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Early Funkadelic albums leaned towards rock, heavy guitars and psychedelic funk, as opposed to Parliament’s predilection towards Motown-influenced jazzy, gospel-based harmonies and horns. Clinton, who looked up to Sly Stone as a fellow black musician playing traditionally white rock, describes Funkadelic as a mixture of “what we knew from Motown and what we’d seen with Sly, and everybody else… We were able to take that and make a real classy jazz funk and then be as silly as we were.”
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Funk 'n' Gumbo is a six-piece band that brings to you the spirit of New Orleans! With a base of tight syncopation and rhythms and healthy helpings of New Orleans funk, jazz, R&B, soul, blues and rock thrown in, this band is a musical gumbo that is just....Too Funky! The members of Funk 'n' Gumbo have performed from the east coast to the west including New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Las Vegas and, of course, New Orleans.
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While funk and psychedelic rock took a back seat to the pop and heavy metal acts of the 1980s and early 1990s, the rise of hip-hop once again put P-Funk in the spotlight, sampling P-Funk classics in their own songs. Hip-hop MC Shock-G quips, “P-Funk is a school, it’s a college. A lot of musicians have come through it.”
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