thatpatguy

much love Todd.. after the plethora of bands that roll into town, your blueslogs and the backstage stories we used to get from AHess are the highlights of the festival for me!

If I recall correctly the makeup was off for that tour no?

pfunk is to thatpatguy as zappa is to tungsten and dylan is to esau

ha ha awesome!!! I've got a niche!!

and yeah.. I make my funk the pfunk, I want to get funked up!

Anyone know who from the current band has been in the band for a long time?

The guys who have been in The Funk Mob since the glory days of the 70s that were there last night were:

• George Clinton (obviously)
  
• Garry "Starchild" Shider - buddy in the diaper, who's been in the band since day one and is considered the musical director for The P-Funk All Stars
  
• Michael "Kidd Funkadelic" Hampton - The guitarist with the rainbow afro. He joined in 1976, replacing Eddie Hazel. The story is he auditioned by playing Maggot Brain note for note and was hired on the spot, at the age of 17.
  
• Michael "Clip" Payne - The guy playing the drum machine with the super deep voice. He joined Bootsy's Rubber Band in 1979
  
• Lige Curry - Bass, sitting down all night, hard to see. He started with Parlet and The Brides of Funkenstein in 1974
  
• Frankie "Kash" Waddy - The drummer with the braids. He started with Bootsy's Rubber Band in 1971, before that he played with James Brown and then Bootsy's first band, The House Guests
  
• Robert "P-Nut" Johnson - The background vocalist with the dreads. He started with Bootsy's Rubber Band in 1976 and did studio work with Parliament and Funkadelic
  
• Greg Thomas - Saxophone. Started with both George Clinton and Bootsy Collins in the mid 80s

Most of the "real" all stars.. the guys who were really active in Parliament and Funkadelic back in the 70s have either burned themselves out, died, or just don't seem to be interested in playing with George these days other than maybe the odd big show, like they did at Woodstock, where Bootsy and Bernie Worrell joined the band for the gig.

One of the reasons why the P-Funk empire fell in the early 80s was due to egos and such and I'm guessing that there are a bunch of guys who would just rather not have anything to do with each other any more.

One thing that's cool to note is that there is a Canadian connection in the creation of Funkadelic. Garry Shider moved to Canada along with his buddy Cordell "Boogie" Mosson (a bassist) in their teens from New Jersey. There they joined a band called United Soul. Before moving to Canada Shider had already met and started to impress Clinton back in New Jersey with his vocal abilities and guitar playing.

When Shider and Mosson moved to Canada Clinton was living in Toronto. Shider used his existing connection with Clinton to get him to produce some singles for the band in 1971, under the name U.S. Music with Funkadelic. In 1972 Shider and Mosson joined Funkadelic (and then Parliament).

happy birthday man!

That said I consistently see Real Time as the best weekly news magazine and punditry platform.

It's a great show, I get the podcast and listen to it every week. It can get a bit one sided and preachy at times, but nothing is perfect. All in all it's usually a very entertaining hour.

my biggest complaint about the Bill Maher interview was how it degraded into two old fogies talking about how music was real music back in the good old days and how the music of today is nothing but crap and noise and solely for the commercial market.

my biggest fear is that I'm going to hold the same attitude when I'm in my 50s...

[color:purple]I don't call it rap music.. I call it CRAP music

I'd love to get my hands on that show as well. I was there, right next to the sound booth. I was looking forward to that show since it was first announced and I wasn't disappointed at all!!

just got back from Ribfest.. got the pulled pork sandwich from Area 31..

I found that the pork deep in the middle of the sandwich was dry.. but on the outside it was great. too bad the BBQ sauce didn't make it through to the middle.

but for $6.00 on a beautiful day like today.. still totally worth it (plus I scored a free Dr. Pepper on Queen street by the CIBC!)

I obviously bought my ticket too early

KevO.. you should add The Heavy to that list:

voted.. good luck man

And here they are to perform their latest hit, "batshiat crazee" from their latest album, "meltdown", please welcome Inglewood Jack!

done and done!!

How about this Brad... we'll let you get as wasted as you want.. and when we hit the stage we'll just turn off your amp

cool! i see "fast sleep" but whats on the other wall?

Funki Porcini

that's the album cover to his 2002 record, Fast Asleep

oooh.. this one is better!

Steve Martin performing The Crow with Tony Trischka and Bela Fleck on Letterman (it's a great song.. who knew that Steve Martin is a good songwriter on top of everything else!)

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Steve Martin sitting in with Earl Scruggs and his band performing the classic Foggy Mountain Breakdown

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I'm drinking beer while replying to this thread

ahh... cool

mmmmmm.... rusty trombo... DOH!

Hey guys, we just watched you on rogers channel 944. Good job. Couldn't see you guys but you sounded great How come the next gig is in april?

we were on TV?

so.. how about that local sports team eh? what what?

currently all of "season 3" is available (all two shows of it)

so enjoy!