George Clinton/Parliament

[laughingwillow]

Just found out George will be bringing Parliament to a venue just a few blocks from our house in early November. We're really looking forward to this one.


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[judih]

a stroke of fine fortune!

[JRL]

George Clinton! Nice to see that someone that crazy can make a career out of it. Up for the down stroke!

[laughingwillow]

Crazy is right.

A couple of the only shows I've actually been enjoying and left before the band was done were GC's. They came to Iowa a bunch of times in the early/mid 90's and must have had permission to play as long as they liked at at least a few of those gigs. I'm pretty sure he was touring with Parliament/Funkadelic during that period. The shows were like relay races. George would take the lead for a spell, then Garry Shider would take over perched on a stack of speakers and wearing a diaper. Pretty sure Bootsy even descended from the Mothership. Heck, one of George's grand daughters got in on the act. First funky and then hard edged and back to the funk once again. He flat out told the crowd that they would continue playing until we all went home. I laughed. But on two of those occasions they were still going strong when we dragged our tired asses out of the venues and hit the road. And the band played on.

[laughingwillow]

Free your ass and your mind will follow....

[JRL]

Heard tales from people that toured with George about behavior that sounds pretty schizophrenic. like poo flinging.

[laughingwillow]

LOL Poo flinging? How does one go about that? Do you take the poo out of the toilet or just skip all formality and shite into your hand before flinging?

[JRL]

I think you probably skip the toilet. Apparently George ain't happy when he can't get no blow.