FUNK (music/everything)
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Just got through a collection of vinyls from my parents, alot of Funk Stuff, Bootsy Collins etc.
Neat covers though. Never knew it was that pimped...Now I was wondering if you guys and girls know any good sites about artists, clothing, accessoiries that have to do with this FUNK musical era?
Anything, sites with clothing or old covers, artists.. just want to see in what time my parents lived...
- emecks0
there's one site that covers it all....
google.
- mrdobolina0
http://www.ltd-design.com/friday…
most times every other song is a funk track. dont forget the archive.
- emecks0
way to go mrdobs.
I didn't collect 40 James Brown albums by asking on NT where I could find a funk site pfffffffffft.
- reaction0
emecks.. i think google is the engine for all PVN questions....
But I rather have some experiences from people, as it's not in my time genre.
but thanks anyway.
- stewardez0
and you might wanna check tis out:
http://www.wefunkradio.com/
- JazX0
ehhh. not sure dudo. I just hear them on iTunes Radio. Underground stuff and then BBC Essentials. Google them!
JazX
(Apr 27 05, 06:13)haha same goes for this dudo
- reaction0
but I am not only interested in the music, but also in the art, objects and visuals of these times... I got inspired by the vinyl sleeves...
- JazX0
- TheTick0
Not interested in the MUSIC? Then bro you have no funk. You have a mal-funk-shun.
The root leads to the fruit my brother - you need the groove of the funk to think funky...without the groove your art won't move
- mrdobolina0
//brooks brothers? you need to get some kinda style muthafucky.
- emecks0
reaction, sorry if I appear to be a little harsh...
what is it you understand by "funk"??
Funk is an extremely wide field and as such it's difficult to say that this is or that isn't "funk"....
James Brown took Gospel and made it into Soul which he then took and made into Funk.. the advent of this wwas the seminal "Papa's got a brand new bag"
What you must also realise though is that you also had people coming from Jazz and converging.
So already there are two influences shaping what is and what isn't funk.... the Jazzers and the Gospel singers.
Add to that people such as the Bar Kays and Rare Earth who come from a rock background and it get's further confused...
So you see funk is much more a feeling than a definite style. Or indeed a way of life..
If you're a funker you will feel it, sounds like you might be.
- reaction0
the thick, read carefully
"... i am not only interested..."this doesn't mean I don't like it. At this moment, I am looking for a visual experience rather then an audio experience.
I wrote this to avoid only audio postings... FUNKeteers..
- reaction0
emecks. thx 4 opinion, it's appreciated. I know FUNK is wide, but I just want to see what all your opinions are about this subject from back in the '70's '80's etc. I am looking for the visual language of that time, to understand the way of living etc. Not that I am planning to adapt it, but to see how much fun or no fun my parents had in that time period.
- JazX0
I have one thing to say f*ckers. It all comes from Africa!
HAHAHHAHHA I got to use Africa again in a sentence woo hooo!
- emecks0
firstly forget the 80's funk was finished by 75...
and look back to the early 60s for it too...
- TheTick0
From the seminal African scholar Robert Farris Thompson of Yale:
"The slang term `funky' ... seems to derive from the Ki-Kongo lu-fuki, `bad body odor.' ... Both jazzmen and Bakongo use funky and lu-fuki to praise persons for the integrity of their art, for having `worked out' to achieve their aims.... This Kongo sign of exertion is identified with the positive energy of a person. Hence `funk' in American jazz parlance can mean earthiness, a return to fundamentals."
Rock that Yale Funk!