What the Funk?

Funkentelechy

Funkentelechy

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The story behind George Clinton's Atomic dog, one of the most influential songs in hip hop history. Snoop Dog basically built a career from this song, and George was so high when he recorded it that he didn't even know he was making the song. Subconscious genius.
 
injinji

injinji

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Funkentelechy said:
What the hell, how did I not know about this thread?! I live, eat, sleep, smoke funk!
Thanks injinji!!
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Your welcome.

I'll have to tell you guys my George Clinton story. I worked in the get together business. We did everything from weddings and birthday parties to the ladies club meetings and state mandated logger training. My (then) part time maintenance man worked full time at the prison. He is a red hat wearing, country music fan. His step son was going to school at TCC and was interning at GC's recording studio in Tally. He asked me one day, "have you ever heard of George Clinton?

I said, "sure, he's the granddaddy of funk."

He said, "my wife's kid works for him you know. And he will not stop talking about him. It is non stop. I figured he was some gold chain wearing rapper, but the other day when the kid's car was in the shop, I went by there to pick him up and he introduced me to George. He was just an old dried up black man. I couldn't figure out what the fuss was about"

So I showed him a few you tube videos. He might not have got the funk, but at least now he knows who George is.

 
Funkentelechy

Funkentelechy

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injinji said:
Your welcome.

I'll have to tell you guys my George Clinton story. I worked in the get together business. We did everything from weddings and birthday parties to the ladies club meetings and state mandated logger training. My (then) part time maintenance man worked full time at the prison. He is a red hat wearing, country music fan. His step son was going to school at TCC and was interning at GC's recording studio in Tally. He asked me one day, "have you ever heard of George Clinton?

I said, "sure, he's the granddaddy of funk."

He said, "my wife's kid works for him you know. And he will not stop talking about him. It is non stop. I figured he was some gold chain wearing rapper, but the other day when the kid's car was in the shop, I went by there to pick him up and he introduced me to George. He was just an old dried up black man. I couldn't figure out what the fuss was about"

So I showed him a few you tube videos. He might not have got the funk, but at least now he knows who George is.

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I love that story! If you didn't know who George was it would be hard to know just by looking at him who he had been and the things he's done, very unimposing considering what an interesting life he has had.
He took part in the Ken Kesey acid tests in the 60's, funded his early musical career with 1.2 million dollars of counterfeit money that he bought for like $2000.
One time he and Billy Bass were tripping on acid driving between shows and came across a roadblock and they figured if they just drove past it they could make up some time. They drove on and were making good time, eventually, they drove into a little town and saw people walking around. Much to their LSD enhanced horror they suddenly noticed that everyone around them was a zombie! The band was understandably freaking out! What they didn't know is that the road block had been set up for the filming of the movie Night of the living dead and they had wandered onto the film set. Folks from the film crew mistook his bus for a delivery truck and waved him over, in George's words, “We ran a roadblock, went about a mile along the road and came out into a small town where we saw all these fucking creatures walking around, zombies or mummies, hands up in the air and dead looks on their faces. We were scared out of our fucking minds”.
 
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