And yet it seems like yesterday , actually I’d meant to try and see them again, but marriage and 4 kids , and then when Gary Shider died I decided to leave them right where I left them . Almost intact.
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Greetings funklords, I’m in NC and have been a maggoteer since the early 70s.
I’m happy to find this forum and look forward to contributing and sharing some entelechy.
Fly on!
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Welcome! I’m happy to see our discussions are still attracting new members here.
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Well it finally happened. I never thought it would get to this point, but here we are, less than 11 months after I purchased my first P-funk album (besides hits compilations). P-funk songs are now the most frequent occurring songs in my mp3 collection, with a total of 3,313. Today P-funk passed the Beatles, for whom, with solo work included, accounted for exactly 3,300 individual tracks.
To think that I have every Beatles album ever released, the complete BBC sessions, every solo album by every Beatle, box sets, everything live Paul released, even his classical stuff, even every single live album by Ringo’s All-Starr band, and… I still have more P-funk than Beatles.
This includes everything ripped from all studio and live CDs that I own by Parliament, Funkadelic, George, Bootsy, Bernie, Parlet, brides, Fuzzy, original P, Cacophonic FM, Mutiny, Quazar, Ruth Copeland, Trey Lewd, Junie, Mallia, PFAS, Zapp, Roger, Praxis, Science Faxtion, Eddie, Horny Horns, Tackheads, Otis Day & The Knights, Octavepussy, Godmoma, Enemy Squad, Drugs, and Space Cadets, but also downloaded tracks acquired through the “vinyl only b-sides” thread, 420 Funk Mob live albums, Mico wave, Wynne Jammin’, eramus Hall’s Gohead, Tawl Ross’s album, any digital-only stuff that all the above artists have released, Garry Shider’s albums, P-union, Live P-funk songs from the Japanese and European 4CD sets, 49 live Bernie shows from archive.org, various odds and ends collected from people on this forum and on youtube, and probably a few things I forgot to mention.
When I’m done “absorbing” all these works as albums, I’m probably just gonna make my own “p-funk radio” and listen to a giant shuffled playlist for a month or two.
Thought it was noteworthy to mention somewhere, as 3,313 songs is a bloody lot. 3rd on the list is Bob Dylan, and he’s a distant 3rd with just 1,429 tracks - even though I own everything he’s ever officially released and he’s been very prolific for 50 years.
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Damn that’s a lot. And in less than a year! And your Beatles collection is really impressive too 
I didn’t know where to write this other than here - I just wanted to say that I’m so pleased to see all the activity on this forum, and from a lot of users who are either new, or weren’t posting much before. Lots of great discussion here for me to catch up on, since I haven’t been around much.
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Well said and I totally agree. Nice to see you’re back! 
Hi, I’m 39 and have been a P-Funk fan for a few years now, mainly got into GC through the Prince connection. I saw GC and PF in Manchester 2017. Looking forward to finding out more about the P-Funk world on this site!
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Welcome to the forum @Funkenstein76!
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Hi, Im David from the US, I initially Bought a Pfunk CD from Columbia House Music club in the early 90s, then saw P-funk around 96/97 and was floored, that whole show was an experience for me. Been hooked ever since, and I try not to pass up any shows. Been down the rabbit hole of many members and spin offs, Big fan of the true Wizard, Bernie Worrell. Currently trying to make sure I own all of the quality releases on vinyl or cd. Im amazed its taken me this long to join a pfunk forum.
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Great that you found your way to the forum!
The lates vinyl with Bernie that I bought was Standards. Watermelon Man is amazing. But I also got into that Funkcronomic album (though that’s only digital).
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^^Thanks for the reminder on that Funkcronomic album, I totally slept on that cause it was only released via Laswell’s streaming thing (i think) Need to give it some more listens!
Standards is great! I move a lot and had a ton of stuff in storage, when i got my records out i was totally confused as to why i had two copies. Then when i realized why i had two albums i ended up with a a big lump in my throat.
I was happy to help B!
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Wow, that’s so cool!
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I love how everyone who posted in this thread at the start was 40. Not “about 40”, but actually 40. And most other people were within a few years of 40.
I’m 40 in just 4 months. Kind of a scary thought, that I’ve spent the past 8 months slowly getting myself used to.
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I should probably do an introduction. I used to post on the One Nation board room as eXilefunk. I think that was my name. I also used to hang out on New Funk Times as well.
I got introduced to P-Funk by listening to Digital Underground (R.I.P. Shock G), Ice Cube and Dr. Dre. Reading those linear notes, got me curious about the songs that they were sampled. I picked up my first P-Funk CD which was a best of CD. It was on from there on out.
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I’m not historian of P Funk nor archivist but passionate about P or not Funk.
I wanted to ask you if there any video available on Funkadelic Live at the Sugar Shack, Boston, 1972 ?
Another question is why Bootsy never quotes bassist Larry Graham as a great influence?
Strange that he has never aknowledged that obvious credit. Graham seems to use similar effects.
Another thing, George Clinton has never mentioned Sun Ra as an influence on the Mothership concept.
Sun Ra acted in a movie called Space is the place in 1974. Difficult not to see links, connections between the two. Other influence not quoted anywhere but obvious on the Mothership connection is its relation to the Outer Limits intro science fiction serie from the 60’.
Another one else possible DJ “Jocko” Henderson, The Ace from Outer Space, and his “Rocket Ship Show”. Another one for the distorded voice that will become a gimmick of the band, could be its relation to snippets of distorted voice in “The Flying Saucers 1 & 2” (01.47) by Buchanan & Goodman. I repeat I’m not a specialist in P Funk, just love music and P Funk in particular.
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7 posts were split to a new topic: Did Sun Ra influence the P?
Oddly, I’d just been watching the interview with Bootsy and Bernie. Larry gets his props but Jamerson was THE man. As a Motown freak, I’d have to agree…BERNADETTE! 
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