For Funky Friday put your hands in the air for George Clinton & Parliament

[LynneSin]

YOU'VE GOT A REAL TYPE OF THING GOING DOWN, GETTIN' DOWN THERE'S A WHOLE LOT OF RHYTHM GOING ROUND



Let's give it up all your George Clinton/Parliament fans!!

[Archae]

1. Bow wow wow

Yipee yo yippee yay!

[davsand]

13. That Atomic Dawg is barking!!!

First time I heard that song I was riding around in a pickup truck full of smoke (don't ask and I will not tell) in boo-foo no-place--with a plastic cup full of cheap red wine. I've been a fan ever since.

I have a funny story about that song and my daughter from a more recent era.

When she was really little I'd play George Clinton in the car. She LOVED "The DOG Song" as she called it. Every time we went anywhere in the car she'd ask to hear it. Kevsand, who is pretty much a Dead-head, would just cringe while Material Girl and I just breezed and funked* away.

It still goes that way, really. I've been into Funk and Soul for years and it is looking like my daughter has picked up a fondness for it now, too. Poor Kev!



Laura

*Have you ever tried to explain to a kid that "Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet snorting some THC" is NOT the usual way that nursery rhyme goes???

:smoke:

[kwassa]

2. finally, a music thread for someone I care about!

Clinton gives major props to Sly Stone this morning in the Washington Post as being a huge influence.

Sly is scheduled to perform with the reunitied Family Stone at the Grammys this year.

[LynneSin]

4. Damn, I'm gonna have to watch the grammys this year

I'd love to see that!!

[Brewman_Jax]

3. We got the funk!

Start the party early! :woohoo:

Keep going, I gotta meeting with the boss at 10am.

[LynneSin]

5. Just for you sweetie!

[av8rdave]

6. What a band....

Saw them live in the late 70s....still going strong!

[Texasgal]

7. FLASHLIGHT!!!!

WOO HOO!!! :bounce:

[progmom]

8. Coming to you directly from the Mothership

Top of the Chocolate Milky Way, 500,000 kilowatts of P.Funk-power.
So kick back, dig, while we do it to you in your eardrums.




Make my funk the P.Funk
I want my funk uncut (make mine the P)
Make my funk the P.Funk
I wants to get funked up. (wants to get funked up)
I want the bomb,
I want the P.Funk (yeah)
I want my funk uncut. (make mine the P)
Make my funk the P.Funk
I wants to get funked up.

[Patiod]

9. Very sad story

Was getting ready for a PFunk concert with Laura, a friend of my SOs - the stage manager for the play he was doing.

I said "I'm so excited! I've been into George Clinton since 1979, and I've never seen him live!"

I looked at the expression on her face.

"You weren't born yet in 1979, were you Laura?"

:cry:

[SteppingRazor]

10. Ain't no party like a P-Funk party...

Cause a P-Funk Party don't stop!

Last time I saw them was on New Year's Eve 2004-05. Lots of booze and a touch of illicit substances. The funk was deep. :thumbsup:

[mikeytherat]

11. How 'bout a little love for Funkadelic???

Red-hot mama from Louisiana, thumbing her way to Savannah,
she'd been cooped up too long!

"There's nothing harder to stop than an idea whose time has come to pass; Funkadelic is wot time it is!"

mikey_the_rat

[ronnykmarshall]

21. One nation under the groove ...

gettin' down just fooooor the funk of it!

[xmas74]

12. Damn right I'm a George Clinton fan!

And the lyrics you put up-I had the perfect pic in mind but can't find it. It's the infamous "dance" scene in Slums of Beverly Hills between Natasha Lyonne and Marissa Tomei.

[LynneSin]

14. Best Movie for P-Funk/Clinton Fans: PCU

In order to raise money to save their house they somehow manage to get George Clinton and the P-fUnk All-Stars to play at their house party

:woohoo:

[xmas74]

19. That was a good movie.

Goofy, but good. I just always think of Parliment whenever I watche Slums of Beverly Hills. I can't help it-the girls dancing w/ a vibrator just makes me crack up!

[ET Awful]

15. So once my hands are in the air, should I or should I not

wave them like I just don't care?

[LynneSin]

17. If you're not waving them then maybe you should be in the Wayne Newton....

appreciation thread

:loveya:

[ET Awful]

18. I only ask because oftentimes when waving said appendages,

I have inadvertently spilled beer or other valuable liquids.

I just want to insure the safety and comfort of the other patrons. :P

[LynneSin]

20. But think about this

You're amongst hands in the air wavers like they just don't care. I think it's all relatively moot if you ask me!

[Shell Beau]

16. And the P-funk!!

I saw him in concert and my B/F got on stage with them! They were a riot!! :bounce:

[IA_Seth]

22. My favorite...

I once got to party with them in their bus (I was with a whole lot of girls)...let's just say it was pretty smokey!

One of my once-in-a-lifetime memories.