Where'd you get your Funk from?

[SanDiegoHarry]

The '70s - where else?

 

[Brother Goose]

Found this cassette when I was coming up... Used to jam along with it out in the barn after feeding the cows... I remember my amazement in recognizing my P-Bass sound JUST LIKE THE RECORD!



Here is Baby Goose from the same era (mid 90's) with the amazing Jeremy Flower (google this MF- he has toured the world playing in avante-garde orchestras) and Papa doing his Jerry Springer-meets-Jimmy Hendrix thing...

I'm so grateful what the Funk has provided and hope that this thread will inspire some of ya'll!

 

[Brother Goose]

Best thread in weeks. Growing up in Cincinnati, funk probably wasn't started here, but it sure settled here for awhile thanks to THE MAN from Augusta, Ga. who came here in the 50's and stayed a long while. King Records was and is a national treasure. Of course, The Isley Bros., too. Bootsey was 17, and his brother Catfish was 19 when they joined JB, both just local cats. Funk is in your blood if you were in Cincy back then.

Like this.....

Hell yes!

Here is my favorite "side hustle" by the Brothers Collins...



Post JB but Pre-P

Ladies and Gentleman, here are your Houseguests!

 

[Brother Goose]

The '70s - where else?

All of those bikini babes and California sunshine didn't hurt either!

We're working hard in the MW and NE trying to sweat these babes out of their parkas and moon boots!

 

[Alexis Duntov]

This pretty much all day.

 

[Carl Hillman]

Try as you might, you can't avoid the funk.



The funk WILL find you and funk you up until you feel good.

 

[ilansgroove]

Don't know if anyone shared that ....
But that's as funky as it is simple

 

[ilansgroove]

And a personal favorite

 

[Brother Goose]

I got no funk, never have.

Sounds like you need to come to the 'Cuse!

 

[skwee]

Got mine from the Ohio River Valley I guess, just like Bootsy!

 

[Brother Goose]

And a personal favorite

Love me some Fred! This is favorite family song!

 

[someguyfromNC]

I started with both Thunder Thumbs and Flea

 

[squidtastic]

This. First time I really recognized the funk!

That was my JAM! Not really remembered as much as Parliament's other big '70s-era hits, but it was just completely my s**t!

My other Parliament jam from this era was Aqua Boogie:


And of course, this Funkadelic classic:


Worrell was a wizard.

 

[squidtastic]

Interestingly, one of Bootsy's funkiest lines ever, IMO, was this one... where he does not follow his funk formula (at least not in the verse) -- he plays the "uh" before one and avoids the downbeat of the measure altogether. He decidedly hits the downbeats in the bridge -- probably felt like he had to have his formula in there somewhere .

 

[squidtastic]

And one of my all-time fave tracks:

(You can tell how much all funkateers were into Bootsy at this time. All of 'em were imitating Bootsy's voice.)

 

[squidtastic]

I really could do this all day..

Honey From The Jar!! That is such a JAM. The other monster track from that album was Ready Or Not:


And I have a soft spot for Back In Love. "Something To Love" was the first album I ever bought .

 

[peledog]

What got me started? The beauty of music is when you find out who influenced who, the rabbit hole never ends.

This song probably kick started my funk journey:







Which led me to:





and this:






and this:








and deeper still:

 

[noeinstein]

Tuning into Happy Harold's House of Blues on some low power AM station from Fowler, CA in 1962. Then James Brown Live at the Apollo blew me away in 1963, still does. From then on, everything had to be funky.

 

[Count Bassie]

James Brown. Great and extensive catalog. Dig "Mother Popcorn".

 

[Medicine Man]

I was brainwashed at a young age by sesame street's 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 do do do do, do do,do do do.