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Who Are the new funk bands?
- Thread starter Geddyfleaharris
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Yeah, Mingo Fishtrap is originally from Denton, but moved to Austin. One of my faves!
Oh, and here's my contribution - although it's not new funk. It's extremely old funk that very few people know about. Classic.
Let a Woman Be a Woman - Dyke and the Blazers
Unfortunately, Dyke died at an early age or everyone would know him as well as James Brown.
This is one of the funkiest songs I've ever heard.
Let a Woman Be a Woman - Dyke and the Blazers
Unfortunately, Dyke died at an early age or everyone would know him as well as James Brown.
This is one of the funkiest songs I've ever heard.
I love Lettuce and Soulive, but they are pretty jazzy. Some songs are true funk, but lots aren't, for me, a child of the 70's. Budos Band and Antibalas are some of my favorite bands, definitely worth checking out, but they are Afrobeat bands, not funk bands.
Karl Denson's Tiny Universe fits the bill, with some very tight writing. Stanton Moore solo, and his band Galactic are real funk, but of the New Orleans variety, although more straight ahead than the Meters. George Porter, Jr's projects are definitely funky, but again, more jam oriented, instrumental than the old school stuff.
Dumpstaphunk is plain old nasty, awesome stuff, but I can't really say their writing is top-notch. How many songs about screwing groupies is enough? John Scofield and Uberjam are really close, and some Medeski, Martin, and Wood, but they also come in on the jazz side of things. Some MMW is truly modern jazz, still funky but not funk at all. I think the closest thing to old school funk nowadays is the conscious hip-hop, with The Roots leading the way. The CD they did with John Legend is up there with "What's Going On?" for my money. But the PFunk was sorta like The Beatles - no one is ever going to be exactly like that again.
Karl Denson's Tiny Universe fits the bill, with some very tight writing. Stanton Moore solo, and his band Galactic are real funk, but of the New Orleans variety, although more straight ahead than the Meters. George Porter, Jr's projects are definitely funky, but again, more jam oriented, instrumental than the old school stuff.
Dumpstaphunk is plain old nasty, awesome stuff, but I can't really say their writing is top-notch. How many songs about screwing groupies is enough? John Scofield and Uberjam are really close, and some Medeski, Martin, and Wood, but they also come in on the jazz side of things. Some MMW is truly modern jazz, still funky but not funk at all. I think the closest thing to old school funk nowadays is the conscious hip-hop, with The Roots leading the way. The CD they did with John Legend is up there with "What's Going On?" for my money. But the PFunk was sorta like The Beatles - no one is ever going to be exactly like that again.
Well, to me there are lots of flavors of funk and just because it's jazzy or instrumental doesn't really disqualify it. But I dig what you're sayin' and agree with most of it.
I've had the same discussion with blues. Some will say if it isn't a black man playin an outta tune acoustic guitar on his front porch and singing along as he taps his foot, it ain't real blues. So I guess in every genre there are traditionalists and non-traditionalists. I prefer to leave the door open for variations but have no quarrel with those who like there's one particular way.
Apologies for the quick side comments. Let's get back to the good tunes!
I've had the same discussion with blues. Some will say if it isn't a black man playin an outta tune acoustic guitar on his front porch and singing along as he taps his foot, it ain't real blues. So I guess in every genre there are traditionalists and non-traditionalists. I prefer to leave the door open for variations but have no quarrel with those who like there's one particular way.
Apologies for the quick side comments. Let's get back to the good tunes!
KC Roberts and the Live Revolution. I think the bass player is a member here.
I think they are badass.
https://www.facebook.com/kcrobertsandtheliverevolution
I think they are badass.
https://www.facebook.com/kcrobertsandtheliverevolution
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Mammogram is down but I'm working manually
Let me add Breakestra. Miles is amazing as a bass player and front man. Seen them live a few times and the dance floor is always shakin. He may even be on TB for all I know. Humble guy the few times we chatted.
I'm right there with you, brother. There's a lot of 'funky' stuff to go around for sure. But straight up, old school, nasty funk is only being performed by the few bands still around from the 70's-80's funk movement. I like a lot of the bands mentioned but they are different. I dig Electro Deluxe and Snarky Puppy. Not really a fan of jam band type funk. I'm a traditionalist when it comes to my funk.
