I just bought this magazine, and it has some interesting info in it. Bootsy says.
“We just completed a new Parliament album - I think it may be on CBS or RCA. Musically we stretched out a lot more than on part Parliament albums.
The guys hadn’t seen each other in a while and it was like a whole big family reunion type thing.”
He also mentions a 2nd Sweat Band album.
“We just finished a new Sweat Band album too. That may end up on EMI too, because I think the Uncle Jam label has folded.”
Another interesting part is a James Brown, Clinton and Bootsy album, that was never made because legal problems.
I never knew there was another unreleased Parliament album before 1985’s Upsouth, or another Sweat Band one, hopefully these can be put out one day, they must be from 1982 because Bootsy says they were both completed recently.
Even though it’s early, the Parliament album could be related to Upsouth.
There’s an interview from around 1980 High Times George Clinton Interview where George discusses the James Brown album and touches on “programming” (mind control) he also discussed in the 1985 interview. He says they finished three songs for the James Brown album.
Urban Dancefloor Guerillas came out on CBS. Any relation? Note that in George’s memoir, he thought of it as something that Funkadelic could have released. Tangentially related, but related to Parliament, Sir Nose does show up on the long version of Man’s Best Friend (extended version).
I think the Upsouth album is a totally different one, but I think your right Urban Dancefloor Guerillas may contain some of these tracks, by 1982 Parliament’s sound would have been different.
The article also talks about EMI saying they’ve signed Clinton, this might be why the 2nd Sweat Band album was shelved, because with Clinton signing to Capitol, the Sweat Band album deal Bootsy talks about with EMI would have been voided.
“George is temporarily out of commission because of legal hassles. Hassles that are serious enough to have kept his solo debut album in the can (Despite EMI’s premature announcement that they had pacted the good Dr to an exclusive recording pact, and despite this the album still gathers dust on somebody’s shelf!)
We’re real close, as you know, and I hate to see this happening to him.” Bootsy says, obviously genuinely concerned.
“I worked on the solo album, and it’s dynamite.”