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Children of Production Live · by Sach O
RHS (via Drizzle in the comments to my last post) is right. Even WHEN white people get down to Funkadelic, they usually fail to grasp the Parliament side of things. I’m going to assume this is why it’s such a bitch to find the latter group’s stuff on soulseek when all the wah-wah driven rock material is just a click away. Well I’m not having it, I’ve got a possible Beastie Boys post on the way and I need to shore up some cred. Children of Production is my favorite track from the group’s brilliant Clones of Dr. Funkenstein album. Predating everything from Kool Keith’s space+booty obsessions to X-Clan’s Original Man teachings to all things Outkast, you don’t need The Breaks to tell you that a hell of a lot of rappers owe their career to this period of George Clinton’s output. While I tend to roll my eyes when presented with mid 70’s “concept records”, as usual P-Funk puts the focus on the grooves first and lets the listener decide just how much he’s willing to invest in the narrative. Not that it’s a bad idea, if black futurism can fuel a thousand blog posts 30 years later, best believe that it made for some potent funk records.
This live version finds the group pulling back on the record’s stacked arrangement, putting the vocalists front and center and using the keyboard line and horns as icing on the cake. Of course, youtube clips can never replicate the sheer volume created by a stack of 70’s amps so maybe the instrumentation is lost in translation. Either way, a great alternate take on a real gem from the P-Funk catalogue.
Enough for now, I gotta get back to making bounce tracks out of James Brown drums.
Bonus: Dr. Funkenstein from the same show.
Comments for "Children of Production Live"
Sach,
When you get a chance pull down some Glen Goins P-Funk YouTubes. He is the lead singer on the COP track and he does a rendition of Mothership Connection where I feel like God was backstage hitting him off with a bump of that yayze beforehand.
P-Funk ain’t all about the drugs to me but you gonna need them shits if you dare to look God in the face.
— DP Sep 22, 10:01 AM