Good documentary that is available on PBS (in the US - hopefully viewable worldwide 
) was just released. Nothing we don’t know already, but there’s a lot of focus on the P.
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They hardly mentioned Bootsy and Ohio Players and didn’t mention Junie at all. What do Elton John, David Bowie and Talking Heads have to do with Funk? I’m surprised they didn’t mention the Doobie Brothers. Half of the movie was about civil rights movement that didn’t belong there. They should have only focused on the music. I didn’t care for it
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Valid points (although it could be argued that funk was more-or-less a by-product of the civil rights movement). I, for one, am glad there seems to be a media spotlight on the funk after a number of “under the radar” years. And of course, it’s always good to hear from Dr. Funk…
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What’s funk to one person, might not be another person’s definition of funk, and that’s ok.
From the article: ‘You know it when you feel it’: A new documentary explores the roots of funk
What exactly is the funk?
Seeing how tough it was for some subjects to answer the film’s opening question, I asked George Clinton and co-director Stanley Nelson something slightly different: Why is it so hard to define the funk?
“I know why you’re confused … because it’s like, it’s an attitude,” says Clinton, whose 1976 single with *Parliament, “*Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker),” has a chorus chant which gives the documentary its name. “Funk is anything it needs to be, in the moment it needs to be that.”
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The youtube link didn’t work for me (in Sweden), but this link did.
Also, here’s a panel discussion with Satori Shakoor (Jeanette McGruder), David Spradley, Cheryl James and Kevin Saunderson. And apparently, Sheila Brody (Horne) and Shirley Hayden was in the audience.
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Nice one Boatman. Really enjoyed that.
The Labelle footage was insane. I’m a check out what YouTube has.
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You’ll know it when you smell it. The only thing that flares the nostrils like that is stanky music or stanky peoples. Sometimes both at the same time.
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