Flash Light (Part 2)- Houston 1978

[Pollardedward66]

Most of all we need da funk,

[rasta487]

so jealous that I wasn't there.

[SmoothJJazzy]

now this is a concert, nothing against the young bucks but do we really think anyone out today can put on a performance like this, without instruments lol

[originalWokstar]

2 people can't find their Flashlight, time to get with a Bop Gun!!

[SmoothJJazzy]

simply the best!!!!!Noone ever left a PFunk concert back in the day as said they did not get their money worth, their shows was nothing of amazing.... Thank you George

[loobycliff]

That is one of the most incredible concerts ever done. If you were there that night, you have seen genius at work. Even on a little computer, in my bedroom, that is un fucking believable.

[multiwilliams1234]

its so funky it made my toes curl

[crabula]

sick. that's all i can say.

[studi0robb]

shit! goddamn! git off yo' ass and jam!

[jzguru]

@SimbaWM

Garry Schider.. that was always his distinguishing feature. He passed away a little over a year ago

[MsAnnSHines]

George Clinton has always been way ahead of his time!

[jzguru]

Look at the size of the flashlight he's packing.. I'm envious

[illusionstateofmind]

great!!

[BassByTheBay]

Larry Dodson singin' with George! And Cameo's there, too?! Damn, this was like the Holy Grail of funk!!

[PiperOndioline]

As of 5/21/11, two people have no slide in their glide, no dip in their hip...

[plentyone]

NEVER AGAIN...JUST PLAIN, NEVER EVER AGAIN, WILL WE SEE ANTYHING LIKE THIS...PLAIN & SIMPLE...................

[RebelZidane]

Wow those trumpet plays are great.

[ETThompson]

Is that Bootsy on the bass? Sounds like his sounds and style, but don't get a good look...

[myfootinurass]

@ETThompson no thats probably one of their other completely under appreciated other bassist lol still crazy funky tho...but if it was bootsy ud kno for sure

[potobuah15]

@ETThompson @myfootinurass

i think it's skeet curtis.... the bassist looks a little too tall to be cordell.... it could be Bootsy, but I think Bootsy would've went a little more free with the improv than what we hear here.

[lawplanet12]

@potobuah15 YOU ARE CORRECT !!! SKEET IS MY MENTOR ! THAT'S HIM

[myfootinurass]

@potobuah15 most definitely and bootsy's got that star bass....just saw him live last saturday it was nothing like this but it was still every bit as funky

[Timmyfunk1]

@potobuah15-The bassist is indeed Rodney Skeet Curtis.

[lawplanet12]

@ETThompson  that's definitely skeet on Bass !

[ETThompson]

Is that Bootsy on the bass? Sounds like his sounds and style, but don't get a good look...

[bigtmoney8000]

SO FUNKY!!!!

[bourgeoisbrats]

Church...

[heckto35]

DAMN!!!!! Them fools was Getin' DOWN!

[bigrena57]

George and the Boyz kick ass!!! Im 57 and still love da Funk!!

[batcab52]

The space ship was cool!!!! Blast off

[CarcassSpeilburg]

SO GOD DAMN FUNKY!

[yukimaruzam]

How many bands have like a dozen or more people on the stage - its a party on stage and in the audience!!

[shoelessthunder]

and 2 people are still as tight-assed as humanly possible. How can this song not get you funked up?

[pulafats]

@ micro1969is free..Ur exactly right...

[soulgriot]

Flashlight is the greatest song OF ALL TIME!!!

[bigrena57]

@soulgriot Flashlight and Confunkshun's Love Train!

[BjornToRock1]

I could see this every week...!!! What a party !!

[SixtyThreeStrat]

OMG Bring Back DA FUNK!!

[ayla8251]

flashlight, flashlight, flashlight, flashlight..neon light,spotlight.

[ElderChuckAnderson]

I now know how they get you to become a Funkadelic: That bass roll is so hypnotic. It just pulls you in! From the beginning of this song (Part 1 Houston 1978) until the very end, you can't break the mesmerizing spell of P-Funk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Downstryke]

Dah dah dah dee dah dah dah dah dah!

Dah dah dah dee dah dah dah dah dah!

Dah dah dah dee dah dah dah dah dah!

Dah dah dah dee dah dah dah dah dah!

Dah dah dah dee dah dah dah dah dah!

[MrJonrob01]

The entire concert was Cameo, the Bar Kays and Parliament. At the best big venue H-Town EVER had...The Summit. I remember this show like it was yesterday. Shit! Goddamn! Git Off Yer Ass And Jam!!!!

[micor1969isfree]

P-funk,Kiss,and Alice Cooper put on the wildest shows of all times. I'm not comparing the music because they're not the same. All three put a lot of effort into their show to give the people their monies worth. P-funk/George Clinton will always be the best of funk music. Mettalica is a great metal/thrash band, but any theatrics they might use came from the three groups i just mentioned. Take me to chocolate city.

[OrgenaII]

who turned George's mic off @ 2:27 to 2:51? were they tryin to get the P off stage?

[philiptwood]

2:11 That dude in the diaper is a trip LOL.

[cgord37]

so damn fonkay!

[parasanger]

One of the first vinyl LPs I owned. Had to hide it between my Styx and Foreigner albums so my family wouldn't find out that I wanted to PFunk Out!

[21Blader21]

I think that everybody present on this concert changed inside, even a little. To see this kind of spectacle must be life experience for anybody. Yes, the music was just great, but listening to this music and watching those sci-fi, surreal, abstract things going on on stage must be with no doubt tremendous. I wish I was on one of their concerts.

[21Blader21]

Who is the second weirdo who comes on scene in this part of the video? :-)

[cortorbor]

@21Blader21

That's Larry Dodson the lead singer of the Bar-Kays. The Bar-Kays opened for them on that tour.

[StormSong8]

Ahhh... so THAT'S what music's all about!

[xboxlad11]

Flash light!!!

[jcook51]

Where can I get an mp3 of this version?!

[antiembishop07]

Epic Performance.

[ddfreshley]

who was the drummer for parliment on this show

[OrgenaII]

@ddfreshley someone named Nate Jones, played on Flashlight (song). But Jerome Brailey and Tyrone Lampkin were the drummers for the beginning of the 78 tour. Jerome quit and Dennis Chambers played later.

[ninestraycats]

this should have a million views.

[bannananhai]

nothin can beat this

[marcandrelessard]

chap eau ^ : )

[dlcoop11]

THE MOTHERSHIP LIKE NONE OTHER!!!!

[marzcandybarz]

lol@ cameo

[OrgenaII]

I can't tell when Jerome gets up and leaves the drums. But he's front and center @ 1:56.

[OrgenaII]

if that's Jerome with the big hat on, he never plays on Flash Light, he's singing on the mic with Ray Davis, part 1 & 2.

[4Selah]

now I know why I was born in 1978 - year of the funk I just had to partake (I wonder what the date of this is cause I was born in Dallas,Texas at 9:08pm, maybe they shook me outta my womb!

[thestoryplease]

FUNK-A-DELIKICO!!!!!!!!!!!!

[muzikman183]

they're all sooo high right now... lol... these cats were off the wall... nobody like ir.. word on the street is the motherships is supposed to land again... saw on myspace a WHILE back that george was feelin inspired and in the studio possibly with some NEW stuff! hopefully the good Doctor can give us somethin for this new placebo syndrome...

[Hardtack444]

would people genreally agree this is p-funks prime?

[OrgenaII]

I dont know, all of Parliament quit except Ray Davis, Glenn left, No Maceo, Fred, Kush, No Black Byrd. They do have Skeet, though.

[JustTheCabDriver]

NEVER say they aren't the masters! I haven't seen anyone on stage of late that could come close to Parliament/P-Funk in their prime. George Clinton and Bootsy can still throw down with the best of them--and they would eat Metallica for lunch and come back for seconds.

[Hardtack444]

i repsect funk like no otehr genre.. because its not really and expression of anyhting no one feels funky, its just a itself

but earyl metalica was really cool teh passion tehy displayed watch with cliff burton pre 87 AWESOME

[Ravenpulse]

Holy hell if that ain't funk I don't know what is!

[scottyraw13]

this looks like the most amazing show

[taistelutomaatti]

This is probably what hell looks like.

And not in the bad way.

[KRyPToNiTe1923]

@atomicdog93funk ur a fucking deusche metallica are gods of metal, they were one of the main factors in the uprising of thrash and metal in general who would eat the heads off of little emo fags and saying they cant play instruments just shows how much of a dumb cunt you are. Make my funk the P-Funk

[atomicdog93funk]

@KRyPToNiTe1923 metalica may be gods of metal but when someone says they are better than p-funk, there is something wrong. First of all you cant even compare the two they are different in so many ways but i can respect metallica i just never understood their music but hey if u like metallica and p-funk cool. I like people who like different kinds of music. But when someone compares them i tend to get mad. Anyway its one nation under a groove, getting down for the funk of it!

[KRyPToNiTe1923]

fair cop groove on my man

[kurro1986]

pa volverso loco que pasadaaa. El fiestón y el musicón padre

[5dddddaviddddd5]

mettelica is better

[atomicdog93funk]

@5dddddaviddddd5 metallica is nothing compared to these masters of a real party. They put all they could in there concerts and still do. Metallica is not even in the same league parliament funkadelic is. Dont you even compare a real band to a bunch of emos who cant play an instrument. Understand what a real party is. A real party is a p-funk party!

[esquibelle]

That is hilarious. Completely different style of music. You are free to like whomever you choose, but I will always remember the p-funk shows as the wildest gigs of all times.

[williamjhitchcock]

this is fucking great! how have i not come across this yet?

[esquibelle]

they are on drugs

[sixtinain]

and who don't?

[esquibelle]

Not saying it's a bad thing...just that I saw them getting high on stage...such a wild band!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sixtinain]

yes of course, I mean.

I didn't say as a bad thing :D

of course not!

[sand2oo8]

this is.......AWSOME

[sand2oo8]

this is wild and cool

[SarcasticPhuk]

Damn that's Funk-o-licious.

[mrpedebare]

damn them guys just having a party and they like s'cool you guys can come in to

damn damn damn i wish i'd been born to see the funk mob

[5dddddaviddddd5]

they still tour =good

[cosmicslop86]

That bass growls like hell.

[freakystyley4000]

@cosmicslop86 - fuck me! Yes! Yes! YES! Oh! OH fuck yeah! God!!!! SKEJGOELIJPAUHLIDJPSDUJIOHG -= Bass me up nigga!!! FUCK YEAH!'

[Robtha3rd]

This wasn't sold in America due to the fact that the lead singer of the Bar-Kays wanted to be paid for singing Flashlight for a few bars of the song. Is for sale though in Japan on VHS.

[juliusintherain]

Amazing, no matter how stupid they were trying to look. Probably, ironically but quite naturally, this is one of the best things America turned out in the 20th century.

No one on this planet but them can explode this way.

[mysterymediacorp]

@juliusintherain Creative yes, only a fool would even associate the word 'stupid' with Clinton and the boys

[240warheads]

I guess I'll go count the sheep

[mellojoe]

a cameo by Cameo lol

[dprowelldpr]

One of the nastiest bass lines in music history right there.

[funkfan45]

I agree!

Who was the bassist?

Is it Rodney "Skeet" Curtis or Bootsy?

[OrgenaII]

Skeet

[Robinzgrl2]

I was there. It was incredible. Parliament concerts were like church to us as teenagers. Enlightening, fun, intense. The whole audience bonded with the band as one positive force. I really miss that.

[funkfan45]

Really?

I'm 48 years old now.

I've been a PFunk fan since I was 8 years old.

[patrick9648]

Whats funny about this music is that they are actually playing instruments. Unlike most of the crap on the radio today which is done on computers. You can't replace real musicians. Computers have no soul.

[HispanicImpression]

FLASH LIGHT !

[backyarddinosaur]

Man! Can you feel them tear the roof off that sucka? Tearin the roof off my funkified-skull and letting the magic-coated goodness sparkle my brain!

Hundreds of years from now people will look back at this and shake their heads in wonder. They might even be a little jealous, hah! A fuckin milestone in Civilization right there. Let there be P-Funk! Freaky and habit-formin! Play on sisters! Play on brothers!

[DaddyBlackwood]

Man I was 8 year old at the time of this concert. Wish I could have been there. My older brother was a dj and he got me into Parliament back then. I was big fan since i was little dude. Trying to spin records and had to use a crate to reach the turntables. LOL.

[sonjaxfactor]

LOORD! PLEASE, HAVE MERCY!

[Cashndoeallday]

BRAVO

[nino2lu]

One of the best band that the world had knew...! It's awesome...!!!

[paraxysm]

epic

[phlapblasta]

The thing I remember most was that it was close to 100 degrees in August. My lady and I moved to the top of Soldiers Field to try to get away from the masses and to get a breeze when multiple stampedes took place across the stadium. It was like watching a sea of dominoes fall. Okay maybe it was just the drugs kickin' in.....just kiddin'. It was the 70's.

[phlapblasta]

What you know about the belly up fellow SDer? LOL. Just keep the funk alive. As George said when asked where was funk going? "Funk is never going, Funk is all comin'!!!"(your connotation may vary).......yea!!! Starchild!

[mimimoder]

i have seen them a few time at the belly up taven in solana beach...maybe 500 people there. they played for hours...great

[steveminn]

I know, right???

[olskl]

I wasn't in Houston, but I saw them many times (sometimes mutiple cities on the same tour). The biggest was at the Chicago Field "Funk Festival". 150,000 Funkateers and every funk band alive. The largest concert in the world that year. An all day sucker....... I drove from Dayton, Ohio to get my funk on.

[drgroove]

there is video of that show,set to be put on dvd next year.like a woodstock.

[Chochi1]

Keep me posted PLEASE!!!!!

[Downstryke]

Written on the far, tattered edge of an old pirate's map: "Here there be Phunk!"

(They knew to spell phunk with a P in the days of yore.)

[pphunkwephunk]

damn straight. . .

[SpunkyBlunderbus]

Oh yes!

\m/

[opalzone]

Wow, I had to watch that again--that was absolutely AMAZING!!!!!!! That's just--wow, I have no words.

[opalzone]

Hellz Yeah!!!!!!!!! George Clinton is STILL ahead of his time. It would have been so great to be there!

[swinginghenk]

Damn I so wish i was there

[bizarro20daves]

dont we all.

thats the fonque right there.

[rmsolympic1]

Any vids with Eddie Hazel incinerating his fretboard?

[budz73]

I hope this was the last song of the night! My heart couldn't take much more funk after that!

[Ezyasnos]

OK. It's app. 30 years old this stuff. But it's more like todays stuff is 30 years old and this is something of the future 8-)

We humans cannot take so much funk atm. We have to evolve.

[jojofromthe810]

Who is that playing bass? It sounds like Bootsie but it doesn't look like him.

[FAMUMarching100]

Thats Rodney "Skeet" Curtis on bass who toured from 77-79 then came back

[gbrown4x4]

Man in 78 I was 20.I We used to jam Flashlight at Grambling at the dances. I just wish i could have been there at that concert back then. I'm 2hrs from Houston. I did get to see them in Lake Charles around 80 or 81. They still tore it up. Funk at it's purest. Just like Cameo. Them boys used to really JAMM. Pure FUNK!!!!!!!

[blackfalconsungodzzz]

WOoow...did yall know thats THE GROUP CAMEO" on stage the DUDE in the white siute & LARRY BLACKMAN they funkin with P-FUNK u gotta love'it...

[madvillainee]

ridiculous

[studguy43613]

30 years ago and he is still the shiznit. I'm a dj and still play his stuff at my club. Wow I felt like I was at the concert.

[AerosmithTour2005]

Parliament is to good music as orgasm is to sex.

[okay2132008]

WOW. WHEW. I NEED A CIGARETTE.

[Boogiebonez]

You know, to all of Michael Hampton's critics: One listen to the solo on this should kill off any ideas that he doesn't have original ideas. You can't say he's copying Eddie Hazel here!

[dn1362]

How can I get a copy of this? Anyone know?

[Mabus69]

The drummer you are referring to GFunk1 is Nate Jones. Nate was from the James Brown camp.

[Gfunk1]

Shit all wrong for who ever posted this cause I had this full video back in 1988 first generation transferred from "BETA TAPES" from a private source.Anyway it was one of Jerome "Bigfoot"Brailey's last gigs but interesting enough that drummer with antler horns on etc...is Nate not sure of his last name and Tyrone Lampkin P-Funks Drummer before Jerome did a solo at the end of the show clad in blonde afro wig.This was pretty deep indeed a lot of P-Funk Drum Politics still in effect even b4 I left!

[898106]

yea you're correct. when i saw he was wearing that same antenna hat boogie used to wear during the earth tour i assumed it was him, but i think boogie is dancing on stage there with sum big funky sun glasses on and a goatee. boogie played bass on bop gun and cosmic slop during this tour, but he used to play drums back in the day some as well. and ill post tyrone's killer drum solo here too. thanks for pointing that out

[Timmyfunk1]

@Gfunk1-The drummer that performs the drum solo at the end of this particular gig is Tyrone Lampkin.

[shitfuckshitshit]

even for a P-Funk stage, this is goddamned great.

[jnorman0611]

Flashligt!

[stevebully]

yo he left in a speceship yall.dat wuz wild.

[PhuckHue]

Larry Blackman is on stage singing but its kinda ironic he dissed P. Funk the following year with "I Just Want To Be"

[Timmyfunk1]

I wouldn't call that a diss. Unless there's some thinly veiled references to P-Funk, I don't see where you're coming from.

[ReeseMac]

That is one fuckin' wild scene , man. Wow!

[thewiseonehere]

I said the bigga tha headache the bigga tha pill baby!

[Boogiebonez]

At 2.25 - 2.40 George's microphone fails and he has to go and take one from somebody else.

[fonkhead]

once again dr.funkenstein delivered the funk to this unfunky planet. coming from the chocolate milky way,deep in the black hole.watching him board the mothership 'swing down,sweet chariot i wanna ride'mother fonk you!

[fonkhead]

ain't nuthin' but a partay,babay!

[SidewalksOfNY315]

Classic song and performance. It never gets old watching the Mothership land and take off on stage!

[Boogiebonez]

Neva gets old!

[crazwigonop]

whoops

big beat and big fun

yeah stand up and shake your ass

[ePhilosopher]

Vroom Part 2~ under the sun!

[ePhilosopher]

everybody's got a little hot

underthecollarundrthecollarund­erthecollar

[MarvD]

I saw this same show when they were on tour that summer, 1978!

[FireitupBedford]

Taking nothing from these guys but they can't even touch Rick James and the Stone City Band.

[awwfunkme]

I ain't tryin' to start nothin', but...Excuse Me!!

In what way is the Stone City Band comparable to the Funk Mob? I'm assuming (of course) that you ain't a newcomer to the funk. I mean, really doe...that's somewhat like comparing James Brown and Bobby Brown; besides the obvious, I don't see any comparison. Similarities...yes. Comparison....hell no!

[FireitupBedford]

Just my opioion bro.

[Mabus69]

FireitupBedford...

Let me sum it up. P-Funk = original

Rick James and The Stone City Band =imitator

They are were great but never on the level of The U.S. Funk Mob

[Timmyfunk1]

Gotta concur with what you're saying. How can the two bands be compared on any level?

[awwfunkme]

Allright then. Jus' gotta let 'em know sometimes where the source of the Nile actually originates.

Funk on, bro.

[kgmckool]

THE U.S.FUNK MOB IN FULL EFFECT!

[raygu1818]

Wow! I was only 12 years old in 1978 but damn i would have rather had all this funk on stage with p-funk,cameo,and the barkays for a christmas present rather than a moped.

[bresmith]

Shit god damn, get off your ass and dance!