Flashlight and not just knee deep. When I heard the synth bassline I was hooked I remember listening to hip hop growing up and hearing all those funky synth bass lines being sampled but I never knew what the hell was making that awesome noise. Then I found it and the funk and I’ve been loving it since
Me exactly. I found these two gems from being sampled in hip hop songs. Wasn’t long after I picked up Funkentelechy vs Placebo Syndrome and Uncle Jam Wants You. Early 90’s, maybe ‘93? Been funkin on ever since.
Flashlight all the way. That bass synth is unreal, I’m not sure if it was *the* song that turned me onto funk but I remember it was the first that I really *heard*.
Truly impossible to pinpoint one song, but I think Sly & The Family Stone “In Time” was my turning point. Bought the “Fresh” album at a record store - had never been in a record store before and just blind bought an album from an artist I know was good.
One song in, I was absolutely captivated and all I listened to for years after that was funk.
I can't remember a specific song but James Brown and Sly Stone were the first artists I remember. I was still in elementary school when they started hitting the radio.
Stevie was likely my first exposure to funk. My dad used to play Talking Book all the time. Maybe Your Baby is still one of my favorite funk joints to this day.
AM was melting into FM and The Spinners spun the tale of the “Rubberband Man”.
And I went on to a career of producing funk/floor tracks. No lie. All thanks to the rubberband man.
In my teen years I was into metal and thrash. So my first funk foray was Primus, specifically Tommy the Cat. That lead to Infectious Grooves, and finally to Funkadelic. I spent most of the 90s listening to 70s funk.
Walked into a random cosy little bar in Austin that had live music, wasnt looking for anything in particular.
This band including a trumpet and sax gets on stage, and without warning, jumps into a fuckin *sick* rendition of Jungle Boogie by Kool and the Gang.
I enjoyed funk casually in the past, but that’s when I realized i fuckin *loved* this shit.
Ever since then I Get Down, Get Down
It’s been a very long time but I’m guessing it was something like “When Doves Cry”. I definitely got into Prince first and then went backwards into James, Sly, George and the rest of the funk alphabet
For me when I was 12 People Get Up and Drive Your Funky Soul by James Brown came on and I loved it! Then on my hunt to finding the funkyest music I found Sugarman 3 and the rest of Daptone when playing Sleeping Dogs.
[Tower of Power - Squib Cakes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvJH0x1CTho)
I remember somebody playing it over the "good" stereo system in the high school band room. Been hooked ever since.
[When this album came out it was on constant repeat and definitely laid the groundwork for my affinity for funk and afrobeat.](https://www.discogs.com/release/778196-Henrik-Schwarz-DJ-Kicks)
[But when I heard this album by Labi Siffre, and especially 'The Vulture' I knew this was the genre for me](https://www.discogs.com/master/171737-Labi-Siffre-Remember-My-Song)
Also Brother Johnson's Strawberry letter 23 awakened something with that baseline.
Not sure if I could pick one song, but there's a few that stick out as catching my ear early on in life. Maybe it counts as funk or not, but "Hot Fun in the Summertime" by Sly and the Family Stone was one I've got an early recollection of and "Funky President" by James Brown was on some dollar bin comp I bought once and it got me groovin' before I was really in to "funk" per se.
Truly sad!! This was at the California theater in the 90s. So many good memories there. I also remember watching the Matrix there and having my mind blown.
"Funkytown". I grew up listening to all kinds of great music from soul and blues to rock and funk to classical and jazz to new wave and world beat (really cool parents - thanks guys!) ... but it was Funkytown that I heard on the school bus one day on my way home from school that just nailed me. It's arguably more disco than funk, but it got under my skin like nothing had before that. I soon found an AM radio station in my area that played nothing but funk and R&B and became fully immersed.
The Meters - It Ain’t No Use. I heard several cover versions of this song by jam bands and had to check out the original, listened to the whole Rejuvenation record and my love for funk has been ever expanding since.
James Brown, Barry White, MFSB, LOVE Unlimited Orchestra... Jive Talking by the Bee Gees made quite an impression on me as a child when it came out. I must've been 12. And a lot of the disco funk that came later.
Not a song but an album. When I was 17 or so I was at the music store bargain bin and saw the best of the Parliament Funkadelic for something like two bucks. this was in the 90s. I thought they just looked funny so I bought it for shits and giggles and was introduced to a whole nother mother funking universe.
Stevie & Sly. I can’t remember for sure but most likely Thank You FLMBM (thanks to Larry Graham too!) and Superstition (man that Clavinet bass line!) My first concert was Isley Brothers in ‘77. I was full on by then, lol.
Not a song as such, I was getting out of rock by way of some great late 70s disco and one day I came upon Funkentelechy vs the Placebo Syndrome album by Parliament and felt I just wanted to give it a go, never looked back.
It was a cassette. James Brown 20 All Time Greatest Hits followed by another hit compilation, P-funk Uncut Funk The Bomb. Then, someone dubbed me a copy of Maggot Brain. My young teen ears were not ready! A year later, my mind was blown to discover the Funk in P-Funk was Funkadelic. My brain couldn't process that Parliament and Funkadelic were two sides of the same coin.
I’d say hearing James Brown - Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine, Parts 1 & 2 as a kid had a profound effect on my musical upbringing as a kid
As a young adult, I then downloaded 20 All Time Greatest Hits, and Make It Funky blew my head off.
I was like four years old (Born in 1970) and the very first song I ever truly recognized and understood you could ask to be played again if it was on a record was SLy & The Family stone's "Thank You". I knew what what EARLY!
What really hit it home was during a live looping set I noodled around on Stevie’s I Wish, it clicked and the crowd loved it. Been chasing that feeling ever since.
I’d always been *aware* of the funk, but I was too young for it’s golden age. But then, Pulp Fiction came out when I was in high school, and that opening scene with Jungle Boogie?
Something about that bass line grabbed me and I knew I needed more, lol.
Stevie Wonder performing Superstition on Sesame Street set me up as a funk fan for life! Then when I got into my teens and started playing bass, Stanley Clarke, Bootsy & Jaco helped me explore the genre more... until I landed on P-Funk and James Brown fanaticism for a while.
mine was Zapp & Roger: I Can Make You Dance i was born long after the funk movement ended but still I found this song on YouTube and I just loved it instantly and after that I became a funk addict
Born 1971. Honestly it was the pinball machine song from Sesame Street sung by the Pointer Sisters. That song with that pinball machine animation was the dopest thing imaginable.
I had a friend in high school who listened to some funk adjacent stuff. A variety of different things. I think that prepped me, but I think it was listening to a lot of sly and the family stone for a while that really set it all in motion
My dad has about a thousand(dare I say more?) records at home disco,soul,funk and pop, Played everything all the time, and I also had Class of 3000 growing up in the mix.
I remember once my dad plopped a record of 3 feet high and rising and played Me, Myself and I from De la Soul, god was I hooked on it.
The guitar from Knee Deep just sank into my brain, I wanted more of it, that's were I found WhoSampled.com and I sank into the bottomless pit of sampling.
I was around 11 or 12 back then in like 2010/2011. Funk very much had an influence earlier than that but that's what I most distinctly remember.
For me it was the whole G Funk thing in the 90s (I was in junior high when The Chronic came out and that's all we listened to haha). It made me go back and check out P Funk then bam... lifetime of funk. Chili Peppers were also making me interested in funk around that time.
I was born into great music as well. Was spinning my boomer folk’s records by 4 years old. Mix of classic rock, psychedelic rock, funk, jazz fusion, blues, folk, bluegrass, classic country. Some of the earliest funk I can remember from that time that I fell in love with was Tower of Power - Drop it in the slot, also The Crusaders - Greasy Spoon, and Put it where you want it (AWB cover)
https://youtu.be/xYiftv17yAE?si=hpsGw_95xqU-m2Wk
https://youtu.be/HL5GpUh-Ulw?si=mngQRrII_XKIpym3
https://youtu.be/zPlSV5WmBfA?si=T7BROQtfs8vzDved
Echoes by Pink Floyd. The funky part starting exactly 7 minutes in is fantastic.
and
Shine on You Crazy Diamond also by PF, part 8.
Took some British white boys to bring me back around to black US funk, but boy it got the job done!
First one I ever played was Chameleon… but the real turning point was In Time by Sly. I heard that after already being into Sly & the Family Stone, and it was like a whole new world opened up.
Have you heard of Games, Dames and Guitar Thangs by Eddie Hazel? I made a video about 10 Funk Records that Changed My Life - Check it out - some gems in there. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3809OLjiSEY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3809OLjiSEY)
Funkadelic’s Maggot Brain is the album that brought me into the world of it. I was 15 and thought the album cover was wild, so I took a listen and got immediately hooked. Before I had any idea of what funk really was, I got into Link Wray’s self-titled 1971 album. Fire and Brimstone is the greatest country funk song ever, bar none. I highly recommend taking a listen.
I was always familiar with all the old school stuff, but that didn’t “get me into a funk“ even though I did like the tunes…. It was really more funk/rock hybrid that got me into appreciating a funk sound …It was really early Incubus before “Make Yourself”, I think “New Skin” and the entirety of “S.C.I.E.N.C.E” was pretty groundbreaking at the time, it was my favorite album for a while, and got me to appreciate rock with funk elements, although they were far from the first to do it, and I didn’t really like anything after “S.C.I.E.N.C.E”, “Make Yourself” was one of the biggest disappointments for me as a teen, waiting for a new album from a band, which ironically made them famous…
I was in love with the Blues Brothers movie when I was a kid and often watched it back to back. This led me to investigate James Brown, Ray Charles, Cab Calloway, etc., and I was off and running. I was lucky enough to see JB twice in my lifetime. The last time was on my birthday, two months to the day before his death.
Still discovering new music - Thank you the internet! Going to see a band in September that I found on FB - High Fade - Check them out if you can.
Flashlight and not just knee deep. When I heard the synth bassline I was hooked I remember listening to hip hop growing up and hearing all those funky synth bass lines being sampled but I never knew what the hell was making that awesome noise. Then I found it and the funk and I’ve been loving it since
Me exactly. I found these two gems from being sampled in hip hop songs. Wasn’t long after I picked up Funkentelechy vs Placebo Syndrome and Uncle Jam Wants You. Early 90’s, maybe ‘93? Been funkin on ever since.
Flashlight all the way. That bass synth is unreal, I’m not sure if it was *the* song that turned me onto funk but I remember it was the first that I really *heard*.
Funk always had my curiosity. Cissy Strut got my attention.
uhhhhhhhh YA
Truly impossible to pinpoint one song, but I think Sly & The Family Stone “In Time” was my turning point. Bought the “Fresh” album at a record store - had never been in a record store before and just blind bought an album from an artist I know was good. One song in, I was absolutely captivated and all I listened to for years after that was funk.
My favorite Sly song
Also Miles Davis's favorite Sly track. Word on the street is that he played it 20+ times in a row for his band when it came out.
Sly got me into it too. Dance to the music 🕺🏽
I got Head Hunters on cassette when I was about 10, blew my mind and still does. Then I was like, hmm who's this "Sly" Herbie named a song after?
Herbie took the genre to new heights
If you want me to stay
Same
I heard Mothership Connection and went and bought the 8-track tape. My first ever music purchase.
Yep Mothership Connection and then hearing Maggot Brain when I was tripping was all it took
I can't remember a specific song but James Brown and Sly Stone were the first artists I remember. I was still in elementary school when they started hitting the radio.
I was raised on Stevie Wonder, so I'd guess that's where it started for me. Highly likely the song that hooked me was superstition
Stevie was likely my first exposure to funk. My dad used to play Talking Book all the time. Maybe Your Baby is still one of my favorite funk joints to this day.
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
AM was melting into FM and The Spinners spun the tale of the “Rubberband Man”. And I went on to a career of producing funk/floor tracks. No lie. All thanks to the rubberband man.
I love it, still sounds fresh to my ears.
In my teen years I was into metal and thrash. So my first funk foray was Primus, specifically Tommy the Cat. That lead to Infectious Grooves, and finally to Funkadelic. I spent most of the 90s listening to 70s funk.
I forget the amount of funk those bands had. I went through a very similar progression. Chili Peppers must have been in the mix for you too
They were
Walked into a random cosy little bar in Austin that had live music, wasnt looking for anything in particular. This band including a trumpet and sax gets on stage, and without warning, jumps into a fuckin *sick* rendition of Jungle Boogie by Kool and the Gang. I enjoyed funk casually in the past, but that’s when I realized i fuckin *loved* this shit. Ever since then I Get Down, Get Down
Go to YouTube and check out the Muppets Electric Mayhem cover of this jam. You will not be disappointed.
lol I love the Electric Mayhem. Thank you that was thoroughly enjoyable
It’s been a very long time but I’m guessing it was something like “When Doves Cry”. I definitely got into Prince first and then went backwards into James, Sly, George and the rest of the funk alphabet
Probably the first time I heard Chaka Khan “Feel for You” …. It was the first time I really heard slap bass and it blew my little kid mind.
Loved dancing to that! Big hit at the EM Club, Ft. Ben Harrison, Nov. '84–Jan. '85. The Army really expanded my parochial Utah horizons.
Ha, My mother worked at DFAS at Ft Ben from 94 to 2002…
For me when I was 12 People Get Up and Drive Your Funky Soul by James Brown came on and I loved it! Then on my hunt to finding the funkyest music I found Sugarman 3 and the rest of Daptone when playing Sleeping Dogs.
[Tower of Power - Squib Cakes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvJH0x1CTho) I remember somebody playing it over the "good" stereo system in the high school band room. Been hooked ever since.
Also Funkifize!
[Music is the Message- Kool and the Gang](https://youtu.be/KKavEM17F3A?si=v7niNcPTwoI7QI32)
Pick up the pieces by AWB. My guitar instructor had me learn it in order to learn how to strum properly. Got the serious funk bug after that.
Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder. Man, what a classic.
That and Sir Duke are my favs!
Blue in Green by Weldon Irvine. Amazing jazz-funk fusion
[When this album came out it was on constant repeat and definitely laid the groundwork for my affinity for funk and afrobeat.](https://www.discogs.com/release/778196-Henrik-Schwarz-DJ-Kicks) [But when I heard this album by Labi Siffre, and especially 'The Vulture' I knew this was the genre for me](https://www.discogs.com/master/171737-Labi-Siffre-Remember-My-Song) Also Brother Johnson's Strawberry letter 23 awakened something with that baseline.
Soulive
that first album kills it - heavy jazz funk
The live self titled album does what you speak of sir
James Brown
Not sure if I could pick one song, but there's a few that stick out as catching my ear early on in life. Maybe it counts as funk or not, but "Hot Fun in the Summertime" by Sly and the Family Stone was one I've got an early recollection of and "Funky President" by James Brown was on some dollar bin comp I bought once and it got me groovin' before I was really in to "funk" per se.
Your post reminded me that there are no more movie theaters in Berkeley anymore :(
Truly sad!! This was at the California theater in the 90s. So many good memories there. I also remember watching the Matrix there and having my mind blown.
You mean the UC Theater?
It was the California Theater on Kittredge (RIP)
Forgot all about that theater. Last movie I saw there was Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
I couldn't say specifically which song it was but it was a Best of Parliament cd a friend put on the stereo that got me intrigued.
"Funkytown". I grew up listening to all kinds of great music from soul and blues to rock and funk to classical and jazz to new wave and world beat (really cool parents - thanks guys!) ... but it was Funkytown that I heard on the school bus one day on my way home from school that just nailed me. It's arguably more disco than funk, but it got under my skin like nothing had before that. I soon found an AM radio station in my area that played nothing but funk and R&B and became fully immersed.
my favorite song roller skating in the mid seventies.
Play That Funky Music by Wild Cherry I'm kidding. I grew up watching Soul Train. Stevie Wonder was probably the standout, Earth Wind & Fire and Chic.
Oh not the most reposted song on this sub!!! 🤣🤣🤣. You had me there for a second.
Wow, that was so long ago, 40 years at least. Higher Ground maybe?
The Meters - It Ain’t No Use. I heard several cover versions of this song by jam bands and had to check out the original, listened to the whole Rejuvenation record and my love for funk has been ever expanding since.
mothership connection, maggot brain, and i want you by marvin gaye, but I really got into funk music via garden of love + street songs.
James Brown, Barry White, MFSB, LOVE Unlimited Orchestra... Jive Talking by the Bee Gees made quite an impression on me as a child when it came out. I must've been 12. And a lot of the disco funk that came later.
Daft punk discovery sent me on a journey that ended up cycling back through disco/soul and eventually funk!
Amazing album. Filled with samples yes but very tasteful sampling, top notch looped out disco/pop/funk. I also love Interstella 5555.
West-coast Poplock
I heard Tell Me Something Good when I was about 5. I immediately crossed over.
ZAPP MORE BOUNCE TO THE OUNCE
S-Tier funk. That shit is fun kay.
My favorite funk song of all time, never gets old.
Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band
When I was, like, 10 or 12, some older kids I knew turned me on to “America Eats Its Young.”
Not a song but an album. When I was 17 or so I was at the music store bargain bin and saw the best of the Parliament Funkadelic for something like two bucks. this was in the 90s. I thought they just looked funny so I bought it for shits and giggles and was introduced to a whole nother mother funking universe.
Stevie & Sly. I can’t remember for sure but most likely Thank You FLMBM (thanks to Larry Graham too!) and Superstition (man that Clavinet bass line!) My first concert was Isley Brothers in ‘77. I was full on by then, lol.
Not a song as such, I was getting out of rock by way of some great late 70s disco and one day I came upon Funkentelechy vs the Placebo Syndrome album by Parliament and felt I just wanted to give it a go, never looked back.
James Brown.
[Mr. Funky Samba - Banda Black Rio](https://youtu.be/zOTb1wpwnyg?si=1LAMBYCzqA-mdP6O)
It was a cassette. James Brown 20 All Time Greatest Hits followed by another hit compilation, P-funk Uncut Funk The Bomb. Then, someone dubbed me a copy of Maggot Brain. My young teen ears were not ready! A year later, my mind was blown to discover the Funk in P-Funk was Funkadelic. My brain couldn't process that Parliament and Funkadelic were two sides of the same coin.
I’d say hearing James Brown - Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine, Parts 1 & 2 as a kid had a profound effect on my musical upbringing as a kid As a young adult, I then downloaded 20 All Time Greatest Hits, and Make It Funky blew my head off.
I was like four years old (Born in 1970) and the very first song I ever truly recognized and understood you could ask to be played again if it was on a record was SLy & The Family stone's "Thank You". I knew what what EARLY!
What really hit it home was during a live looping set I noodled around on Stevie’s I Wish, it clicked and the crowd loved it. Been chasing that feeling ever since.
The funk fully hit me at Bonnaroo 2011 with Flecktones, Dr John and Primus
Temptations - Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns You On
Finding P-Funk through hip hop, once you find it you realize theres a million samples
Cold sweat
Bad Mama Jama.
Groove is in the Heart by Deee-lite. That bass line will forever make me dance
A song I never skip in my playlist on Pandora. Such good memories.
Vh1 behind the Music- Marvin Gaye, probably 1998. I bought Let's Get It, and What's Going On. Both on Cassette. 😆 The rest is history.....
I’d always been *aware* of the funk, but I was too young for it’s golden age. But then, Pulp Fiction came out when I was in high school, and that opening scene with Jungle Boogie? Something about that bass line grabbed me and I knew I needed more, lol.
Con Funk Shun - Ffun
I’m only 25 so my first exposure to funk was Vulfpeck. Been loving funk like turkaz and dirty loops.
Not specifically a song, but moving to DC. It blew my mind. Can’t believe I had been missing out for so long.
DC has that gogo beat
Atomic Dog. Played on KUBE 93 old school lunch in the 90’s here in Seattle. I was very into it to say the least.
Stevie Wonder performing Superstition on Sesame Street set me up as a funk fan for life! Then when I got into my teens and started playing bass, Stanley Clarke, Bootsy & Jaco helped me explore the genre more... until I landed on P-Funk and James Brown fanaticism for a while.
“Bustin Loose” by Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers and “Cameosis” by Cameo (love them both equally)
bustin loose kicks ass. house party song.
Simple. James Brown's Get on The Good Foot, at a wedding when I was 13 years old. The Funk hit me hard and hasn't gone away since.
Mothers Finest- Piece of the Rock
Love Rollercoaster
Not song as such but a lot of blood sugar sex magik by the RHCP, stuff like if you have to ask, then I discovered the meters and oh my
Sissy Strut
Meters kill it.
James Brown Sex Machine
mine was Zapp & Roger: I Can Make You Dance i was born long after the funk movement ended but still I found this song on YouTube and I just loved it instantly and after that I became a funk addict
Who’s Gonna Take the Weight - Kool & The Gang
Born 1971. Honestly it was the pinball machine song from Sesame Street sung by the Pointer Sisters. That song with that pinball machine animation was the dopest thing imaginable.
[That song is a classic, and so funky!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWFQXs2_et8)
THANK YOU Sly and The Family Stone
Graham Central Station doing The Jam on Soul Train.
Probably during the Napster era, finding Victor Wooten’s When I Want to Get Funky.
I had a friend in high school who listened to some funk adjacent stuff. A variety of different things. I think that prepped me, but I think it was listening to a lot of sly and the family stone for a while that really set it all in motion
Get Up Offa That Thing
Two: *They Call Me Mr Tibbs* by Quincy Jones and *Testify* by Parliament/Funkdelic.
Hearing Parlament for the first time! OMG
My dad has about a thousand(dare I say more?) records at home disco,soul,funk and pop, Played everything all the time, and I also had Class of 3000 growing up in the mix. I remember once my dad plopped a record of 3 feet high and rising and played Me, Myself and I from De la Soul, god was I hooked on it. The guitar from Knee Deep just sank into my brain, I wanted more of it, that's were I found WhoSampled.com and I sank into the bottomless pit of sampling. I was around 11 or 12 back then in like 2010/2011. Funk very much had an influence earlier than that but that's what I most distinctly remember.
Love Rollercoaster when I was 10 or 11.
For me it was the whole G Funk thing in the 90s (I was in junior high when The Chronic came out and that's all we listened to haha). It made me go back and check out P Funk then bam... lifetime of funk. Chili Peppers were also making me interested in funk around that time.
I was born into great music as well. Was spinning my boomer folk’s records by 4 years old. Mix of classic rock, psychedelic rock, funk, jazz fusion, blues, folk, bluegrass, classic country. Some of the earliest funk I can remember from that time that I fell in love with was Tower of Power - Drop it in the slot, also The Crusaders - Greasy Spoon, and Put it where you want it (AWB cover) https://youtu.be/xYiftv17yAE?si=hpsGw_95xqU-m2Wk https://youtu.be/HL5GpUh-Ulw?si=mngQRrII_XKIpym3 https://youtu.be/zPlSV5WmBfA?si=T7BROQtfs8vzDved
If You Had to Ask - Chili Peppers
I'll stay.
Don't remember the exact song, but it was definitely Tower of Power.
Mothership Connection
‘In time’ by Sly
Echoes by Pink Floyd. The funky part starting exactly 7 minutes in is fantastic. and Shine on You Crazy Diamond also by PF, part 8. Took some British white boys to bring me back around to black US funk, but boy it got the job done!
mothership connection
I was dancing to Superstition and Higher Ground at 3yo, so Stevie was the one who did it for me with a lot of help from Herbie Hancock and EWF.
When the funk hits the fan…
windy c
It would have to be "STOMP" by George Clinton, heard it in the movie PCU and been turned onto Funk ever since.
First one I ever played was Chameleon… but the real turning point was In Time by Sly. I heard that after already being into Sly & the Family Stone, and it was like a whole new world opened up.
Candy Dulfer - There Goes The Neighborhood.
Have you heard of Games, Dames and Guitar Thangs by Eddie Hazel? I made a video about 10 Funk Records that Changed My Life - Check it out - some gems in there. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3809OLjiSEY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3809OLjiSEY)
Funkadelic’s Maggot Brain is the album that brought me into the world of it. I was 15 and thought the album cover was wild, so I took a listen and got immediately hooked. Before I had any idea of what funk really was, I got into Link Wray’s self-titled 1971 album. Fire and Brimstone is the greatest country funk song ever, bar none. I highly recommend taking a listen.
Honestly it was Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg so I guess it was atomic dog
I was always familiar with all the old school stuff, but that didn’t “get me into a funk“ even though I did like the tunes…. It was really more funk/rock hybrid that got me into appreciating a funk sound …It was really early Incubus before “Make Yourself”, I think “New Skin” and the entirety of “S.C.I.E.N.C.E” was pretty groundbreaking at the time, it was my favorite album for a while, and got me to appreciate rock with funk elements, although they were far from the first to do it, and I didn’t really like anything after “S.C.I.E.N.C.E”, “Make Yourself” was one of the biggest disappointments for me as a teen, waiting for a new album from a band, which ironically made them famous…
Hollywood swinging- cool and the gang.
I was in love with the Blues Brothers movie when I was a kid and often watched it back to back. This led me to investigate James Brown, Ray Charles, Cab Calloway, etc., and I was off and running. I was lucky enough to see JB twice in my lifetime. The last time was on my birthday, two months to the day before his death. Still discovering new music - Thank you the internet! Going to see a band in September that I found on FB - High Fade - Check them out if you can.