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[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 49 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The George in the photo has had way more impact than the one in the article IMO

Parliament & Funkadelic have made some of the most important contributions to modern music

[-] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

I saw him live about ten years ago.

As per usual, he was about two hours late getting started. Once things got going I counted no fewer than sixty people traipsing about the stage in various stages of undress and demonstrating innumerable methods of erotic dance, including but not limited to a contortionist pimp with a dildo for a nose, all while George sat motionless on a stool in the center.

This went on for at least four hours at which point, we decided to take our leave.

As far as I know, that show is still going, never to conclude.

That shit was weird. Really weird.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

It must have taken a pause at least because I saw him 9 years ago in a field in the UK

Fantastic musician, but as you say, definitely a bit weird

Kinda as all the greats are, really

[-] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I think George might transcend spacetime and that it's possible that both your show and mine are still going on somewhere in a broom closet aboard the mother ship.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

That makes a lot of sense actually, I'm convinced this is the case

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

My favorite live video clip is their performance of Cosmic Slop in Houston 1976. It's pretty much as you describe:

At one point they realize the sound on one of the guitars is out, and they just switch player mid-solo. That's professionalism.

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[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 5 months ago

I know this isn't true because we're not called the United States of Funk

[-] pooberbee@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 months ago

It is actually true, just the portrait they've chosen for the article is highly stylized and didn't really look like him.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"Highly stylized" as in "an entirely different person"

[-] pooberbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 months ago

Well not entirely different. They're both named George.

True. Someone needs to make a venn diagram

[-] pooberbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

They also both had sons named George.

[-] Signtist@lemm.ee 16 points 5 months ago

And he's got 38 degrees in fucking.

[-] atkion@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

I'm glad people still remember this, I immediately heard it in my head when I saw this post

[-] Blyfh@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

A prominent Democratic-Republican

The modern American mind cannot comprehend this

[-] rez_doggie@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Paint the white house black

[-] taanegl@beehaw.org 3 points 5 months ago

So loweth that thou cannot get under it, so highet that thou cannot get over it, amen.

[-] erp@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Put a glide in your stride, and a dip in yo hip, and come on to the mothership

[-] pigup@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

"they say the bigger the headache, the bigger the pill. How do you spell relief? Have it your way." - VP George "atomic dog" Clinton

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