Funky Music Sho' Enuf Turns Me On...
 

After seeing Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown when it was first released I sort of rediscovered '70's R&B funk - Jackie Brown is still up there on my list of favorite movies - Samuel L Jackson, DeNiro, Pam Grier - good cast.

I always liked da funk in the day - searing wah wah solos, heavy percussion, walking bass lines and great horn arrangements - and covers still pop up from time to time. Listen to the extended guitar riff in the Isley Brothers 'Who's That Lady' and it becomes obvious that Ernie Isley's mentor was Jimi Hendrix.

But then R&B and blues have always been high on my list. I was listening to Etta James,Charles Brown and early Chuck Berry when I was a kid when everyone else was grooving to Pat Boone and all the other watered down white bread remakes.

There's been covers done on da funk recently but the original stuff is still hard to beat for me anyway. Maybe you had to be there at the time...if you weren't, maybe you'll enjoy the originals.


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Ernie Isley wailing in a live performance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6g4K...layer_embedded

If I can throw my choice in the mix here. I'd like to add Ohio Players. Funky band and awesome live too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-ZTkvQOVj0


Howard

funky art for your blog crafty...:grins:

Ernie could be smoove if he wanted...check out the riff toward the middle when he goes all Hendrix on 'em...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHZEy...layer_embedded

If you want funk my friend...Bootsy Collins is your man

George Clinton too...

J Guitar W.


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Yup, was gonna post some P-Funk but I actually have to try to get some stuff done between posts today...:doh:

George Clinton: "I just wanted to see if we could do an entire album on acid."

Geez...:spin:

Well, they did.

one more. Great bass line

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc_QFGzTl7g

George Clinton and his collaborations - Funkadelic, Parliment, P-Funk is some of the greatest music ever. brilliant stuff. I was going to post the album by Funkadelic - Maggot Brain in the must have thread.
I saw George at a small club in San Francisco, it was a late night show in which they took the stage at 2 am and played until around 6am. What an experiece. Some of my favorite music.

check out these two tunes from Maggot Brain. An all black band rocking harder than sabbath, zeppelin or any other "hard rock" bands of the era. Eddie Hazel on guitar.
one of my favorite tunes of all time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHdVRQD_pzo


Then theres this tune from the same album, awesome funk
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9mS0...eature=related

Johnny is from way back. Not real funky but these are cool and his beginnings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYK4P...eature=related

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then theres Sly with Larry Graham who invested the funk/slap bass

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EscWg...eature=related

YOu beat me:btu:

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Need the bass and this guy rules in the funk departmenrt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHf7D...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUzu-...eature=related

Funkadelic :love:

lets have a hand for boosty collins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIzN5...eature=related

One of my favorites same that same period - pre-Jurassic to some of you :hihi:

Eric Burden and War live - Spill the Wine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7_U-zj2gfE

Gotta go with a little more Bobby Womack - been covered a lot, J. Geils did a creditable job on this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubsNAro0i5E

James Taylor covered this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxnAUobJD1Y

And Bobby returned the compliment soon thereafter - actually a soulful interpretation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHna6...eature=related

And last, my favorite rendition of the Bessie Smith classic Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out:
- the darkest version I've ever heard from a guy who knew the feeling well -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yAN3koZ6fA

cant forget The Meters. Awesome funk.

so much great music, so little time. If only I could get paid to listen.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNzilDmPpCg

Good call on the Meters, Jimmy - the Nevilles are always in rotatation for me.

I had to work and missed 'em when they played Newport this past summer at the Blues Cafe - damn :wall:

WHAT!?!?! The meters were in Newport!!??!?! (^&%(*&%)*&%&^&$4794 :smash:

Not exactly of the "Brick House" type but if funk fusion is to your liking these guys were the best!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIGsSLCoIhM

nice. I see mike stern :btu:

I am pretty sure one of the bros died last or this year

Could be wrong ,, but remember when little known Stanley Clark came out (jazz musician)playing the slap bass .. thought he started it ..

He makes James Browns ,,Sex Machine .. His bass part is all around but never on beat . one funky dude

I think RI Jimmy is right. Larry Graham is credited for it but I think Marcus Miller is the best at it but then again it is just IMO:hee:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Graham

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slap_bass

great bass line. As George Carlin said he's so funky he's goin move in next door and your lawn is going to die, Blind Melon Chitlin aka Richard Bona
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Get the funk outta ma face


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AWB

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