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George Clinton & the P-Funk All Stars, Con Funk Shun, Trouble Funk: Capital Centre: Landover MD

Geoffrey Himes, The Washington Post, 28 March 1983

FOR 16 YEARS, the ever-shifting, overlapping line-ups of Parliament, Funkadelic and Bootsy's Rubber Band have contained the best funk musicians anywhere. After three disorganized, unproductive years, 22 of those musicians have reassembled with renewed vitality as George Clinton & the P-Funk All Stars. They climaxed a six-hour funk extravaganza at the Capital Centre Friday night with a dazzling display of virtuoso solos, big-band arrangements, old-fashioned boogie, new wave electronics and circus theatricality.

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