Funkadelic
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Parliament: Live: The P-Funk Earth Tour
Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 11 June 1977
"THEY SAY the bigger the headache the bigger the pill!" Dr. Funkenstein shouts. ...
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Interview by Cliff White, Rock's Backpages Audio, June 1978
Bootsy takes us back to Cincinnati in 1968, and he and brother Phelps' band the Pacesetters; from there it's to James Brown and 'Sex Machine'; then via the House Guests it's on to George Clinton and P-Funk: America Eats Its Young and Cosmic Slop; his Space Bass; forming the Rubber Band; new Funkadelic album One Nation Under a Groove; producing Roger Troutman; the people who make up P-Funk, including Bernie Worrell, and on current black music.
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Funkadelic: Free Your Mind (Westbound 2001)
Review by Vernon Gibbs, Columbia Daily Spectator, 2 December 1970
Funkadelic's Music Whispers of Madness ...
Profile by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 2 April 1971
IT'S RARE that a tour by an American R&B group can cause controversy that makes headlines in the more general pop music papers. But that's ...
Report by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 3 April 1971
FUNKADELIC, THE American group banned by London's Royal Albert Hall, have now been banned from the Strand Lyceum. Promoter John Sullivan — offered Funkadelic by ...
Funkadelic: It's Just To Get People's Attention
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 8 May 1971
EVER since Keith Emerson set fire to an American flag on the stage of London's Royal Albert Hall, the banning of groups from that particular ...
Parliament/Funkadelic: A Parliafunkadelicment Thang
Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 14 May 1971
RARELY DOES an R&B act cause any controversy or speculation prior to making a British tour. But the one exception in recent years is Funkadelic, ...
Funkadelic: The Speakeasy/The Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 15 May 1971
Fun with Funkadelic ...
Funkadelic: When The Circus Hit Town
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 5 June 1971
FUNKADELIC man George Clinton casually made the understatement of the year. There they were, the five front men of the year's most outrageous band, dressed ...
The Black-Latin-Jazz-Rock-Vocal Bands
Profile by Vernon Gibbs, Soul Sounds, November 1972
THERE SEEMS to be a definite increase of interest among young Black and Third World musicians, who are either not technically equipped or deeply enough ...
Marking Time with Funkadelic — an interview with George Clinton
Interview by Vernon Gibbs, Soul Sounds, July 1973
THERE IS a hard core of demented maniacs who force their way into people's apartments, with wild looks in their eyes. Usually they can be ...
Black 'Woodstock': A Violent Fiasco
Report by Vernon Gibbs, New Musical Express, 1 September 1973
IT COULD have been the biggest event of the summer. For many of us trapped in the iron heart of the city, it promised to ...
Overview by Tony Cummings, Black Music, April 1974
IN A HAPPIER world, pigeon-holes would be strictly for pigeons. Yet the fact remains that terms like "R and B" and "Soul" are no longer ...
Report by Vernon Gibbs, The Village Voice, 5 September 1974
LAST WEEK, Rare Earth punked out of a gig at the Apollo, a rare honor for which Mick Jagger might conceivably give up eyeshadow. The ...
Ohio Players, Graham Central Station, Funkadelic: Radio City Music Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Vernon Gibbs, The Village Voice, 24 February 1975
Progressive Soul: Where Were You? ...
Ohio Players, Graham Centra! Station, Parliament-Funkadelic: Radio City Music Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Wayne Robins, Rolling Stone, 27 March 1975
ONLY TWO weeks after Sly Stone scaled his decline by falling on his face at Radio City Music Hall, two of his most popular heirs ...
Parliament-Funkadelic: Mothership Connection
Review by Joe McEwen, Rolling Stone, 25 March 1976
WITH THE "Parliafunkadelicment thang", leader George Clinton has succeeded in creating two distinct identities for one band—the mystical voodoo of the Funkadelics and the stabbing, ...
Countdown on Parliament, from launchpad to mothership connection... We have lift-off!
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 29 June 1976
An intergalactic communication from Space Commander George Clinton aboard the starship Parliafunkadelicment... ...
It's a PARLIAFUNKADELIC-BOOTSYMENT THANG!!
Interview by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 21 August 1976
"THERE'S a lot of chocolate cities around. We got Newark, we got Gary, somebody told me we got L.A. And we're working on Atlanta. But ...
Review by Joe McEwen, The Village Voice, 25 October 1976
Parliament-Funkadelic: Bummer in the City ...
The Bizarre World of George Clinton (Parliament/Funkadelic Drop The Funk-Bomb On America)
Interview by Joe Nick Patoski, Phonograph Record, December 1976
NEW ORLEANS — Maintaining two separate personalities and record labels for his band Parliament/Funkadelic has been an act of schizophrenic genius on the part of ...
Funkadelic: Tales of Kidd Funkadelic
Review by Joe McEwen, Rolling Stone, 16 December 1976
WHAT YOU SEE ON Funkadelic album covers is what the band is about: "THE SABER-TOOTH, SLIPPERY TONGUED & MOST NASTIC MAU-MAU BOOTYBUSTERS OF NOXIOUS NEEGROW ...
Parliament/Funkadelic: Municipal Auditorium, New Orleans
Live Review by Wayne Robins, Rolling Stone, 30 December 1976
A GOLD PYRAMID glitters onstage. Light beams, like giant mutant insect eyes, stare down at the audience. Musicians dressed for a Halloween party in some ...
Funkadelic: Hardcore Jollies/Parliament: The Clones Of Funkenstein
Review by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 12 February 1977
In the last 12 months no less than eight albums have escaped from this mind-bending menagerie and yet only one (Parliament's Mothership Connection on Casablanca) ...
Underneath Apparent Mindlessness Lurks Astonishing Musicianship
Comment by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 19 February 1977
LOUIS JOHNSON, bass-playing Brother of that ilk, was quoted in a recent Downbeat on the subject of his favourite bassists: "Stanley Clarke... is the baddest ...
Scifi Funkiness: Triple Threat Guitar From Funkadelic
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, December 1977
ALMOST 20 YEARS AGO, a group of singers organized themselves from a rather large barbershop group into a pop/soul conglomeration called Parliament. They moved from ...
The Creation of Dr Funkenstein
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 7 January 1978
The scene: Maggotropolis, Hollywood. The target: the infamous Mr. GEORGE CLINTON High Priest of a Black Unholy Trinity. Enter a reporter clutching a clove of ...
Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 23 May 1978
After nearly twenty years together under the able guidance of Mr. George Clinton, Parliament and Funkadelic and associated entities have finally begun to receive the ...
Parliament/Funkadelic, Mother's Finest: Capitol Center, Landover MD
Live Review by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 23 May 1978
Parliament tear the roof off Washington ...
Funkadelic: The Noble Art of Rhythm'n'Biz
Profile and Interview by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 18 November 1978
WARNER Brothers' New York Office on East 54th is only two blocks across and three up from the Taft Hotel on West 51st; close enough ...
P-Funk: Free Your Mind — Your Accountant Will Follow
Report and Interview by Vivien Goldman, Melody Maker, 25 November 1978
Pretty soon, the whole Parliafunkadelicment troupe arrives in Britain — led by their founder, the black surrealist George Clinton. VIVIEN GOLDMAN witnessed Clinton's Clones on ...
Parliament Funkadelic: Watch Out The Mothership Is Coming
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 5 December 1978
Beware, Britain – the Mothership is coming! George Clinton and those extra-terrestial beings, Parliament-Funkadelic, are about to descend on to your cities. It will be ...
Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 9 December 1978
Systems of resonance ...
Parliament/Funkadelic/Parlet/Brides Of Funkenstein: Bellevue Kings Hall, Manchester
Live Review by Mick Middles, Sounds, 16 December 1978
THE WORLD funk extravaganza circus comes to Manchester. ...
P-Funk: Mike Hampton – Kid Funkadelic
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 19 December 1978
REPRESENTING the younger generation of Funkadelicans is Mike Hampton, a long-haired extrovert who plays perhaps the meanest guitar within our musical sphere. "I am not ...
The George Clinton Interview: Part 2
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 19 December 1978
Coinciding with the arrival of the whole Parliafunk-adelicment entourage in Britain for concert dates, B&S concludes its exclusive interview with the mastermind of the whole ...
Parliament/Funkadelic/Parlet/Brides Of Funkenstein: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 23 December 1978
THE "MOTHERSHIP" arrives. Everybody gets on out of it and has a "party". And I dance. And slump. And dance and slump. ...
Report and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Unicorn Times, May 1979
GARY SHIDER and Mike Hampton held the stage at the Capital Centre in the fiercest rock'n'roll guitar duet in any local hall recently. Shider's fingers ...
The P-Funk Noo Doo Crew: the Man with the Key to Funk
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 7 April 1981
George Clinton takes the lid off R&B... Rhythm and Business, that is! ...
Parliament-Funkadelic: The Ritz, New York NY
Live Review by Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, 30 May 1981
P-FUNK DO FOR the modern funk show what The Grateful Dead did to the rock show in the late '60s. They alter the time frame ...
Whites Are Missing Good Rock By Blacks
Overview by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore Sun, 15 November 1981
IF YOU LISTEN to Baltimore's album-oriented rock (AOR) radio stations or any of dozens of similar stations around the country, you're unlikely to hear any ...
George Clinton: Computer Games (Capitol)
Review by Lloyd Bradley, New Musical Express, 11 December 1982
A GEORGE Clinton solo album? Not a bit of it. Right down to Pedro Bell's quirkily barbed sleeve artwork, this is a Funkadelic record. The ...
George Clinton: The Mad Professor
Interview by Paolo Hewitt, Melody Maker, 8 January 1983
Paolo Hewitt gets funked by GEORGE CLINTON. ...
George Clinton: Fried Brains To Go
Interview by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 19 April 1986
"GEORGE WILL be with you in a minute, he's just playing with a raygun." (Clintonesque PR person). ...
Bootsy Collins Effects the Funk
Interview by Gene Santoro, Musician, May 1991
Scouting bass hyperspace, speaking without words ...
The Jazzy Funkateers: Life after James Brown and P-Funk
Report and Interview by Hank Bordowitz, American Visions, Winter 1993
AS THE SEVEN musicians on the stage at Tramps in New York launch into a instrumental version of 'Cold Sweat', six hundred voices in the ...
Retrospective and Interview by Frank Broughton, i-D, February 1994
PARLIAMENT-FUNKADELIC, P-Funk, The P -- Specially designed afronauts capable of funketizing entire galaxies. Their mothership long ago made its terrestrial connection and they are amongst ...
The Story Of The Funk: George Clinton
Retrospective and Interview by Peter Murphy, Hot Press, 1996
IN THE BEGINNING was the word, and the word was Funk. Deep in the prehistoric bog, two microbes rubbed together, caused some friction, got frisky ...
George Clinton: The P-Father of P-Funk
Retrospective by Sean O'Hagan, The Guardian, 23 December 1999
Who was pop's greatest showman? Sean O'Hagan has no hesitation in picking George Clinton. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Martin Herron, unpublished, 2001
'SEX MACHINE'; 'Superbad'; 'One Nation Under A Groove'; 'Tear The Roof Of Tha Sucker' – Bootsy Collins' bass is the foundation stone of the House ...
Review by Richard Gehr, Blender, August 2002
George Clinton's freaky crew in its late '70s prime. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Lloyd Bradley, MOJO, October 2003
In 1963 George Clinton took a first step toward funk overlordship. He shut his East Coast barbershop and flew to Motown. Lloyd Bradley finds out ...
Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove
Review by Daryl Easlea, bbc.co.uk, 2013
So high you can't still get over it. ...
Comment by Michael A. Gonzales, Ebony, 24 July 2013
MICHAEL A. GONZALES REFLECTS ON P-FUNK, THE OHIO PLAYERS, EARTH WIND & FIRE, ETC. AND WONDERS WHERE THE FUNK HAVE ALL THE FUNK GROUPS GONE? ...
George Clinton: "I was born in a lavatory, so I have a legitimate claim on the funk"
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, The Guardian, 23 January 2014
HELLO GEORGE. First things first: what are you wearing? I got my suit on, baby. I like to change things up every now and then. So ...
see also George Clinton
see also Bootsy Collins
see also Bernie Worrell
see also Junie Morrison
see also Sweat Band, The
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