George Clinton new Patreon page

For the right price, someone would be more than happy to build you a replica for sure.

Spot on. I think dice may be involved.

Could be while before you see the track ye want…then again, it could be the very next time :grinning_face:

I like the randomness of it. Even if the track is maybe not a personal fav, the accompanying story more than makes up for it.

Wide wide cough cough world o cough cough Wiggle :dashing_away::grinning_face:

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And a set of ‘Pfunk army’ action figures to go with it, a la Star Wars. Make it happen Hasbro :folded_hands:

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:rofl::rofl::sweat_smile:. Too much man!!!

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The dice thing cracks me the “h”
up!!!

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In that case, I’d have them build it using impeller (bladeless) drone tech so I could fly it around. Maybe even have smoke and sparks come out of it when it’s landing. Just like the real Mothership. :rofl:

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But it just wont be complete without the good Doctor coming out that bad boy. So you’re right. Go ahead and contact Hasbro and em’.

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20 a month is a little aplenty for me sadly, but I was wondering if I should maybe suscribe a month a year or so, since apparently the whole library is available at all times to members.

I was curious about whether someone made a list of what’s been released so far, however. It’d be interesting to know (and potentially appealing for potential subscribers).

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I thought that the whole library wasn’t available at all times to every member, but that you get one of the tracks (of the library or a new one) each month. But I’m not on Patreon, so don’t know.

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Oh, I thought I’d understood that it would be the case, but reading Danny’s posts above, it doesn’t seem that clear indeed.

I’m really confused because usually it’s how this works with subscribtions (on Bandcamp at least) and it would make sense, because what if someone only discovers the service now? I see for example that a whole Funkadelic album was made available? But now it’s gone forever? And one can only access any given month’s release at any given time, then it’s gone?

@DannyBedrosian I apologize if things were explained clearly before and I didn’t get it, but could you please clarify? Thanks a lot :heart_with_ribbon:

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Every month subscribers get a new unreleased song. So far subscribers have received

The last time zone album FUNKADELIC 1999
Dont Techno for an answer - The Parliaments
New unreleased album - GC &PFAS

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They cannot get all the songs in one month. Otherwise people would join one month, and quit the next. We are trying to create a world of Interest in both the unreleased rare and up and coming releases and keeping subscribers interested concurrently without having too many people quit or quit and come back. It’s not the intention- we’re trying to make it more like a club where the longer you stay the better the benefits. In addition, every new episode of Bump by bump rundown is given to the patrons one month before everyone else so they get the one up on the inside scoop with what the newest bump by bump is. In addition there are other freebies such as live concerts that get given out on a semi-regular basis as gifts throughout the year for patrons who continue to subscribe at the $20 level.

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Thanks a lot for explaining @DannyBedrosian

I see: so it’s full albums eventually, but at the pace of a song a month.

Just one question in case my finances would improve at some point (it’s not out of the question on the long run): do I understand well from past posts (the conversation with my purple pal @djThunderfunk in particular) that if one starts the subscribtion now, they can choose to start retroactively, i.e. from month #1, and they’ll just get the same monthly content other members had before, but with a delay, so in the end they’ll get the content years after “day 1 members”, but they’ll still get all the content if they remain members?
If so, that’s really cool because it’s a real incentive to join for completists :smiley:


On a sidenote—and I don’t mean to criticize, George has my unconditional love no matter what he does, I’m just thinking out loud—I gotta admit it’s a bit of a luxury project. I’ve been a subscriber for Bill Laswell’s Bandcamp since the beginning (which is also why it’s a little over my budget to subscribe to yet another service) and the releases are irregular, but for about the same monthly fee, we get about an album a month on average (mostly unreleased live shows spanning Bill’s entire career, but also previously released studio albums, and most new releases)—I think the first few years it was more like 2 or 3 albums a month on average, but I guess the live archives well is drying up after 6 years.

Also, I don’t think that many people come and go from Bill’s service to just “reload” what they missed every once in a while (I don’t, I’ve been a member continuously). With struggling indie acts, I suspect many people, for as long as they can afford it, are just happy to support one of their favorite artists. Also, there’s nothing contractual about how many new records you’re supposed to get monthly, they just pop-up whenever, and sometimes you get several in a single day, sometimes nothing for weeks, and no one ever complained in the comments section when nothing would happen for 6 weeks in a row, there’s kind of a bond of trust between Bill’s team and the fans, really. It’s all super respectful.

But if enough people can afford the Patreon, it’s cool: P-Funk is, after all, priceless :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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Yes, by request, you can choose to start with the first album that was offered at the beginning. And with all due respect I love bill laswell as much as the next guy, but Bill Laswell is NOT George Clinton, and band camp is not patreon. this is a very rare special thing that’s happening and I’m not sure how long it will definitely go on so timing matters.

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So, if I’m understanding this correctly. If I join George’s Patreon page, I have an option to select which album I’d like. Is that correct?

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Yes thats right

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Proud subscriber here to GC Patreon. Just listened last night to everything released thus far. TLTZ, DTFaA, AIAIO. So much to love! But for some reason, my dl of Skatin on Thin Ice does not play for me when transferred to my flashdrive for playback through my home audio system. Is there an issue with the original file? Could I possibly get that track resent somehow? Thanks in advance!

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Hi Danny, is this the complete list? I’m just trying to get a sense for what is out there. This has been active for 2.5 years now, so based on what I am hearing, approximately 30 tracks would be released by now, at the rate of one per month.

And for someone to have all of these things, they’d have to have been a subscriber that entire time, to the tune of about $600, is that correct?

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