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Funk is ending up like the Blues
- Thread starter Dr. Cheese
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Case in pointMe too. In fact, I discovered a lot of jazz and funk through 80s and early 90s hip-hop and I know there are a lot of people from my generation who worked their way backwards from hip-hop into music of the 60s and 70s. It was one of the fun things about "golden age" hip-hop: finding out the origins of the samples and digging into the sources. That doesn't happen as much with contemporary hip-hop because sampling is done much more sparingly. That's not such a bad thing in and of itself but the result is often that we get to see just how devoid of musical ideas so many hip-hop producers are when they don't have a sample to lean on.
Some of you guys might me down with this.
Any fans of William Onyeabor? Super slick stuff right here!
Any fans of William Onyeabor? Super slick stuff right here!
I'm not hearing too much of "Gun" in there but I am hearing a lot of Donny Hathaway's "The Ghetto".
There ya go. Too many bourbons. I knew it was somewhere though. Ha! What would I do without you.
I see the Funky Thread is still going. If you can listen to this from beginning to end, you got the Funk!
*/flashback Talkbass circa 1970 any Led Zeppelin video.....another rip by a rock band. All of you know where that song came from? ( my favorite blues band)
*/flashback Talkbass circa 1970 any Led Zeppelin video.....another rip by a rock band. All of you know where that song came from? ( my favorite blues band)
Did Zep do a ton of verbatim covers and a bunch of sampling?
Get the Funk Out of My Face by the rap guy is pretty much a verbatim (and rapped up) rendition of The Brothers Johnson original. I guess to his credit, at least it's not a duped sample in that video like the Good Times thing.
Should have watched (at least) the first 20 seconds of the video before commenting. He performed this in front of the producer and co-writer of the original track, Quincy Jones; he recorded this version for an album of Quincy's.
I guess that's great if you're into rap. But for me, well I won't go off... let me just say it can't even get into the same universe as Louis and the boy's original. Not. Even. Close.
And I guess this video might bring up a good time to comment on "white" funk (from earlier in the thread). Check the drummer out. If that isn't funky enough... well, skin color is clouding reason.
Also, check Louis' solo out. Lot's of folks assumed he only knew how to slap the **** out of his bass. But there is a kicking, amazing finger-funk (at least some of it) solo for the doubters.
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I didn't say you have to like it. But calling it a "rip", given the context, seems awfully strange.
Go watch Bootsy Showing us "How to Funk" on Youtube, then come back and listen to the video's posted here.
It's not "funking" for me much here. They are good musicians - of course, but I don't feels it.
It's not "funking" for me much here. They are good musicians - of course, but I don't feels it.
mmmm....mmmmm.....mmmmm.......funkity, slappity goodness. Thats FUNK!! .....well slap style anyhow. Paul Jackson and Rocco Prestia have other ideas which we will call ALSO GOOD.
Wow, I just want to say to everyone posting these funk videos that I haven't had so much enjoyment from a news thread in a long time. SOoo much "Feel Good" here! Thank you all for posting these amazing performances from these wonderful artists. All I can say is keep em coming!!!!
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