Get Your Groove on! It's Funk Week!
 

Yo to all you brothas from otha mothas (okay, and sistas from otha poppas too).

It's funk week and time to get freaky-deaky! Let's share our love for all things funky and see some favourite bands, songs and videos. I'll start with a little somethin' from one of my favourite funk records, Ohio Player's 1975 record "Honey".



Outta sight! .. Now let's see some more of that spiffy funk!

God I love this song :love: :love:

Well known, but it'll never get old...

I want those funky horns, gimme those funky horns!

Used in every rap song ever.

Running Away by Roy Ayers Roy's music was a big influence on the Talking Heads and you can hear a lot of Ayers' signature polyrhythmic approach on Remain in Light.




La Freak by the brilliant Nile Rodgers and Chic Is that Elvis Costello getting his freak on?




Cissy Strut by the Meters. I think da funk musta started here. The Meters have been performing the Cissy Strut since the early Sixties down in NOLA and the New Orleans 2nd line riddim was borrowed by James Brown and a whole bunch of other aliens from the funkadelic mothership. The drummer on Cissy Strut is Joe "Ziggabo" Modeliste who was one of the great R&B/Funk drummers of his era.

Mainstream, but a classic nonetheless:



And some Bootsy Collins. What a great bassist!

Clear your mother and your sisters out of the room.



Chic - I want your love.



Issac Hayes - Run Fay, Run



Incubus - You will be a hot dancer



Red Hot Chili Peppers - Fight Like a Brave

I've been seriously putting off scooping up some albums by Parliament, Funkadelic, Bootsy Collins, and Sly and the Family Stone. Now that funk week has grooved it's way on in I should probably fix that. Throughout the week I've been rocking my James Brown greatest hits disc pretty hard in the truck.

I've also seriously been loving this track, can't get enough of it. The way the guitar and bass work together is so simple yet so effective. Something about the casual, mid-pace tempo of the song just makes it for me too.

i've only ever heard the Soundgarden cover and remix from their first EP. it was awesome and surprisingly tight to the original but a little crunchier haha.

i'm gonna toss up a classic default of the style but i think these live clips offer a good reason as to why it's a staple of the style. on album it's a simple 4 minute tune, but when it closes a show it needs TWO clips...

dennis coffey, scorpio, former funk bruva, wit some raw funk,



kool and the gang, melting pot, which is the name of our soul/funk/mod club held once a month, in Motherwell Scotland, home of the brave..........



jimmy mcgriff fat cakes, one of the original acid jazz hammond funkateers, very popular with british mods ..

No mention of the Lion Of Yaounde? Tut tut ;)

Manu Dibango's Goro City ladies and gents...

Oh maaan some incredible choices there! I don't think I spied any Graham Central Station though? Something like "Pow" or "Boogie Witcha, Baby" maybe

Here are a couple more...

RIP Marvin Isley.