Not just one of the most talented guitarists to play with P-Funk, but one of the greatest guitarists of all time, Eddie Hazel’s explosively melodious style picked up right about where Hendrix left off and sealed a long-running reputation with his solo on 1971’s ‘Maggot Brain’. Uplift anthem ‘Love’s Now Is Forever’, empathy ballad ‘I Can See Myself in You’, and off-kilter come-on ‘Cookie Jar’ are highlights. But it’s less an all-star Mothership get-together than a classic-style late ’70s R&B record that gives Haskins’ gutsy vocals a spotlight to shine in. Though George Clinton had no songwriting or production credits on A Whole Nother Thang, it’s still heavy on P-Funk alumni (Bootsy Collins, Tiki Fulwood, Bernie Worrell, Cordell Mosson, and more). Singer Clarence “Fuzzy” Haskins was a Parliamentarian from their ’50s doo-wop beginnings, and had nearly twenty years under his belt by the time he cut his first solo record. Another strong reason? Early versions of later Funkadelic deep cuts like ‘This Broken Heart’ and ‘Baby I Owe You Something Good’, as well as super-heavy anthems like ‘Be What You Is’ and ‘Rat Kiss the Cat on the Naval’. One good reason for that: the presence of Garry Shider, lead vocalist and guitarist of United Soul at the time, who would soon become an integral part of P-Funk proper. This 2009 Westbound release of this 1971 side project/collaboration sounds deep in the spirit of the great psych-funk LPs like Cosmic Slop and Standing on the Verge of Getting It On that Funkadelic would be putting out a couple years after this rarity’s recording. Listen in the playlist above and scroll down to check out the records individually. So let’s shine some light on a few of the lesser-touted (but still spin-worthy) releases to get beamed down from the Mothership over the years, with a focus on some rarities, spinoffs, and releases from individual members of the band. At one point in the late 1970s, P-Funk actually had more side projects than most bands had actual new songs, and yet the braintrust still had enough in the tank to keep it all from running thin or feeling redundant. They were nothing if not productive, a collective that still let their individuality be felt when they were split into their component parts, or left to evolve on their own. That’s the thing about discographies of P-Funk’s size and caliber: picking out the gold is a lot trickier when there’s enough of it to throw your back out trying to carry it all.
the Placebo Syndrome and Computer Games and Stretchin’ Out in Bootsy’s Rubber Band and just about anything else to cross Dr. Of course, if you know that, then you probably also know about Maggot Brain and One Nation Under a Groove and Mothership Connection and Funkentelechy vs.
And while Clinton might be the largest-looming figure in the band’s public eye, just about anyone and everyone affiliated with them at some point in time had their own moments to shine – some of them in surprising ways. and Dam-Funk, Todd Rundgren and Toddy Tee, Sun Ra and Egyptian Lover – all in a decade’s work for a band that was as comfortable doing acid rock as they were pumping out electro.
They’re the kind of band that can bridge fans of Dinosaur Jr. Here are 10 of the best solo albums and rarities to get beamed down from the Mothership over the years.įew acts cover all walks of record-collector life quite like the musicians who, under the guidance of George Clinton, operated the Parliament-Funkadelic collective. George Clinton might take the spotlight but just about everyone in the Parliament-Funkadelic collective had their own moments to shine.
0 kommentar(er)
