If You Like Funk: Check Out Vulfpeck

No discussion of Funk would be complete without mention of these classic vintage funk albums:

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL94gOvpr5yt2-wFPNHTdQeVvJsQTCHV3V

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aP6CXdWUpNQ

And probably the best (and very influential) instrumental jazz-funk album of all time:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3m3qOD-hhrQ

Thanks for reminding me about the Headhunters LP Frogman.  I have not dusted that LP off and played it in quite a while so it was great hearing it again.

I bought that LP in 1973 and the funk band I was in back in the day played the opening track in our first set in the club days (during my brief but wonderful career as a musician cut short by an accident).

Well, tonight is the night I get to see and hear Tower of Power’s Offical 50th Anniversary concert in Oakland CA with many of the alumni.  Lenny Pickett and Chester Thompson will be there and it will be amazing when they all play together.   Music so fresh and exciting after half a century -  and it never grows old or stale to me.

Cheers,

Frank

Frank, have fun tonight. And please post a review when you return.
Peace
Al

I just discovered this band YESTERDAY!  They been around for yrs but I never heard of them.  Here's the thing, while we all love the Funk and the bands that play it, the truth is the Funk is just a part of what they do.  TOP, EW&F, you name the artist/band, and they all incorporate ballads, shuffles, and a slew of other styles during a concert.  Whether it's Funk, R&B, whatever, it's SOUL music, 1st & foremost!  Ladies & gents, straight outta Oakland, I give you the California Honeydrops!  Man, I luv hearin' new music!;)

https://youtu.be/BWINgViKj-c

Thank Al.  Will do.  And Al?  Thanks again for this thread.

Isn’t this hobby, the end, all about the MUSIC?  

Chazro, great stuff.  Gotta get me soma dat Honeydrippin new (old) music!

Gotta run, it’s off to the Fox Theater to hear the most outrageous Oakland soul/funk band of all!!!  

Funk the Dumb Stuff !!