Tuff City mentioned that compilation on the back cover of the Parliaments 10", “forthcoming six panel double album A New Day Begins”. That was back in 2019, so there’s still hope! 
Don’t remember that he talked about Toys. Interesting. Need to go and check that in the book. But it doesn’t surprise me, since it’s Westbound and thus Armen Boladian.
I was checking out the Holland-Dozier-Holland memoirs Come And Get These Memories (by the Holland brothers). There’s almost nothing about p-funk, they don’t even mention Osmium in the Invictus chapter. But, I found this about Black Dracula! Nothing new really. But still, it’s from Eddie Holland himself.
This one has always been at the top of my holy grail list. Apparently, it was featured in the Schwann Record catalogue around the time of its slated release, but I have no way of proving that since I don’t have a copy. I’d assume the Spring 1973 edition. There’s also someone on the Last.FM website with over two thousand listens of the album indexed! That’s either a P-Funk superfan or a troll with waaay too much time on their hands. Very interesting stuff surrounding this album.
Thanks guys for the extra info.
Given the crazy amount of archive albums released in the 90s and (to a lesser extent) in the 2000s, I assume George was eager to release vault stuff, but admitedly if he won’t own the masters I guess the money to make is limited, I get it.
What’s the “Sgt Peppers stuff” and “A New Day Begins”?? Never heard of those (I read George’s and Kris Needs’ book, so it may be all that stuff was mentioned in either even Black Vampire, but if it was I didn’t memorize it).
Which in the end leads me to another question: how much studio material remains unreleased. I have a few collections of studio outtakes, but is there a lot left beyond those?
I have parts of the soundclips of this black vampire acetate. the guy who owns the acetate , he is a dj, has send me a mix of the 4 tracks. you can hear george rapping about black vampire so its a real track. its a 1 vocal and 3 instumental tracks.
Whoever it is that’s sitting on this is a dick!!
If you didn’t check Scott’s interview with Danny Bedrosian a couple of weeks ago, he talked about Black Vampire (in part 2 around 28 minutes in).
George told Danny that one of the engineers put it together. That they collected a bunch of tracks and called it the Black Vampire because he used to come out of a coffin at shows around that time. And that they wanted to capitalize on that.
It sounds like GC had already left Invictus and that they wanted to make some money on the tapes they still had.
Got me thinking of this photo (although that’s from 1975).
That’s some wild stuff I wish I woulda seen it live. It looks to be from the same set of pics the Let’s Take It To The Stage backstage photo from Radio City Music Hall came from.
Same as Ruth’s version cept Clinton sings lead
Just like common law wife had flo.ballard sing on the family series then had gc on the chocolate city vetsion
