I think it's happened because bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and I actually can't think of anyone else at the moment, came along and turned it into something pretty lame, and it got abandoned by black people for rap and hip-hop, so it lost its cool or something.

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This is an honest guess, but I assume it had a lot more to do with the white people who made disco than the white people like the Chili Peppers who actually did something interesting with it...

I don't make a habit of being an outright ******* often, but this is a ****ing stupid comment.

I think it has a lot to do with the title of the thread, (funk intelligence) :rolleyes:give me a break :laughing:, it went to hell right off the bat.

I think this is partially correct. Funk was originally an outgrowth of R & B (which was a term invented to replace "race music", and became Rock and Roll--especially, but not exclusively, when it was/is played by white musicians). Modern R & B (so called) doesn't tend to sound anything like the originators (Chuck Berry, Little Richard, etc), which seem to have been folded into the Rock & Roll camp. Likewise Funk has been brought into the Rock fold (like R.H.C.P.--I'm not saying they are lame , though), and so it has both been diffused and maintained through the works of the original funk music pioneers like Parliament/Funkadelic and it's off-shoots Bootsy Collins et al. In any case it has lost the predominance it held in the '70s, as it is overshadowed (but not superceded) by more "now" styles; hip-hop, etc.

I don't mean to sound sarcastic, but it sounds like you just watched the movie Cadillac Records, bio of Chicago's Chess Records.
You forgot to mention the Scottish band, The Average White Band, along beside Parliament/Funkadelic, as innovators in the 70s funk era. British soul & funk is just as original musically.

Maybe.

Wheres your Avatar, by the wya?

It takes up to much room, I prefer to stay small as possible, and out of the wya. :laughing:

just google something you want with 150x150 after it, thats how I do it. You don't even have to ask the mods.

Funk music ran out of steam, ran out of innovation. People know what it is and understand the main concept, it's just that it kind of died in a way. Funk musicians such as myself are still learning all we can about the genre, playing it as much as we can, and hoping that in the future we can innovate it and fuse it with other genres as we've seen fellow musicians do.