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Post by mistermaxxx08 on Oct 23, 2017 3:22:58 GMT
mine are
Rick James
Cameo
Parliament Funkadelic
Gap band
Ohio Players
Bar Kays
Earth,WInd and fire
Isley Brothers
James Brown
Sly and the Family Stone
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Post by SoCav on Oct 23, 2017 12:23:44 GMT
Off the top of my head:
James Brown
Kool and the Gang (their early records)
Eddy Senay
Parliament Funkadelic
Jimmy Castor Bunch
Mandrill
Zapp
The Meters
Ohio Players
Graham Central Station
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Post by MattyJam on Oct 23, 2017 12:30:21 GMT
Off the top of my head: Graham Central Station Definitely a very underrated band. Admittedly, I probably wouldn't have gotten into them if it weren't for Prince, but they really were a tight band in their own right. The Jam is my jam! |
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Post by MattyJam on Oct 23, 2017 12:36:23 GMT
Definitely a very underrated band. Admittedly, I probably wouldn't have gotten into them if it weren't for Prince, but they really were a tight band in their own right. The Jam is my jam! Larry Graham is still very solid live. Saw him perform a few years ago and it was an excellent evening of funk. Unfortunately I quite dislike his association with Prince, for various reasons. Yeah, although I quite liked their GCS2000 album they did together back in 98 (I think I was the only one though). I really liked that whole trio of albums, including NPG's New Power Soul (which is basically just a Prince album) and Chaka Khan's fantastic Come 2 My House, which has Larry and Prince all over it. Chaka Khan - now that's a great funk artist. They don't call her the Queen of Funk for nothing!! |
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Post by mjjfan810 on Oct 24, 2017 21:19:55 GMT
Great list mastermaxx and SoCav, and I can't argue with your choices!
Going beyond your ten, I would include Ike and Tina Turner, Roy Ayers (if you count him as a band), Rufus & Chaka Khan, Boney M, and Brass Construction. It's hard not to mention or include some of the bands/groups now considered mostly disco or pop, but some had R&B/Funk at heart: KC & the Sunshine Band, Average White Band, and groups like Klymaxx and the Time.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2017 2:37:59 GMT
1. Prince - he was a master of funk
2. George Clinton/Funkadelic/Parliament etc
3. The Time
4. James Brown and the JBs (Late 60s early 70s era)
5. Kool and the gang
6. Rick James
7. Ohio Players
8. Osibisa (Afro British Funk)
9. Commodores (Early stuff before they all went ballads)
10. Temptations (Funk era 1968 - 1975, Norman Whitfield)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2017 2:42:51 GMT
I would say Earth Wind and Fire, Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan and Boney M but they are more known to me for other genres (The Temptations are a stretch, but Papa was a rolling Stone, Cloud Nine, Ball of Confusion, Psychedelic Shack and Puzzle People are deep in the funk)
Boney M were an exceptional disco act that I love that moved into 80s dance pop - I would hardly call any of their songs funk, except possibly Daddy Cool.
Chaka Khan, well maybe she is funk - but her voice transcends the funk playing.
Stevie Wonder is just a genius in all forms of music, as far as I am concerned, although yeah he can definitely funk it up.
EWF - I will catch fire here as they are funk, but I really love their disco and dance cuts more. I won't call them disco, as I will be blacklisted for life, but to me they were more into dance music and a dance act.
Even the British act - Hot Chocolate are more dance/disco/pop - but one cut of theirs - Emma/Emmeline (1974) is deep in the funk with some awesome wah wah and melancholic lyrics.
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Post by funksoldier on Nov 30, 2017 17:34:52 GMT
Larry Graham is still very solid live. Saw him perform a few years ago and it was an excellent evening of funk.
Unfortunately I quite dislike his association with Prince, for various reasons.Yeah, although I quite liked their GCS2000 album they did together back in 98 (I think I was the only one though). I really liked that whole trio of albums, including NPG's New Power Soul (which is basically just a Prince album) and Chaka Khan's fantastic Come 2 My House, which has Larry and Prince all over it. Chaka Khan - now that's a great funk artist. They don't call her the Queen of Funk for nothing!! Same here. He's a good musician, but I don't like the way he entered Prince's life. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2017 11:16:33 GMT
I have to agree, but pre JW Larry is all good - One in a million you - wow and plus he invented that string plucking and was playing the bass hard in the Family Stone. JW aside, he is still a funky dude.
But both of those 98 albums were Larry's and Chaka's weakest releases, I love me some Chaka too - especially her Rufus period (Do ya love what you feel?) and even "Aint nobody" and "I feel for you" - one of my favourite songs of all time by anyone. Yet Chaka singing on Come On, that was good. Come on is the one worthwhile track on NPS which is a Prince album, yet you would be amazed at how many fans say it ain't and its NPG like Goldnigga and Exodus. NPS sounds nothing like those albums. It is not even the same cats - there is no Sonny or Michael on NPS.
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