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the only thing i have is a few bootsy albums.

i don't know anything about the extended family

talk about anything they've had their hands in.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 07:27 (twenty years ago)

did any of them do any production work for other people?

― LE CHUCK!™ (ex machina), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 07:28 (twenty years ago)

i just picked up the first Zapp album which bootsy produced

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 07:33 (twenty years ago)

Not exactly sure what your after, but the best side project was Brides of Funkenstein - if only for the album "Never Buy Texas From a Cowboy" and it's title song [which is at least as good as the similar (Not Just) Knee Deep].

Why this album has never been released (and not: "Why did it take so long for Eddie Hazel's vanity project to be released) is the real question.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 07:37 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and Brides of Funkenstein's first album "Funk or Walk", though not as good, is worth tracking down for Disco to Go and War Ship Touchante.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 07:39 (twenty years ago)

the parlet records are good. i like play me or trade me best, maybe. theres a good funk essentials comp that covers them. i recently listened to the mico wave record and figured i could live without it. the godmama record is fucking great. all the bootsy's are worth hearing. the eddie hazel is meh (but maybe the hype killed it for me). the bernie worrell have snatches of goodness but i wouldn't really bother unless you're obsessed (you are, aren't you?) work that sucker to death by xavier is worth hearing. the laswell pfunk thing has some good stuff on it. theres a whole series of clinton family stuff cds which are hit and miss. theres more i can't remember.

― bulbs (bulbs), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 07:56 (twenty years ago)

theres an Afrika Baambata record (new world order?) which features clinton/pfunk which is OK. clintons solo stuff ranges from good to meh. obv. computer games but i also like (some of) you shouldn'ta bit fish.

there's a sugarfoot (ohio players)/ bottsy record i really need to hear (anyone willing?)

― bulbs (bulbs), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 08:03 (twenty years ago)

Hater. The Hazel album is brilliant.

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 08:08 (twenty years ago)

stick to 70s albums. tread carefully with the albums various pfunk members did with bill laswell in the 80s/90s. carefully meaning 'leep the receipt'.

― splooge (thesplooge), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 08:12 (twenty years ago)

ah nate. i don't hate it. its just the 20 years of hype before i tracked it down built me a crazy expectation.

xpost the bootsy record's with laswell are grebt!

― bulbs (bulbs), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 08:14 (twenty years ago)

by which i mean zillatron and the one with the ode to his mom (name?)

― bulbs (bulbs), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 08:15 (twenty years ago)

o shit i like the clinton / thomas dolby record too!

― bulbs (bulbs), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 08:17 (twenty years ago)

groove is in the heart

― bulbs (bulbs), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 08:17 (twenty years ago)

also S all the Maceo/ Fred Wesley Horney Horns stuff. fer fucks sake.

― bulbs (bulbs), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 08:20 (twenty years ago)

the good bootsy laswell thing is Whats Bootst Doin'?

― bulbs (bulbs), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 08:22 (twenty years ago)

Brides of Funkenstein's "Never Buy Texas From a Cowboy" is the best 15 minute song ever. Bernie Worrell's "All the Woo In the World" is quite nice even tho Bernie can't sing.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 10:36 (twenty years ago)

I quite like the Fuzzy Haskins 2 for 1 CD, 'A Whole Nuther Radioactive Thing' or something.

What about P-Funk Mastercuts, which I saw for a fiver yesterday? I was put off by the presence of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 10:41 (twenty years ago)

zillatron is good, its the other ones, like the one with the reggae remake of cosmic slop im not so into.

― splooge (thesplooge), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 10:49 (twenty years ago)

Bread Alone and 5 LPs -- Walter "Junie" Morrison

"No Rump to Bump" -- Parlet

"Break My Heart" -- Jimmy G & the Tackheads (80s electro-funk by Clinton and Steve Washington of Slave/Aurra)

"Work That Sucker to Death" by Xavier seconded

"Let's Go All the Way" by Sly Fox features Gary "Mudbone" Cooper from Bootsy's Rubber Band

Rhythm Killers LP by Sly & Robbie has Bootsy, Mudbone and a definite P-Funk flavor.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 10:51 (twenty years ago)

Given that Junie Morrison was responsible for both "One Nation Under a Groove" and "The Electric Spanking of War Babies" (title trax that is) I wouldn't mind hearing his solo stuff

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 10:56 (twenty years ago)

i only have a solo junie lp from the 80s. apparently his 70s stuff is great (theres meant to be a lot of unreleased stuff).

― splooge (thesplooge), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 11:30 (twenty years ago)

I have a cd by THE SPACE CADETS, a Bernie Worrell led outfit - which I was not feeling.

There is a cd compilation called "GETTIN' IT OFF" which features tracks from the Westbound label. On it, there a couple Fuzzy Haskins tunes that are pretty slammin. Best of all is a previously unreleased killer jam called "In the Pocket" credited to Boots. But the liner notes reveal that it's a lost Bootsy gem.

― pheNAM (pheNAM), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, "Boots" recorded a couple singles for Westbound under a pseudonym because I think he was still sort of under contract with James Brown. There's another song of his called "RPM" on an overpriced-yet-good import comp called Westbound Funk.

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 17:36 (twenty years ago)

most of the best stuff has already been covered (Bootsy, Brides, Parlet, Fuzzy, Axiom Funk). Thought I'd give a little shout-out to the completely overlooked and forgotten Billy "Bass" Nelson solo album for Rykodisc "O.G. Funk". Also the Temps albums with Billy Bass and Eddie Hazel are fuckin fantastic (Wings of Love side 1 oh yeah)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 2 November 2004 17:47 (twenty years ago)

Mutiny should also be mentioned as some point. And damn do I want to some time hear the full length verion of Bernie Worrell's "Insurance Man for the Funk" as I've only heard the edit which is fantastic.

Just like to mention I agree with Dadaismus about "Never Buy Texas From a Cowboy" - (Not Just) Knee Deep is the second greatest 15+ song of all time, and if "Never Buy Texas From A Cowboy" is at least as good, then case proven.

Of course if "Disco Circus" was another 30 or so seconds longer....

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 21:43 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

Has anyone heard Eramus Head? their album "Go Head" in particular?

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

did any of them do any production work for other people?

Dr. Dre, ZING!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

I just picked up a Mutiny twofer called "How Loose is Your Booty?". it's got "Mutiny on the mamaship" & "Funk Plus The One". overall i think it's sort of mediocre but good. there are just too many same tempo slap bass tracks that all run into each other. i think he forgot to write a good song most of the time. but there are some excelent tracks on there, it's just hard going through two whole albums to find them

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

i also found INCorporated Thang Band produced by Clinton. it's pretty 80s synth-heavy, drum-machine, non-funky funk. it's not that great but i've only listened to it barely once

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

also, anyone know anything about Sweet Band?

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

sorry, that should be Sweat Band

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

and probably to answer most of my questions and yours, this site is AMAZING@! http://www.duke.edu/~tmc/pfunk.html

it has reviews of most albums and side projects, cover art, bios, so much goodness.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

ILX is such now that I read this thread as "PFork side projects" and started imagining like the William Bowers "solo" website.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

I got a copy of the Sweat Band album (out of print - fukkerz!) at the Dusty Groove store in Chicago, and barring one or two odd ill-advised Jamaican-flavored tracks it is really, really good. Better than the last couple Parliament albums, I would say. It's weird in that its basically a P-Funk album without George Clinton - it's all centered around Bootsy, Bernie, Maceo et al. Get it if you can find it.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 7 January 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Also JaXoN I saw yr note on the OOP album thread about Dennis Wilson and George Clinton - I'd be happy to trade you but I think we've got incompatible formats (ie, I don't have an MP3 player, and the copy of "Computer Games" I have is on vinyl....)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 7 January 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

i'll burn you a disc of the Dennis Wilson. i'm sure i'll be able to find the clinton. actually i just saw two copies on vinyl in vancouver, but the store i was at was horribly overpriced, so i passed on them.

i did pay way too much for a copy of Rasputin's Stash (which i'd been looking for a while) at this store and then 5 minutes later at another store around the corner they had another copy of it and it was more than half the price.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

that'd be fantastic man!!! thx so much. Anything at all I can burn you in return I'd be happy to. I have tons and tons of P-Funk - I've got the Fuzzy Haskins 2-fer if you don't have that, (also got Eddie Hazel's "Jams From the Heart"). The rarest and best stuff I have is on vinyl tho (like the live "Rocky Mountain Shakedown" bootleg from '76 which is fuckin AMAZING) which I'd be happy to put on one of them old-fangled audiocassettes if you even wanna bother...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 7 January 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

other stuff I could tape/burn for ya:

Sweat Band "Sweat Band"
Brides "Never Buy Texas From a Cowboy"
the rarities/b-sides from the double-album Funkadelic singles comp ("Music For My Mother")
Eddie Hazel "Dames Games n Guitar Thangs"

.. there might be more, this is off the top of my head...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 7 January 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

i'm a tard, that should be Eramus Hall, not eramus head. i'm confusing too many of these fuckers up

xpost. i'd love to meet up and do some trading sometime (we should chat through email). i almost bought that Fuzzy Haskins, figured i'd do it soon, but a burn is just as good for me. and i also don't have those Hazel's yet.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

i just sent an email

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

has anyone ever heard the Glenn Goins Quazar album...? wondering if its worth hunting down. Glenn was def. a shining star in P-funk, and the band had been together 7 years before releasing the album, so I wouldn't expect it to be some tossed together thing... on the other hand Glenn died halfway thru recording...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

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