I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do that in many different ways. Peter added his own modern notion of funk and his own deep background in classical music.
I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do that in many different ways. Peter added his own modern notion of funk and his own deep background in classical music.
But that kind of falls in line; when you think about it, James Brown was a funk minimalist. All of those parts create a sum that's larger than than the individual parts.
But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.
Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.
The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.
I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.
I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.
You know, in the 1970's, when I was in high school, I belonged to a band called the Happy Funk Band. Until an unfortunate typo caused us to be expelled from school.
Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.
I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.
If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.
There's a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase... When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.
I've always liked funk and rock and everything.
All my life I have wanted to be a great painter in oils.... As soon as I have carried out my program for Germany, I shall take up painting. I feel that I have it in my soul to become one of the great artists of the age and that future historians will remember me not for what I have done for Germany, but for my art. Note Other Nazis who were frustrated artists Goebbles was an obscure poet in his youth Funk was a musician Baldur von Schirach wrote verse Rosenberg dabbled in architecture.
I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.
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