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10-25-2011, 12:49 PM
|  | lover of all things groovin, player of many basses | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Metro-Boston North Showahhh | | | RHCP are not FUNK!!!
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Call me an ol fuddy-duddy, but I've seen a few too many references to contemporary music as FUNK and I honestly have to disagree whole-heartedly!!! Funky, sure anyone can be funky but The Funk, not so much... |
10-25-2011, 12:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | | RHCP used to bring the funk a lot more than they have the last 20 years....that said, sure it was white bread party funk rock, but it was still fun and funky. Then Keidis went and thought himself "deep and profound" and along came Under the Bridge and that tripe. Been on a downhill slide since uplift mofo party plan, but Mother's Milk had its share of brilliance, as did BSSM.
Funky Crime: that is funk.
Californication; not on your life.
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10-25-2011, 12:53 PM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | They do got a three in there don't they?
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10-25-2011, 12:53 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Arizona | | | I agree.
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10-25-2011, 01:04 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Kohlman Bassworks | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Hampton Roads, Virginia | | | Many are misinformed! That is why I started the Funk 101 thread! |
10-25-2011, 01:06 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Gravity Picks | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Ohio/West Virginia | | | Well, for my generation, we take what we can.. and when RHCP is the closest thing to mainstream we have for funk, we take it.
Now, if other kids my age knew who Jamiroquai, the RH Factor, etc., were, maybe we'd have a better chance. Sadly, you're average 18-25 year old doesn't know who Parliament is.
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10-25-2011, 01:10 PM
|  | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | | Genres, schmenres.
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10-25-2011, 01:15 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Carvin,Modulus, Hotwire & Conklin Basses, Eden Amps | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Nashville,TN | | | I dunno-I'm an Old Guy who first saw Larry Graham with Sly and cut my teeth playing Ohio Players, Stevie Wonder, Earth, Wind and Fire and O'Jays covers in clubs and bands where I was the only skinny little white kid back in early 1970s Ft. Worth, TX.
I like these guys. We opened for them back in the late 80s and they were sure Punk Rock with Funk overtones. They're funky like Hendrix was, they "keep the Rock Funky and the Funk Rockin'" to paraphrase Michael Jackson.
Now, let's get kids off the MPC samplers and turntables and back on instruments like my new Fave Stephen "Thundercat" Bruner and we'll get these youngsters groovin' to the Real Deal.... |
10-25-2011, 01:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Michigan | | | I'll agree with you on that... especially lately. They turned into a boring, formulaic band.
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10-25-2011, 01:20 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Pittsburgh, PA | | | Used to be funky. Now just crappy.
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10-25-2011, 01:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Phalex They do got a three in there don't they? |
"Breaking The Girl" is in 3. 
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10-25-2011, 01:21 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Denver | | | On a similar thread a while back, someone (not me) posted that they are "a band with a hip-hop singer, a funky bass player, a rock drummer, and various guitarists."
Whomever that was, please take credit - I think it sums it up. |
10-25-2011, 01:24 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Louisiana | | | Didn't they have an album or two produced by George Clinton?
I'd not want to disagree with him on funk.... |
10-25-2011, 02:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Ventura, California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by hover RHCP used to bring the funk a lot more than they have the last 20 years....that said, sure it was white bread party funk rock, but it was still fun and funky. Then Keidis went and thought himself "deep and profound" and along came Under the Bridge and that tripe. Been on a downhill slide since uplift mofo party plan, but Mother's Milk had its share of brilliance, as did BSSM.
Funky Crime: that is funk.
Californication; not on your life. | "Funky Crime" is sorta funky, but if that's as funky as they get, well... they ain't a funky band by a long shot. Funk really has a subtlety to it that I've never really heard in the RHCP. Not funky, but some really great stuff that doesn't happen to be funky.
I've heard this argument over and over... They're a damn fine rock band with some great songs. That's where I leave it. |
10-25-2011, 02:24 PM
| | lover of all things groovin, player of many basses | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Metro-Boston North Showahhh | | | Well not to pile on RHCP, I actually like them and consider them to be Funky as hell but not THE FUNK.. Full disclosure, I don't consider myself to be "The Funk" even if I'm copping Larry Graham note for note.. I do consider the Sly album "Fresh" to be the pinnacle of Funk as well as "Back on the Right Track", some Ohio Players, some Funkadelic, some excerpts of P-Funk... I've heard of plenty funky music from RHCP to Michael Jackson that was funky like a bow-legged monkey, but still not THE FUNK.. |
10-25-2011, 02:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Ubersheist "Funky Crime" is sorta funky, but if that's as funky as they get, well... they ain't a funky band by a long shot. | We'll agree to disagree, I know it's not "funk" funk, but that album had the stank all over it. Pivotal album for them, defined them better than any other, imo.
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10-25-2011, 02:32 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: JaxBch, Fl | | | Who said they were funk?
The old stuff was funky.... yes.
But Lettuce THE funk band nowdays!
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10-25-2011, 02:35 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: S.E. Connecticut, USA | | | Flea is a legit cloned funkateer. He could hold down the bass for P funk no doubt. The rest not so much.
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10-25-2011, 03:00 PM
|  | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | I don't know if this is funk, but I'd say it's funky(disclaimer- potty-mouth  ): Red Hot Chili Peppers - Special Secret Song Inside - YouTube
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10-25-2011, 03:10 PM
| | lover of all things groovin, player of many basses | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Metro-Boston North Showahhh | | I'll raise you Larry Graham with SLY on "IN TIME" off Fresh.. THE FUNK!!! | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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