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Clinton stopped by HuffPost Live on Monday to chat about his new book, Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard on You? : A Memoir, and the following excerpt from the book came up: They call LSD acid because that's exactly what it is. It blows up your digestive system and blows your ass out. We spent more time in the bathroom in those days than you could imagine, and there were hemorrhoids everywhere.
Clinton discussed the gross side effects with host Josh Zepps, saying that he wishes he would've changed his diet before delving into the drug. "We were still ghetto kids eating soul food. Watch the rest of the clip above, and catch the full HuffPost Live conversation here. PFUNK New York City...GC Birthday Show... by Wefunk Tapes. George Clinton visit to United Sounds Recording Studio. George Clinton : poison. ST. GEORGE'S ISLAND, FLORIDA - JULY 25th - 28th. The Mothership Connection: Funktastic Career Tips From Funk Legend George Clinton. George Clinton was born in an outhouse in North Carolina in 1941.
At 13 he persuaded four friends to form a doo-wop band, the Parliaments. Years later Clinton moved the band to Detroit to try to get signed by Motown. But it was too late. The ’60s, with its cacophonous rock ’n’ roll, race riots and psychedelic drugs, had changed Clinton. "One day I put on a sheet and cut my hair in a Mohawk and walked around town," he said. Within a couple of years, Clinton had become a grand funk provocateur. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. George Clinton talks about Parliament-Funkadelic Egg Tour 1980. George Clinton - Sexy Side of You. George Clinton - Do fries go with that shake! (97) George Clinton Funks the Dolphins at National Aquarium. L7 Interview Bands At Lollapalooza 8-7-1994 Part 1. Funk Probosci.
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On the same microphone? That’s the power of the funk. “The connection between George Clinton and Socrates is real,” Cornel West told the politicians, organizers and parents who had crowded into Plainfield’s elegant Queens Acres mansion in support of the new Barack Obama Green Charter School. Princeton professor West, whose 1994 book “Race Matters” is a landmark in African-American studies, meant that Clinton’s music was elemental, primal, profound and tied to birth, death and the rudiments of the human condition.
It also swings as hard as a jackhammer. Clinton, absent his famous dreads, even let West have the microphone during a typically stretched-out performance of the Funkadelic classic “I Got a Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody’s Got a Thing.” In a sense, they have been. Clinton wasn’t born in Plainfield. These records are inexhaustibly fresh. George Clinton Hospitalized. Gone Country 3: George Clinton. George Clinton (musician) Clinton was born in Kannapolis, North Carolina, grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey, and currently resides in Tallahassee, Florida.
During his teen years Clinton formed a doo wop group inspired by Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers called The Parliaments, while straightening hair at a barber salon in Plainfield. Clinton's efforts as a solo artist began in 1982. He is also a notable music producer who works on almost all the albums he performs on, and has produced albums for Bootsy Collins and Red Hot Chili Peppers, among others.
Beginning in the early 1980s, Clinton recorded several nominal solo albums, although all of these records featured contributions from P-Funk's core musicians. The primary reason for recording under his own name was legal difficulties, due to the complex copyright and trademark issues surrounding the name "Parliament" (primarily) and Polygram's purchase of that group's former label Casablanca Records. Rapper Dr.