The Mothership Connection Live 1976
by Brian Blum
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Actor: Parliament FunkadelicDirector: Brian Blum
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 85 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-10-21
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Shout Factory
DVD Reviews of The Mothership Connection Live 1976
DVD Review: The Night A Spaceship Landed In My Brain & Changed My Life!!
Summary: 5 Stars
It was February 22nd, 1977....the place, Jacksonville, FL...
at the old Jacksonville Coliseum...I was 12 going on 13,
and this was the second concert that I'd ever attended up to
that point with some older cousins and neighborhood freinds.
I had been aware of Parliament/Funkadelic since 1974 with Funkadelic's
"Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On" and
Parliament's 1975 offering "Chocolate City"...
both very groundbreaking lps in their time.
Then of course there were the subsequent releases
after those like "Let's Take It To The Stage",
"Tales Of Kidd Funkadelic" and "Hardcore Jollies" (Funkadelic),
as well as Parliament's breakthrough releases
"Mothership Connection" and "The Clones Of Dr. Funkenstein",
which both reached Platinum & Gold status and
were bringing the big time spotlight to George Clinton & The Gang's
PARLIAFUNKADELICMENT THANG!!--Which now included
Bootsy's Rubber Band (the opening act of this tour)
and their scorching releases "Stretchin' Out" and
"Ahh, The Name Is Bootsy Baby!!" all of which were
saturating black radio and selling out in record stores
and concert arenas all over the US!!
**As a side note: but the second act to tear up the stage that night was
none other than the ultra-funky Graham Central Station!! (-:
P-Funk was like it's own underground cult with it's own slanguage,
style of dress, symbols, mythos and ideology!!--
"Free Your Mind & Your Azz Will Follow!!",
"If You Ain't Gonna Get It On, Take Your Dead Azz Home!!",
"Think, It Ain't Illegal Yet!!",
"Don't Fake The Funk Or Your Nose Gotz To Grow!!"
"No Head, No Backstage Pass!!", "We're Gonna Turn This Mutha Out!!"
just to name a few, were just some of the slogans
the young "Funkateers", "Rubber-Fans" and
"United Maggots Of Funkadelica" were all chanting
and embodying in the audience!
I recieved my first contact high from all the weed smoke
that was so prevalent in the audience, and boy, did it help
enhance the experience of the spectacle that my young &
impressionable eyes were about to witness!---
WOW!!--It was really something to behold!!
The outrageous costumes, 10-inch platform boots, the onstage theatrics,
the over-sized, props, the 60 Ft. Silver Spaceship that landed
centerstage during the height of the show!--Brought down by one of
the great unsung singers of Funk/R&B/Soul ever!
The late great Glen Goins, whose churchified powerful
tenor could turn a funk concert into a gospel revival!
The music itself, was like a religion, played by some
of the baddest/funkiest kats around at that time:
the late Eddie "Maggot Brain" Hazel, Michael "Kidd Funkadelic" Hampton, and the late Garry Shider
shreddin' on guitars, Jerome "Big Foot" Brailey representin' big time on drums with power & feeling,
Bernie "Da Vinci" Worrell creating whole new soundscapes on analogue keyboards and synths,
and all referreed by the mastermind, George Clinton,
aka Dr. Funkenstein, Starchild, The Long-Haired Sucka!!
George Clinton is to R&B / Soul / Funk what the late Frank Zappa is to rock!!
A complete original, maverick & renegade artist who was alternative 20 yrs before that
was even a musical genre in itself!---Like Hendrix, Clinton and Zappa float suspended in their own universe!
This was the 70's!!--A wild, free, decadent & innocent time of
originality and creativity which the world is in dire need of today!
A time before everybody wasn't so jaded, so cold, so indifferent,
thought they'd seen and done it all!
A time before AIDS, of pure sexual exploration and ambiguity,
when cocaine was thought of as a recreational accompaniment
to a night of boogie-ing and getting it on!
"Ain't nothin' but a party baby!" was a saying you heard alot back then.
There was no MTV, VH-1 or BET...the talent was not created
in a corporate boardroom, so it was REAL, PROFOUND,
DIVERSE & ORGANIC!!---What I witnessed on that fabled night is
only half captured on this DVD of that Halloween 1976 Houston
concert when the P-Funk Mob was bringin' "da' bomb" to their
fans in their prime, selling millions of records and
influencing future artists (myself included)
from every genre of music!
Though they don't get nearly enough credit for it,
their musical influence was undeniable!!
To those who came into knowledge of the P-Funk Thang much
later on in other generations, this DVD is an invaluable insight
into what they were all about. Though not as polished as the
show that I first saw in February 1977, GC & the gang where
still working out all the kinks of the show at this point.
It gave you all the glam, glitz, glitter and rock-n-roll
anti-establishment attitude that white acts of the time
like Alice Cooper, KISS, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, etc.
were giving you, but with much more funkiness and sci-fi!!
W O W!!----W O W!!---W O W!!--was all I could say as I
and 20,000 other P-Funk fans took the journey aboard the HOLY MOTHERSHIP
that night and it forever changed and opened me up in ways I will never forget!
The P-FUNK EARTH TOUR of '77 and '78 was one the first concerts to break my
musical "cherry" (I recieved by first guitar and keyboard that summer; inspired
by the late great Eddie "Maggot Brain" Hazel, as well as keyboard wizard Bernie Worrell.)
It showed me what the true live musical experience could and should be!---Buy This DVD!!
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