The official funk-thread

[Boss Man Zwiebelsohn]

Lightning Hopkins’ rendition of Booker T & the MGs’ “Green Onions”

[Marinero]

There wasn't a band in Chi in the 60's that didn't play these hits. Here's blue-eyed soul brother Mitch Ryder and Rufus Thomas.
Marinero

[Marinero]

Oh, yea,
I nearly forgot Jackie . . .
Marinero

P.S. How the hell could we afford to pay all those musicians back then?????? M

[nevershouldhavesoldit]

P.S. How the hell could we afford to pay all those musicians back then??????

And they wasted time and money on a sax solo when they had a perfectly good guitar player right there

[Marinero]

And they wasted time and money on a sax solo when they had a perfectly good guitar player right there

Hi, N,
Funny! In my old neighborhood in Chicago, guitars were king. However, I doubled on guitar/sax(tenor/alto) but it was the sax that got me the most gigs. What a difference a day makes!
Marinero

[Boss Man Zwiebelsohn]

[Boss Man Zwiebelsohn]

[dixiehwy25]

I grew up in Dayton OH in the 60s and the 70s. My neighborhood and my high school were in the epicenter of Dayton Funk. I walked by Roger Troutman's studio a whole lot, and Satch from the Ohio Players lived across from my high school. Me and my high school band buddies used to mess around a lot with pickup groups and things like that back then. In fact one of those buddies now runs the Funk Music Hall of Fame in Dayton, David Webb!

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