The George in the photo has had way more impact than the one in the article IMO
Parliament & Funkadelic have made some of the most important contributions to modern music
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I saw him live about ten years ago.
As per usual, he was about two hours late getting started. Once things got going I counted no fewer than sixty people traipsing about the stage in various stages of undress and demonstrating innumerable methods of erotic dance, including but not limited to a contortionist pimp with a dildo for a nose, all while George sat motionless on a stool in the center.
This went on for at least four hours at which point, we decided to take our leave.
As far as I know, that show is still going, never to conclude.
That shit was weird. Really weird.
It must have taken a pause at least because I saw him 9 years ago in a field in the UK
Fantastic musician, but as you say, definitely a bit weird
Kinda as all the greats are, really
I think George might transcend spacetime and that it's possible that both your show and mine are still going on somewhere in a broom closet aboard the mother ship.
That makes a lot of sense actually, I'm convinced this is the case
My favorite live video clip is their performance of Cosmic Slop in Houston 1976. It's pretty much as you describe:
At one point they realize the sound on one of the guitars is out, and they just switch player mid-solo. That's professionalism.
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I know this isn't true because we're not called the United States of Funk
It is actually true, just the portrait they've chosen for the article is highly stylized and didn't really look like him.
"Highly stylized" as in "an entirely different person"
Well not entirely different. They're both named George.
True. Someone needs to make a venn diagram
They also both had sons named George.
And he's got 38 degrees in fucking.
I'm glad people still remember this, I immediately heard it in my head when I saw this post
A prominent Democratic-Republican
The modern American mind cannot comprehend this
Paint the white house black
Put a glide in your stride, and a dip in yo hip, and come on to the mothership
"they say the bigger the headache, the bigger the pill. How do you spell relief? Have it your way." - VP George "atomic dog" Clinton