Does anyone here connect to the Mothership?

I don't know about off-topic, but between Jamiroquai and painting that avatar you've earned a lifetime supply of self-deploying Get Out Of Sex Free cards.

Jeff
 
the first album i ever owned was Parliament Funkadelic's "One Nation Under A Groove"

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I don't know about off-topic, but between Jamiroquai and painting that avatar you've earned a lifetime supply of self-deploying Get Out Of Sex Free cards.

Jeff

Haha! That was great :)

Now we're going seriously off-topic here: Thanks for the string gauge tips Jeff, I got 'em yesterday and the tension is very even across the strings.. and it sounds yummy! Adjusting the neck right now, then I need to intonate and it's all done.
 
I've been listening to Hendrix and Prince longer than I've been playing guitar, but aside from a smattering of mainstream 'disco' hits (Sly Stone, Dazz) I'd never made an effort to fill in the '70s-sized funk gap between those two artists.

Two weekends ago I was in a metal record store in NJ that was playing the Mothership Connection album over the PA, and since then I've been listening to pfunkradio.com non-stop at work. I especially enjoy live versions of "Swing Down" -- they're like ten minute meditations on two chords and a bass line; an attempt to see how many overlapping melodic ideas / embellishments the human brain can make sense of at once while still keeping the booty loose. :danceboy:


I'm open to suggestions for which full albums to digest first, as well as other non-Clinton artists to check out.