Give up the funk?
Posted by Moonage | Filed under Interpretations
This is just mind-blowing to me:
“I remember there was a rock and roll band in Las Vegas that was supposed to be playing the blues and they came in there with jeans on playing funk,” Clinton says about seeing David Bowie in the 1970s. “I remember they were up there singing, ‘Fame, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh duh. ‘Weeks later I wanted that shit back, and that’s when I wrote “We Want the Funk.””
Man, I LOVE that era P/Funk! Bowie’s version of it I was never too keen on. I would much have preferred to have had two more years of the glam stuff than the two years he spent doing Young Americans. Once he returned to being the Thin White Duke, things started getting better. Quite frankly, he just wasn’t truly funked. However, George Clinton most definitely is all funked up. Tear the Roof off the Sucker is great, Flashilight even greater, and Atomic Dog even greatest. And, to think some skinny white boy with red hair got all George Clinton all funked up is pretty amazing to me! Yeah, that’s taking it too far, but hey!
Tags: 1970s, atomic-dog, david bowie, flashlight, funkadelic, george clinton, parliament, pin ups, tear-the-roof-off, thin white duke, young-americans
