I've been grooving to some KC and The Sunshine Band lately. These guys, in my opinion, do not get enough credit. They have got some pretty cool tunes and I think they were incredibly influential. I've really been digging some of the bass lines - often simple yet effective and dripping with booty shaking disco funk. The bassist was Richard Finch and he was co-founder with W.H. Casey. I'm curious about what genre most folks would lump the Sunshine Band into? I've always thought most would say disco, but after listening to the greatest hits album a lot lately, I really think of it as strait up funk music. Stylistically they remind me a lot of Bootsy's "The One Giveth, The Count Taketh Away" album. I suppose there was a fine line between disco and funk. I love the bass and the horns in both, that's for sure. Anybody else a fan of Richard Finch and/ or W.H. Casey?
