George Clinton: Life lessons from a funked-up superstar
huckmagazine.com
huckmagazine.com
This video gets removed from YouTube from time to time I guess due to copyright but someone always puts it back up.
Maybe some people will find it off-topic. But, talk about hacking the music scene...
Somewhat OT and different genre, but a couple of years ago, archive.org put effort into onlining especially early Hip Hop recordings.
https://archive.org/details/hiphopmixtapes
My (white, suburban) roommate was into this, big time. I didn't get it, although funk just reached down inside me and grabbed something, when I heard it.
Years, decades later, the story is finally getting to me without the contemporary cultural reprobation. (I've come to find the reprobation and its sources perhaps more false and damaging, than the [choose your own pejorative adjectives] genre and culture, itself.)
It sounds childlike crazy but the subtle and deep groove these guys delivered is of a rare grade.
I also had Motor Booty Affair on vinyl, and the photo of the back cover reminds me of staring at that album sleeve while listening to the record and thinking, "OK, only drugs could have inspired that."
This was nice to read.
I did work with someone who bumped into George Clinton once when he was in town to see Prince. He had nothing but good things to say about the encounter, but it was long enough ago that I can't remember any particulars.
Our company mascot was the Atomic Dog.
Ain't That Peculiar feat. Sly Stone, El Debarge & the P-Funk All Stars
What a powerful and simple rule. I wonder how it works at scale, but makes so much sense in that industry.