Funkadelic for space rock/ heavy prog?

Easy Money wrote: Why do I always end up sounding like a Hendrix fan-boy on this site. Jeeze, too much mis-information on this guy. Overated and overexposed in the regular rock world, but misunderstood and underrated in the prog world, go figure. P.S. that stautue looks awful, somebody should sue. It's probably not in California or it would be covered in graffitti ha ha ha.

I love the way you think...  ... for discussion's sake of course... There is a lot of misunderstanding in the prog community about any number of groups.  For such 'intelligent' music fans... it never fails to amaze me how quickly people dismiss things.


and yeah... that is a godawful statue

Zeuhl ? 

Nah, I'll stick to this one:

p) Related to Other-Related

Then I'll go with B.

BTW, I vote fot "G"

^ Absolutely, Jimidom (and, incidentally, I am a big Jimi Hendrix fan -- Band of Gypsys is my particular fave).

Thanks for mentioning that, Ivan.  I had wanted to myself.

Regarding TaoJones absence, silly, but I had been a  little concerned that I may have put him off with my first post with my welcome (the exclamation mark, "Welcome TaoJones!" perhaps seeming overly enthusiastic, and therefore potentially embarrassing -- in my board experiences, I've come to the impression that excessive enthusiasm commonly kills discussion).  I did post within half an hour of his post too, so might have thought there'd be acknowledgment (no biggie that there wasn't).  Perhaps that his discussion only got one response in ten days was another factor for his not responding (people not showing interest).

Let's go back to his initial post:

TaoJones wrote: This may be a long shot but it seams to me that they have at least some chance of qualifying. After listening to them for a long time I have decided that many of the aspects of a progressive rock band can be found in their albums. Fantastic musicianship, "epic" tracks drenched in atmospheric soundscapes, conceptual albums/ reacuring musical concepts and great history behind the bands evolution. It is true that they eventually became more of a dance group later on with Parliament but their origins are truly progressive. If you are unfamiliar with the group check out the album "Maggot brain" to hear probably their most progressive work. What do you say?

He, himself, thought it might be a long shot, and I didn't offer much support in my initial post -- other than mentioning psych qualities.  I don't actually support the band in the archives, but do find the notion very worthy of discussion as a potential candidate for related.  Progressive does not equal Prog.

I wish to apologise for my undignified/ excessive behavior in this thread (this post included).

Now back to the funk....

Whether one thinks it sufficiently considerable for inclusion or not, this is one time I wish we had a poll.  Question: How related to "Prog" (Prog as illustrated by the music covered in the various Prog categories) is Funkadalic?  Choose the one that fits your thinking best.

a) Could fit an existing Prog category

b) Would require a new Prog category (Progressive Funk-Rock/ Fusion)

c) Could fit Prog-Related.

d) Has a relation to Prog, but not enough to be right for Prog-Related

e) Is distantly related to Prog

f) Is a related to Prog Related band.

f) Has no relation to Prog.

g) Has no relation to even related to Prog Related bands

h) Has no relation to related to related bands.

i) Is not related (even very distantly related) at all to anything we have in the archives.

h) Is not even related to music.

i) Dumb poll.

j) Where the hell is Earth WInd and Fire?

k) Phil Collins!!!

l) Magma iss de hundin!

m) Go do us all a favour, Greg, and go drown yourself in a Lake (preferably Greg Lake).

n) Other.

o) Other-Related

p) Related to Other-Related

q) Not even related to other-Related.

r) No relation to anything, including other-other things

s) Okay, now I'm really confused.

t) Wurdah, Logan.

Easy Money wrote:    Hold on a second here, Jimi played blues, psychedelic rock, proto jazz-rock, a couple proggy tunes, folk and hard-rock pop, but very little funk. Why do I always end up sounding like a Hendrix fan-boy on this site. Jeeze, too much mis-information on this guy. Overated and overexposed in the regular rock world, but misunderstood and underrated in the prog world, go figure. P.S. that stautue looks awful, somebody should sue. It's probably not in California or it would be covered in graffitti ha ha ha.

micky wrote: hahhaha...  yeah really... Alan - no clue... but something to chew on....  did anyone in this thread think to welcome the guy, he was a new member... before tearing his suggestion apart Nuts?.. perhaps... or maybe he thought we were all a lot of assholes for going apesh*t over a simple proposition

1. TaoJones suggested Funkadelic on AUGUST 26
2. The first reply was from Logan who welcomed TaoJones and supported his idea
3. Until September 5, all Funkadelic got was support
4. IN TEN DAYS FUNKADELIC ONLY GOT SUPPORT.
5. IN THOSE TEN DAYS TAOJONES DIDN'T GAVE SIGNS OF LIFE. 
6. In ten days TaoJones never gave an argument to support his proposal again
7. TaoJones joined Prog Archives in March 27, 2008  AND ONLY WROTE ONE POST IN  ALMOST 5 MONTHS (Precisely the one suggesting Funkadelic)
8. He is familiar with the Forum, so the opposition to Funkadelic didn't caught him by surprise.
9. Despite this fact never made a post in 4 months, he made once and vanished again

So Micky, this statement you wrote:

1. The guy was welcomed by Lgan
2. Nobody teared his suggestion appart, people supported him for a lot of time. 
3. FOR TEN DAYS HE ONLY RECEIVED SUPPORT
4. He didn't posted despite this facts
5. In five months he only posted ONE TIME,

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - September 10 2008 at 12:31

jammun wrote: y'all better create a new Prog Funk category, at which point the 'where's Sly Stone' thread will quite rightly start immediately.

Easy Money wrote: I just sent Tao a PM, hopefully he'll come back and chat with us some day. Now on the subject of the 'real Progressive Rock'..... I don't know how old the rest of you are, but when I was a young teenager this music was fresh, I can remember listening to albums like 'In Search of the Lost Chord', 'Book of Talesyn', 'In the Court of the Crimson King' and 'ELP' with this feeling of absolute awe. Music like this had hardly existed before. Each new album brought fresh new ideas and it was all very exciting for someone who really loved music. Then the mid-70s came and and stadium styled prog rock was popular and all these awful bands came out that were obviously pop bands capitalizing on what was a profitable trend in music, eventually these psuedo-prog bands became the pop bands they always really were. All of my friends who were into the original progressive rock didn't care for, nor trust these bands. I still don't like these bands and consider them to be a big factor in what killed off the enthusiasm for real Progressive Rock. As a lover of true Progressive Rock it always bugs me that these bands are considered to be 'progressive' and live happily ever after on this site.