Best funk song intro

[gggomez]

grahambop there is lots of fantastic live crusaders on youtube (and with LC)

[grahambop]

grahambop there is lots of fantastic live crusaders on youtube (and with LC)

haha yeah I just finished watching that one!

[gggomez]

and since I am online, skip to the 8:26 minute mark to hear the most insane version of Higher Ground live 1974 (oh my all those cover bands that play this song please listen to this man it is so loose so much space even though so much is going on just so so funky)

sorry, don't skip. Be blown away by the first 8:26 and then grab on to your chair for the intro of Higher Ground.

[MarkRhodes]

This may be more soul than funk but it's a killer groove. Booker T and the MG's had a lot of 'em. (Time is Tight, Hip Hug Her, Soul Limbo...)

[MarkRhodes]

Johnny "Guitar" Watson's "siren" intro to "Gangster of Love" is pretty cool. (If you've never seen the TV show "Dragnet", you'll miss some of the humor here.)

[Binyomin]

"Use Me" by Bill Withers

[jads57]

Rufus> You've Got the Love Ray Parker Jr. guitar and writer!

[MarkRhodes]

"Use Me" by Bill Withers

That is a great one!

[unknownguitarplayer]

More Jamerson and the Funk Bros, guitar and bass intro:

[Thumpalumpacus]

I was listening to this on the way home tonight -- thank Buddha for seat-belts, 'cause my ass was moving:

All the way home I was thinking about how Zappa talked about playing guitar with a little bit of garlic -- and goddamned if Sco ain't tangy here, on top of a bumpin' groove.