who??? black Culture that put thuggery ahead of social progress, that's who...http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469073/
Electric purgatory: The fate of the black rocker. I thought it was pretty good. It’s a tremendous shame, in my opinion.
Freegards
Rap killed the Funk.
Simple. Funk died or morphed into something else as do many musical genres.
Last week I saw a claim that racists like Sean Hannity killed Motown music but it really just died a natural death. In fact if anyone was making traditional Motown music today, it would be 50 and 60 somethings buying it.
There’s still some good and not so good music coming out of Detroit. Some of the biggest names in the world have come out of Detroit like Madonna. More modern names would be Kid Rock, Uncle Kracker, Jack White and even Eminem.
who??? black Culture that put thuggery ahead of social progress, that's who...I’ve always had a real love for funk and soul music. Sly and The Family Stone, George Clinton, Marie Queenie Lyons, Earth Wind and Fire etc. It’s a shame that it’s almost nonexistent in the current musical trends. Those old funk acts were far more musically talented than the auto-tuned crud that makes up so much of the top 40 these days.
BTW, on a completely random note: I always thought “Soulfinger” by the Bar-Kays would make a great personal themesong. I mean, wouldn’t it be great if everytime you walked into a room, the opening horns to that one started playing?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfK1IPLpcqs
Leftism killed funk and Motown. When the Left co-opted black youth into thinking their way about things, the decline began.
The death of horn sections killed funk. It’s a complex music structure and modern music is simple. Also spawning off disco didn’t help it much. But in the end it was always a fringe type. There’s still some out there, Janelle Monae is doing some good funk. Plus of course the old farts are still cruising around.
Rap crap killed it. I used to love funk in the 70’s.
“Rap” killed music.
Alfonzo Rachael’s (Machosauce) band has a heavy metal/funk sound to some of it.
If you can’t read/write music or play an instrument, you end up with rap.
Just another predictable consequence of liberals in charge of education and government.
I miss the Motown Sound.
Dunno, but 'twas a righteous kill.
The Dave Matthews Band flirts with it.
Those who actually pay attention know that funk evolved into disco for the most part - when disco became popular, the touring economy for funk died quickly.
Hip hop and go go retained more of funk's sensibility, but disco was what dominated until the mid-80s.
Hip hop preserved funk and jazz funk for the next generation by sampling and curating it.
Love Funk till play all the stuff from the 70’s almost every day
Love the funk. But there’s a lot of great music that’s not being made anymore, I think. I mean where are the great rock bands, like Zeplin,the Allman Brothers, the Eagles? Who is like that now? It seems to me that popular music is all rap or crap these days, but maybe I’m just o.l.d.
I about wore out a cassette copy of One Nation Under A Groove recently in my old BMW recently. It was my commute soundtrack for about a month and a half.
I think Jamiraquai is doing something like funk, although it’s almost too sophisticated to be funk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE4VlA_9OrI
But they have live drums, a very funky bass player (you can tell he’s funky because YouTube is full of videos of people copping his bass lines), a horn section, and a funky guitar player. And it’s obvious they’ve listened to a lot of funk. So the elements are there.