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Some old pimp shh...

Category: Music
Posted on: October 14, 2007 6:27 PM, by Mo

Here's another of my favourite bands - Funkadelic, playing I Got a Thing (1970). The perfect acoustic accompaniment to pink Cadillacs and full-length fur coats, this could well be the funkiest film footage ever recorded. (And that is a blue Ku Klux Klan outfit he's wearing.)

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#1

The best part is that they were going to follow that with Bobby Sherman.

Little did they suspect in those days that funk was actually a nonrenewable resource, and that George Clinton was overexploiting it at an unsustainable rate, leaving later generations to experience only a relatively funkless pop music.

Posted by: Moopheus | October 14, 2007 7:06 PM

#2

The best part is that they were going to follow that with Bobby Sherman.

Of course, in the early 70s, they didn't realize that funk was a nonrenewable resource, and that George Clinton was using it up at an unsustainable rate, leaving later generations of pop music without a viable source.

Posted by: Moopheus | October 14, 2007 8:01 PM

#3

I can't help but look at this posting, in which you invoke the word "pimp" and write about, "pink Cadillacs and full-length fur coats," in the context of your post of about a week ago entitled "Reel Bad Arabs".

Posted by: Alan | October 15, 2007 1:00 AM

#4

Where did some of the brain damage come from?

James Brown, the Stones, and Jimmy Hendricks germinated a mandatory preposterous presentation.

Many of the stylized youngsters are practicing law now.

Or juggling finance and/or words.

Peeyar and upward mobility.

Johnny Cochran had "style."

Shock and awe is style.

Posted by: gerald spezio | October 15, 2007 6:13 AM

#5

Heh, this made me miss my band days. I don't think funk is particularly interesting to listen to, but it's really fun to play.

Posted by: Johan | October 15, 2007 3:39 PM

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