Funky Bands

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whats everyones favourite funky bands mine would have to be of course

Rd Hot chili Peppers
Spin Doctors
Reef
Sunk Loto
james Brown

[marine_aart]

reef? isnt it beef?
what do U call funky, cuz I dont cal the red hot chili peppers funky :P

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u must be joking RHCP arnt funky?????

[Skillian]

Hell yeah Chili Peppers are funky - check out Sir Psycho Sexy or Funky Monks off the Blood Sugar Sex Magik album. But they ain't as funky as Parliament B)

[Bass]

The Chillis are WELL funky,but I think they were best on Mothers Milk.
Some excellent rock funk tracks,like the Stevie Wonder cover,"Higher Ground".

cheers,
Bass.

[insanebassman]

George Clintin with Parliment
Les Claypool and the Fearless Flying Frog Brigade
Primus
Rollins Band had a little funk going
Jane's Addiction

[FuNkY CaPrIcOrN]

;) Please.....let me show you guys some real funk.Them bands you mention grew up on this shit. :D

Parliament

Funkadelic

Bootsy Collins

Isaac Hayes

Curtis Mayfield

Herbie Hancock

Sly & the Family Stone
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I could go on and on. :D

[ToddM]

Here's one for you all:

"King Curtis - Live at the Filmore West"

That's some true FUNK, and some damn good listen', too! If anyone has a copy of it @ 192 or higher, please let me know, as I've only got it @ 128 :(

Enjoy! ;)

[neil1967]

if it's the funk you seek download the following tracks.

skull snaps. it's a new day
the meters. keep on marching
the flip. hank mobley
maynard parker.bad montana
isley brothers. it's your thing
bill withers. use me
grant green. sookie sookie
we the people. breakdown
vibrations. ain't no greens in harlem
tower of power. you got to funkifize
freddy henchi. popcorn baby
and lets not forget the wonderous, aaron neville. hercules
Oh and also the meters. funky miracle
but of course at the end of the day it's all a matter of taste.

[marine_aart]

but what do U guys call funk :blink:

[FuNkY CaPrIcOrN]

Originally posted by marine_aart@29 April 2003 - 04:06
but what do U guys call funk  :blink:
:) Taken from the Bible(if anybody does not know what the Music Bible is we are not telling ya).....



Named after a slang word for "stink," funk was indeed the rawest, most primal form of R&B, surpassing even Southern soul in terms of earthiness. It was also the least structured, often stretching out into extended jams, and the most Africanized, built on dynamic, highly syncopated polyrhythms. As such, it originally appealed only to hardcore R&B audiences. The groove was the most important musical element of funk — all the instruments of the ensemble played off of one another to create it, and worked it over and over. Deep electric bass lines often served as main riffs, with an interlocking web of short, scratchy guitar chords and blaring horns over the top. Unlike nearly every form of R&B that had come before it, funk didn't confine itself to the 45-rpm single format and the classic verse/chorus song structure. Funk bands were just as likely to repeat a catchy chant or hook out of the blue, and to give different song sections equal weight, so as not to disrupt the groove by building to a chorus-type climax. In essence, funk allowed for more freedom and improvisation, and in that respect it was similar to what was happening around the same time in blues-rock, psychedelia, and hard rock (in fact, Jimi Hendrix was a major inspiration for funk guitar soloists). The roots of funk lay in James Brown's post-1965 soul hits, particularly "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" (1965) and "Cold Sweat" (1967). Sly & the Family Stone, who started out as a soul band influenced by rock and psychedelia, became a full-fledged (albeit pop-savvy) funk outfit with 1969's Stand!. However, the record that officially ushered in the funk era was James Brown's epochal "Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine." The arrangement was spare, the groove hard-hitting, and Brown's lyrics were either stream-of-consciousness slogans or wordless noises. Brown followed it with more records over the course of 1970 that revolutionized R&B, and paved the way for the third artist of funk's holy trinity, George Clinton. Clinton's Parliament and Funkadelic outfits made funk the ultimate party music, not just with their bizarre conceptual humor, but their sheer excess — huge ensembles of musicians and dancers, all jamming on the same groove as long as they possibly could. Thanks to Sly, Brown, and Clinton, many new and veteran R&B acts adopted funk as a central style during the '70s. Funk gradually became smoother as disco came to prominence in the mid- to late '70s, and lost much of its distinguishing earthiness. However, it had a major impact on jazz (both fusion and soul-jazz), and became the musical foundation of hip-hop. Thanks to the latter, funk enjoyed a renaissance during the '90s, especially among white audiences who rushed to explore its original classics.

[marine_aart]

wow, why not post a link to that bible, so U dont have to type it all :)