 CON FUNK SHUN |
| tHE bEST oF cON fUNK sHUN: This group has so many things going for it that it's scary.great slow-jams Love train,juicy,baby i'm hooked. then up tempo ffun with that badd flute,too tight. the songs sound even better as time goes and unlike today con funk shun sounds like no other group. even though that co-producers who worked with some of there contemparires. which is a true testimont to 70's music. not only did you have to be good but also original unlike today's con artist who sample take happy......Buy This Album |
| ALBUM OF THE MONTH |
| This was THE GRAND FUNK RAILROAD in all their rawest, nasty, sexual, high energy, Live bombastic, Spinal tapish Power Trio Glory. This is one of the Greatest Live Album's of all time; there are no overdubs hear, only a few tweaks with the audience noise. Mark and Don together were just the pack, but when they stole Mel from ? and the Mysterians the magic happened, and the Pack became The Grand Funk Railroad. This album captured millions of fans for GFR who still reminisce about it to this day. This was what GFR was all about, Mel Schacher (the god of bass playing) Playing his BOOMING BASS behind the note....Buy this Album |
| FUNK OVERLOAD |
| Former member of the J.B. Horns (together along with Pee Wee Ellis and Fred Wesley), Maceo Parker is really taking his solo career seriously. His obsession is good funk. His pleasure is to perform live. When I recently interviewed him for my show on a Spanish F.M. and asked him where and when he preferred to play, he just answered "Give me a stage, turn on the mics, and let's go !". If you are willing to discover him live, be prepared for a four hour show... This Funkoverload album is a MUST for good funk lovers. There are tributes to Marvin Gaye (Let's get it on, and Inner city blues), Sly and the family Stone (Sing a simple song), Rufus (Tell me something good), but also interesting tracks such as "Maceo's song".......Get More Info |
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| Thirty Years of Funk: Leave it to music critics to completely miss the train. Despite a uniformly bad reception from the press and initial cold shouldering from radio DJs, Grand Funk Railroad became the ultimate word-of-mouth legend, emerging from a nonpaid opening gig at the Atlanta Pop Festival on July 4, 1969, to rack up 10 platinum albums and a host of Top-40 singles. The chemistry between Mark Farner, Don Brewer, and Mel Schacher percolated into a soulful, heartland rock & roll style that made them one of the quintessential American bands in the post-Woodstock era. Thirty Years of Funk--an anthology selected with loving care--maxes out its three CDs to offer an unusually comprehensive anthology of Grand Funk......Buy This CD |
| FUNK POWER 1970 |
| A Brand New Thing with James Brown: The short-lived first incarnation of the JB's, with future Parliament-arian bassist Bootsy Collins, brother Catfish Collins on guitar, Jabo Starks and/or Clyde Stubblefield on drums, this is the edgiest, meanest, leanest lineup maestro James Brown ever assembled, and the music they made in this single year is still among the freshest, most soul-stirring funk on earth decades later. Check out James's pleas for tenor saxophonist Robert McCollough to "blow me some 'Trane, brother!" Expansive, incisive. This compilation, prepared and ideally notated by Harry Weinger and one-time JB manager Alan Leeds, is so full of groove it could doubtless sub for a faulty pacemaker.....But this Album |
| COOL N STEADY N EASY |
| bROOKLYN fUNK eSSENTIALS: This is one funky CD. Its funky but not too hip-hoppy, not too acid jazzy either. A solid rythm section holds the bottom end while horns and/or vocals literally bounce and float over the top. Although this album in very New York (and these guys play live here all the time) anyone who likes jazz infused funk will be into this. Its not as light as the James Taylor Quartet and not as poppy or "British"...Get CD |
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