In their original incarnation they had one of the best guitarists alive in Eddie Hazel, their keyboard player Bernie Worrell was a pioneer of electronic instruments and an arranger of genius, and their rhythm section wrote the book on funk-rock in 1969.
George Clinton's lyrics and aphorisms were spiritual, political and just plain nastay. This was the man who coined the phrase 'free your mind and your ass will follow', for goodness' sake. Big gospelised choirs, heavy funk, and an acre of Hendrix.
They did an album a year for 10 years at the same time as...
Parliament.
Who had the same musicians as Funkadelic but were signed to a different record label, and a completely different, less guitar-orientated sound, funky as HADES, equally as political and spiritual but with more emphasis on the nether regions. On the Mothership Connection tour, George Clinton would step out of a 'life-size' UFO that would fly onto the stage; it was supposed to be practically a religious experience.
I think that 'Maggot Brain', 'Funkadelic' and 'The Mothership Connection' are some of the best albums ever recorded, and that this group isn't in those Q Magazine Top Tens every time is frankly weird if you ask me.
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....my personal favorite...for my wedding, my wife and i did our first dance to "I've Been Watching You (Move Your Sexy Body)"...dang, why she married me is still a mystery to me....looking back now i should have picked "Getten' to Know You " as it is so beautiful and sweet...but i was young and i like the sexy, nasty funk of "move your sexy body" better...good god, what were her parents thinking when we started slow dancing to that song :eek:
(it has the great line...."you would like you too, if you knew, the way you move your sexy body")
....my personal favorite...for my wedding, my wife and i did our first dance to "I've Been Watching You (Move Your Sexy Body)"</strong><hr></blockquote>
This makes you one of the coolest people I have never met.
If I do this at my wedding, as I now intend, I'll know I actually made it as a cool human adult being.
you have my blessing....but throw in "gettin to know you" at the wedding too...it is much more romantic...."i've been watching you" is all about the sex...which is nice too...g
X Amazing live. Incredible musicians. Great singing duo. And great songwriting. But they hardly ever got the recognition they deserved. Yes, I saw the original band...'79-80...somewhere around there...god i'm old... <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" />
In their original incarnation they had one of the best guitarists alive in Eddie Hazel, their keyboard player Bernie Worrell was a pioneer of electronic instruments and an arranger of genius, and their rhythm section wrote the book on funk-rock in 1969...</strong><hr></blockquote>
If you like to hear some cool Bernie Worrell stuff get Further Network's OSX's P2P software and search for Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains! It's Bernie Worrell, Les Claypool and Buckethead jamming at last year's Bonnaroo Festival. Almost 2 hours of funky jamming goodness.
ok artman, one more story you old man...i saw X live and it was a really strange show...they were the opening act to the premiere of the movie "decline of the western civilization"...or some damn movie about the punk scene...it must have been about 1981 ish...i don't remember it well because i was sitting next to this biker guy who said, hey, you want a qualude? i said sure, chased it with a couple of beers and that was that...saw half of X and kept nodding in and out of the band and the movie...thankfully my friends took me home...i think the biker guy was dissappointed though...that could've been messy...just what i need for these boards would be a "waking up to biker rape" story...luckily thegelding doesn't have one of those to share....yet :eek:
g
billy zoom, john doe, Exene Cervenka...great names, even better music...john and exene's vocal were magical, billy's guitar was intense yet beautiful....g
Speaking of great band member names...what about 'Lux Interior' & 'Poison Ivy Rorschach'? Another of the truly great bands that never got 'huge'. Heck, I've still got Psychedelic Jungle and Songs The Lord Taught Us within arms reach. Great stuff.
I have good news for you. Leeb and Fulber are ganging up on the next (and the last) FLA album, and Rhys is helping with some tracks for the next Delerium CD with Bill too.
<strong>..for my wedding, my wife and i did our first dance to "I've Been Watching You (Move Your Sexy Body)"...dang, why she married me is still a mystery to me....looking back now
<strong>Speaking of great band member names...what about 'Lux Interior' & 'Poison Ivy Rorschach'? Another of the truly great bands that never got 'huge'. Heck, I've still got Psychedelic Jungle and Songs The Lord Taught Us within arms reach. Great stuff.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Ah, The Cramps. Here I go again...in college I brought Psychedelic Jungle to parties and people would freak out when they heard it..."Who IS that!"...'The Cramps'...."Awesome!". Well, when they were to appear at Trenton City Gardens we collected enough money to rent a school bus, driver and 20 of us to ge see the show. Another legendary Artman experience....
Oh and G...I saw X at the Long March Jazz Academy...formerly an old bank building with a huge atrium/balcony around the stage...now called The Arts Bank right on Broad St. here in Philly. They were the only act as far as I remember....
Another band that I wish had had more recognition....Altered Images...I honestly don't believe they were a one hit (Happy Birthday) wonder. Not as creepy looking as Siousxie...but lyrically...and a cute singer to boot.
Another....Au Pairs...this can go on forever...millions of them!
And another thing to the younger set here. Try to find Decline of the Western Civilization (1 NOT 2). It really shows how these post-punk bands (Green Day, Blink 182, Papa Roach et al) are pussies compared to the Circle Jerks and Fear. And X's performance in it is one of the most incredible accounts of the emerging punk rock scene musically ever recorded.
/gets off his old school punk soapbox... <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" />
...oh, and to all those Butthole Surfer, NIN and Ministry fans...check out Flipper, Chrome and Tuxedo Moon...nobody did it better....well maybe Pere Ubu or The Residents....Somebody stop me, I'm breaking out my URGH! A MUSIC WAR cassettes!
Don't mean to be mean, but they are just recycled Stones circa 1973, with a tad of Aerosmith and touch of (oh shiit, the name escapes me . . . you know, typical midwest pick-up drivin style metal band with bandanas and tatoos and pushed up sleeves and long hair . . . um, did 'sweet babe of mine'?!?!?!)
anyway . . .pretty much second order as far as I can tell</strong><hr></blockquote>
You mean "Guns and Roses"? Bon Jovi? I get the idea.
I agree that there was some recycling with The Crowes, but they also put a good spin to it. Same with Georgia Satellites and Dan Baird. Good writing. Good hooks. That Stones rehash sound isn't as easy to pull off as one would think.
<strong>...oh, and to all those Butthole Surfer, NIN and Ministry fans...check out Flipper, Chrome and Tuxedo Moon...nobody did it better....well maybe Pere Ubu or The Residents....Somebody stop me, I'm breaking out my URGH! A MUSIC WAR cassettes!
[ 03-01-2003: Message edited by: Artman @_@ ]</strong><hr></blockquote>I saw Flipper . . . it was a great show . . . and man, I was and am a HUGE fan of theirs
You mean "Guns and Roses"? Bon Jovi? I get the idea.
I agree that there was some recycling with The Crowes, but they also put a good spin to it. Same with Georgia Satellites and Dan Baird. Good writing. Good hooks. That Stones rehash sound isn't as easy to pull off as one would think.</strong><hr></blockquote>Yeah maybe . . .but, in my mind, its not about the difficulty its about the sense of creativity that I get from the music
Difficulty would discount half the bands that I mentioned . . . except, with some of them (Hose, Flipper) its about how difficult it is to play so incompetently and yet still sound fresh
another band with lots of albums . . . (but a terrible live show) Sun City Girls . . .
PORKSWORD! They kicked ass. A great western-canadian band.
They were out of Estafan, Saskatchewan I believe. I think they only had the one album 'Agrinomicon'. Unbelievable prairie rock that is also downright hilarious. Every song is a twisted tail of small town canada.
The band is dissolved and the record company doesn't exist anymore so Im pretty sure its not illegal. You cant get this anywhere else and it is gold, gold, gold.
Featuring titles such as:
Man vs. Satan
Fun on a Stick
Donkey Stud
Strap On
Agrinomicon
RV Vacation
Monster Truck Jerk
Sterile Midget
Cow Slut
Chapter 13
You Eyesore
Medichair Run Amok
Punch Drunk
Stu's Farm
Love Song El Dante
Big Rig
Intercontinental Tractor Pull Champion (my personal fave)
This is not only hilarious, it is musically rock-solid rock! And the lyrics are extremely clever.
I haven't used iChat yet since I dont use AOL and dont have any close friends on .mac but cant you transfer files through it?
If you are interested email me at imcflyATmacDOT.com and I would gladly share this album. Its a little gem of Canadiana.
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i loved prefab...but they were a bit too pop and british for the american public
i also love The Psychedelic Furs...
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In their original incarnation they had one of the best guitarists alive in Eddie Hazel, their keyboard player Bernie Worrell was a pioneer of electronic instruments and an arranger of genius, and their rhythm section wrote the book on funk-rock in 1969.
George Clinton's lyrics and aphorisms were spiritual, political and just plain nastay. This was the man who coined the phrase 'free your mind and your ass will follow', for goodness' sake. Big gospelised choirs, heavy funk, and an acre of Hendrix.
They did an album a year for 10 years at the same time as...
Parliament.
Who had the same musicians as Funkadelic but were signed to a different record label, and a completely different, less guitar-orientated sound, funky as HADES, equally as political and spiritual but with more emphasis on the nether regions. On the Mothership Connection tour, George Clinton would step out of a 'life-size' UFO that would fly onto the stage; it was supposed to be practically a religious experience.
I think that 'Maggot Brain', 'Funkadelic' and 'The Mothership Connection' are some of the best albums ever recorded, and that this group isn't in those Q Magazine Top Tens every time is frankly weird if you ask me.
[ 02-28-2003: Message edited by: Hassan i Sabbah ]</p>
....my personal favorite...for my wedding, my wife and i did our first dance to "I've Been Watching You (Move Your Sexy Body)"...dang, why she married me is still a mystery to me....looking back now i should have picked "Getten' to Know You " as it is so beautiful and sweet...but i was young and i like the sexy, nasty funk of "move your sexy body" better...good god, what were her parents thinking when we started slow dancing to that song :eek:
(it has the great line...."you would like you too, if you knew, the way you move your sexy body")
everybody go buy it today
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000001FUB/qid=1046455094/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-3761350-0447918?v=glance&s=music"; target="_blank">here</a>
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albums include:
sound effects
all mod cons
setting sons
this is the modern world
the gift
any of these are wonderful
g
<strong>you forget "Clones of Dr. Funkenstein"
....my personal favorite...for my wedding, my wife and i did our first dance to "I've Been Watching You (Move Your Sexy Body)"</strong><hr></blockquote>
This makes you one of the coolest people I have never met.
If I do this at my wedding, as I now intend, I'll know I actually made it as a cool human adult being.
You would like you too
If you knew!
The way you mooooo-oove
Your bod-eeee...
ooh! ooh! and
We are children of production
produced in conjunction
with the urgency of our Dr FUNKENSTEIN!
the bigger the headache
the bigger the pill
I am the Big Pill
X Amazing live. Incredible musicians. Great singing duo. And great songwriting. But they hardly ever got the recognition they deserved. Yes, I saw the original band...'79-80...somewhere around there...god i'm old... <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" />
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<strong>Funkadelic.
In their original incarnation they had one of the best guitarists alive in Eddie Hazel, their keyboard player Bernie Worrell was a pioneer of electronic instruments and an arranger of genius, and their rhythm section wrote the book on funk-rock in 1969...</strong><hr></blockquote>
If you like to hear some cool Bernie Worrell stuff get Further Network's OSX's P2P software and search for Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains! It's Bernie Worrell, Les Claypool and Buckethead jamming at last year's Bonnaroo Festival. Almost 2 hours of funky jamming goodness.
<a href="http://www.furthurnet.org"; target="_blank">http://www.furthurnet.org</a>;
...Hmmm, Primus...there's another one... <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" />
g
billy zoom, john doe, Exene Cervenka...great names, even better music...john and exene's vocal were magical, billy's guitar was intense yet beautiful....g
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<strong>
FLA=Delerium=Intermix=Synaesthesia=kickass.
too bad they're no more...
oh well...</strong><hr></blockquote>
I have good news for you. Leeb and Fulber are ganging up on the next (and the last) FLA album, and Rhys is helping with some tracks for the next Delerium CD with Bill too.
<strong>..for my wedding, my wife and i did our first dance to "I've Been Watching You (Move Your Sexy Body)"...dang, why she married me is still a mystery to me....looking back now
everybody go buy it today
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000001FUB/qid=1046455094/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-3761350-0447918?v=glance&s=music"; target="_blank">here</a>
g</strong><hr></blockquote>
The song that my wife and I danced to was Coltrane's Naima ...... now that is THE song!
X, I am jealous . . . . best part of that movie "Decline and Fall..." is the guy with an 'X' shaved ino his hair saying "uh...I'm an X head"
<strong>Speaking of great band member names...what about 'Lux Interior' & 'Poison Ivy Rorschach'? Another of the truly great bands that never got 'huge'. Heck, I've still got Psychedelic Jungle and Songs The Lord Taught Us within arms reach. Great stuff.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Ah, The Cramps. Here I go again...in college I brought Psychedelic Jungle to parties and people would freak out when they heard it..."Who IS that!"...'The Cramps'...."Awesome!". Well, when they were to appear at Trenton City Gardens we collected enough money to rent a school bus, driver and 20 of us to ge see the show. Another legendary Artman experience....
Oh and G...I saw X at the Long March Jazz Academy...formerly an old bank building with a huge atrium/balcony around the stage...now called The Arts Bank right on Broad St. here in Philly. They were the only act as far as I remember....
Another band that I wish had had more recognition....Altered Images...I honestly don't believe they were a one hit (Happy Birthday) wonder. Not as creepy looking as Siousxie...but lyrically...and a cute singer to boot.
Another....Au Pairs...this can go on forever...millions of them!
And another thing to the younger set here. Try to find Decline of the Western Civilization (1 NOT 2). It really shows how these post-punk bands (Green Day, Blink 182, Papa Roach et al) are pussies compared to the Circle Jerks and Fear. And X's performance in it is one of the most incredible accounts of the emerging punk rock scene musically ever recorded.
/gets off his old school punk soapbox... <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" />
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<strong>
Don't mean to be mean, but they are just recycled Stones circa 1973, with a tad of Aerosmith and touch of (oh shiit, the name escapes me . . . you know, typical midwest pick-up drivin style metal band with bandanas and tatoos and pushed up sleeves and long hair . . . um, did 'sweet babe of mine'?!?!?!)
anyway . . .pretty much second order as far as I can tell</strong><hr></blockquote>
You mean "Guns and Roses"? Bon Jovi? I get the idea.
I agree that there was some recycling with The Crowes, but they also put a good spin to it. Same with Georgia Satellites and Dan Baird. Good writing. Good hooks. That Stones rehash sound isn't as easy to pull off as one would think.
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<strong>...oh, and to all those Butthole Surfer, NIN and Ministry fans...check out Flipper, Chrome and Tuxedo Moon...nobody did it better....well maybe Pere Ubu or The Residents....Somebody stop me, I'm breaking out my URGH! A MUSIC WAR cassettes!
[ 03-01-2003: Message edited by: Artman @_@ ]</strong><hr></blockquote>I saw Flipper . . . it was a great show . . . and man, I was and am a HUGE fan of theirs
also Hose . .
"she's a super freak
. . take her to ya motha . .
Sper freaky car wash . . "
I also saw the Circle Jerks a buncha times
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<strong>
You mean "Guns and Roses"? Bon Jovi? I get the idea.
I agree that there was some recycling with The Crowes, but they also put a good spin to it. Same with Georgia Satellites and Dan Baird. Good writing. Good hooks. That Stones rehash sound isn't as easy to pull off as one would think.</strong><hr></blockquote>Yeah maybe . . .but, in my mind, its not about the difficulty its about the sense of creativity that I get from the music
Difficulty would discount half the bands that I mentioned . . . except, with some of them (Hose, Flipper) its about how difficult it is to play so incompetently and yet still sound fresh
another band with lots of albums . . . (but a terrible live show) Sun City Girls . . .
oh yeah . . . it was "Guns and Roses"
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They were out of Estafan, Saskatchewan I believe. I think they only had the one album 'Agrinomicon'. Unbelievable prairie rock that is also downright hilarious. Every song is a twisted tail of small town canada.
The band is dissolved and the record company doesn't exist anymore so Im pretty sure its not illegal. You cant get this anywhere else and it is gold, gold, gold.
Featuring titles such as:
Man vs. Satan
Fun on a Stick
Donkey Stud
Strap On
Agrinomicon
RV Vacation
Monster Truck Jerk
Sterile Midget
Cow Slut
Chapter 13
You Eyesore
Medichair Run Amok
Punch Drunk
Stu's Farm
Love Song El Dante
Big Rig
Intercontinental Tractor Pull Champion (my personal fave)
This is not only hilarious, it is musically rock-solid rock! And the lyrics are extremely clever.
I haven't used iChat yet since I dont use AOL and dont have any close friends on .mac but cant you transfer files through it?
If you are interested email me at imcflyATmacDOT.com and I would gladly share this album. Its a little gem of Canadiana.
the gun club
the dream syndicate
graham parker should have been bigger
tom verlaine
husker du
the english beat
dang, gotta run the old turntable for a few hours tonight....
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