Close Encounters of the Funkiest Kind

[calirec43]

monte and the mechnical migets who knows that!!!!!!!!!

[b00too]

...and NY gets all the credit for Hip Hop? before fools were spinning on their heads, this is what the 415 was all about!

[Smurfzation]

i see what your saying but this aint hip hop

it influenced it and the bay should get alot of credit for it

[theyoungcommander]

I think you're half right. It started before hip hop, so it isn't purely hip hop, but the transition is seamless. Boogaloo was still in its infancy wen hip hop was born and fit right in.

Same with BBOYing. Cats were spinning off their backs to funk tracks at the same time djs were scratching breaks and mcs were coming up. They gelled more quickly bcuz it was all new york but they were not born together.

Poppin' is a hip hop dance more so than any other dance bsides bboying. It is hip hop now

[HaNavi512]

I like to keep my hip hop and funk separate!

[dreadstock]

@b00too

well put, the Bay graduated the scene into something new

now, earlier in late 60's, washington soul group the Unifics were kinda doing sync dancing,

instead of the net, the info/dance/music/culture flowed by Greyhound bus, guys in the service, people coming home from visiting Family across country

real deep - peace

[tiodoze408]

nights by nights by cameo that was the shit dont 4get to speed up them records to 45 thats that bay to the 408 you cant touch the bay feel me

[DocLock]

I seen CEFK back in the late 70's at a show in San Fran at California Hall (that was OUR "Radiotron" back in the days). They did their Kraftwerk TransEurope Express routine there. Then again in other shows at LONGSHOREMAN's HALL (hall at Fisherman's Wharf) I seen them do the FIRE piece. Seen a couple other times back in the day. Definitely were a true inspiration. This video doesn't even begin to touch what they were capable of.

[theyoungcommander]

I was two generations after Close. Only got to see them once, when they came outta retirement at the Scottish Rite talent show. That was probably the sickest bay talent show I'd ever seen. The ones in Richmond were raw: Ashtrons, Androids, Criminons/Demons, but Scottish Rite had Playboyz Inc. and Shields Inc. came outta no where.

Sick ass show. Close was deep. Those O.G. groups were about a show, not just boog'n.

[TBattle31]

@theyoungcommander What's up Bro. I just came across this clip and couple of other ones and read the comments you wrote. I am an original member of Shields Inc. I remember the Scottish Rites show. Thought we should of one, but couldn't be mad at anybody that night. Was indeed sickest show in the Bay!!! Peace.

[LannyS1]

In 1978 me and my brother moved back to Los Angeles where we went to Locke High School and created The Originals dance team and trust me there were NOBODY in LA dancing like this....PERIOD. After ruling LA my partner Boppin Andre form a 2 man team that was unstoppable.

[waves]

without folks like you puttin this stuff up?

how would some of the new folks know about this...

thanks man...

[Starflite07]

Thanks mane.

I love this artform, and I love the people who have brought us so much... like y'all in Pomona with them waves.

I don't know why it's so hard for people to show love, for the opportunity to experience and participate...

actually I DO know why - selfishness and jealousy

[mistaecko]

I meant high school student, not 'high' student, lol.

[mistaecko]

I meant high school mascot, not 'high' mascot,lol. I have interviewed Dana several times and have his interviews recorded to DVD, where he gives exact years, locations,names, places of origin, everything! I might post those on You Tube one day.

[mistaecko]

Oakland is the true origin of this whole genre of dance. The first individual who lit the spark and created the foundation upon which all other "funk styles" later came from, was a young high mascot from Fremont High school on Foothill Blvd in the mid to late 60's. 65-68.

[mistaecko]

Thank u so much for this clip. I'm from oakland and the truth is finally coming out. Boogaloo Dana from Demons of the Mind aka Media Sirkas is a good, personal, friend of mind and constantly tells me the real history of this dance.

[Starflite07]

feel you my dogg

[Starflite07]

I'm not sure of the exact year of this clip, but Close Encounters is an OG group doing styles from Frisco (mainly) and Oakland, passed down from other Oakland and Frisco groups, who've been performing since the 60s.

I DO know that here in LA, they were an influence as early as 77 and 78, but an underground influence - ie they weren't in Hollywood or on Soul Train.

[jamar33]

WHAT'S THE NAME OF THE SONG