42-521: Funkadelic was an American funk rock band formed in Plainfield, New Jersey in 1968 and active until 1982. As one of the two flagship groups of George Clinton 's P-Funk collective , they helped pioneer the funk music culture of the 1970s. Funkadelic initially formed as a backing band for Clinton's vocal group the Parliaments (later the full-fledged band Parliament ), but eventually pursued
84-476: A Funkadelic ) was released under the name Funkadelic in 1981. The album was recorded by former Funkadelic members and original Parliaments Fuzzy Haskins , Calvin Simon , and Grady Thomas , who had left P-Funk in 1977 after disagreements with George Clinton's management practices. This LP, notable for its heavy use of Thomas "Pae-dog" McEvoy's jazz horn , contains the track called "You'll Like It Too", which became
126-536: A collection of Funkadelic outtakes and demos from the Free Your Mind and America Eats Its Young era. Critical reception of the album has generally been positive. In April 2013, the band released their first single in over 25 years when they released "The Naz". The song is a collaboration with Sly Stone and tells the story of Jesus Christ. The B-side to the song is "Nuclear Dog" which is guitar solo by P-Funk guitarist Dewayne "Blackbyrd" McKnight. Funkadelic had
168-517: A couple of funk rock songs, such as "Gypsy Eyes" and "Still Raining, Still Dreaming". George Clinton has been considered the godfather of this genre since 1970. Clinton created the name " P-Funk " include Funkadelic and Parliament for the innovative new concepts of funk that he culled from former members of James Brown 's band (such as Maceo Parker , Bootsy Collins and Fred Wesley) and new young players such as Eddie Hazel . His groups, Funkadelic and Parliament , practically defined funk since
210-440: A heavier, psychedelic rock -oriented sound in their own recordings. They released acclaimed albums such as Maggot Brain (1971) and One Nation Under a Groove (1978). The group that would become Funkadelic was formed by George Clinton in 1964, as the unnamed backing section for his doo wop group the Parliaments while on tour. The band originally consisted of musicians Frankie Boyce, Richard Boyce, and Langston Booth plus
252-399: A long working relationship between Worrell and Clinton. The album Maggot Brain followed in 1971. The first three Funkadelic albums displayed strong psychedelic influences (not least in terms of production) and limited commercial potential, despite containing many songs that stayed in the band's setlist for several years and would influence many future funk, rock, and hip hop artists. After
294-437: A lot of funk in their music. The real problem for us was when we played in black clubs. They told us we were too loud." Funk rock acts were not favored by R&B recording companies. For example, Nile Rogers, guitarists of Chic , wanted to be a rock band like Roxy Music , but they eventually became a disco act after being turned down by recording companies. Despite its considerable influence on later popular music, funk rock
336-524: A major influence on a large number of hip-hop artists, and the genre of hip-hop as a whole. In particular, Dr. Dre references Funkadelic's sound as a major influence on his music, especially his G-funk sound. Funkadelic's 1979 release "(Not Just) Knee Deep" in particular was sampled extensively by G-Funk artists, including placements on Dr. Dre's The Chronic , Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle , MC Hammer's Street Fighter OST, De La Soul's Me Myself And I and Tupac's All Eyez On Me. Funk rock Funk rock
378-464: A reissue in 2007. It features a cover of "Sunshine Of Your Love" by Cream . The album did not receive any publicity, but still received favorable reviews. Clinton continued his P-Funk collective in the 1990s and 2000s, with a revolving stable of musicians, some of whom remain from the classic lineups of Funkadelic and Parliament. The rock-oriented sound of Funkadelic has diminished, as Clinton has moved towards more of an R&B and hip hop sound. In 1997
420-546: A surge in popularity, with bands such as Prince & The Revolution , Tom Tom Club , Pigbag , INXS , Talking Heads , Devo , the Fine Young Cannibals and Cameo dabbling in the sound. Groups including Red Hot Chili Peppers , Rage Against the Machine , Incubus , Mr. Bungle , Primus and Faith No More also notably combined funk rock with metal , punk , hip hop and experimental music, leading to
462-671: A tighter guitar and horns-based funk (circa 1971–75), which subsequently, during the height of Parliament-Funkadelic success (circa 1976–81), added elements of R&B and electronic music, with fewer psychedelic rock elements. The band made their first live television performance on Say Brother on October 7, 1969. They played a jam with songs "Into My Own Thing" ( Sly and the Family Stone cover), "What Is Soul?", " (I Wanna) Testify ", " I Was Made to Love Her " ( Stevie Wonder cover), "Friday Night, August 14th" and "Music for My Mother". The group's self-titled debut album, Funkadelic ,
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#1732779829211504-503: A very popular breakbeat source for the hip hop community in the 1980s. Former band member drummer Jerome Brailey released the album Mutiny on the Mamaship , by his new band Mutiny. In the early 1980s, with legal difficulties arising from the multiple names used by multiple groups, as well as a shakeup at Parliament's record label, George Clinton dissolved Parliament and Funkadelic as recording and touring entities. However, many of
546-461: Is a fusion genre that mixes elements of funk and rock . James Brown and others declared that Little Richard and his mid-1950s road band, the Upsetters , were the first to put the funk in the rock and roll beat, with a biographer stating that their music "spark[ed] the musical transition from fifties rock and roll to sixties funk". Funk rock's earliest incarnation on record was heard in
588-486: Is one of the most prominent musicians today in the fusion of rock riffs and funk rhythms, as exampled in tracks such as "Tunnel Vision", " Always on the Run ", and " American Woman ". Rock band Incubus 's early sound was rooted in funk music, heavily influenced by earlier funk/metal fusion artists such as Faith No More and Primus . During the making of his acclaimed studio album Voodoo (2000), neo soul musician D'Angelo
630-401: The 1970s are American artists Rick Derringer , Redbone , The Bar-Kays , and Mother's Finest . "We called ourselves funk rock", recalled Mother's Finest singer Glenn "Doc" Murdock. "I think we invented that. We even had a house where we all lived and we named it 'Funk Rock, Georgia '. We felt that we were headlining that whole genre. We played with Lynyrd Skynyrd and AC/DC . Those bands had
672-521: The 2000s, Red Hot Chili Peppers , N.E.R.D. Electric Six, and Lenny Kravitz released funk rock albums. In 2005 Defiance Douglass, a vocalist, musician, songwriter and producer, formed Exiles of the Nation (also known as EOTN) in Atlanta, Georgia, with a new brand of art/psychedelic Funk/Rock titled "ExileMusik", which incorporates elements of other genres as well. Their 2021 album, "Liquidation", also made
714-682: The JB's, in 1972 – most notably Bootsy Collins and the Horny Horns . Bootsy and his brother Catfish Collins were recruited by Clinton to replace the departed Nelson and Hazel. Bootsy in particular became a major contributor to the P-Funk sound. In 1972, this new line-up released the politically charged double album America Eats Its Young . The lineup stabilized a bit with the album Cosmic Slop in 1973, featuring major contributions from recently added singer-guitarist Garry Shider . After first leaving
756-510: The Parliaments' name, the ensemble began playing under the name Funkadelic. As Funkadelic, the group signed to Westbound in 1968. Around this time, the group's music evolved from soul and doo wop into a harder guitar-driven mix of psychedelic rock, soul and funk, much influenced by the popular musical (and political) movements of the time. Jimi Hendrix , Sly Stone , the MC5 , and Vanilla Fudge were major inspirations. This style later evolved into
798-522: The R&;B charts, around the time that Parliament was enjoying the #1 R&B singles " Flash Light " and " Aqua Boogie ". Uncle Jam Wants You in 1979 continued Funkadelic's new more electronic sound production. The album contains the fifteen-minute " (Not Just) Knee Deep " featuring former Spinners lead singer Philippé Wynne , an edited version of which topped the R&B charts. The final official Funkadelic album, The Electric Spanking of War Babies ,
840-530: The Top 10 of several "Best of 2021 Funk Albums" lists. The wave of Britpop/ baggy revival bands in the 2010s, such as Peace , also experimented with funk. Peace's second album Happy People features numerous elements of funk, mainly in terms of bass lines. In 2010, a group called I Set The Sea On Fire formed in Sheffield, incorporating elements of funk and other genres into their music. In 2014, Prince formed
882-464: The anthology The Best of the Early Years . As Parliament began achieving significant mainstream success in the 1975–1978 period, Funkadelic recorded and released its most successful and influential album, One Nation Under a Groove in 1978, adding former Ohio Players keyboardist Walter "Junie" Morrison and reflecting a more melodic dance-based sound. The title track spent six weeks at #1 on
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#1732779829211924-458: The band's next album Come Taste the Band with Tommy Bolin was even more funky than its predecessor Stormbringer . However, Deep Purple broke up in 1976 and Tommy Bolin died from a drug overdose. The funk rock genre's representatives from the 1980s to present day include INXS , Tom Tom Club , Pigbag , Cameo , the Fine Young Cannibals , Fishbone , Billy Squier and Living Colour . From
966-485: The band, Eddie Hazel spent a year in jail after assaulting an airline flight attendant and air marshal while under the influence of PCP, then he returned to make major contributions to the album Standing on the Verge of Getting It On (1974). Hazel only contributed to P-Funk sporadically thereafter. George Clinton revived Parliament in 1974 and signed them to Casablanca Records . Parliament and Funkadelic featured mostly
1008-596: The basic funk beats along with elements of new wave which makes this a basic synth-funk song. Prince , The Time , Morris Day , Jesse Johnson , Alexander O'Neal , Andre Cymone , The Family (USA), St. Paul Peterson , Apollonia 6 , Vanity 6 , Sheila E., and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis recorded soul, R&B, funk, rock and Minneapolis sound . Red Hot Chili Peppers 's second and third albums (which were released 1985 and 1987). UK Planet Radio called Red Hot Chili Peppers "funk rock legends". Keziah Jones, Seal, and Stevie Salas released funk rock albums. And in
1050-500: The bass driven hard rock funk style in 1970 so well portrayed in their cover of The Animals song Inside-Looking Out and later picked up by Rage Against the Machine. Also singer-model Betty Davis recorded funk rock albums. Composer and guitarist Frank Zappa demonstrated the merge of styles in albums like Overnite Sensation , in themes such as " I'm the Slime ", covered in concert decades later by Funkadelic. Other pioneers evolved in
1092-709: The catch-all term for George Clinton's rapidly growing stable of funk artists). In 1975, Funkadelic released its most successful album yet, Let's Take It to the Stage , which nearly cracked the R&B top ten and the Billboard 100. Later in 1975 Michael Hampton , a teen guitar prodigy, replaced Hazel as the premier lead guitarist in Parliament-Funkadelic, and was a major contributor to the next several Funkadelic albums. Funkadelic left Westbound in 1976 and moved to Warner Brothers . Their first album for Warner
1134-458: The early 1990s, several bands combined funky rhythms with heavy metal guitar sounds, resulting in " funk metal ", where the emphasis is in using much heavier distorted guitar sounds in the mix. Funk rock employs more of a lighter, "crunchier" distorted guitar sound, and the musical emphasis tends to be more beat-driven with prominent bass lines; more rhythmic in the R&;B sense. Lenny Kravitz
1176-490: The emergence of the genre known as funk metal or "punk-funk". Funk rock is a fusion of funk music and rock music also from the point of view of instrumentation, in fact it incorporates that of both genres into itself, and the overall sound is shaped by a definitive bass or drum beat and by electric guitars . Sly and the Family Stone gained funk rock hits such as "Sing a Simple Song" and "Thank You". The Jimi Hendrix Experience album Electric Ladyland also included
1218-453: The five members of the Parliaments on vocals. Boyce, Boyce, and Booth enlisted in the Army in 1966, and Clinton recruited bassist Billy Bass Nelson and guitarist Eddie Hazel in 1967, then added guitarist Tawl Ross and drummer Tiki Fulwood . The name "Funkadelic" was coined by Nelson after the band relocated to Detroit. By 1968, because of a dispute with Revilot, the record company that owned
1260-472: The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . Filmmaker Yvonne Smith of New York City-based Brazen Hussy productions produced Parliament-Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove, a full-length documentary about the groundbreaking group, which aired on PBS in 2005. As of 2008, Clinton was at work on a new Funkadelic album for his new record label. In November 2008, Westbound Records released Toys ,
1302-569: The late 1960s through the mid-1970s by acts such as Sly and the Family Stone , Parliament-Funkadelic , The Isley Brothers , Redbone , Rick Derringer , David Bowie , The Chambers Brothers , Cold Blood , Shuggie Otis , Aerosmith , Wild Cherry , the Average White Band , Gary Wright , Black Merda , Bar-Kays , Edwin Birdsong , Betty Davis , Trapeze and Mother's Finest . During the 1980s and 1990s funk rock music experienced
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1344-453: The late 1990s, Vermont-based jam band Phish began incorporating funk influences into their sound, creating a style dubbed "cow funk". This style can be heard prominently on their 1998 release, The Story of the Ghost . Some Britpop bands also experimented with funk, mainly in terms of bass lines, including Blur 's song " Girls & Boys ", from the album Parklife (1994). During
1386-617: The musicians in later versions of the two groups remained employed by Clinton. Clinton continued to release new albums regularly, sometimes under his own name and sometimes under the name George Clinton & the P-Funk All-Stars. In the mid-1980s, the penultimate Funkadelic studio album By Way Of The Drum was recorded by Clinton with P-Funk personnel and many electronic devices. The album was rejected by its record label and did not see official release in America until it appeared as
1428-487: The release of Maggot Brain , the Funkadelic lineup expanded greatly. Tawl Ross was unavailable after experiencing either a bad LSD trip or a speed overdose, while Billy Bass Nelson and Eddie Hazel quit due to financial concerns. From this point, many more musicians and singers would be added during Funkadelic's (and Parliament's) history, including the recruitment of several members of James Brown 's backing band,
1470-463: The release of the influential funk rock Funkadelic classic Maggot Brain (1971). Later funk rock albums by the group include Cosmic Slop , Standing on the Verge of Getting It On , Hardcore Jollies and Let's Take It to the Stage . Later albums such as One Nation Under a Groove and Electric Spanking of War Babies had a bit more radio-friendly sound but still preserved much of group's funk rock approach. Grand Funk Railroad pioneered
1512-400: The same stable of personnel but operated concurrently under two names. At first, Parliament was designated as a more mainstream funk ensemble dominated by soulful vocals and horn arrangements, while Funkadelic was designated as a more experimental and freestyle guitar-based funk band. The ensemble usually toured under the combined name Parliament-Funkadelic or simply P-Funk (which also became
1554-566: The start of the 1980s, funk musicians Ricky Sander, Ottenheim James, and Cameo as well as new wave band Blondie and post-punk band Talking Heads each created their own brand of funk rock. British rock group Queen had a major funk rock hit song of the period with " Another One Bites the Dust " (the beat was inspired by Chic's hit "Good Times"). Also in the 1980s, some synth-funk and synth-pop bands such as Thomas Dolby, Scritti Politti , Howard Jones (hit with Things Can Only Get Better ) made
1596-400: Was Hardcore Jollies released in 1976. Just before leaving Westbound, Clinton provided that label with a collection of recently recorded outtakes, which Westbound released as the album Tales of Kidd Funkadelic . That album did significantly better commercially than Hardcore Jollies and included "Undisco Kidd", an R&B Top 30 single. In 1977, Westbound capitalized further by releasing
1638-522: Was influenced by the funk rock sound of P-Funk , Jimi Hendrix and other such artists, while his hit single " Untitled (How Does It Feel) " has been noted by critics for containing elements of and similarity to the Maggot Brain sound of Funkadelic . Jane's Addiction have included many funk based routines in tracks. Irish band Republic of Loose are also noted for their funk rock sound which has earned them several awards and critical acclaim. In
1680-515: Was not a very visible phenomenon during the 1970s. Only a few funk rock acts could be seen on record charts, notably David Bowie (" Fame ", 1975), Aerosmith (" Last Child ", 1976), The Rolling Stones (" Hot Stuff ", 1975), Gary Wright (" Love Is Alive ", 1976) and Steve Winwood ("I'm A Man"). When Glenn Hughes left Trapeze and joined Deep Purple along with David Coverdale , Deep Purple's next two albums contained elements of funk and soul. When Ritchie Blackmore left Deep Purple in 1975,
1722-526: Was released in 1970. The credits listed organist Mickey Atkins plus Clinton, Fulwood, Hazel, Nelson, and Ross. The recording also included the rest of Parliament's singers (still uncredited because of contractual concerns), several uncredited session musicians then employed by Motown , as well as Ray Monette (of Rare Earth ) and future P-Funk mainstay Bernie Worrell . Bernie Worrell was officially credited starting with Funkadelic's second album, Free Your Mind... and Your Ass Will Follow (1970), thus beginning
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1764-402: Was released in 1981. The release was originally a double-album project, but it was reduced to a single disc under pressure from Warner Brothers. Some of the deleted tracks would appear on future P-Funk releases, most notably the 1982 hit single " Atomic Dog " which appeared on the first George Clinton solo album. Meanwhile, the album Connections & Disconnections (re-issued on CD as Who's
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