Prince inherited his skills from James Brown, Sly Stone, George Clinton, Curtis Mayfield ... and a lot of other funkateers ...

The BBC transmits a beautiful serie about soul,
and this saturday it's the FUNK episode!

If you're a funkateer you don't wanna miss this ...
if you don't know that much about the classic FUNK ... this is your chance!

22:25 C.E.T.
21:25 British Continent

http://www.bbc.co.uk/musi...pisodes/5/

[Edited 6/3/05 11:34am]

just to keep this information on the first page ...
so I can inform some more funkateers





NO ... I dont work for the BBC!

Yes. Looks like a good show and I'll be watching it but surely this is in the wrong forum.

mdn7 said:

To judge Prince's funk correctly you must be familiar with those funkateers ...
So, maybe after watching this show the newbees get a better view of Prince's music in historical perspective, so a better based discussion is established??

The roots of funk are 100% derived from the cowbell.

It's been an interesting series, if a little sweeping, but generalisations and condensing of information is usual for TV documentaries.

That was hawt! Shame there was no mention of Prince tho

MetroArea said:

indeed ... they made it look like JB stopped after "Sexmachine", Sly stopped after "There's a Riot Going On", Marvin stopped after "What's Going On", and George didn't excist 'till 1977 ...

But, it's the first Funk documentary I ever saw broadcasted ... and it was pretty cool.

But I'm glad I own the Mothership Connection Live DVD and JB's Body Heat.

ThataintFunky said:

I don't have the Mothership Live DVD, I really should get it because I am eager to see it.

I was kinda disappointed that the next show will be about Mary J. Blige and the current wave of Black artists - I mean they went from George Clinton, to a few seconds of Public Enemy, and then next time onto Mary J. Blige.

I mean - There were Black funk and soul artists in the 80s right? I didn't dream that up?!

MetroArea said:

I have to warn you 'bout the Mothership Connection DVD: the picture-quality isn't so good (taken from the VHS, which is very dark). But the concert is great. It's very cheap in the Netherlands anyway (5,99 euro at the FRS).

I guess the BBC-serie is partly about political involvement of black music ...
the 80's funk isn't political at all .... it's just about the party, and that's great too.

AsianBomb777 said:

If Funk was only that simple, everybody would be doing.

The series was cool, but 2 side-step Prince (n countless others) was a mistake.
And Mary is political? Please. She's a fool.

love

That was a fantastic show; I really wanna be hooked up with some Dr. Funkenstein now; and despite my Stevie Wonder-lovin' I'd never heard living for the city which is great.

But it really annoyed me how it focused on funk now being hip hop; completely ignoring modern funk pioneers such as Prince.

Oh well, a good show anyway.

I'm sure on the promo I saw Outkast.

I mean, they're gonna talk about Outkast, but not Prince? It seems they've skipped an entire generation.

MetroArea said:

Oh, they really fucked their documentary.