Well, well, well, just putting myself together and getting ready for the show in a laid back manner. TNH is playing at Ahoy’s this weekend. It’s an easy run for me; 10 minutes from the Winnebago.
Anyhoo, I was just sitting here and thinking that we’ve touched on a lot of different stuff here in our little forum but, there is an area that has been neglected by the FNCMFPECDAA.
There are many similarities between tonight’s participants yet, the overall sheen of each is truly unique. Maybe not an overt part of the culture but, there bubbling under the surface as many have gone to the sample jar.
Tonight we have…….
Earth Wind & Fire or Parliament/Funkadelic?
And.. we’re all friends here so, I’d like to say that if you haven’t done so already, grab one of those free downloads of “Market Street” simply by clicking where it says “Download” in tiny little letters next to the tiny little picture of me in the ReverbNation music player located in the side bar.
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Tags: Ahoy's, FNCMFPECDAA, Free Download, Friday Night Cage Match/Fondue Party/Evolving Conversat, Winnebago
J wrote,
From the George Clinton Myspace:
The Godfather of Funk, “Dr. Funkenstein” George Clinton Bring’s The Doo-Wop Heat On His Brand New CD
GEORGE CLINTON AND HIS GANGSTERS OF LOVE.
The Tracks you can hear on My Space are the love sexy single “Ain’t That Peculiar” with Sly Stone, El Debarge, RonKat Spearman and Vassal Benford. Plus Pledging My Love and the funky “Heaven” with The RZA! (Other special guests include Carlos Santana, Kim Burrell, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Also on the CD are members of the P-Funk Allstars including Garry ‘Diaper Man’ Shider, Belita Woods, Kim Manning, Kendra Foster and more.
Available at Target Stores on September 16,
That’s got my attention!
I sure hope Sly is in better shape for this album than he was for the Grammys in 2006.
But I’ve been a EW&F fan for years. Gotta love those horns!
Earth, Wind and Fire.
Link | September 12th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Sans Direction wrote,
There is a movie. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Starring Peter Frampton and the Brothers Gibb as not the Beatles. Watch it, and you will see an argument that Lennon/McCartney are mawkish and talentless hacks.
I don’t believe that Lennon and McCartney are mawkish and talentless hacks. But if you watch this thing, you can’t avoid that argument.
There are a few exceptions, moments that allow the brilliance to shine through. Visually, Billy Preston’s “Get Back” is dumb, but the performance works. Aerosmith’s version of “Come Together” is really why I became the Aerosmith fan I have been for the last 30 years.
(Why are you telling me this, Sans?)
The third and most important is “Got To Get You Into My Life”, by Earth Wind and Fire.
I was forced to watch this dreadful thing at some point in the last five years. I forget when. But the EWF track was wonderful, and still sounded contemporary.
P-Funk brought the big rock show to black audiences. It gave us Eddie Hazel and Bernie Worrell. “Do Fries Go With That Shake?” Seeing P-Funk inspired the Talking Heads to write “Burning Down The House” and do the whole Stop Making Sense tour. “Bop Gun”. There ain’t no party like a P-Funk party ’cause a P-Funk party don’t stop, or, as Zappa would say, all tracks segue. And in the Live at Montreaux video, he had Lili Haydn play the Eddie Hazel part of “Maggot Brain”. There is no bad thing you can say about George Clinton, Parliament or Funkadelic.
But they never protected the songwriting pair of the century from the coke-addled denizens of the long plastic hallways.
Earth Wind and Fire.
Link | September 12th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
Oh, wow I thought you were talking about Hurricane Ike and Texas Politics.
But you are pointing to the Motown sound that evolves to Funk. And in 1967 Funkerator sound and ragamuffin looks connected those young children going ten thousand miles to wade in bloody rice paddies with a source that could explain WHy. “Yeah, man, that’s funkadelic!” A many of us stereotypical yoots could have been heard saying “Parliament; yeah parliament… caught that book.”
Mixing precision with less sartorial looks; BoomTown Houston still has a cold core Funkaholic fusion center… yep, no kidding. George Clinton and a Black Jesus are synonymous in that town. So, I am pretty much a Funkadelic hippie kid at heart, and too far gone to change.
Final Answer.
Link | September 12th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Pribek wrote,
Fascinating.
Of all the Fondue Parties we’ve done, I think that this one right here would be the most useful as a tool for psychological profiling.
Link | September 13th, 2008 at 1:10 am
J wrote,
You’re not working for the FBI, are you?
Link | September 13th, 2008 at 7:38 am
Pribek wrote,
Well, it took a while but you finally figured it out. Yeah, all of this is an extravagantly orchestrated front.
Link | September 13th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Marty McFly wrote,
they issued your Burn Notice… feets don’t fail you now
September 13: bush doctrine
A policy of preemptive strike, as proposed by President George W. Bush.
“My pants weren’t dirty yet, but I Bush Doctrined them and washed them anyway.”
“I’m going to Bush Doctrine this test, because I can’t study at the last minute.”
“If that asshat so much as looks at me again, I’m going to Bush Doctrine his face into the ground.”
comment on this definition
Link | September 13th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
Pribek wrote,
P-Funk fo me. I was fascinated by the comic artwork on the album covers first. I think I had about ten records from P F and the various spin-offs (Brides Of Funkenstein) there was always filler on those records. Probably because they were cranking out so many but, always one long instrumental w/Hendrix type guitar over massive crotch level groove.
Don’t take me wrong though, I got no beef with EWF; a fine fine sophisticated band. Guys in the college jazz band would say things like; ‘You got to hear this 13b9 chord with the 3 in the bass”. Can’t really argue with that.
Link | September 14th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Sans Direction wrote,
Any other day, any other competition, I would’ve gone with P-Funk. Ever notice that “Cosmic Slop” feels like it has a structure, but it’s two or three interchangable riffs above which the singer asserts structure? It feels like a song, but when you tear it down, it’s not. Which is it’s own kind of brilliant.
Link | September 14th, 2008 at 8:54 pm