk. I live here!
___________________ THE MORE YOU LOOK THE LESS YOU SEE Posts: 566 | From: Sin City, Sin World | Registered: Mar 2001
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You sure know da stuff and you're right. Bill Summers said "some people call it funk" but you said da Summer jam ain't no "pure funk." What is funk and pure funk? What difference do they make, and what category would James Brown's "Payback" and "It's Funky" fall in?
___________________ Be Free Posts: 42 | From: Billings, MT. USA | Registered: Mar 2002
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Funk is the music of dem days before Uncle Jam's Army arrived to recruit for the invasion forces under the commander, General George Clinton. With "One Nation Under a Groove" and "Uncle Jam Wants You," Pure Funk became a household name in da days of Funkadelic/Parliament/Rubber Band Family.
But more funk sprang up when Rick James formed the Mary Jane Girls who toured with James' Stone City Band all round the Summer of 1982.
James Brown's "Payback" is a soul classic. The best of Brown's projects, I would say. "It's Funky" was Brown's latest after a long sabbatical in showbizness. That ain't no funk but a "revolutionized" soul classic by the Godfather of Soul.
I need more of da puzzles and questions because I live here!Bring it on!
___________________ THE MORE YOU LOOK THE LESS YOU SEE Posts: 566 | From: Sin City, Sin World | Registered: Mar 2001
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There was rumor in da days that Prince discovered all members of Time and Andre Simone was Prince' younger brother but refused to join his band. What happened between Prince and Time? Was da jam of Prince funk?
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Dem guys from Minneapolis turned showbizness into something else. All dem hippies grew up emulating Prince because da bad boy Prince Roger Nelson played every instrument. "I Wanna Be Your Lover" made it on top of Billboard first week of its release. I been spinning da single for da old days all morning.
His "Purple Rain" still stands as the best selling motion picture soundtrack of all time. That brilliant movie featured Morris Day and Jerome Benton, including Prince' sidekicks Vanity and Apollonia.
Yeah, Time was only cool. All they did was cool. Their walk on The Avenue was cool. Their sessions in the recording studio was cool. Their eating was cool but I know Day's drug habbit wasn't cool which led to the break-up of the band.
Prince, Morris Day and Andre Simone looked alike one would assume they're sibblings. They are not. They were just friends until Morris Day, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis and Jerome Benton formed The Time and every dam thing around the Twin Cities became cool.
Even though da jam of Prince was hot in da days, it ain't no funk. Da funk stays alive with da General "Uncle" George Clinton.
People in da days been talking much about Brass Construction, Change, LTD, Shalamar, Dynasty, Teddy Pendergrass and Stephanie Mills, saying dem groups been around before da funk and Pure Funk of Uncle Clinton. And they be vtalking about Lakeside, Commodores and Fat Larry's Band.
Where are they now and why ain't them playing funk no more?
I wanna know what Lionel Richie has been up to lately and what happened to his marriage with beautiful wife Brenda Richie?
___________________ Be Free Posts: 42 | From: Billings, MT. USA | Registered: Mar 2002
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Da days of Brass Construction and co. was da era of da hippies after Woodstock. Brass Construction was an all brass band led by Randy Muller and then seventeen-year old Sandy Billups who played the congas.
But da groove was jamming, bro! Cuts like "Changing," and "Peeking" went platinum in its first week of release and henceforth became a household name. Later, Muller went solo and formed his own production company called Alligator Bite Him Production where younger artists began recording as rap music took the airwaves. Change had a couple of hits in the early eighties until Jacque Fred Petrus decided it was time to call it adios, amigo. Remember "Oh What A Night?" That was a real jam, not funk, though.
LTD (Love Truth and Devotion) disbanded when Jeffrey Osborne went solo. Osborne is still playing the night clubs and Vegas engagements.
Me be running outta time and ammo catch up with you later for more vibe on TP, Stephanie Mills and Phil Upchurch. Spin Upchurch's cut tonight and tell me about it. That's Pure Funk.
Who is Phil Upchurch? Never heard of him. I am now convinced you got it going on in showbizness. In Billings where I live, not much is mentioned about da funk of da days. We talk about popular culture and old-school, in other words oldies but goodies.
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Phil Upchurch was never a household name in da days of da funk but he played da role in Pure Funk playing alongside "Uncle" Clinton and da swinging days of Ohio native Bootsy Collins. Da bad boy made a couple of albums which is still in print.
Stephanie Mills sang with Teddy Pendergrass in da days before Pendergrass slammed his custom-made Rose Royce to a tree and got paralized ever since dem good old days. Mills, who once was married to Shalamar's Jeffrey Daniels plays the clubs and special gigs.
Da babe use to be my favorite and I been spinning "tantalizing Hot" all day.
It's good to have a big brother like you back. I hope your runnings was all good.
Yeah, dem days of Lakeside was really really funky. Da boys led by Fred Alexander had a smash hit "Fantastic Voyage" which was a huge commercial success and played for da homies back in motherland in 1982. That was a jam and me been spinning da LP "Fantastic Voyage" ever since da bad boy Alexander popped up. Da stuff was Pure Funk.
Da big cheezy Fat Larry and his band had only one album in the seventies. Da album "Down On The Avenue" was good, though it ain't no funk.
Da bad guys Commodores met on campus somewhere in Alabama. Dem all have college degrees. Very rare in music of da days. Dem make their buddy Anthony Carmichael dem road manager and producer.
When the most powerful lyricist Lionel Richie left the group for his solo career which turned out to be another commercial success, he was replaced by J.D. Nicholas and Walter "Clyde" Orange became the band leader. The group made one smash hit, "Night Shift" before they went down the hill. Lionel Richie made hits upon hits in his solo career and won many Grammys. "All Night Long" is my all time favorite but Commodores "Machine Gun" is the best project in the groups entire career.
He (Richie) MCeed the best Grammy Awards in history when Michael Jackson stole the show with 8-record awards including best rock song "Beat It." I think I like "Billie Jean" better.
But you know what? Da bad boy Richie smoked away $100 million on drugs and da beautiful babe Brenda said: "I'm through with you." You see what I mean!
What da know about Undisputed Truth, O'Jays, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, Paul Lawrence Jones, Ndugu Chancelor and Evelyn "Champaign" King? Da groove of da days be blow my brains. And how come da groove ain't happening these days of hip-hop?
___________________ Be Free Posts: 42 | From: Billings, MT. USA | Registered: Mar 2002
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You see, everything works according to the time. How many teenagers, the ticket sellouts, would attend Undisputed Truth concert or a concert by Evelyn King? None, I will tell you that. We are in the days of hip-hop, which means if you hang out with the teens you get paid. That's how it works in showbizness.
But da days of O'Jays was real bad. Dem O'Jays were my hero. However, the trio, Eddie Levert and his buddies popped up at The Sound of Philadelphia Records where they ran into writer-composer-producer duo of Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff who signed contracts to produce albums for Thom Bell, The O'Jays, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, Sharon Paige, Teddy Pendergrass and many more. How about that "Get Down, Get Funky, Get Loose" by TP? Too bad, nobody could replace TP.
Check out the following soul classics LPs from The Sound of Philadelphia Records:
"Ship Ahoy"----O'Jays
"Wake Up Everybody"----Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes featuring Teddy Pendergrass.
"Coast to Coast"-----Teddy Pendergrass
Oh, they have all been remastered and digitally waxed and produced on CDs and DVDs.
Hey man, ammo catch up with you later, me be running outta time. Pop it up, though. Pop it up, pop it up! I live here!
___________________ THE MORE YOU LOOK THE LESS YOU SEE Posts: 566 | From: Sin City, Sin World | Registered: Mar 2001
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You damn right! Nobody could replace Teddy Pendergrass, but me think da bad boy Luther Vandross and Kashif been make hits clos to TP. So who came close?
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Nobody came close to Teddy Pendergrass' high-pitch powerful lyrics.
But da big fella Luther Vandross was a jam and drove dem ladies crazy with da love songs. Heard "Power of Love?" That's some serious stuff and da album went platinum in the early 90s when hip-hop and rap was da groove.
Da heavy-set Kashif Salem be made some bad hits in da days of the 80s. Da bad boy, me, be spin da Kashif groove at Durbar Night Club with Pat Oke and Jacob Akinyemi Johnson in da good old days. Kashif was a jam, boy! Da music be gone underground as da homeboy be getting old, kind of. I been spinning da track "Lover Turns me On" by da bad boy Kashif.
Check it out and you will be glad you did. Now, bring da stuff on and raise da roof. Pop it up! Pop it up! "Music, music, music, makes you happy," remember that?
Ammo take you back to the fifties and sixties and see how dem days and da groove of Little Richard, James Brown and Otis Redding been doing compared to da grove and da days of Nelly, L.L. Cool J and hip-hop. Who started it all?
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___________________ Be Free Posts: 42 | From: Billings, MT. USA | Registered: Mar 2002
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You pop up like a studio rat. You really do if you know what I mean. You hang out in the studios remastering and mixing up, and raising the roof with the teenagers in the pubs, trying to be a hip in da big baggy pants and designer glasses.
And when you been dazed on the fast lane you turn your back and look for Mr. Funk. How can you be doing stuff like that? It ain't cool, man! I told ya, keep it flowing and pop it up.
Now da bad boy wanna take me back to the fifties and sixties, and wanna know about Little Richard, James Brown and Otis Redding to know how da play da rules with da days and compare to da groove and da days of Nelly, etc. Cool!
Ammo tell you one thing, Little Richard invented rock and roll which turned to soul and met rhythm and blues before da funk found da groove in da combination of Little Richard, then da groove popped up in James Brown's hands to Otis Redding before da grove jammed Pleasant Hill in Georgia where da bad boys belonged to the group "Upsetters."
Upsetters were the originators who made black music what it is today. As African Americans and blacks all around the world celeberate Black History Month, the root and success of black music tops the agenda of this remarkable yearly convention.
But Little Richard, though, left the Upsetters in the sixties to pursue a movie career in Hollywood, in which he encountered a lot of difficulties before a breakthrough. Otis Redding died in the sixties and in the late seventies his kids came in as The Reddings but only had a little success before rap and hip-hop exploded with the teens as the major market. James Brown is still hanging-in-there, running into trouble every now and then. He is cool, though. I respect him.
I wrote a litlle bit about Nelly sometime ago. He is a commercial success but still relies on old-school rhythms. Now you see why he is a good mixer. Would that be why you are one of the studio rats who hang out in the studios remastering and mixing 24/7?
Yeah, da life and da funk of da days is fast changing with what "Mr Diva" L.L. Cool J has been doing lately. Da bad boy Cool J be jamming with da new movie "Deliver Us From Eva."
Now pop it up, pop it up and stop being a studio rat. Bring on da groove, I live here!
That's too much to ask. The eighties was really deep in showbizness when the boys and the girls, men and women all gathered in what was called "Crowded House," to change the shape of things to come.
Did you watch the Grammy's last night? I think 23-year-old New York singing sensation Norah Jones deserves every award that she earned. Her style of music is totally different from hip-hop and rap but still a commercial success. You see what I mean!
Ammo catch up with you later to tell you more about the eighties. Too much stuff!
Yeah, I watched the Grammy Awards. The show ain't what it use to be anymore losing its originality. Norah Jones tied Alicia Keys and Lauryn Hill for most wins by a female artist and she won in every category where she was nominated. She is cool. I like her for the jazz stuff ditching hip-hop and rap.
Kick it! I wanna hear more about da funk of da eighties, The Jacksons and Debarge. Who was the magic of the funk revolution in the eighties?
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Eighties was da days of da bad boy jamming all the night clubs and hanging out with da hippies. Too much stuff, like I told you.
But ammo give you a hint of da bad days of da eighties. David Joseph thought he was a big shot and a new groove in town in the early to mid-eighties until the Boston area ghetto kids New Edition, London Reggae soul searchers Musical Youth, Jacque Fred Petrus' Change, the Fat Cherryl Lynn,Lisa Lisa, Stacey Lattisaw, Amanda Lear, Unlimited Touch, Leon Haywood and many other dance music revolutionaries changed the damn thing. Hits upon hits were made from Atlantic Records to Cassablanca Records, and from Epic to Motown, it was blasting out loud wherever you go in search of Pure Funk.
But family bands were doing their own stuff too. The Jacksons united and released the Victory album embarking on a world tour which sold out. Sisters Sledge's "We Are Family" became a national anthem and earned them a Grammy nomination. The Wilson Brothers known as the Gap Band dropped the bomb anywhere they showed up. The Isley Brothers went all the way and made hits upon hits. Motown's 25th Anniversary hosted by Richard Pryor was one of its kind when Michael Jackson took the microphone, tiptoed and started moonwalking.
But da bad boy ask: The Jacksons and Debarge, any parallel? Nope! Not even close. El Debarge tried though. Ammo tell you more about the "Eighties Jam," Berry Gordy and Motown but keep popping it up because I live here!
___________________ THE MORE YOU LOOK THE LESS YOU SEE Posts: 566 | From: Sin City, Sin World | Registered: Mar 2001
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You have analyzed music with sustained accuracy, wrote briefly reviewing the movies and the Oscars, established the Soccer Gazette for your readers, got a hilarious show but suprisingly I haven't seen you engage in politics which obviously is the happening arena of the messageboards. My question to you is: Why ain't da bad boy politicking?
Also, why is da music into da bad boy head? Henceforth, and politics aside, I rename you "The Sage." How about that?
Give me more eighty stuff!
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I salute you because you ask good questions and willing to know more of the eighty stuff. I respect that!
Da bad boy be know music with local ensembles and the Afrofunk king, the Chief Priest Fela Anikulapo Kuti. A great philosopher who feared no man. Like Fela who had humble beginnings, he flunked and ditched school, played the trumpet better than Miles Davis and became a legend. How about prophet Bob Marley? They ain't crack no books but great thinkers. But da bad boy ain't no legend, and that's about it, bro!
Da ask: "Why ain't da bad boy politicking?" Boy, that was a good one. My answer: Politics is a dangerous game and politics makes strange bedfellows. I ain't gonna get myself killed for a dime cuz I wanna live, live a long life. Check this out: Ednut "The Snake" supports APGA and wants Biafra and da politicians out there been hailing and wooing him to join the train. You see what I'm saying!
Da say "...politics aside, I rename you 'The Sage.'" Oh boy, da be flattering da bad boy or what? Seriously, I ain't got no brains but da bad boy know da rules to do da right thing and da music is da bad boy neigborhood.
Now stop da nosing around and give me some funk, not da Funkadelic and P. Funk, but da jam of da eighties cuz I been spinning Roger Troutman's "I Wanna Be Your Man" all day long.
Bring da funk alive because "the time has come to raise the roof and have some fun" if you know what I mean. Take care of yourself and hang-in-there cuz ammo catch up with you later.
What's happening? Sorry, I've been away for a while to catch up with my projects. But ammo try to close this chapter of funk stuff and concentrate on reviewing the movies and the Oscars that is less than a week away.
Berry Gordy! What about him? Well a great guy who founded Motown named after the Motor City. Motown was not only about black artists, white folks recorded there, too.
Yep, Gordy was the man! He fooled around with all dem ladies and catapulted Diana Ross to the top, cuz da bad girl Ross screwed everybody in Motown to get her ways. Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, Dennis Edwards, Michael Jackson, Pete Hoorelbeke, Norman Whitfield, Eddie "Bongo" Brown, Lionel Richie and every damn soul that made hits in Motown been hang out with da Miss Motown Diana Ross.
And why did Gordy say ammo play no more with Motown? Well, the nigga made so much money he needs a very long vacation.
Now go back to work and keep spinning da groove with da teenagers in the studios where you get paid.
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