Small wonder I couldn't open this thing on my tablet. Behold progenitors.
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Yus. While they are ostensibly a 70s band, they scrape in on a technicality.
Skerret's posting is ok to trip balls to and read just to experience the ambience but don't expect any content. "I'm jealous of sucking major dick!"~ Kernowgaz
Enjoying the funk stuff in here. I suppose that golden period spans the late 60s to early 70s. The problem is although I know a lot of good tracks I don't know what many of them are called.
Funk is a tricky genre to build up knowledge around as so much of it is one hit wonders and 45s as opposed to albums.
If you want to put the work in I suggest starting with the classics: James Brown and the JBs, the meters, sly and the family stone etc and look at who played on those records. Many musicians put out their own stuff and jobbed for other groups so you can go pretty deep with this alone.
There's a school of thought that the quality started to dip around 1973 but this is tosh in my opinion. What you will start to notice is the sound starts to change around this time as drum machines and digital techniques become more prevalent. I suspect 'purists' just don't like this sound.
Skerret's posting is ok to trip balls to and read just to experience the ambience but don't expect any content. "I'm jealous of sucking major dick!"~ Kernowgaz
Thanks to the curated thread for this, went knee deep in Cooke for a while afterwards, this still stands firm as my favourite. Genuinely incredible track.
On the same filthy album as this Signifying Monkey cover:
I seem to be all about the later 60s and early 70s TBH. Maybe I should dig around for some of the West Coast Jazz I like, that must be earlier than all the '68 and '69 stuff I keep pulling out.
Today is my last day of smoking. I plan to chainsmoke my way through this thread whilst drinking a posh-ish bottle of red wine this afternoon and buying Zoverstocks cds on Amazon.
Absolutely. He didn't invent shit, but by fucking god he took it to a level rarely matched since. Man was just the full package.
The '68 Comeback Special was God like. And the Hawaii Aloha Concert in '73 (an early if not seminal charity gig) is great too as it sees a still fit jumpsuit/Vegas Elvis.