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Abm
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Abm
Post Number: 6146
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 03:56 am: | 
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Bootsy Sure Could PLAY, Baby!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edW55BcLMr4
You betta let dis here love drip all in your eye, Kola. |
Kola_boof
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Kola_boof
Post Number: 3074
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 03:19 pm: |
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I haven't had time to look at it yet, King, but I will.
I'm sick today.
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Abm
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Abm
Post Number: 6157
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 03:22 pm: |
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Kola,
Please see it when you can. Since you love 70's Black music and styling, I figure you will enjoy it.
And I hope you feel better soon, babe. |
Kola_boof
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Kola_boof
Post Number: 3075
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 03:25 pm: |
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OK, I'll watch it right now.
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Mzuri
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 1388
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 03:44 pm: |
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I hope you feel better soon Ms. Kola. Yeah, please hurry up and snap back so we can argue and call each other bitches and hoes and shit. LOLOL!!!
But seriously, I know what a drag it is to feel crummy or to really be sick. Drink some tea or cocoa or whatever and take hot baths and try to relax. Okay!!! |
Abm
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Abm
Post Number: 6163
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 03:54 pm: |
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Mzuri,
That was actually a sweet gesture to Kola. |
Kola_boof
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Kola_boof
Post Number: 3077
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 03:59 pm: |
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You betta let dis here love drip all in your eye, Kola.
HA HA!!!
That was hot as shit!!!!!
I love that song. I haven't heard that since I was a kid.
This was made in D.C. the year BEFORE I arrived in America. How cool.
I have to call my Uncle Booey today and tell him to watch this.
For those who've read my autobiography--they'll KNOW my Uncle Booey is going to LOVE this! LOL!!
ABM, thank you SO MUCH! I love this.
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Mzuri
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 1390
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 04:00 pm: |
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That's because I'm actually sweet, don't ya know |
Kola_boof
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Kola_boof
Post Number: 3078
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 04:00 pm: |
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Thanks Mzuri.
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Abm
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Abm
Post Number: 6168
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 04:34 pm: |
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Kola & Mzuri,
Yes. You BOTH are sweet.
Kola,
That Bootsy clip was SICK, baby. Just SICK!!!
I thought you'd 'dig' the DC connection. I'll bet your Uncle Booey watches it over and over and OVER again.
Bootsy was a son-of-b*tch. Wasn't he? I mean...DAYAM!
The shyt was SPIRITUAL.
We often cite Jazz as being the preeminent American musical art form. But I think before this whole world blows up, what those brothas were doing in the SEVENTIES are going to rank up there with MOZART.
When you see Bootsy work that mojo, it reminds you how UNIQUE it is to be a Black man.
PS: Dayam. I shouldah stop bvllshitting and learned to rock that BASS. |
Kola_boof
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Username: Kola_boof
Post Number: 3080
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 04:42 pm: |
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HA HA!!!
You put it so well, ABM, that I can't really add anything more meaningful.
I agree---this is MOZART; the TOP for "rock" music, as they actually represent the PEAK achievement of what CHuck Berry and "ROCK" set out to scale.
It took that "Unique" blackness to finally do it.
I watched the clip twice and I left a message on my Uncle's cell phone telling him that I sent him an email with the link. He's going to be IN HEAVEN.
Bootsy and Parliament is his all-time FAVORITE musical group. I'm so happy you turned me on to this.
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Abm
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Abm
Post Number: 6169
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 04:55 pm: |
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Kola,
Yeah. Bootsy, George Clinton, James Brown (whom I think Bootsy and/or Clinton worked under), the Brothers Johnson, Sly Stone and them took music to a place that it ain't never been before or since.
Nikka said "That's the way I pat my baby on the butt." Hahahahaha!!!
GONNNE do that thang, Bootzilla!!! |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 2603
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 01:02 pm: |
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I first saw Parliament Funkadelic in 1972 in a gym in Champaign Urbana Illinois on the University of Illinois campus.
The show started about an hour late. Everybody is sitting around, pissed off. Then this comedian they had with them came out. Did a routine so blue everybody is standing around with their mouths open.
Then Funkadelic came out--the backing band. At that time it was Bootsie Collins, his brother Phelps, a bunch of guys who had bailed out on James Brown. They had Bernie Worrell and Eddie Hazel with them. They proceeded to launch into Maggott Brain, a bunch of what you would have to call Psychedelic Infantilism.
They were wearing all kinds of wild stuff. Eddie Hazel had on a striped prison uniform. Bootsy was wearing some leotard or something.
Then Parliament came out. Fuzzy Haskins was wearing some longjohns and got on the mikestand and rolled and jerked around on it about ten minutes. The piece de resistance was George Clinton--he came through the audience. People were screaming and getting out of his way. He was wearing a cape and a leopardskin loincloth, making foul and obscene gestures, had one side of his face painted white, one side silver and had his head shaved just for one tuft of hair on his head.
By this time half the audience had left. It was like watching a bunch of lunatics acting out.
The music was great, though. When I saw them a year later they had toned it down.
When the show was over the remaining audience just stood there stunned. They had to come back out and tell us to leave.
I never before, nor since, have seen or heard anything like it. |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 4958
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 03:02 pm: |
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Contrary to his claim, Bootsie was "not everyday people". Too bad drugs turned him into a bizarre character who really didn't inspire a "thank you for letting him be himself". But he did set the standard for funk bands. Even so, I preferred the innovations of "Earth, Wind, and Fire". |
Abm
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Abm
Post Number: 6183
Registered: 04-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 03:52 pm: |
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Chris,
I envy your having seen Bootsie and George Clinton do their thang back then.
Cynique,
Unless I'm mistaken, your references to "everyday people" and "thank you for letting me be myself" suggest you might have mistaken Bootsie for Sly Stone. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 4959
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 04:22 pm: |
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You're right, ABM! I always get all of the musicians of that era mixed up! Was Bootsie the one who always wore white-rimmed heart-shaped sun glasses?? George Clinton I could never get mixed up. Seems like these bands all had front men who had very distinctive deep nasal-voices that really played with a note, one in particular was named Larry "somebody", and they interchanged between bands; and the all sounded like the lead singer of the Ohio Players. All of my fuzzy memories are culled from what I would hear my kids listening to back then. Nana will now stay out of the conversation LMAO. |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 6187
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 04:41 pm: |
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Cynique,
Actually Bootsy's wore star-shaped sunglasses.
There was sort of a nasal funk 'twang' brothas were working back then.
Yeah. You probably shouldah went back to listening to Louis Armstrong and Elle Fitzgerald and leave the wilder stuff to the young foks. |
Schakspir
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Username: Schakspir
Post Number: 548
Registered: 12-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 04:46 pm: |
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Abm, Louis in his heyday was wilder than you think. Get his Okeh's from the twenties and early thirties, and forget about that "hello dolly" shit he did later. |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 4960
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 06:00 pm: |
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Gimme a break, ABM! Louis Armstrong And Ella Fitzgerald are for anybody of any age who likes jazz. Actually, I like and related to a lot of musicians of the 70s and 80s. Sly for one; Prince, and Michael Jackson. Luther and Aretha. The "Time" and Run DMC, New Edition and Teddy Riley, Sade and Whitney, Nellie and Kanye West just to name a few. And you may have to turn in your funk credentials because you couldn't supply me with the last name of "Larry" Blackman of Cameo or Sugar Foot of the Ohio Players, both of whom were the consummate male singers in the funk genre. |
Abm
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Abm
Post Number: 6192
Registered: 04-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 06:05 pm: |
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Cynique,
It's was just a small joke, babe.
No need for your blond wig to pop outtah place. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 4961
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 06:33 pm: |
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I don't sit around the house wearing a blond wig. Blond is not my shade of choice and wigs are for emergencies. Ha-Ha-ha-Ha. |
Rustang
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Rustang
Post Number: 393
Registered: 04-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 02:47 am: |
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Yeah, Bootsie could play,allright.Personally, I'd rather listen to Stanley Clarke, if I had to pick between bassists, but I do enjoy Parliament/Funkadelic.
As a side note, here's something that I mentioned to you a few months ago, Cynique.If you if you enjoy expertise on an instrument, hold onto your hat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHjDHdu8IQM |
Rustang
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Username: Rustang
Post Number: 394
Registered: 04-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 09:34 am: |
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Here's a brother that is pretty much as good as it gets.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8A_IP5YB2g |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 2607
Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 11:45 am: |
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I saw them live four times. The first time in Champaign they were in Maggott Brain--America Eats It's Young phase (they did "Pussy" too--at the musical bridge George Clinton got down on his belly, slithered off the stage into the audience like a snake sending people running in all directions)
Next time I saw them--in a gym at Florissant Valley Jr. College--they were in Cosmic Slop phase (Funkadelic was only about five guys that time no horn section). George and Gary had on diapers.
The next time they were in Standing on the Verge of Getting it on, phase--. They were in a theater proper a small one seating several hundred the old American I believe--George was dressed like satan and drove out on the stage in a Volkswagen.
Finally I saw them they were doing The Mothership--they were on a bill with The Floaters, Manchild, and Cameo in a hockey arena (they had moved up from the gym days)He had the Mothership Connection Clones of Dr. Funkenstein crew. Thousands of people. One of the most peaceful crowds I was ever in (and one of the dope smokinest)--the audience had on costumes almost as wild as ParliamentFunkadelic.
Ahh, gone are the days. |
Mzuri
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 1396
Registered: 01-2006
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 11:58 am: |
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I miss the olden concert days too. You could light up a joint, pass it on and a couple minutes later here comes another one from the opposite direction. And you didn't have to worry about getting shot, stabbed, robbed, kidnapped and carjacked on your way back out to the parking lot.
Anyway - JOHNNY "GUITAR" WATSON y'all. There wouldn't even be no such thing as funk without him!!! HELLOOOOW!!!  |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 4963
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 12:51 pm: |
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"That's a real motha for ya!" |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 1263
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 01:39 pm: |
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Stanley Clarke...As a college mate of mine used to say "If God played bass guitar, that's what he'd sound like."
I have to agree with all of you on your funky-bassmen picks. But as for the non-geriatric bassist set: Meshell Ndegeocello. |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 1264
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 01:42 pm: |
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BTW, did we already talk about this doc on this board? http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/parliamentfunkadelic/ |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 1265
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 01:46 pm: |
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And if you are longing for new funk, you might want to check out Brand New Heavies new release.
http://www.myspace.com/thebrandnewheavies |
Satina
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Username: Satina
Post Number: 28
Registered: 05-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 02:27 pm: |
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Thanks for posting the clip. My music is heavily influenced by Parliament, Bootsy, Mother's Finest... and I call it Groove Rock. It really pisses me off at how racist the industry is when it's a black artists trying to breaking in to white genres. But then we get bombarded with the latest and greatest white hypes over and over and over and .....
"Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Ike Turner... started this shit" and we gone finish it. We seriously have to support black artists who are trying different styles of music.
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Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 6198
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 02:45 pm: |
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Chris,
Now I think I understand you A LOT better: You've got "Cosmic Slop" and "P*$$y" sonically zapped into your brain. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 2619
Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 03:31 pm: |
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Abm:
I ain't got no doobie in my funk. Real funk. Like when you run your finger between your toes and smell it! |
Doberman23
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Doberman23
Post Number: 509
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 08:22 pm: |
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other than automic dog i hated that stuff, that is until the good doctor got a hold of it and improved it. besides i think all of them fools where on somethin' dressing and looking the way that they did and still do. |
Rustang
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Username: Rustang
Post Number: 395
Registered: 04-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 10:52 pm: |
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You kind of had to be there, Dobie.It was a different time. |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 6233
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 11:12 pm: |
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Rustang: "You kind of had to be there, Dobie.It was a different time."
Yeah. One that - GASP!!! - required singers to actually be able to SING and musicians to actually be able to actually play INSTRUMENTS. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 2628
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, August 24, 2006 - 11:57 am: |
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Dobie:
They WAS on something. 24/7. When I saw them the second time at Flo Valley all of them smoked gigantic blunts right on stage through the whole concert.
All through their work is reference to drug taking of all kinds--for instance uncut funk--tha bomb was drug talk for having pure dope, the best. In the song, "What is Soul", soul is described as "A joint rolled up in toilet paper". The boyz were during their career on much heavier stuff--George has been busted for possession of coke and crack. Some PCP heads insisted that "The Motor Booty affair" was a paen to Angel Dust.
And on and on.
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