P-Funk - biography
Funkenstein," from The Clones of Dr.The titular "clones" are the Children of Productions whose job is to ensure that everyone is on the One.Big Bang Theory, which reveals that the Funk caused the creation of the universe, though the only legible clue is the etheral backing vocal line, "So we the clones were designed."The Funk is described on the very first song ("Mommy, What's a Funkadelic?"It is explicitly ascribed to the titular junkie in "Super Stupid," who has "lost the fight" with fear.Other songs on the album advocate universal love, peace, and brotherhood, and war is explicitly compared to insanity in "Back In Our Minds."The album ends on an apocalyptic note with "Wars of Armageddon," in which the sound of a crying baby can be taken as a direct reference to the speech at the beginning of the title track: "Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time, for y'all have knocked her up."Their mission is to rescue dance music from the doldrums (unFunkiness).Here's a guide to the whole confusing situation.Generally, Parliament released the most accessible music, mostly
limited to funk and soul, usually with horns and almost no heavy
guitar or guitar solos.George had told the record company he would be
using, for example once Bootsy Collins was signed to Warner Bros.The Name Is Bootsy, Baby!George Clinton:
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What's Bootsy Doin'?Martins Griffin, 1996
(chapter 18: the metaphysics of the p: the mothership connection
IS A MUST READ!!George provides commentary on artists ranging from Sly Stone, Miles Davis, Sun Ra, Slapbak, Chambers Brothers, Eminem, and Mystikal.Check it out and let us know what cha think?Where did dat FUNK come from?FUNK BOMB, here is just a little "taste" of FUNK to hold ya for now !!!....To what heaven, to what Nirvana did it aim?Perhaps, but this mudra goes farther back than that.In yoga, this posture of the fingers is held in stillness to channel Chi into the body through the arms and into the chakras.Funk doesn't have to be heard because the aural music is only a physical manifestation of the yet deeper, noumenal galactic vibe, which is always felt by one whose receptors are tuned to Channel One.Let's supppose for a moment that the Mothership returns metaphorically to the motherland, to Africa.This repatriation theme dovetails nicely with a semiotic breakdown of the dual meaning of "funk".Mothership, the smell that leaves us "standing on the verge of gettin' it on."Gene Simmons was still playing air guitar in his mother's bathroom mirror.George in full funkateer regalia, dripping in feathers and ermine, ready to rise from the dead and do it to you in your earhole.Ling the Panda to China.Funk seemed to believe that music wasn't so much something that you made with your instruments as it was something that you caught with them, as if funk was out there in the form of an ambient residual energy left over from the big bang.It was as if their basses and horns were finely tuned, specialized antennae dialing into cosmic leftovers."One nation under a groove, gettin' down just for the funk of it."Being "On The One" means never having to call your choreographer, because he would only mess things up."The One" channeled through the band's antennae and onto the dance floor.Funk had the essence of religion when disco did not.By coming to jam along, you were taking sacrament, not stage.Soul is a joint rolled in toilet paper...And this is why disco was so often soulless: it didn't stink!Sure there is sex in disco, but it is nude, not naked, without clothes, but never exposed.It relies on the veneer of soaps on the body as much as it relies musically on the whitewashed veneer of danceability.Colonel Tom wiped Elvis' forehead after each song; the sweat was there because Elvis worked, to be sure, but its presence was denied in the classic Victorian tradition by way of its immediate elimination from the stage."Funky Woman": "She threw them in the air (funky woman), the air said this ain't fair!Let's illuminate the point further with an analogy to biker consciousness.Disco sacrifices the pulse of the earth, a pulse which stinks of life, in exchange for the efficiency of the drum machine or the metronomic drummer.Funky music smells funky because it is a secretion, and not a form of logic.D, to save a dyin' world from its funkless fate.On the Eighth Day, the Cosmic Strumpet of Mother Nature was spawned to envelope this Third Planet in FUNKADELICAL VIBRATIONS.As it came to be, he did indeed begat FUNKADELIC to restore Order Within the Universe.Mother Nature gave us the funk because she loves us, and here is where Clinton and Nietzsche rub booties."The concept of FUNKATIZATION was declared a Universal Law by Mother Nature, and therefore exempt from control by the Forces of Good, and those of Evil" (Clinton).For the truth is the way, and Funkadelic is verily the truth!The ass thou pimpest shall be your own!If Clinton sounds some kind of intergalactic messenger, or a prophet sent to us from the beyond, or a reincarnated shaman, that's because he is.And he's not the first to visit upon us a similar wisdom.Funk takes the material America has to offer and turns it inside out.Another child has half of its skull lopped off.Thou maketh me to sell dope to small children...For I am high, loaded, and all those other goodies...They go on with the Good God Big Buck."In a paeon to the plight of the psychically brutalized veteran returning from Vietnam, "March to the Witch's Castle" describes the nightmare of readjustment after the happiest day in 13 years (Feb.This was not a hyperbolically extended metaphor, but a direct and piercing picture of what was."Yeah, they're still calling it the White House, but that's a temporary condition too," and suggestions on how to fill the new cabinet: "Mr.If Funkateers were running Chocolate City ("Hey, we didn't get our 40 acres and a mule, but we did get you, C.Watergate and Vietnam never have happened?But, before our strength...Naturally, the hero is awarded when "The Cosmic Strumpet of Funkadelia gazed uponst my sweaty bod with arduous satisfaction."The video has been added to your playlist.This video will appear on your blog shortly.Thank you for sharing your concerns.Thank you for flagging this video.Content of this nature is not necessarily prohibited on YouTube, however we will review this video and take action as appropriate.Thank you for sharing your concerns.Maaaan you should hear the way they bust with this on PfUNK earth tour album ....Needless to say i'm funky til i die.Would you like to comment?After making your selection, copy and paste the embed code above.
