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  • Wow!! I was at this show at the Cap Centere in Landover Maryland...Great post!!!

  • That is some funky bass line there at 2:00.

  • Dont fake da FUNK & get a SHOTGUN @ 8

  • Thanx P-Funk for daring to be different..

  • man i wish i was born in the late 60's so i could've witnessed music such as this!!! REAL MUSIC!

  • youre the children of production produced in conjunction with the urgency of our DR.FUNKENSTEIN if U r old skool you fill in the rest of the Blanks!!!!! become a real funkateer!

  • I WAS THERE LIKA MOTHER. THEY ROCKED EVERYTIME THEY CAME TO THE THEN ,CHOCOLATE CITY. LONG LIVE THE P-FUNK

  • SO  FUNKY !

  • Who tha funk disliked this?

  • Yes it does count funk on

  • They made a t-shirt of george with this outfit on. He had the cowboy hat and the same white shades.

  • @snakeplisskenish The bass voice is Ray Davis

  • always wondered... who is the guy with the incredibly deep voice?

  • who's the sir nose-wannabe who disliked this?

  • I like the part from 5:30. Good to my earhole.

  • THE PARLIMENTS at Oakland University with George Clinton in Aviator

    glasses Funking Up the Gymnaseum til midnight....no more church suits and doos the wide break from doooooo whop tradition personified....sanctifed and funktified.

    I twas there....smell my finger .

    that was in 1969

  • THE PARLIMENTS at Oakland University with George Clinton in Aviator

    glasses Funking Up the Gymnaseum til midnight....no more church suits and doos the wide break from doooooo whop tradition personified....sanctifed and funktified.

    I twas there....smell my finger !

  • Gary Shider alway sound good, but I prefer the original with Fuzzy Haskins singing lead and I love that melody that only Eddie Hazel can rip from his guitar. One of my favorites!

  • @nubiansista4life Yah, this is Fuzzy's song. Wish the original Parliaments would join GC on stage once more...R.I.P. Ray...Glenn, and Gary...Eddie..don't forget Philippe..

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  • Nobody could bring that gospel style funk vocals like Gary Shider. R.I.P

  • @LeBigMoneyShow nah brother you wrong there...Glenn Goins could bring it even better!

  • @dkn1362 Tru dat. I was luck enough to see them all including Bootzilla. I was backstage at Lollapalooza in 94 in California and met George Clinton while he was standing alone moments before he hit the stage. I was like damn, I just shook hands with the godfather of Funk!!

  • @dkn1362 YES!!  Glen Goins had a scream that would send chills through you, may he rest in peace.

  • Funkadelic is the only band cool enough to fade out live

  • Classic Funk..Parliafuckadelicment lives....

  • Cap Center was there

  • @bronzeroad33 the capital center was the party capital of the DMV.

    You went there for a show you receive every bit of what you paid your $25 . And then some . I've seen the mothership land I have witnessed Earth when and fire materialized on stage. I had never witnessed a violent incident at the Capitol Center. there will always good times to remember.

  • I was there!!!!!

  • Some do it for the chicks, some do it for the money, I want to do it so that people will feed me joints whilst I jam.

  • "Standing on the Verge of Getting it On" always sound best when Eddie Hazel is ripping that melody over and over on his guitar. I wish the cameramen focused less on George and the singers and more on the band behind them.

  • I used to work in a pretty nice hotel in NC and George Clinton stayed there, he was cool as shit and he left a spoon in his room he cooked drugs on, I still have it.

  • wooooooooooooonasty

  • Man I got goosebumps!

  • Now God has one of the funkiest man in planet Earth. RIP Starchild.

  • George Clinton es un dios

  • George was the lyrical genius and the mastermind responsible for merging the awesome talent in the P-Funk mix to create the incredibly unique P-Funk. George also developed a very unique singing style that was very funky. The awesome musicians included but weren't/aren't limited to the great Eddie Hazel, Glen Goins, Garry Shider, Michael "Kid Funkadelic" Hampton, Rodney "Skeet" Curtis, Bernie Worrell, Bootsy Collins, Jerome Brailey. The baddest band in the known Universe, Mollyfocks!

  • isn't it rodney skeet curtis on bass??

  • @kopi86

    Yes it is. That's why it's funky as hell :)

  • Go Gary Go

  • i just returned from seeing george clinton & parliament/funkadelic at chene park on july 9 2010 with cameo. great show. let it be known to all that billy bass was there and played on testify. it was a big surprise to me,very cool one. in memory of garry shider i miss him up there but it was still fun. george cut his gray hair and just wore a doo rag and  a baseball jersey he looked like a regular dude.

  • You have to understand what these guys meant to funk music and R&B music in

    general.These guys are funk music legends,do the research

  • R.I.P  Garry Shider thanks for sharing yourself with us!!!

  • it memory of garry shider a true funk legend. i dont care for the way billy bass, eddie hazel, glenn goins, jerome brailey & others were treated.but i dont hate george. remember if he didnt start the parliaments doo wop group and come here to detroit we might not even know about these great musicians that played in this group. nobodys perfect and these guys are passing on. lighten up.

  • RIP Garry Shider. You are one of kind.  Just think of the PFunk jam going on in Heaven right now. Garry, Glen Goins, Eddie Hazel, Stingray, Tiki Fulwood...

  • rest in peace Garry!

    Drop some funk on next planet P.

    thanks for the many shows I have seen!

  • Rest in Peace Garry

  • funk music sucks. bunch of niggers jerking their bass guitars....well done

  • GOD BLESS YOU

    @uzickismrad

  • @kelt657 God bless this guys....Is the word "nigger" insulting to black folks?

  • Kinda' disco'ish. I like the '76 live version waaaaay better. I like disco, but this is weak -- comparitively speaking.

  • hey george might have been coldblooded and ripped his people off but one thing about the music biz is everybody gets screwed not defending george but I've also learned the record biz is cold and shady and you have to step on a lot of people's toes to survive you wanna talk shady look at how berry gordy treated his artists.

  • Music to fuck to!!

  • @nycfunk-Glenn Goins was the Man...Loved his guitar playing too, his baby Bro. has taken up the mantle.

  • WOW!!!

  • George Clinton was always the best member of pfunk. Bootsy is a close second and everyone else is a DISTANT 3rd

  • no way. Clinton put together great musician and gave them freedom to jam.

  • talent-wise? no way. george clinton could not sing.  many, many times his microphone was unplugged. bootsy has more talent.

  • You do realize Pfunk was George's band? And you do know he was the EXECUTIVE PRODUCER he put the songs together he had the final cut. George was the mastermind and was easily the key piece to the pfunk puzzle

  • George Clinton is a snake, con man, thief and any other derogatory word you can think of. I have absolutely no respect for the ???? (i can't even call him a man)

    One thing I know for sure; Satan has a guest room prepared for his arrival.

  • @stellahazel why do u hate george clinton so much?

  • @atomicdog93funk see my previous posts. he is NOT a nice person. he robbed his band left and right of their royalties and other holdings. he didn't even go to his son's funeral (georgie III, recently) or his mother's. he has hurt many ppl and the truth about him will come out. i have known him since 1968.

  • @stellahazel I always wondered about him. He was talented in his own way but it seemed as though the legacy he created was based off the talents of other artists. Talents that he seemed to abuse. In some concerts he appears to only let singers shine so much than he would cut them short and start in with his "wack" singing. Wonder what it was like off stage with him.

  • @emisarre Geirge Clinton was the mastermind but people like Bootsy and especially Glen goines was the one with the voice. Glen Goines was the best vocalist he ever had and guitar player. There will never be another melodic angel like Glen Goines. He was the man and the band but still props go the George Clinton for being the best producer of his time. All of the Funkadelics should be rich because they all had impeccable talent. RIP Glen- I love you

  • @emisarre i don't agree. George was the mastermind and he could hold these talented people together, but he was the talent. The talented geniuses were Eddie Hazel, Glen Goins and Gary Shider just to name a few around Clinton. You have to admit George is the Kirk Franklin of Funk.

  • @nubiansista4life George was the Captain Kirk of Funk ;)

  • @carlosantenna oh that is too,too true. damn clever i wishd id of thought of it. but you did so 'nuff said

  • No one could work the crowd up for this song better than fuzzy haskins. this is tame compared to what fuzzy could do. there used to be a video of him; but i think it was taken down. darn youtube!

  • What about Glen Goins? Now that man had a voice

  • @nycfunk. I didn't know glen goins. i've listened to his videos but don't know if i ever saw him live in concert. yes, he has a tremendous voice.

  • Glen Goins was AWESOME. God rest his soul!!!

  • it was cool how they started singing good to your earhole at around 7:00

  • Best band ever.

  • LIGHT THAT SHIT UP GEORGE!!!

  • This is the ultimate!Multiple Eargasms!!

  • Those were the days at the Capitol Centre. I was 22 then. Young and wild and crazy about Parliament-Funkadelic.......

  • To KAMARIA7--and anyone else wondering:

    For that heavy JAZZ, the names were Johnny HODGES and Earl 'Fatha' HINES--yep, Maurice's daddy!!--Louis 'Satchmo' ARMSTRONG, Louis JORDAN--P-Funk's showmanship comes from HIM!--and 'Fats' WALLER. And those Blues Killa's are Jimmy REED, Muddy WATERS, B.B. KING and James COTTON---

    every last one of them I'm still hip to--with P-Funk expanding on all that. And, like you said, it's working for you: Dr. Dre, De La Soul, Black Eye Peas. All P-Funk 'kids'.

  • I'm gonna say it once more:

    Us "Old Heads" who experienced P-Funk in their prime--and in my case, happened to BE in the crowd at THIS STOP (Cap. Center, Landover, MD., 2-2-79)--are EDUCATING folks with our first-hand accounts and memories. Ya'll "Newbies" taking notes? Good, because this show was the BOMB!! And you heard it from me, who got into music and theater because of it! Thank You, George!!!

  • Hey, be nice now. Some of us couldn't be there b/c we were only 6 years old at the time! But, at least I was born in the 70s so Funk is in my DNA. I'm one of the Children of Production, a member of the Hip Hop generation (80-96 respectively), which is Funk's offspring, grew up listening to George Clinton and Bootsy Collins, saw George in concert twice. Doesn't that count for something? :-)

  • OK, Ok, Ok, babygirl. I apologize to ya'! ^_^ I'll take my "Paintbrush Slap!" like a man. ^_^ But seriously, the "pan-generational thang" not only worked for the funk, but--in my case, and thanks to my dad--the boogie-swing jazz of the late '30s- early '50s that gave way to the funk. My old man hipped be up to HODGES & HINES, ARMSTRONG, JORDAN and WALLER (heavy jazz, all), while my mom was no slouch in the BLUES dept.: REED, WATERS, KING and COTTON.

  • @CosmicFunkOSMOSIS same stuff i grew up with. dad was a musician, drummer.  house filled with jazz and blues 24/7

  • @Kamaria7 counts for plenty young funkster!

  • @Kamaria7 OH YES...respect!

  • @Kamaria7 yes it counts funk on were you get yo funk from.

  • @Kamaria7 Couldn't be said much better. I attended my first P-Funk show at 5 years old in 1977, so I was there too (L..A. show The Forum 1977) and saw The Holy Mothership land! Take Funk to Heaven in '77!

  • "newbies"??? Pah!! We are keeping the funk alive, and will continue to keep the funk alive long after the "old heads" go to the other side! ;-)

  • @Ligerpride hey! I'm one of them "old heads" ! i go back to 1968 when no one knew them!

    Bless you and please keep the funk alive forever! when i get to the otherside, i'll be with eddie again...and i can't wait!!! and hendrix too. i could just faint thinking about it.

  • @CosmicFunkOSMOSIS i was there also. we really funked the house! a true show ,good music,good friends, and plenty of smoke and drinks!! are you my baby's daddy? hahahahahahah

  • @cbfunk54

    Only if you were wearin' some tightass white capri pants in the balcony (LOL!!).

  • @CosmicFunkOSMOSIS

    "Funk On the Green" at the Oakland Coliseum 1980.

  • @CosmicFunkOSMOSIS

    Dude you rule!! Spread the gospel.

  • Thanks for the information Cheeki....Hazel was awesome, that brother had some "licks" sorry to see that he passed on

  • This group just amazes me, man, NOBODY will ever touch what they have done, EVER! *big smiles*

  • Edward Earl "Eddie" Hazel (April 10, 1950 December 23, 1992) was a pioneering and influential guitarist in early funk music in the United States, most famous for his lead guitar work with Parliament-Funkadelic. Hazel is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1996 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic.

  • Yeah, Eddie "maggot brain" Hazel was killah, wasn't he! *big smiles*

  • I was there, too. My friend Emily from Paris, France, in DC for a year, got the tickets. She and I were probably the only two white girls in that audience. We sure got a dance lesson. And no, our parents didn't know we weren't at the disco ;)

  • bierehere - Yes, that's Clinton in the long white wig. He was the ringleader and general chaos-maker, and did vocal work, but also had other vocalist stepping in. He did a lot of non-sense talking and ad-libing throughout the records and concerts. Clinton also did keyboard and synth work, but had other keyboardists who really tore it up.  Clinton's main role -act a fool, energize the band/crowd, and splif smoke. gotta luv it!!!!!!

  • so this is George Cilnton in this white wig? I'm just trying to figure out who is who in the P-Funk mob, cos they're so amazing. And it's hard for me to find Clinton, as he looks pretty damn different now. Another question:I suppose the main male vocalist is Clinton, I mean the guy who talks during the songs,interacts with the crowd and so on. But is it George? I know that Sheider, Goins, Morrison are often singing, but I mean the main guy.

    I'm the beginer funkster, so forgive me asking these.

  • Sorry buddy, but Glenn Goins was long gone to the "band upstairs" when The Motor Booty Affair was recorded/toured. George, Gary, Junie, Ray and Mudbone and Peanut were the main vocalists on that tour (at least at the Capitol Center that night---I remember it.).

  • Glen Lamont Goins (born January 2, 1954, died July 29, 1978) guitarist for Parliament Funkadelic in the mid-1970s. Goins is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic. Hodgkins Lymphoma-this master vocalist with the strong, haunting and powerful gospel voice is perhaps best known for "calling in the Mothership" in the P Funk earth tour : (

  • @bierehere george rarely sang and will be the first to tell you he can't sing! there were nights when they would turn his microphone off. but he can work a crowd to a frenzy. in an article I read, he said the younger guys were better singers than parliment, so he just let whoever felt like taking the lead take the lead. and that's a fact. funkadelic history circa 1968.

  • That's Jeanette "Baby" Washington and (the late great) "Sting"-Ray Davis rockin' that shared mic!!! FUNK!! WITH!!! THAT!!!!!! WOOF!!

  • Hmm. That appears to be Dawn Silva to me. You sure Jeanette was on this tour?

  • Oh, that's a definite. At the DC Stop (The Capitol Center), The Brides weren't there (they were on the ANTI-TOUR stop at The Howard Theater 4 months earlier, though). PARLET was at the DC Stop (Jeannette, Malia--and I think Sheila Horne). But, that was definitely Jeannette. 4 Months later, Jeannette and Parlet returned for the "Booty Snatchers" tour at Constitution Hall.

    It was a busy 2+Years for P-Funk in DC between Jan. '78 and Dec. '79 ("Gloryhallastoopid" at Cap. Cntr. in Dec. '79.).

  • good god, what's the name of the girl in black singing at 0:27? she is absolutely SMOKING!!!!!

  • Gotcha covered on that, dawg. Hold tight:

    JEANETTE "Baby" WASHINGTON of Parlet. And here's where it got funny:

    Later on during the Motor-Booty segment, the BIRD Prop accidently nudged her ass, and without missing a note (during Aqua-Boogie), she smacked the beak in payback.

    George was reclining back in the Bird's mouth during Aqua Boogie, so it must've been a 'weight issue' on the wires. But, those thangs happen in ALL Live Theater!!

    Jeanette "Baby" Washington--PARLET's Lead Singer.

  • man.

    screw modern day conveniences. i really missed the perfect period of modern music - the 70's. i know all these shows had to be the livest thing out there.

  • Damn straight! I work in theater NOW because of that show. To this date, I'm still trying to figure out the Lighting/Color-scheme of the "Fish-Tank" effect for the Motor-Booty segment of the show. Blew my mind then (because it was so darn resourceful--just simple lighting and color--and still impressive 30-years and 3 months later.).

    Like you said dawg, the old shows were the liveliest!!! WOOF!

  • More proof that I was there:

    When Gary Shider and Junie Morrison sat on the stage and grooved to "Into You", all the girls went WING-WANG NUTS!!! That wrecked my ears when they screamed and moaned. I LIKED!!!

  • fellas, fellas. seriously, take it to missfunkentelechy. she'll straighten this mess out right quick.

  • ecstatic

  • Yes !!

  • The bass on this makes it twice as nasty as the album version

  • Took me to CHURCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    PEACE

  • thats not gary, thats glen goins

  • if this is Glen Goins then the year is wrong, Mr Goins died July 28, 1978 RIP GG....

  • it's garry shider...

  • thats garry

  • No my friend, that is DEFINATELY Garry Shider. I was THERE (15 years old, on that coldass February night!!). That was THE MOTOR-BOOTY AFFAIR show at The Capital Centre. My first ever P-Funk show (my first ever major concert), and it will live in my memory. I'm GLAD someone has resurrected those Capital Centre monitor tapes. Oh yea--

    Me and my brothers and our friends were in the balcony!!!  "High, ya'll!!"

  • Im sorry to burst your bubble fellow Funkateer...Im willing to bet my house and SUV that is Glen Goins......Read carefully....Glen died in 1978, this concert was performed in 1979. Thats Gary Shider !! And anyway, any REAL Funkateer would KNOW the difference!

  • And, I should KNOW:

    It was FEBRUARY 2, 1979: GROUNDHOG NIGHT!! (lol!!!). And, to verify it: The Columbia House Year In Music Book for 1979 (remember when you got that book when you got albums by mail from Columbia House? ^_^) actually listed that same show (at the Capitol Center) as the biggest selling stop on the Motor-Booty tour (all seats SOLD!!! Me and my brothers were actually STANDING 4 shoulders deep in the balcony!!).

    Proud to have BEEN THERE!! Yeaaaa, boy!

  • Well, I was on the floor that night four deep from the stage. I didn't see Glen, cause he was dead by then. Gary has been filling his shoes every since. This show was in '79. And yeah it was cold as hell frozen over outside that night. But I beleive you were there, we all were. If you were a black teen, had the money for the ticket, which I think were $8.50, your parents would let you go and if you liked P-Funk, and had a ride? You were there.lol

  • The thing that still trips my ass out to this day was when we were all leaving the Cap Center at----I'm sure it was a little after 3 AM---that P-Funk pulled a "Mothership Connection" encore, and had all of us rushing to get back inside!! We rocked for another 25 minutes---

    then they sent us all home....

    FUNKIN' AWESOME!!!!

    May the Capitol Center--home of all the good shit back-n-da-day--rest in peace. Great memories there, and P-Funk was the FIRST!!

  • Fantastic! Back then, there was MUSIC, played by MUSICIANS!!!

    Respect!

  • And you know what? To this day, I STILL catch P-Funk whenever they "invade" DC (preferably at the infamous 'dirty 30', The 9:30 Club!!). Been a P-Funk concert loyalist for 30 Years-9 Months as of this posting...

    And Dang Proud Of it!!!! WOOF!

  • Groovy! Since I live in France, it is harder to see such acts in concert... However, George plays the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland almost every July. Hope I'll see him someday!

    Since the death of James and the fall of Sly, George is the true last original funketeer alive (well Bootsy is one too but since he's younger... ;) )! He's the Black Zappa, Funk's Roland Kirk!

  • Even in DC, we have a living legend who's a contemporary of P-Funk (you've probably heard of Chuck Brown And The Soul Searchers). Chuck's been doing it as long as I remember (back in the day, it was 6 nights per week, 5 hours each!!). We also had OSIRIS, who was inspired by P-Funk, with some 'cosmic Egyptian' thrown in. Also, we had Trouble Funk (inspired by Chuck Brown and P-Funk), and they were monsters back in the early '80s. All legends with a P-Funk connection, or two, or three.

  • I've heard of them without having actually heard them. Gotta correct this... ;-)

    Actually, the P-Funk Mob is a bit like the Zappa alumni. Even if the Maestro is dead, the people who played with him, and even people who haven't, are still spreading his spirit out. Too bad business and dulness have killed music.

    BTW, do you know of any good video of a James Brown live show from his best period? Although I love his music, I'm not really into his 80s production...

  • PIONEER/GENEON (yup, the anime label) put out a badass concert James did in the '70s on DVD about 4-5 years ago. I'm still trying to get it, because I only saw a snippet of it on a PBS special. It had (a young, glasses-less) Bootsy, looking stoned and plucking the hell outta his bass, with James chanting, "BOOTSY!! YA'LL SAY, 'BOOTSY'!!" It might be out of print, but its a real DVD (you might find it at a used DVD/CD place). But...wow!!

  • i understand, youre french, but please NEVER compare two COMPLETELY

  • different artists. yeah i see your reasoning "zappa and clinton both play 'weird' music". zappa doesnt play the real funk, you know, THE BOMB uncut shit. i like zappa he's great, but his music is too anal retentive to compare to george clinton's loose booty approach

  • I've never said FZ played Funk. My point was that both created a whole universe where many musicians came and went, whilst always keeping the same approach, the same spirit. Their music might appear loose to an uneducated ear but it's highly constructed :-)

  • @CosmicFunkOSMOSIS in the beginning, 1968, their concerts would last 5 or 6 hours. they didn't really have many songs lined up, so they just jammed their butts of in between. and if funkadelic had the house rockin, gc would hold parliament back for awhile. there will never be another band like the ORIGINAL funkadelic.

  • Gary Shider taking all of us to Church!

  • it's so good it hurts!

  • Gotta love the way they mix that with "good 2ur earhole"...another classic tune/album !! Yes, I did text "A L B U M " Forever thanking you, Mr.Garry " DOO-WOP " Shider...Hell, I'm 47yrs n still getting dressed up to see these MUSICIANS !! You really shouldn't ought to fight it...

  • It's a shame that with his talents, they go unnoticed till ya see his FUNK LIVE !! Mr. Garry " DOO-WHOP " Shider..best believe you are loved !!

  • my favorite Funkadelic song.

  • I still can't believe I never found out about these guys until 2007 ! How many years did I waste ?

  • Same here. Awesome going.

  • About 40yrs. I been groovin for about 35yrs

  • try 35

  • people what you doin'?? standing on the verge of gettin' it on...woah

    you funk!!

  • I Love Funkadelic

  • good god. this is just too damn good exist...

    soppingly overwhelming

  • Putcha hands together,C'mon and stomp your feet...Hell YEAH!

    Good Form!!

  • Has Phunqy been sending you vids again?!

  • Happy music, happy people !

  • funk not only moves; it can remove

  • these were the days

  • brilliant, absolutely brilliant

  • Sho can, and it smells damn funky.

  • can you smell the funk?

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