If You Like Funk: Check Out Vulfpeck

Sounds like you have two sharp and talented kids, astewart; congrats.  What a great thing for siblings to do together, play music!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jhDl4IDfYOg

@frogman Great Brecker Bros. link. Thanks, my boys are twins and a lot of fun--currently working out Snarky Puppy "Lingus" bass and drum parts. We live in Dallas so any band that has a whiff of a UNT grad (formerly North Texas State) they are generally interested in hearing more. Pretty cool.

Great thread!

I’ve been a massive funk fan for as long as I can remember (even played for many years in a funk/disco tribute band 16 members strong, 5 singers, full horn section...man that was fun!).

Anyway, I like funky music of every description, every era.

But for me, in my world, there is a Funk Event Horizon. All that came before was leading up to it, all that came after came out of it.


I refer to Zapp’s More Bounce To The Ounce:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK6wOG_aDl8

For me it is the best pure, and hardest slamming bass/drumline of all time. It could loop for eternity and never stop moving my butt. The guitar playing is awesome, but it’s put over the edge by Roger’s Talkbox performance, which are the funkiest riffs I’ve ever heard. I swear I must have written 5 funk songs just ripping off bits of Roger’s Talkbox improvising because it’s so hooky.

@prof Rich, welcome to the conversation! Glad to have your input. This has turned into a great resource. Please feel free to keep adding to it. My listening collection continues to grow based on fellow Agon recommendations in this thread.

Good to see we ain't done yet!;)  Here's the J-boys (Jamaica, as in Queens Jamaica, NY!) feat. Lenny White and Marcus Miller.  Watch til the end if ya wanna see Marcus REALLY get down!
https://youtu.be/WXMNddc2dIc

and here's Marcus 28 yrs later, he just released this last month!
https://youtu.be/Nf6GTKHiAlw