"Ronnie Wilson was a genius with creating, producing, and playing the flugelhorn, trumpet, keyboards, and singing music, from childhood to his early seventies." "The love of my life was called home this morning," Wilson's wife, Linda Boulware-Wilson, wrote in a Nov. He was 73 years old, The Associated Press reports. Weaned on P-Funk from a very early age, Foster and McElroy lead the Nation Funktasia through a One Nation-inspired-funk throwdown complete with glee club vocals and Parliament-inspired bass synth madness.Ronnie Wilson, founding member of the R&B group The Gap Band, has died. This one-time project by En Vogue producers Denzil Foster and Thomas McElroy represents the deepest tribute to the P-Funk sound done by any R&B/Soul/Funk artist of the 1990s. “Anti-Funky World”-The Nation Funktasia (1991) Thematically, “HouseQuake” would set the stage for his next album release, The Black Album (an album that would be recalled before its official release date). The glories of that tour apparently rubbed off two years later when Raydio released “For Those Who Like To Groove.” A largely instrumental club stomper that fuses Funkadelic’s One Nation Under A Groove and (“Not Just) Knee Deep.”Ī manic dance floor smash featured on the double album Sign O The Times sees Prince overseeing a fast-paced funk groove complete with accelerated vocals, cursing, and homemade after-shocks. and Raydio served as the opening act for Bootsy’s Rubber Band during their 1978 Player Of The Year tour. “For Those Who Like To Groove”-Ray Parker Jr. The Gap Band would tour with P-Funk in 1979 and their single “Oops, Upside Your Head” showcased Clinton’s massive influence on the band, defined by a series of Clinton-esque chants and a horn arrangement lifted nicely from the 1978 hit “Disco To Go” by the P-Funk spin-off act, The Brides Of Funkenstein. I Don’t Believe You Want To Get Up And Dance (Oops!)-The Gap Band (1979) The title cut gave him a Number 2 R&B hit that copped so much of the P-Funk sound, that Clinton and bassist Bootsy Collins awarded Duke with a “Mothership Flight Pass” at his live gig at the Forum in L.A. In late 1977, Duke released the album Reach For It. It will, instead, focus on bands/artists who have dropped Funk jams that sound like George Clinton was in the studio with them directing the show every step of the way.įresh off stints with Frank Zappa and Cannonball Adderly, Duke recorded a series of albums that represented a tight fusion of Soul, Jazz, and Funk. This list excludes rap songs that heavily sample the P-Funk catalog. The following is a list of the most obvious appropriations of the P-Funk sound. From James Brown, to Sly and the Family Stone, to Hendrix, to the Beatles, P-Funk overlord George Clinton has cited numerous times how these and other music legends helped to shape the P-Funk sound.Īs P-Funk has been influenced, so can their influence be felt in a long list of post-1980 artists such as Prince, the Gap Band, Rick James, as well as the entire West Coast rap movement led by Dr. To be clear, Parliament-Funkadelic is a musical collective that has worn their influences on their sleeves. Among even the most prominent innovators in music, their accomplishments showcase the influence of giants that came before them and helped to shape their own outlook. “A good composer does not imitate he steals.”-Igor Stravinsky in 1967.Īmerican popular music has always represented a continuum of ideas and concepts that evolves as society itself. Parliament-Funkadelic was a great band!”-Nile Rodgers in 1998. People around you start copying your sound. “A great band is a band that makes its presence felt.
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