F U N K !!!

[Art Blade]

I can't believe what I just found. If you want a definition of 70s funk, check this out :)
Edit: the vid was removed so I had to replace it.

1976, French funk group "Airto Fogo"

airto fogo - just over

[Fiach]

The only funk I ever heard really is funk metal, this sounds kinda like cop show music, from back in the day, which is pretty cool :)

[Art Blade]

funk metal doesn't sound familiar to me but then again, "metal" (in a few variations) is something I only listened to after deciding to get to know it and only for a few months. I had people I knew were fans recommend their favourite tunes to me so at least I wouldn't have to rummage through random crap. I am not a metal fan yet after that experience I can admit that there are a few very interesting pieces out there, some of which with truly impressive artistic value.

Before that, I used to call metal "ear-splitting, nerve-wrecking noise" and I'd much rather have preferred to listen to a tank being taken apart with a couple of chain saws along with one virtuously operated circular saw. :-D Now I won't say that any more but instead just quietly try to stay away from it. Except of course someone I appreciate actually means it if they recommend a track to me  :-()

You're spot on with your comparison, for example Shaft (1971) and The Streets of San Francisco (1972–1977) were aired during the prime time of funky music which had a warm-up phase starting as early as around 1968 and ebbed away between 1979 and perhaps 1982. Of course, like most music genres, funk was not only comprised of jazz elements. It picked up on popular trends and diversified, disco funk is one example, but also had strange sub-sections that even I would dismiss as rubbish. However, the 70s jazz funk is my preferred style. :)

By the way, I remember a game called Interstate 76 which had pretty cool funk music all over the shop.  :-D

Interstate 76 Intro
Game Intros: Interstate 76 - Nitro Rider Expansion

[Fiach]

Funk Metal, These two bands released similarly titled songs, one spelt it "funk" the other...er....didn't....

Extreme

Extreme - Get The Funk Out

Skid Row

Skid Row ~ Get the f@#k Out+Lyrics

[Art Blade]

Thanks for those links :) The second link worked for me but I really didn't see anything I could relate to funk. The first link.. GEMA.. but I found a version I'd like you to comment on. That one actually does contain both funk and something I could relate to metal. Nice "battle" between the bass and guitar players, and the guitar soli weren't half bad I'd say  :-D

Extreme - Get The Funk Out 2010

[Fiach]

. The first link.. GEMA..

Didn't see that one coming :P  >:D Actually I would have thought the second song would have been the one that was inaccessible :)

As regards commenting on it, Nuno is a great guitarist, I hated the arpeggiated crap at the start, just arpeggios played really fast, I find it really boring, but I loved the second solo and the antics with the bass player :)

A great band imo, I have two albums, Pornograffiti and 3 Sides. I think Gary sang with Van Halen for awhile.

[Art Blade]

 :) :-X

[Jim di Griz]

I'm still waiting for Rastabilly Skank from Red Dwarf to be realised as a style... ^-^

[Art Blade]

I've been digging through YT again and found one piece that I can't get out of my mind, the start of that song is so hypnotising and I love the groove.

Biography by Steve Huey:

Black Merda were a funky rock combo with a significant debt to Jimi Hendrix, mixing fuzz-toned, psychedelic blues-rock with folky acoustic passages and contemporary late-'60s soul. Featuring guitarists Anthony and Charles Hawkins, bassist VC Veasey (aka Veesee L. Veasey), and drummer Tyrone Hite, the group got its start in the late '60s after Veasey, Hite, and Anthony Hawkins had spent time in a band called the Soul Agents, backing Edwin Starr and Gene Chandler. Inspired by Jimi Hendrix's Are You Experienced?, they added Anthony's younger brother Charles on second guitar and christened themselves Black Merda. Despite some interest around their Detroit base -- including Norman Whitfield and Eddie Kendricks -- Black Merda signed to Chess, thanks in part to the psychedelic soul eccentric Fugi (aka Ellington Jordan), who they also backed on his Mary, Don't Take Me on No Bad Trip LP for Chess.

Black Merda's self-titled album sounded revolutionary enough, although the bandmembers were disappointed that it didn't reflect their heavy live shows. They then moved to the West Coast to continue playing with Fugi, but returned to Chicago to record a second album. Shortening their name to Mer-Da, the group returned in 1971 with Long Burn the Fire, a funkier outing that bore a likeness to early Funkadelic. The band quickly fizzled out, but over the next three decades, continued record-collector interest in the group eventually resulted in a reunion with Veasey, both Hawkins brothers, and Fugi, although Hite had died in 2004.

Black Merda - Long Burn the Fire

[Art Blade]

Boulevard - Couleurs de Funk.

Actually Deephouse with a funk groove, I can't resist that one.  ^-^
DEEP HOUSE _ Boulevard - Couleurs de funk

[Stiku]

Boulevard - Couleurs de Funk.

Actually Deephouse with a funk groove, I can't resist that one.  ^-^

It has the potential, but sounds to me that its missing that something, that could make it more funkier/groovy.  :'(
I know its funk and deephouse together, but I still would prefer that funk would be the dominant genre.  ;)

[Art Blade]

agree from that point of view. I haven't yet started a deephouse topic (too much of a niche I guess) so I thought I'd place it in here. If I had started a deephouse topic and posted there, the comment could have been, "it's deephouse, OK, but it is a bit heavy on the funky side" 

Since I like both genres, I am happy this way and the other.  :-()

[Binnatics]

The funky train rolls through many countries 8)

Here's another phunkiness I stumbled upon recently when looking for old(er) RHCP records:

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Subway to venus (HD)

[Binnatics]

I think from all funk Fishbone is one of the funkiest to me. This track is new to me too, and I really like the clip... hope GEMMA doesn't mess up this one:

Fishbone - When Problems Arise

[Art Blade]

Well, GEMA did. The chili peppers worked, though

[Art Blade]

It took me more than 30 years to finally find my all-time favourite funk piece. There are various versions out, I prefer the Rose Royce version of their Rainbow Connection IV album, released in August 1979, which is the song I used to dance to back in the day. However, the song was first released in 1978 by Stargard and produced by Norman Whitfield who also produced for (and created) Rose Royce which you may know for their title song of the film Car Wash, see spoiler.

Spoiler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkxaunLybuM

I never knew what the name of the song was nor who performed it. Now I know.

Here goes :) :) :)

Rose Royce - what you waitin' for

STARGARD - WHAT YOU WAITING FOR (DISCO MIX)

[PZ]

OMG!  a 45!

[Art Blade]

Eh.. I've got tons of those. So-called maxi-singles.  :)

[Binnatics]

Dizzy and Fresh at the same time :-X :)

Just the way it ought to be ^-^

Very nice songs, I didn't hear them before

[fragger]

OMG!  a 45!

Hehe :-D

I wonder... Would anybody who is younger than about thirty know what is really meant by the expression, "flip-side"? Or better yet, "B-side"? :-()

[Art Blade]

 :-D

[Binnatics]

The B-side... ain't that where those damn Arsenal hooligans are hiding? Or was that the F-side ????

[PZ]

45...

Wasn't that about the rotational speed of the first steam engines developed in the 19th century?  ????

[fragger]

  Sounds about right!

Remember when you could play a 33⅓ rpm record at 45 rpm and it would sound like Alvin and the Chipmunks on speed? :-D

[Binnatics]