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Originally Posted by Rexx Shredd
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Slave? prevelent period 1977 -1984 (almost the same timeframe as Zapp - lots of electronics)
Lakeside? prevelent period 1978 - 1987 (almost the same timeframe as Zapp - some electronics)
Brick? prevelent period 1976 -1988
you need to learn your funk history   
not being a dick at all: you're hammering at me throughout this thread of how great composers they are of which I said they write an infectious groove and dont go anywhere with it and I dont consider that great composing. I also named other artists of similar time periods that I thought were far better composers of the genre ....Yes of course thats my opinion (granted my opinion is based on almost thirty years as a professional musician/composer -- as in: thats what I do for my job)...Even still. So what? i never said "Gee, dude, you're wrong"
As far as hearing their songs? i have Zapp's entire discography on CD...and I reach for it seldomly ( a couple of which i only listened to once like II and V as i thought they were disappointing) but I keep because I like having a CD collection of funk
dont hate because somebody disagrees with you |
But seriously Lakeside though? Their line-up of albums were OK at best, Rough Riders was just terrible, as even their debut was (debuts even being usually a band's freshest and strongest work). Fantastic Voyage is a very fine album indeed so I'll give them that. However that was released in 1980, the same year as Zapp's DEBUT, Lakeside had already released several albums by then. Now Slave, I'll let you have that, but with what I had previously said they had already released a few albums by 1980, and Stone Jam had really paled in their previous efforts in my opinion. Even then Slave isn't recognised as an interstellar amazing pioneering funk band. As of Brick, Good High and Brick of 1977 was really their only greatest achievements. I love the Dazz song but like you said about Zapp's style it's quite a repetitive song without much lyrics. These two albums are still several years predating Zapp's own debut. I just thought your judgement was a little unfair, and you opened up the discussion here, you said something which I somewhat disagreed with, so I challenged it to drum up the discussion about the band. After-all that's the whole point in these threads isn't it? To discuss music? Not for you to waltz around arrogantly thinking your taste is somehow superior. If you're gonna do that what's the point of even having the discussion, if your mind was already made up. What am I supposed to do? Get on my knees and accept your amazing superior judgement and opinion as fact? And 30 years of being a 'professional' composer and musician and you can't even spell 'prevalent' correctly. If you really want out of this world Funk albums I think Stevie Wonder's Talking Book and Inner-visions are masterpieces, and along with Sly and The Family Stone's Stand, and Kool and The Gang's Wild and Peaceful. Oh, and lets not forget The Heat Is On by the Isley Brothers. But hey I'm a guy who loves music and you're a PRO music composer that I've never heard of, so what do I know?
