Funk Rock

Necromancer · 08-04-2010, 09:05 AM

To be honest Dave, the opinion that JA influenced todays funk rock comes from wikipedia, I believe.
So you know how that is..like you've stated before Dave "wkipedia is not always completely accurate", which is an opinion that I tend to agree with.
You know, somehow I think that 'Funk Rock' or some form of style closely related to the funk genre anyway, is far from hitting its 'peak' yet, funk has really only been accepted by the masses (musically) in the last 20 years or so, for example, five or ten years ago, If I suggested that certain songs within different genres outside the funk genre, like say 'country' for instance,
"had a nice funk groove to it", the suggestion would be laughed at or completely ignored, as having no viability.
I kind of see the RHCPs as the 'first' real 'Funk Rock' band, and everything before that was still within process musically (influence).

08-04-2010, 09:05 AM	#1 (permalink)
Necromancer Divination Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,655	To be honest Dave, the opinion that JA influenced todays funk rock comes from wikipedia, I believe. So you know how that is..like you've stated before Dave "wkipedia is not always completely accurate", which is an opinion that I tend to agree with. You know, somehow I think that 'Funk Rock' or some form of style closely related to the funk genre anyway, is far from hitting its 'peak' yet, funk has really only been accepted by the masses (musically) in the last 20 years or so, for example, five or ten years ago, If I suggested that certain songs within different genres outside the funk genre, like say 'country' for instance, "had a nice funk groove to it", the suggestion would be laughed at or completely ignored, as having no viability. I kind of see the RHCPs as the 'first' real 'Funk Rock' band, and everything before that was still within process musically (influence).