most surreal moment of my life: hearing parliment in Borders book store and getting in to it, finally leaving the store.... George clinton gets out of a limo and walks past me. Yeah i died.
Disco sought to destroy the polyrhythms of Funk. Thank God for George Clinton. He confronted the disco movement head on. Disco was "rhythm" for the rhythmically challenged.
Well, you can take it negatively like that & pit one black genre against the other, a convenient, common divide & conquer trap...but Disco was not a sell out genre. Its an offshoot of the danceable base of Funk. Added influences of Classical, Blues and as you can hear in Sylvester a direct influence of Gospel. Think of the hi-hat as the handclaps you hear in Gospel and its an amazing revelation. To belittle Disco as just some commercialized, semi-homosexual genre is slightly ignorant.
the band was Parliament !!!
hell yes.
"weee want the funk, we've gonna have some funk !"
That performance is from the Capitol Center in Landover, Md., on 2/18/78.
The Love I Lost-Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes
thank you very much
most surreal moment of my life: hearing parliment in Borders book store and getting in to it, finally leaving the store.... George clinton gets out of a limo and walks past me. Yeah i died.
you're absolutely right
Disco sought to destroy the polyrhythms of Funk. Thank God for George Clinton. He confronted the disco movement head on. Disco was "rhythm" for the rhythmically challenged.
Yep. George was/is a genius but he can actually thank Disco for giving him and antithesis, a foil.
Funny how what's supposed to be new is actually rehashed James Brown.
what's the song at the 00:25+ anyone know?
Well, you can take it negatively like that & pit one black genre against the other, a convenient, common divide & conquer trap...but Disco was not a sell out genre. Its an offshoot of the danceable base of Funk. Added influences of Classical, Blues and as you can hear in Sylvester a direct influence of Gospel. Think of the hi-hat as the handclaps you hear in Gospel and its an amazing revelation. To belittle Disco as just some commercialized, semi-homosexual genre is slightly ignorant.
what's the song at the 00:25+ anyone know?