Bernie and Bootsy wrote a lot of the classics with George so it is
pretty telling not having them around. BUT... George was the mastermind
(Maggot Overlord) behind P-Funk nevertheless.
I've seen P-Funk twice- two or three years ago (Palladium) and again
around the beginning of the '90's (Ritz). Hampton is a great player
(bandleader?) esp. decked out in a diaper. Both shows clocked in at
over 3 hours- I was pretty f-ing exhausted at both and actually couldn't
make it through one of them. Great music, great show but from the clips
I've seen of the ol' P-Funk mob, they were clearly the better group.
Still, if you haven't witnessed them and you're curious, you really owe
it to yourself to check out P-Funk.
Favorite albums of theirs: Maggot Brain (Eddie Hazel's the man),
Standing on the Verge of Getting It On, One Nation Under A Groove.
Uncle Jam Wants You and Let's Take It To the Stage are worth hearing
too. Any compilation you can find of their early LP's is manna. I
remember two on Westbound from '75 and '77 and I'm sure there's some
CD's out there like that.
Did somebody say the TAGO MAGO was one of the greatest rock albums
ever? Give that man a cigar!!!
Jason
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Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 09:59:39 -0700
From: "Dave" <torturegarden@mailexcite.com>
Subject: Re: Re: Fripp thinks he is a god
>In a message dated 98-06-04 19:00:47 EDT, you write:
>
><< Noo real Zoen content, but I know a lot of list members like
> Fripp. I saw ProjeKct Two (Fripp, Belew, Gunn) and an announcement
> was made before the show that there was no smoking, recording devices,
> or cameras allowed. >>
>
>Dave, was this the Cleveland show on Tuesday? I considered going, but after
>hearing the Projekt 2 CD, I couldn't think of anything that left me
>more....unimpressed and opinionless. It did absolutely nothing at all for me.
>
Yeah, it was the Cleveland show on Tuesday. I liked it a lot. Lots of great improv and Belew looked like a kid with a brand new toy playing his V drum.
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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 12:10:01 -0500
From: fate@telepath.com (Jon Mooneyham)
Subject: Re: Recent George Clinton live shows
><<And how do you feel about "America Eats Its Young"? Just curious... I'm
>interested in investigating this one on a cursory examination...>>
>
>Never got much out of this one. It's the one early Funkadelic album that's a
>failure in my eyes.
AARRRGGGGH! NO! _America Eats Its Young_ was the first P-Funk I purchased -
it was in a cut-out bin for a buck at a TG&Y (ca. 1976), so I figured "what
th' fark"... and have never regretted it. While it doesn't have the
acid-fueled inspiration of _Maggot Brain_ or the sharp focus of _Cosmic
Slop_ (Eddie Hazel's kinda in retrograde for the whole 2 lp's), it features
a smoother facet of the Funkadelic jewel - you can read it in hindsight as
a prototype for the revised/revived Parliament that followed. Tons of
string arrangements and the briliant country-soul synthesis of "Biological
Speculation" - that pedal steel soaring over a shuffling funk groove
lacerated my teenage brain the first time I heard it - the album's still a
favorite from the P-Funk canon...
Jon M.
FATE, Discorporated
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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 13:14:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brent Burton <bburton@CapAccess.org>
Subject: Re: Pelt
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998 Nastifyer@aol.com wrote:
> Okay, can somebody tell me more about Pelt. Just theother day I saw their
> recordong listed in Forcedexposure and it said they were from the D.C. area. I
> live in the D.C. area and I never heard of them. Please, somebody tell me
> more. I'm very curious.
pelt is a great band. i've played on several bills with them, so i've
seen them in action quite a few times. they started out in richmond va.
playing noisey rock not too disparate from '80s style sonic youth. they
released a split 7inch with another richmond band, damn near red, before
morphing into a all-guitar trio. i'm not sure what happened to their
drummer, but their old bassist, joe lives in falls church now. for awhile
pelt were more of a blacksburg, va. band, with mike and jack both living in
down in appalachia. now, i think jack lives in philadelphia, mike lives
not too far from blacksburg and pat still lives in richmond. i'm not
sure why the vhf press release claimed they were a d.c. band. they can
hardly get shows here (although they were requested by thurston to open
for sonic youth here @ the 9:30 club in may).
sonically, the current band aspires to essential pure-sound touchstones like
glen branca, popol vuh and terry riley. amassed droning guitars and
tribal percussion.
b
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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 12:32:24 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph S. Zitt" <jzitt@humansystems.com>
Subject: Re: Pelt
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Brent Burton wrote:
> pelt is a great band. i've played on several bills with them, so i've
What and with whom do you play? It's good to se other DC musicians on the
list.
> sonically, the current band aspires to essential pure-sound touchstones like
> glen branca, popol vuh and terry riley. amassed droning guitars and
> tribal percussion.
This sounds worth looking into. Can you recommend any recordings?