Funky prog

Everyone will probably laugh their butts off at this one, but I think Parliament / Funkadelic (two outfits from the brilliant mind of George Clinton) can definitely be considered progressive funk. Those two bands, first Funkadelic and then Parliament, were doing things and experimenting with R&B long before anyone else. Heck, you can even make an argument that George Clinton pretty much invented funk, or at least a sub-genre of it. Parliament absolutely laid the ground work for tons of artists that would follow in their path.

El Diablo is a mexican band that sounds some kind of funky for me

Cinema wrote: Everyone will probably laugh their butts off at this one, but I think Parliament / Funkadelic (two outfits from the brilliant mind of George Clinton) can definitely be considered progressive funk. Those two bands, first Funkadelic and then Parliament, were doing things and experimenting with R&B long before anyone else. Heck, you can even make an argument that George Clinton pretty much invented funk, or at least a sub-genre of it. Parliament absolutely laid the ground work for tons of artists that would follow in their path.

it's called P-funk, and George couldn't have invented it without folks like Bootsy, Bernie Worrell, Gary Shider and a whole bunch more.

I still love it though, in fact I was thinking of this while creating this thread

Bernie was the main kybd guy for both Parliament and Funkadelic. Very progressive kybd player with lots of classical and jazz influences, restless experimenter and an early user of synthesizers. His synth-bass line in the funk hit Flashlight was inspired by the low notes in Keith Emmerson's solo on Lucky Man.

Edited by Easy Money - September 05 2007 at 13:59

Nobody's mentioned Babe Ruth; there was a definite soul/funk presence in their music. Check out 'Wells Fargo' or 'The Mexican' which is a sort of prog/funk reworking of the Ennio Morricone theme tune 'For A Few Dollars More' (and the same arrangement was later rehashed, more or less, by Rare Bird who called it 'Dollars').

Regresso Al Origen from Grupo Ciruela is the most recent funky record i found. Rare great stuff!

Edited by oracus - September 06 2007 at 10:01

dwill123 wrote: "Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants" an extremely progressive and one of Stevie Wonder's most aclaimed albums, althought nobody has probably ever heard of it.

Easy Money wrote: As long as we are talking about progressive funk, there is always Prince. A lot of his music shows an obvious appreciation for prog-rock, as well as a strong interest in jazz. I think his best work came after he quit being a pop star.

Look no further than N.E.W.S.  Four 14 minute songs and no vocals.  Pure progresssive Prince.  Like Stevie Wonder's Journey Through the the Secret Life of Plants, this album from Prince is a complete departure from his usual.

Sleepless (King Crimson) is the funkiest prog song ever.

Ripples wrote: My Picks for Funky Prog are Return to Forever and Funkadelic. Anyone else enjoy these..?

though I don't usually take my fusion with much funk, No Mystery is a fine album