Conspiracy In The Last Time Zone

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Nice track. Don’t know if it was on The Last Time Zone album, but he’s definitely reusing lyrics from it.

So if we should watch out for word starting with C, B, D, E, G, V, T, Z, S, K (and I suppose P as well), damn that’s a lot of words. :rofl:

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A fascinating thread. Thanks to all who have contributed and deepened my knowledge.

If anyone could point me in the direction of The Mammoth Sessions I’d greatly appreciate it as I’m pretty much salviating now having read all these posts.

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@ADHitch welcome to the forum! I found them through peer-to-peer (via SoulSeek) labeled “mammoth sessions”. AFAIK only some of the tracks have been posted online. I think there should be 23 in total.

There’s also 11 tracks floating around labeled something like 1990s George Clinton - Demos (I think the first four are actually 1980’s Capitol demos, discussed a bit here, and The A Foxxe Jam ‎released a different version of “Pizazz”), which has the previously discussed “Hunpty Dumpty” track (live “It Ain’t Over Till Its Over / Humpty Dumpty”). Not sure if the rest are related to the album in question though. Maybe “Loopty Loop” since Mike P said here it was recorded “around 2000”.

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I’m still not sure if the “Mammoth Sessions” are the final album, a work-in-progress version or just some tracks off the album with some random demos. Since I last posted, I’ve found a few interesting pieces of information surrounding the track listing.

There’s a 23 December 1997 MTV article where George says there are two tracks already done “Humpty Hump Me” and “Radio Friendly”. He also mentions the lyrics “The funk is so hot, they bite so much, I need a tetanus shot”. I know those lyrics show up on “I Ain’t The Lady”, but they also appear on the unreleased track “Yo Turn To Burn”. Also, apparently he was thinking about going to Hawaii (instead of Fiji) for the new millennium.

In a 2 February 1999 Rolling Stone article he says the tracks “Yank My Doodle (It’s a Dandy)” and “Rhythm & Rhyme” (both covers?) were just completed for the album with Professor X (of X-Clan). I think the 1999 Woodstock performance of “Yank My Doodle, It’s a Dandy” was a teaser for the album. Also notable

The forthcoming album has no title yet

and

all the rappers — whom he has “just bumped into” over the years — will appear on separate tracks, except ODB and Busta

And much like Jim Wilson said about “ASS WIPE", Henry Rollins said in a March 2000 Metal Hammer Magazine interview

me and the guys just did a song called ‘Ass Wipe’ with George Clinton for his next record

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Thank you, I appreciate it. I’ll definitely have a look around and see if I can check both of those out.

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Some of the material is very strong here and also includes versions of songs that I find superior to those released - the mix and violin on ‘Radio Friendly’ for example, really takes the song to a different place.

‘The Movie’ and ‘Adam & Eve’ are two definite standouts for me on this first listen. I think if the best of these songs had been assembled into an album it would’ve been very strong and cohesive with a definite unifying concept. Hopefully, the entire unreleased album will be released as intended at some point.

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This is how I acquired the P-FUNK 1999 Studio Takes: In 1999 I lived in Memphis and I used to place ads in the local community paper, Memphis Flyer looking for people to trade P-FUNK VHS bootleg concerts. A guy contacted me saying he had some unreleased P-FUNK cassette tapes. I met him at in the Piggly Wiggly parking lot in midtown. He drove a Lexus with a tag that read Chocolate City. He told me he was from DC and had a friend who worked at United Sound Studio in Detroit and somehow managed to get a copy of the sessions. I have him some P-FUNK VHS bootlegs and he gave me two 90 minute cassette tapes labeled , P-FUNK 1999 Studio Takes.
Tape one starts off with three different versions of Neverending My Love (a capella, instrumental & full version).
Jim Wilson and I exchanged emails and he sent me a different mix of Ass Wipe/Wipe of the Week. He also shared an interesting backstory about Dr. Funk and the song.
For years people mistakenly thought the 1999 studio takes were the Mammoth Sessions which is simply not true. This was cleared up on the One Nation P-FUNK message board in early 2000s.
You mentioned something about different versions of the 1999 tapes. The tapes I received had excellent sound (the bass on Oil Spill is horrifying) however due to repeated copying the sound quality deteriorates over time. The tapes I received came from the master copy.
I hope this information helps! WEFUNK

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Welcome @Moody_Hyadd !

Thanks for sharing and clarifying this point again!

There was another a digital one I found split into 2 CDs. First CD is has an almost identical subset of songs, but the second one is more interesting with some tracks I’ve never heard before.

The tracks were not named, so I named them based on the leak names I found previously.

CD 1

  1. Neverending My Love [5:03]
  2. Nosey Knows [5:12]
  3. Radio Friendly DJ [4:57]
  4. Oil Spill [5:38]
  5. Radio Friendly DJ [5:01]
  6. Oil Spill [0:25]
  7. Oil Spill [6:07]
  8. Gettin’ Down With It [8:16]
  9. What Is A Booty? [4:25]
  10. Ass-Wipe [6:53]
  11. Billy Boy [7:26]
  12. Gettin’ Down With It (Instrumental) [6:03]
  13. (Brother, Can U) Paradigm [7:10]

CD 2

  1. Gypsy Woman [14:50 + 2:52 + 0:13] (three tracks, abrupt cut between first two, maybe due to an overaggressive automatic track splitter, maybe longer?)
  2. Keep On Running [7:19] (“some gonna jump out the bushes and grab”, mostly instrumental)
  3. It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over [4:55]
  4. Neverending My Love (Alternative Version) [4:52] (earlier unfinished version?)
  5. Flirt [5:45] (very different from 420 Funk Mob version, could be from the early 90s based on what Clip Payne said here)
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Great story. Could you tell us a 'lil of the back story regarding The Dr and the Wipe of the Week song?

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  1. Stevie Wonder cover no doubt (given the title and lyrics excerpt)

  2. Kravitz cover?

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George quotes some lyrics from Keep On Running. I don’t think it’s a cover?

It Ain’t Over is just a Humpty Dumpty / Bounce 2 This version, but with just an emphasis on “shit ain’t over til the fat lady keeps right on singing.” I think the same as that 10 track 90s track group.

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Cool. Thanks for the additional info.

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