One thing I've been enjoying about the Ebbets Field radio broadcasts I've been posting is the wide variety of music that was performed in this small Denver venue (which only held a maximum of 250 people). It didn't matter what kind of music was on offer there, so long as it was good. Even so, I'm pleasantly surprised that the funk band Parliament-Funkadelic played there in late 1976. I would have thought they would have been too popular at that time to play such a small venue, but I could imagine that the Denver area wasn't a hotbed of funk back then.
Here's the Wikipedia entry intro:
"Parliament-Funkadelic (abbreviated as P-Funk) is an American music collective of rotating musicians headed by George Clinton, primarily consisting of the funk bands Parliament and Funkadelic, both active since the 1960s. With an eclectic style drawing on psychedelia, outlandish fashion, and surreal humor, they have released albums such as 'Maggot Brain' (1971), 'Mothership Connection' (1975), and 'One Nation Under a Groove' (1978) to critical praise, and scored charting hits with singles such as 'Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)' (1975) and 'Flash Light' (1978). Overall, the collective achieved thirteen top ten hits in the American R&B music charts between 1967 and 1983, including six number one hits. Their work has had an influential effect on subsequent funk, post-punk, hip-hop, and techno artists of the 1980s and 1990s, while their collective mythology has helped pioneer Afrofuturism."
Also, if you're curious about the band's name - is it two bands or one? - here's the explanation from Wikipedia as well:
"By the late 1960s, [George] Clinton had gained experience as a producer-writer for Motown Records and, inspired by artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Sly Stone, and Frank Zappa, he relocated to Detroit and enlisted musicians from his New Jersey days in his own two sister bands Parliament and Funkadelic; the first would go on to develop a commercially successful style of science-fiction-inspired funk, while the second pursued a heavier sound which blended funk with psychedelic rock. The name 'Parliament-Funkadelic' became the catch-all term for the dozens of related musicians recording and touring different projects in Clinton's orbit. ... [By 1974,] the two bands began to tour together under the collective name 'Parliament-Funkadelic.'"
Here's the link for the entire entry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament-Funkadelic
In July 1976, Parliament released the album "The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein." They also had a hit single in 1976 with "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)." Although that came off their previous album, released in 1975, it didn't reach Gold status until October 1976, just a month prior to this concert. Meanwhile, Funkadelic released the album "Tales of Kidd Funkadelic" in September 1976. So the combined bands had a lot of new music to perform in this concert.
As far as I know, this concert recording remains unreleased.
This album is an hour and 17 minutes long.
01 Children of Production (Parliament-Funkadelic)
02 Mothership Connection (Parliament-Funkadelic)
03 Swing Down, Sweet Chariot (Parliament-Funkadelic)
04 Dr. Funkenstein (Parliament-Funkadelic)
05 Coming Round the Mountain (Parliament-Funkadelic)
06 Give Up the Funk [Tear the Roof Off the Sucker] (Parliament-Funkadelic)
07 Cosmic Slop (Parliament-Funkadelic)
08 Red Hot Momma (Parliament-Funkadelic)
09 Let's Take It to the Stage (Parliament-Funkadelic)
10 Do That Stuff (Parliament-Funkadelic)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/ih8qEUgD
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/en/VlrsM4Pir7CjTod/file
The cover image of band leader George Clinton is from a concert in Los Angeles, California, on June 4, 1977.
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