Post #541561 by tiki mick on Fri, Jul 9, 2010 8:25 PM

On 2010-07-08 22:23, JOHN-O wrote:

Also Lucas, were you ever into P-Funk ?? Early Funkadelic was my favorite. Those were the days when Black music was cool before Rap killed it.

[ Edited by: JOHN-O 2010-07-08 22:33 ]

I liked them, but there were other, smoother sounding bands I liked better. Rick James, like I said, Cameo, and especially the band Slave. P-Funk was good, but a little too "trippy" for me. EWF, they were awesome...and still are! I also mentioned that I ws 100% into the early smooth jazz bands, especially Spyro Gyra and Crusaders, bands that had really funky grooves borrowed from soul/RB music.

This was at a time (late 70's) as well, where all my peers were into Led Zep and Aerosmith (which I liked too) but no one I knew liked funk music...in fact, I think they hated it and made a connection with Disco, therefore, uncool!

But for me, it was all about the bass parts, and funk music has some of the best!