In Pursuit of Happiness
The other Clinton gets funky at the Mateel, Steel Toed Slippers CD release at Mazzotti’s
(Feb. 7, 2008) He’s the master of the psychedelic funk he branded funkadelic, the spacey Captain of the Mothership. With James gone, you could say George Clinton is the funkiest man on Earth.
The music he made with various iterations of his bands Parliament and Funkadelic was sampled left, right and sideways to become the basis of hip hop. Did he reap the profits? Not yet, but he’s working on it. When we talked last week, he detailed the status of his court cases. He has the lawyer from the Hendrix estate working to reassert the rights to his back catalog and associated royalties. He’s won his first case and is awaiting a damage judgment. And when he becomes a millionaire, what’s his plan?
“I’ll just go around doing shows, having fun funkin’,” he told me.
Isn’t that what you’re already doing?
“I’m not going to learn any new habits. I’ll just keep funking it up, going fishing, maybe I’ll buy me some Viagra.”
Just what does that word funk mean to you?
“It’s what you do to survive. You do the best you can, then funk it. It’s an attitude. You funk it, hang loose. It’s the Force. You do the best you can, take some blues and start jammin’ — that’s funk music. You just get in and jam and get funky. You don’t blow your mind about it, you just do the best you can.”
But when you got going at the end of the ‘60s it seemed like you were all about blowing minds.
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