I was at this restaurant and the guy was playing all this underground 70s funk that I could not finger and I am fairly well versed in the genre but I guess i know the mainstream stuff. I felt like just asking him but he was this huge black guy and I felt it would quite lame if some white guy came asking him about funk.
Any podcasts or any funk music that isn't focused around guitar wanking or constant soloing and that annoying Tower of Power .
n3lly
You want funk.. here's some funk.
Sarcasm aside, I definitely would have gone up to the 'black guy', end of the day you're just appreciating the music he's playing. He'll enjoy the fact that you're liking it.
A few pointers from him would have been a great place to start but obviously it's a little late for that now. Funk is not my forté so i'll leave it up to some other members to help out here. I might ask on the ole FB for you see if I get any results there.
Originally posted by Mad for Brad
I was at this restaurant and the guy was playing all this underground 70s funk that I could not finger and I am fairly well versed in the genre but I guess i know the mainstream stuff. I felt like just asking him but he was this huge black guy and I felt it would quite lame if some white guy came asking him about funk.
Is it a particular track that you are after, if that's the case then perhaps some clue as to what it might have sounded like.
Otherwise, will go home and dig, have stacks of old funk albums from my early hip hop days a la 1983 etc.
Any particular genre of funk from that time as there were quite a few different incarnations? Was it synth based (Herbie Hanstyle) or real instruments (i.e. Babe Ruth or the Meters sort of thang)?
Might want to start easy like and check out the Ultimate Breaks and Beats although that would cover mostly what has been used in commercial rap, but some are a lot more obscure.
Cheers
Nem
n3lly
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Originally posted by Stu Cox
PC Nelly.
I was quoting Mad for Brad should have used " "..
Apologies though if i caused offence to anyone.
Nemesis44
Meh, PC can go too far sometimes anyway. I also find the term Political Correctness to be an oxymoron in the highest degree. Besides, I find that it goes mental the other where you get to a point where you almost can't mention black people, strangely enough though this only happens when talking to white people when some sanctimonious tosser decides that they are looking out for the brother man, but in fact their actions are so patronizing towards black people that they come across as more racist than anything I would have said. Besides, what has been mentioned here are just incidental facts, he was huge and he was black, end of. (Concept taken from Malcom X explaining to an Afro American congregation the difference between what a European means by black compared to an American, note that this was also from the 60s and things are very different today).
Besides, if I have understood the comment Stu made, I think he was actually calling you PC for putting the ' ' marks.
I don't even know why I wrote this as its captain obvious statement of the day but I just wanted to post. :)
Cheers
Nem
n3lly
quote:
Originally posted by Nemesis44
Meh, PC can go too far sometimes anyway. I also find the term Political Correctness to be an oxymoron in the highest degree. Besides, I find that it goes mental the other where you get to a point where you almost can't mention black people, strangely enough though this only happens when talking to white people when some sanctimonious tosser decides that they are looking out for the brother man, but in fact their actions are so patronizing towards black people that they come across as more racist than anything I would have said. Besides, what has been mentioned here are just incidental facts, he was huge and he was black, end of. (Concept taken from Malcom X explaining to an Afro American congregation the difference between what a European means by black compared to an American, note that this was also from the 60s and things are very different today).
Besides, if I have understood the comment Stu made, I think he was actually calling you PC for putting the ' ' marks.
I don't even know why I wrote this as its captain obvious statement of the day but I just wanted to post. :)
Cheers
Nem
Sorry Nem but that had to be said and I completely agree with what your saying..
Obviously if Stu was just acknowledging my PC quotations then cool whatever, i'd still respect him for telling me he doesn't appreciate the tone of the post....
Stu Cox
quote:
Originally posted by Nemesis44
Besides, if I have understood the comment Stu made, I think he was actually calling you PC for putting the ' ' marks.
