The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 52, Ed. 1 Monday, December 13, 1976 Page: 10 of 24
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_THB BAYTOWN SUN Monday, Dscsmber U, 1»76
‘Funky’ Music Enjoying Its ‘Second Coming’ In The U.S.
are a wee bit ... pecu-
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) I that has its own brand oFblack
With its roots in the music of rock music, its own vocabulary,
Sly Stone and Jlmi Hendrix, its own view of the universe,
funk is enjoying its second jind enough weirdness to make
coming: - !.V- AJ|pe Cooper look like “Sesame
Groups from Earth, Wind A Street'"'•
Fire to the Brothers Johnson Consider a night at the opera
have combined strong drum- with the Parliament-Funkadel-
and-basi foundations, stinging lie, as have 10,000 to 15,000
guitar lines and spacey syn- [people a show -during the
thesizer playing into a pungent group's just-concluded two-
brew, which has submerged the month tour of the South,
la-la-la harmonies of the sweet-" The libretto is based on “The
ened Philiy Sound and has pro- Clones of Dr. Funkenstein” and
vided a meaty alternative to "Mothership Connection,” Par-
the sameness of disco. liament's two most recent al-
;e (in
Of all the funk bands, no-
body's brew is stronger — or
stranger - than that of the
Parliament-Funkadelic
amalgamation of two bands planet by friendly aliens in
bums. It chronicles the evolu-
tion of funk - soulfulness — on
earth. In the beginning, it
seems, funk was brought to this
their ‘ Mothership" UFOs. Too tour. Dr. Funkenstein operates
important to leave arourtd, it to restore mankind’s misused
way stored inside the pyramidsjfunk, and by show’s end the
“The Bomb' .- the millenial
return of the Mothership,
“Chocolate Cities” - black ur-
ban centers like Newark and
Washington. By the time the
band asks the audience to “tear
the roof off the sucker,!’ the an-
swering roar assures them thal
" lan-
show, a green-and-yel- dozen-plus musicians and sing-
low striped pyramid). ers are merrily "Funkin For
But you know how mankind Fun."
can be Sure enough, it misused A word <bouf mankind. As
the secrets df funk in finest So- played by the qpembers of the
dom-and-Gomorrah fashion. band, mankind's music is pung- they were speaking Its
TURN OF EVENTS ent, but mankind itself appears guage.
This turn of events looks like rather -Strange. Dressed in dia- - fact, the band currently
a job for Dr. Funkenstein. |Pers and leotards, as genies Lems to be speaking to quite a.
Played by George Clinton, the and w°lfmen, mankind winds |few people. “Mothership Con-
35-year-old founder, vocalist, UP looWng hke a cross between Lection" has sold one million
writer, producer and guiding “Star Trek and Sanford andk|[,ums arKj a unique con-
spirit of the Parhament-Funka-P00 tractual arrangement enables
delic. The good doctor climbs Mankind a la Parliament- the Parliament-Funkadelic to
out of a flying saucer designed Funkadelic speaks a tongue you have three albums simulta-
is on CaMblanca
Records “Hard-Core Jollies,"
just released, is Funkadelic’s
debut on Warner Brotheri
Records. “Tales of Kidd Funka-
delic" polishes off a contractual
obligation for Westbound
it Records.
by Jules Fisher, who created
the lotus-petal set used by the
might expect to hear over an neously on the charts for three
interplanetary CB radio. “P- different labels. "Clones,” Par-
Rolling Stones during their last funk" - the purest funk of all. Iliament’s follow-up to “Mother-
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balance of freedom
control.
'None of the guys are con-
tracted to the labels. The band
names are, and I just have to
deliver products under those
names. The individual n
[ben are contracted to Thing,
Inc.”
GONE FISHING
Speaking from Florida, where I Funk; funk-opera, Funkadel-
he'd gone fishing before the lie. The words led to a rookie’s
band’s January swing along the question: “What’s your defini-
East coast’s Chocolate Cities, tion of funk?”
Clinton explained the arrange- to attach a jgbel to
ment funk is near impossible. It’s a
“Parliament is a more vocal, mood, musically it can be a
stage-oriented, funk-opera type chant. It’s like trying to de-
thing. Funkadelic is| basically a Iscribe a certain kind of candy Motherships
bar. It’s indescribably de-
licious.”
"But why is it popular now?”| ’When you’re poor,
“Black is what’s happening
Richard Pryor is selling a mil
lion reconfc without beini
played on the radio. To me
Richard Pryor sounds typica
of everybody I grew up with
Civil rights, the whole freedom
thing has opened it up."
Parliament-Funkadelic has a
religious feeling to it. But Clin-
ton's religiousness has more to
do with cosmic oneness than
this earth’s religions.
And what does Clinton say to
those whoihink that chants and
and funk and
'be said,
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 52, Ed. 1 Monday, December 13, 1976, newspaper, December 13, 1976; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1103988/m1/10/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.