The things you find looking back at old tracks..

Post by **VelvetGeorge** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 3:46 pm

I found this '70s sounding party jam basic tracks while looking through an old hard drive of audio files and multi tracks. It was never finished, shame. It would have been perfect for theat funk band I was in.

The drums I recorded in my dining room, same with the voices. The bass and guitar I cut to the loop. And later I put shitty congas and orchestral hits over it witha drum module.

memories...... what was I thinking?

VG

rockstah · Post by **rockstah** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 3:52 pm

i dig it George!

Flames1950 · Post by **Flames1950** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 3:58 pm

It is fun and funky.....
....I'm just having a hard time reconciling your Marshall fetish with da funk.

But that groove should get the titties jigglin' at the party.

bvmjethead · Post by **bvmjethead** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 4:38 pm

Flames1950 wrote: But that groove should get the titties jigglin' at the party.

Flames1950 · Post by **Flames1950** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 9:18 pm

bvmjethead wrote:
Flames1950 wrote: But that groove should get the titties jigglin' at the party.

You know you like it..........

Post by **VelvetGeorge** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 9:54 pm

Heh, a little slower and some wah pedal..... pure porn soundtrack.

I'm not sure where the funk comes fom??? I guess we're so poor up here that we have to take any kinda groove we can get!

Are you guys into P-Funk? Aside for the space outfits and crack, there's some amazing grooves and Hendrix inspired guitar.
Well, strats through Marshalls anyway.

I'll post more clips when I dig them up.

George

Post by **VelvetGeorge** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:08 pm

Here's a track that was on our second record and later produced by Nile Rogers. This is his version.

George

saborthw · Post by **saborthw** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 12:26 am

George,

Give up the FUNK WE WANT THE FUNK STARCHILD !!!!!!!!!

Have you ever checked out Eddie Hazel, that was one funky Dude
he played with George Clinton, he rocked, he was one of the most talented under rated Guitar players ever.

Scott

Post by **VelvetGeorge** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 12:35 am

Hell yes! Eddie Hazel is the man. Uncut funk. Maggot Brain rocks.

VG

saborthw · Post by **saborthw** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 4:14 am

George

Eddie Hazels Dames Planes & Guitar Thangs is really his only solo album it is really hard to find. There is a CD but but there was 5000 printed and they are all gone. sometimes you cand find the CD on E Bay but they go for 100 to 150.

Awesome guitarist.

Regards

Scott

mightymike · Post by **mightymike** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 8:38 am

Flames1950 wrote:It is fun and funky.....
....I'm just having a hard time reconciling your Marshall fetish with da funk.
But that groove should get the titties jigglin' at the party.

Plexi's are frigin amazing for funk.
I wish I could get the guys I play with now ,
to play "what is hip". To me it's a standard
that any serious club pro should have in his repitour.
For now I just play it with backing trcks to keep up my chops.
Boo Hoo... I know

Warning this just brought back some memories, and this is a little long.

When i think about some of the great funk players
I've played with, I feel ashamed that I didn't appreciate
it like I can now (17 years later)

Back then when I was giging in So Cal, our lead singer/Guitarist/leader of the band...Johnny could play and sing everything. Even Tower of Stuff. He just wasn't flashy with the VH tricks (which was my lead guitarist joke job) he could play Tower of Power stuff
(and sing it at the same time) all the old Motown, Country,Jazz,Rock, kick ass blues, and Top 40 from the 50's to the present. He played through a little Fender with a couple stomp boxes, and was playing in a 3 piece, and pulled it off well. I don't know what he saw in my playing, maybe it was just foriegn to his style, and I was a quick learner. He liked my "I know a little" leads, for some reason. they weren't exact to the record though.

Then I joined, (I kept sitting in, so they figured they might as well start paying me) we also had a keyboard player sometimes, who had a B3
ammong his arsonal. He played with the Guy who sings for ToTo

We would play all kinds of gigs. daytime or Night. Company parties.
Sometimes with strippers. Sometimes we played in some scarry places.
And you better know the funk. Johnny kept a pistol is his Guitar case.
other times we might be early in the night, and some old farts come in.
And we''d have to turn it down and play some old fart music. We played like 400 songs back then. Most of the time it was midle of the road type top 40 rock music. We also had a Female singer ( his Girlfriend)
He also had the friggin Elvis suit. And you know what? I learned the 2001 Show, and got paid 100 bucks for an hour show. I was embarrassed at the time. But I learned something. I even sat in on bass, when the bass player was gone. Talk about learning on the job. I didn't even get a a song list book for 3 months after joining.

I giged with that band for a year and a half. With 6 month stints at the Live Oak Inn, and the Place That use to be called the Black Stallion. In Corona, Ca. I never got laid so much in my life. It forced me to play stuff I hated sometimes, and it opened my eyes to what I was missing.

When we played at the place formerly known as the Black Stallion, we started having jam night on thursdays, and sometimes some really good player would sit it. I was playing 4 nights a week back then, and working construction full time during the day.

That experience opened this white boys eyes to other styles.
It's also cool as hell to get paid to do something you would do for free.
Like playing guitar, and looking at naked women.
Not too many people can say they saw a stripper, while they were on the clock, with the approval of the boss.

I feel lucky as hell.

johniss0001 · Post by **johniss0001** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 9:22 am

george the funk kicks ass, love the nigels rogers track, good beat most people my age here listen to rap and garage not funk and it would show them a thing or 2. George do ya still ave some albums left wit the funky stuff i wouldna mind buyin 1 or 2

dynaman · Post by **dynaman** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 11:22 pm

Awww shit, don't get a hometown boy started on the P-Funk! I think they put groups like E,W+F and those other disco clowns to shame. Their shit rocked hard enough that we could cover their stuff and still not sound like some bad disco.

Wow, Nile Rodgers? Doesn't get much funkier than that. I always dug the stuff that he, Bernard Edwards and Tony Thompson were involved in. Their rhythms were guaranteed to sell and there was no mistaking their sound. Modonna's "Material Girl"? Undoubtably Tony on drums. I don't care how cheesy y'all think that tune is - the drums were simple but worked perfectly. Same goes for Bowie's "Let's Dance".

Remember The Power Station? Once you get past the Duran Duran boys' hair, you'll realize there's some serious rhythm coming from Tony, Bernard and Rodgers. I practiced along with their first album more than any other as a teen. It's a pity that Bernard and Tony left this world so soon.