After collaborating during their first show in Bend, OR, Jerry Joseph and Widespread Panic did so once again on Sunday night as the two came together for a few tunes including a Neil Young cover.
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Widespread Panic
Les Schwab Amphitheater, Bend, OR
Set I: Disco, Glory, Wondering, Can’t Get High, Dyin’ Man, Holden Oversoul > Worry, Tie Your Shoes > Fishwater
Set II: B of D, Good People > Bust It Big > Stop/Go > Drums > Cease Fire > Jamais Vu > Proving Ground, Cortez The Killer*, Chainsaw City^
Enc: Blue Indian, Action Man
Notes: *Jerry Joseph on guitar and vocals; Steve Drizos on percussion, last time played 10/17/09
^Jerry Joseph on guitar and vocals; Steve Drizos on percussion
Source: Panicstream.com
Van Morrison will release his 36th studio album to date in the form of Keep Me Singing, due out on September 30 via Caroline Records.
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Mothership Connection is the fourth album by American funk band Parliament, released on December 15, 1975 on Casablanca Records. This concept album of P-Funk mythology is usually rated as one of Parliament's best. Mothership Connection was the first P-Funk album to feature Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley, who had left The J.B.'s, James Brown's backing band. Mothership Connection became Parliament's first album to be certified gold and later platinum. The Library of Congress added the album to the National Recording Registry in 2011, declaring "the album has had an enormous influence on jazz, rock and dance music."
Describing the album, George Clinton said "We had put black people in situations nobody ever thought they would be in, like the White House. I figured another place you wouldn't think black people would be was in outer space. I was a big fan of Star Trek, so we did a thing with a pimp sitting in a spaceship shaped like a Cadillac, and we did all these James Brown-type grooves, but with street talk and ghetto slang."
Dr. Dre prominently sampled the songs "Mothership Connection (Star Child)" and "P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)" on his album The Chronic.
In 2003 the TV network VH1 named Mothership Connection the 55th greatest album of all time.
In 2003, the album was ranked number 276 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Rolling Stone (5/1/03, p. 59) - 5 stars out of 5 - "The masterpiece, the slang creator, the icon builder, the master narrative--or 'the bomb,' as Clinton succinctly put it before anyone else."
Vibe (2/02, p. 87) - Included in Vibe's "Essential Black Rock Recordings".
The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
One of the most wildly innovative and technically dazzling musicians in pop music history, Parliament-Funkadelic's Bernie Worrell was like "Jimi Hendrix on the keyboards," according to one-time bandmate Bootsy Collins, and that's not a hyperbolic estimation. A classical-music child prodigy who attended the New England Conservatory of Music and Juilliard, Worrell's journey to the funk began by hanging around George Clinton's Newark, New Jersey barbershop. By his early 20s, he was a full-fledged P-Funkateer, and soon became de facto musical director, organizing and orchestrating the anarchic collective's sprawling jams and riffs into iconic compositions and performances.
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