The genius of P-Funk’s founder lies in his ability to motivate and collaborate.
In the mid-seventies, George Clinton and his band Funkadelic were working on a new song, “Get Off Your Ass and Jam,” at a studio in Los Angeles. At the time, Funkadelic was basically a psychedelic-rock band that took apart soul ballads, and its heavy, sprawling jams felt like an endurance test. If you made it through them, then you tasted true freedom.
In 1967, the Parliaments released “ Testify” on Revilot, one of Detroit’s many independent soul labels. “Testify,” a shaggy approximation of Motown’s composed swing, was the group’s first hit. But success soured the band. The members didn’t feel that they fit in with their squeaky-clean peers. They were attracted to the Motown sound, that feeling of breezy, compact perfection.
A few weeks ago, Parliament released “Medicaid Fraud Dogg,” its first album in thirty-eight years. Nowadays, the band consists largely of younger players, including some children of P-Funk stalwarts from the seventies and a stable of singers and rappers. Parliament is currently on an American tour, which Clinton says will be his last. He will retire from performance next year, at the age of seventy-seven.
Every generation mines the past for what it needs. In the eighties, as the members of Parliament and Funkadelic were stuck in a limbo of bad contracts and bruised egos, Clinton pursued a solo career. He became a free-spirited funk godfather for younger bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Fishbone. In the nineties, the P-Funk cosmology, which linked the ancient pyramids to distant planets, helped inspire the Afrofuturist philosophy.
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