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Parliament: Live: The P-Funk Earth Tour
Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 11 June 1977
"THEY SAY the bigger the headache the bigger the pill!" Dr. Funkenstein shouts. ...
Audio interviews
Interview by Cliff White, Rock's Backpages audio, November 1978
A splendidly rambling conversation in which the P-Funk mastermind looks back at the early days of Parliament; fondly remembers Screaming Jay Hawkins and Louis Jordan; the rise of P-Funk; punk v funk; Hendrix and Sly as pioneers; gives a definition of what Funkadelic is, and the birth of 'One Nation Under A Groove'.
File format: mp3; file size: 32.7mb, interview length: 34' 05" sound quality: ***
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Singles from the Beach Boys, the Parliaments, Wilson Pickett et al
Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 18 November 1967
AMERICA AWAKES, INCORPORATING 'ROCK-SOUL-BLUES REVIEWS' BY NORMAN JOPLING ...
Parliament/Funkadelic: A Parliafunkadelicment Thang
Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 14 May 1971
RARELY DOES an R&B act cause any controversy or speculation prior to making a British tour. But the one exception in recent years is Funkadelic, ...
Marking Time with Funkadelic — an interview with George Clinton
Interview by Vernon Gibbs, Soul Sounds, July 1973
THERE IS a hard core of demented maniacs who force their way into people's apartments, with wild looks in their eyes. Usually they can be ...
Report by Vernon Gibbs, The Village Voice, 5 September 1974
LAST WEEK, Rare Earth punked out of a gig at the Apollo, a rare honor for which Mick Jagger might conceivably give up eyeshadow. The ...
Live Review by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 18 March 1975
NEW YORK'S Radio City Music Hall, the world's largest theatre seating some 6000 people, just featured two widely differing aspects of black music within the ...
Ohio Players, Graham Centra! Station, Parliament-Funkadelic: Radio City Music Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Wayne Robins, Rolling Stone, 27 March 1975
ONLY TWO weeks after Sly Stone scaled his decline by falling on his face at Radio City Music Hall, two of his most popular heirs ...
Casablanca Records' Neil Bogart (1976) [transcript]
Transcript of audio interview by Jim Esposito, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 1976
This is a transcript of Jim's 1976 interview with the Casablanca disco mogul. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Parliament-Funkadelic: Mothership Connection
Review by Joe McEwen, Rolling Stone, 25 March 1976
WITH THE "Parliafunkadelicment thang", leader George Clinton has succeeded in creating two distinct identities for one band—the mystical voodoo of the Funkadelics and the stabbing, ...
Countdown on Parliament, from launchpad to mothership connection... We have lift-off!
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 29 June 1976
An intergalactic communication from Space Commander George Clinton aboard the starship Parliafunkadelicment... ...
The Amazing Disco-Man from Planet X
Review by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 3 July 1976
PARLIAMENT: Mothership Connection (Casablanca)BOOTSY'S RUBBER BAND: Stretchin' Out (Warners) ...
It's a PARLIAFUNKADELIC-BOOTSYMENT THANG!!
Interview by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 21 August 1976
"THERE'S a lot of chocolate cities around. We got Newark, we got Gary, somebody told me we got L.A. And we're working on Atlanta. But ...
A Journey to the Center of Parliament/Funkadelic
Report and Interview by Tom Vickers, Rolling Stone, 26 August 1976
They're Coming to Take You Away, Ha-Ha ...
Review by Joe McEwen, The Village Voice, 25 October 1976
Parliament-Funkadelic: Bummer in the City ...
The Bizarre World of George Clinton (Parliament/Funkadelic Drop The Funk-Bomb On America)
Interview by Joe Nick Patoski, Phonograph Record, December 1976
NEW ORLEANS — Maintaining two separate personalities and record labels for his band Parliament/Funkadelic has been an act of schizophrenic genius on the part of ...
Parliament/Funkadelic: Municipal Auditorium, New Orleans
Live Review by Wayne Robins, Rolling Stone, 30 December 1976
A GOLD PYRAMID glitters onstage. Light beams, like giant mutant insect eyes, stare down at the audience. Musicians dressed for a Halloween party in some ...
Funkadelic: Hardcore Jollies/Parliament: The Clones Of Funkenstein
Review by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 12 February 1977
In the last 12 months no less than eight albums have escaped from this mind-bending menagerie and yet only one (Parliament's Mothership Connection on Casablanca) ...
Underneath Apparent Mindlessness Lurks Astonishing Musicianship
Comment by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 19 February 1977
LOUIS JOHNSON, bass-playing Brother of that ilk, was quoted in a recent Downbeat on the subject of his favourite bassists: "Stanley Clarke... is the baddest ...
Parliament: Funkentelechy Vs the Placebo Syndrome (Casablanca CALH 2021)
Review by Barry Cain, Record Mirror, 7 January 1978
I GUESS you could describe Parliament as an ethnic funk band if indeed such an animal exists. Apart from the occasional extra-terrestrial skullduggery which no ...
The Creation of Dr Funkenstein
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 7 January 1978
The scene: Maggotropolis, Hollywood. The target: the infamous Mr. GEORGE CLINTON High Priest of a Black Unholy Trinity. Enter a reporter clutching a clove of ...
Parliament: Funkentelechy vs. The Placebo Syndrome
Review by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 14 January 1978
Clinton's Clones Hit Ass & Funny Bone ...
Parliament: Funkentelechy vs. The Placebo Syndrome (Casablanca)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, March 1978
AND SO it came to pass that Parliament-Funkadelic became the Great Black Hope of all the honky rock critics, became the champion musical force that ...
Parliament: Funkentelechy Vs. The Placebo Syndrome (Casablanca CALH2021)
Review by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 14 March 1978
I DON'T REALLY believe that there is a funkier band in the whole world than the Parliament brigade and this latest offering is all the ...
Disco Doesn't Have to Mean Dull
Overview by John Swenson, Circus, 16 March 1978
International Technical Geniuses Discover Disco's Possibilities ...
Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 23 May 1978
After nearly twenty years together under the able guidance of Mr. George Clinton, Parliament and Funkadelic and associated entities have finally begun to receive the ...
Parliament/Funkadelic, Mother's Finest: Capitol Center, Landover MD
Live Review by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 23 May 1978
Parliament tear the roof off Washington ...
P-Funk: Free Your Mind — Your Accountant Will Follow
Report and Interview by Vivien Goldman, Melody Maker, 25 November 1978
Pretty soon, the whole Parliafunkadelicment troupe arrives in Britain — led by their founder, the black surrealist George Clinton. VIVIEN GOLDMAN witnessed Clinton's Clones on ...
Parliament Funkadelic: Watch Out The Mothership Is Coming
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 5 December 1978
Beware, Britain – the Mothership is coming! George Clinton and those extra-terrestial beings, Parliament-Funkadelic, are about to descend on to your cities. It will be ...
Parliament/Funkadelic/Parlet/Brides Of Funkenstein: Bellevue Kings Hall, Manchester
Live Review by Mick Middles, Sounds, 16 December 1978
THE WORLD funk extravaganza circus comes to Manchester. ...
The Brides of Funkenstein: Funk Or Walk; Parliament: Motor Booty Affair
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 16 December 1978
IF ROCK stars had the kind of union that insisted on overtime bans and frowned on over-productivity, George Clinton would undoubtedly be the subject of ...
The George Clinton Interview: Part 2
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 19 December 1978
Coinciding with the arrival of the whole Parliafunk-adelicment entourage in Britain for concert dates, B&S concludes its exclusive interview with the mastermind of the whole ...
Parliament, Funkadelic, the Brides Of Funkenstein: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Vivien Goldman, Melody Maker, 23 December 1978
AND LO, when the silver spaceship settled on the Odeon stage, the faces of the assembled glowed like kids when the fairy lights twinkle for ...
Parliament/Funkadelic/Parlet/Brides Of Funkenstein: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 23 December 1978
THE "MOTHERSHIP" arrives. Everybody gets on out of it and has a "party". And I dance. And slump. And dance and slump. ...
Report and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Unicorn Times, May 1979
GARY SHIDER and Mike Hampton held the stage at the Capital Centre in the fiercest rock'n'roll guitar duet in any local hall recently. Shider's fingers ...
P-Funk: Dispatches from Uncle Jam's H.Q.
Interview by Lloyd Bradley, Blues & Soul, 20 November 1979
The news that Dr Funkenstein is to retire has sent shock waves throughout the funk world, but has provided George Clinton with a little breathing ...
The P-Funk Noo Doo Crew: the Man with the Key to Funk
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 7 April 1981
George Clinton takes the lid off R&B... Rhythm and Business, that is! ...
Parliament-Funkadelic: The Ritz, New York NY
Live Review by Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, 30 May 1981
P-FUNK DO FOR the modern funk show what The Grateful Dead did to the rock show in the late '60s. They alter the time frame ...
George Clinton: The Mad Professor
Interview by Paolo Hewitt, Melody Maker, 8 January 1983
Paolo Hewitt gets funked by GEORGE CLINTON. ...
George Clinton & the P-Funk All Stars, Con Funk Shun, Trouble Funk: Capital Centre: Landover MD
Live Review by 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 ...
Parliament: Uncut Funk — The Bomb
Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 6 September 1986
GEORGE CLINTON is one of the great people of the 20th century. Probably you know this already. He took the funk legacy of James Brown ...
Obituary by Alan Light, Rolling Stone, 18 February 1993
EDDIE HAZEL, the Parliament-Funkadelic guitarist whose searing leads were a staple of the funk army's albums and concerts for more than two decades, died on ...
The Jazzy Funkateers: Life after James Brown and P-Funk
Report and Interview by Hank Bordowitz, American Visions, Winter 1993
AS THE SEVEN musicians on the stage at Tramps in New York launch into a instrumental version of 'Cold Sweat', six hundred voices in the ...
Retrospective and Interview by Frank Broughton, i-D, February 1994
PARLIAMENT-FUNKADELIC, P-Funk, The P -- Specially designed afronauts capable of funketizing entire galaxies. Their mothership long ago made its terrestrial connection and they are amongst ...
The Story Of The Funk: George Clinton
Retrospective and Interview by Peter Murphy, Hot Press, 1996
IN THE BEGINNING was the word, and the word was Funk. Deep in the prehistoric bog, two microbes rubbed together, caused some friction, got frisky ...
George Clinton: The P-Father of P-Funk
Retrospective by Sean O'Hagan, The Guardian, 23 December 1999
Who was pop's greatest showman? Sean O'Hagan has no hesitation in picking George Clinton. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Lloyd Bradley, MOJO, October 2003
In 1963 George Clinton took a first step toward funk overlordship. He shut his East Coast barbershop and flew to Motown. Lloyd Bradley finds out ...
see also George Clinton
see also Funkadelic
see also Junie Morrison
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