funkentelechy

[David Morris]

"Dope Dogs" (as well as "Paint The White House Black") are expansions on 
what I'd call GC's "comeback" album "Hey Man...Smell My Finger" (1993), a 
very good album.  The later "T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M." (1996) (The Awsome Power of a 
Fully Operational Mothership) is also a completely new body of work, and 
also very good.

http://www.kalilight.com/nsites/gc.html
"Once upon a time, in the days of the Funkapus, specially designed Afronauts 
were created, capable of funkatizing galaxies... These abilities were later 
repossessed, and placed among the secrets of the pyramids, until a more 
proper attitude towards this most sacred phenomenon (Cloned Funk) could be 
acquired."


http://www.teleport.com/~repmail/af-am-mu.html
These names are by any standards giants of African-American music. By 
examining their lives, their music, and their associates we can make some 
sense of an impossibly diverse subject.

Louis Armstrong --The first solo voice in African-American music. The most 
influential of all.
Duke Ellington --The first true African-American composer. He virtually 
invented big band jazz.
Charlie Parker --The simultaneous revolution in harmony, melody, and rhythm. 
Modern jazz's chief innovator.
Miles Davis --A chameleon, changing several times, creating new forms at 
every junction.
Chuck Berry --The inspiration for all rock written since. An electric guitar 
soloist copied to this day.
Ray Charles --Soulful blues and rocking rhythm. Pianist, singer, bandleader.
Jimi Hendrix --The electric guitarist who changed the entire approach to 
modern rock. An influence on everyone.
George Clinton --Funk pioneer. A huge influence on all modern rap, funk, and 
hip-hop.
Bob Marley --Popularised reggae with his political stance seamlessly woven 
into his music.



>From: "Phil Wise" I have some catching up to do with Clinton, although I 
>have the "Tear the Roof Off" comp and "Dope Dogs", which has a real 
>CIA/drugs theme.  Food for thought, definitely.  I'll have to give Clinton 
>more of my time, I think...

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