Just heard in pub: Squibb Cakes......Tower of Power.
After recording the SHAFT soundtrack as Isaac Hayes' backing band, the Bar Kays released this album
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
Save for few exceptions which are rather funky e.g. Magma and elephant9, I like 70's jazz funk a lot more than prog rock. You're free to stone me if you want to.
For the avantheads.
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
Graham Central Station... Shu' -up!
I got nothin' :
...avoiding any implication that I have ever entertained a cognizant thought.
live samples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwbCFGbAtFc
https://youtu.be/AEE5OZXJioE
https://soundcloud.com/yodelgoat/yod...om-a-live-show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUe3YhCjy6g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VOCJokzL_s
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
There is some weird stuff listed here. Soviet and Polish funk? Mind blown.
How about some Parliament Funkadelic? Some of it is a bit proggy, no?
Here is a cool interview with progressive Funk-Rock Guitarist DeWayne “Blackbyrd” McKnight https://nafme.org/dewayne-blackbyrd-mcknight/
Sly & The Family Stone - allmost the 70ties
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
Not sure if Rasptutins Stash has been mentioned?
Or Garham Central Station
How's about something from 2019 but sounds like it could have been in a chase scene from a 70's blaxploitation flick. Can you dig it!
Where is he coming from, Svet??
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
An astonishing proggy-funk gem from Serbian composer and pianist Bora Rokovic (from Ultra Native LP, 1972) :
Keyboardist Howard Wales is best known for his work with Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead.
Solar Eclipse is a track from his album Rendezvous With The Sun from 1976:
Howard Wales & Jerry Garcia jam called Space Funk, recorded live at the Matrix club in San Francisco in 1970 and released on Side Trips Volume One CD in 1998:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh6dfFlJJ2w
Didn't recall this being funkier than Alphosne Mouzon's 1974 python boots...but it probably is.
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