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[art9schw]

I'm a huge fan of the funk, and I love seeing how all music since funk has changed and been influenced by funk. While it's easy to see disco as a corrupting/commercializing of true funk, I gotta say that I also really like some disco records, and all those wonderful in-betweens that are just very funky dance tunes.

[cavaleer]

Funny how what's supposed to be new is actually rehashed James Brown.

[cavaleer]

Yep. George was/is a genius but he can actually thank Disco for giving him and antithesis, a foil.

[wendileona]

Well, you can take it negatively like that & pit one black genre against the other, a convenient, common divide & conquer trap...but Disco was not a sell out genre. Its an offshoot of the danceable base of Funk. Added influences of Classical, Blues and as you can hear in Sylvester a direct influence of Gospel. Think of the hi-hat as the handclaps you hear in Gospel and its an amazing revelation. To belittle Disco as just some commercialized, semi-homosexual genre is slightly ignorant.

[muzikman183]

you're absolutely right

[55maria]

これ何て番組ですか？

[Rol110587]

according to George Clinton, he stated that Disco was an attempt to copy funk feel and put a mainstream sound to it.

In Parliament's "Funkentelechy VS Placebo Syndrome" the song Placebo Syndrome was aimed directly to Disco music. With the verses:

What used to be such fun to do

can often leave you weak

Into the syndrome

Livin at the top of the syndrome

Placebo Syndrome

In fact, I think whole album was about the commercialism of Disco as a sell-out version of Funk.

[mssquirrely]

Disco Forever!!!!

Sylvester ~ The Bee Gees ~ Donna Summer ~ LOL!!!

P Funk Forver!!

& that's what we had back then "BANDS" No Machines or Voice enhancements

Just Full Talented Live Bands ~ Those were tha days

[mssquirrely]

"The Love I Lost" ~ Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes (Teddy Pendergrass)

[taylor4660]

THE LOVE i LOST: hAROLD MELVIN AND THE BLUE NOTES FEATURING TEDDY PENDERGRASS