I got it today! It’s been a long time coming. A loooong time coming. 
Can’t wait to read it!
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We need a book rePort when you’re done. Don’t be silent, boatman! 
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Don’t be silent boatman 
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I will ferry you across the unknown waters
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Too funny. Love it!!!
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Great interview by Scott.
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!!! Congrats to Seth for finding time to write the book, and then sharing it wih the rest of the world. And thank you "silentboatman"for posting this. All the ladies were/are special indeed.
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Thanks. In that interview, at around the 38:23 mark, he addressed the question of why some of the women aren’t included the book.
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Wow, how do you have it already?
Don’t know, pre-ordered it and it just came. 
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You’ve got the Funkentelechy on you.
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Not released in uk til 30th. My copy is coming 7th October. Can’t wait.
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Mine (Mothership Connected)came in the mail on Saturday!!
Next up is Danny’s (new book.)Then hopefully Bootsy’s memoir will get a release date. And maybe a new PFunk cd before the new year.
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I got it and am on Chapter 6 Mothership Connection. So far I love it. Very well written and edited and chock full of rare tales I’ve heard nothing about. Worth it’s wait (in gold).
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. Thats what’s up.
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I finished this book. It was difficult to finish and heartbreaking. The PF (dis)organization shat on those girls. I found at times to actually be ashamed of my fandom. And George should be ashamed of himself. After Mal family took him in and gave him a place to stay during hard times? And he screwed them like that. This mug was taking massive amounts of cash that should have been for payroll and financing the group and basically disappearing the money. There is some foul stuff in here. I dunno y’all. I may not be quite ready to turn in my funk card, but I’ll never see him in the same light again. Yeah, keep battling for your copyrights ok. Blame Nene Montes or whatever. Keep calling it one nation under a groove. That is not what it was. It destroyed people. And it’s my bad. When I was a little boy with stars in my eyes idolizing these people, listening to all this great funk thinking it was all lovely was my mistake. I’ve seen the less than positive portrayals down thru the years but there is something about this book that drives all of that home.
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Powerful stuff brother. Thank you for sharing.
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Yeah, I just had a gut reaction. I’m sensitive like that is all. When he allegedly promised Dawn and Lynn each a 5000$ royalty check at Europe in '78, and then just got them high instead is when I crossed the point of no return. I was not there but if true. As I digested these pages, they digested me.
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I’m only halfway, but I feel exactly the same way!
It’s too bad Seth wasn’t able to get the other females to participate in the book, to get their perspective on things. Especially Jeanette Perkins (Washington), Satori Shakoor (Jeanette McGruder) and Sheila Brody (Horne). I never know what name to write..
Did you see what Jeanette Perkins just posted on facebook? Interesting.
I’m usually pretty quiet when it comes to sharing the story of my life spent with Parliament Funkadelic. Just because you choose not to share your story does not give anyone the right to write one that will fit their narrative.
Except for Dawn Silva’s autobiography, many books written on the subject of funk contain inaccurate, false and misleading information. Allegations that others sang with us consistently during that time is not a half truth, but a whole lie. Mothership Connected follows the same disconnected patterns. Debbie Wright and I were the first female vocalists signed a five-year contract directly to Casablanca Records. This is the same label that signed Donna Summer and the group Kiss. Thang Incorporated was our management company. We received our entire signing bonus directly from the label. Mallia Franklin was not as fortunate. As this book recalls, she never received her entire signing bonus. But somehow according to the Author, she was more significant to the survival of the funk. Don’t build up one singer by tearing the others down with biased and fictionalized stories. We’ve had enough of that over the years. Every female vocalist who has come along in the years following has value, but I’m exhausted with people rewriting my legacy, our legacy’s. It was a big deal for me to be the only group member in Parlet to be credited as a songwriter on the PFunk catalog, but that information found no place in this book. This book makes references repeatedly that I along with Debbie Wright were weak insignificant background singers, well, if that’s true, what does that say about Parliament Funkadelic?
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Let the games begin. Jeanette Washington seems to me to just not want to get involved in the gossipy aspects of all this hearsay. Jim Wright told us once, y’all think y’all know all about this P-Funk stuff? You don’t know anything at all. I’m beginning to see what he meant by that. It’s out there now we have to discuss this. I was not there. So, I’m basing my opinions on what is written in the book. Most times, these kinds of books have some embellishments therein. This one seemed to me to be the most accurate. Seth nailed all the dates, albums, releases, etc. No other book does that. They always get something wrong. He was on it here. It is very well edited. He tells it a lot of the way Dawn tells it (and caused me to question the motives of anyone who would stick rat tranquilizer up somebody’s unsuspecting nose), but she missed all sorts of dates, song and album titles etc. But, she does admit. He was truthful about one thing. He did try to tell us funk is a non-profit organization. So, they knew going into it.
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