George Clinton & Parliament as well as Funkadelic-their status in music history

[UltimateBeeGeesFan]

With classics like We Want the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker), Not Just Knee Deep (with a lyrics like "something about the music, it got into my pants" is pretty funny as well as true) and many others, it seems like this one-of-a-kind band is just that-one of a kind.
Any George Clinton & Parliament and Funkadelic fans want to elaborate.

[boogyjuice]

Yeah, the P-Funk is a mighty force in the musical universe. George who started as a doowopping haircutter combined with his talent all these
musicians to an experimental, galactical funkfusion. Around the 90's, Prince had the priveledge to annouce their induction for the Hall Of Fame.
Though i'm still sceptictical about the jury of the HOF at times ... some long-overdue artists still haven't been credited yet...oh well.
Footage of P&F's induction used to be on Youtube, so i'll compensate that by posting fave P-jams of mine (side-projects and
influenced/related artists included), as a salute to Doctor Funkenstein, Sir Nose, Starchyle, Casper (who?), etc...:

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Dailymotion - George Clinton.Quickie [Live Washington D.C.1984], a video from capitainfunkk. CAPTAINFUNKonTheRADIO, SoulFunk

[KBallenger53]

With classics like We Want the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker), Not Just Knee Deep (with a lyrics like "something about the music, it got into my pants" is pretty funny as well as true) and many others, it seems like this one-of-a-kind band is just that-one of a kind.
Any George Clinton & Parliament and Funkadelic fans want to elaborate.

I sure do Bee Gees!!! I went to see them back in '77. I was 17 at the time. They were playing at Madison Square Garden. Of course you could feel the electricty in the air before the show even started! Then all of a sudden the lights go dark, a spot light hits the stage, smoke fills up the stage, then all of a sudden a space ship, lands on the stage, the door of the space ship opens, and out comes, George Clinton himself looking scary as hell!!!

And he's just standing there, the audience is going wild, but George is just standing there. After about 15 minutes, everybody just gets quiet, you can hear the crickets in the Garden, then George Clinton finally moves, he reaches inside his pocket, pulls out a joint and lights it up!!! BUT, not knowing to us, up in the ceiling, was a HUGE NET!!! When Clinton lit the joint, the net opened, and nothing but joints rained down upon us!!!

And believe me, it was some of the best stuff I ever smoked!!! Then he went straight into: "GOOD EVENING, DO NOT ATTEMPT TO ADJUST YOUR RADIO, THERE IS NOTHING WRONG. WE HAVE TAKEN MOMENTARY CONTROL WITH P-FUNK, UNCUT FUNK, THE BOMB"!!! And we went nuts!!! "THE DESIRED EFFECT IS WHAT YOU GET, FUNK CAN'T ONLY MOVE, IT CAN RE-MOVE, DIG? ONCE UP A TIME CALLED NOW!!! SOMEONE ASKED ME IF THERE WAS LIFE AFTER DEATH, I SAID, IS 7-UP???"

Clinton was a very deep cat, if you can understand what in the hell he's trying to say!!! But whenever you get the chance, take the time to read the little comic strips on the backs of the albums, THEY'LL BLOW YO' MIND!!! Especially the one about the ATTACK OF THE DOO DOO CHASERS!!!

'NUFF SAID

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LL, KBallenger53
Great story

[KBallenger53]

LL, KBallenger53
Great story

You should've been there Boogyjuice, I remember it just like it was yesterday!!! As a matter of fact, Rick James used to do the same thing!!! But I've never been to any of his concerts!!!'NUFF SAID

[boogyjuice]

You should've been there Boogyjuice, I remember it just like it was yesterday!!! As a matter of fact, Rick James used to do the same thing!!! But I've never been to any of his concerts!!!'NUFF SAID

Heheh, i can imagine. I've visited some P-Funk gigs though, but not during the heydays, unfortunately. Yeah, a buddy of
mine had somewhat a same experience when seeing P&F live around that same 70s-era, minus the net with blunt-treats, lol.
Slick Rick had indeed giant ganja-joints and maryjanes walking onstage, hahaha. Wish i had a good scanner, then i could post
those photos from a tourbook which i bought a few years ago on eBay. I'll see if i can find that cool pic of him where he's
standing smoking behind a triangle screen on the front of the stage and which he's about to pop through at any second.
That's a snaphot from his Coldblooded Tour. I think that John Pyro Watkins (his tour pyro-fx technician) took that shot.