Back To The Roots w/ Shameless Plug To Boot!

Do The Bus Stop - The Fatback Band
Drive Your Funky Soul - James Brown
Gatur Bait - The Gaturs

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As you can prolly tell, The Funk has scratched the "Back In the Days" theme for this week (due to lack of interest/corrupted files) and returned to its roots a bit with today's choice cut selections. We also will get into a little self promotion/ranting/story tellin' towards the end of today's post...hope you enjoy it.

The Fatback Band's bio is here. I won't go into a rundown of the band's significance on the scene. However I will ask a more important/required question to all of you. Was "The Bus Stop" an actual dance? Like the Jerk, The Mashed Potato, The Roger Rabbit? I have never in my 26 years of living heard of a dance called The Bus Stop. An even more poignant question may be, how can you name a dance for such a thing. Don't most dances have to have some sort of quasi-descriptive quality in their name? The Jerk for instance, well y ou sort of jerk you body around. You get the idea. Well to my ever-increasing surprise, there apparently is a dance called The Bus Stop. Heck, even my brethren in AU/NZ have it down there. Who knew? And if you did, how come you didn't let me in on it? Anybody ever do this particular jig?

Side Note: Every time I write/type/say/think of the word particular, I am reminded of how Tavis Smiley says it. Par-Tick-U-Larrrr. He says it phonetically. It drives me nuts.

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The Godfather, well, is the man. We all know this, we all understand and accept that fact. It's kinda like we accept the fact that we need air to breathe. Maybe not that severe but you catch my drift. I found this track on a compilation album from UK record label, Union Square Music called Ghetto Funk Sessions. I have bought a few of the "sessions" cds that USM has put out and I must say that they are some of the best that I've ever heard/bought. Check them out here.

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It's not a secret that I hate any and everything that relates to gators, The Team, The Mascot, The fabric, etc. So I was surprised to say the least when I heard this song a few months ago. I know they spell their name a little bit different but it still says Gator to me. Before hearing this, I was not familiar with the band. Their bio is pretty short but you can hear from the song what they are all about. Just some good music.

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If you are like me, you like cartoons. I don't hate on any cartoons really but I like the stuff they pimp on Adult Swim from Cartoon Network. Shows like Family Guy, Futurama, Cowboy BeBop, Big O, etc. But my favorite show that was on Swim was The Venture Bros. If you are not familiar with the show itself, check this out. But the reason I mention it here today is that their name is awful similar to the name of a Hip Hop Group that I am in, The Bash Brothers Crew. Myself, Jefferson, and Mentos comprise a group that is doing its best to provide some middle ground between the over-used gangster persona and the backpacker that so many people think is bad for rap music. I'm not going to use The Funk as a promotional tool for our LP that's coming out but I wanted to give yawl a heads up to it because as lovers of Funk music, that is the basis of our particular (Tavis!!!) type of sound. If you feel so inclined, take a look at our in progress website for some info and sound clips. When we get it mastered and pressed, if you'd like a copy let me know and I'll send you one.

Bash Brothers Crew

Side Note 2: The picture at the top is funny to me because those cats from VB look just like me and Jeff. Mentos is represented in the series by Helper the Robot, cause he's nice with the mechanics...LOL.


Side Note 3: Ox hit me up yesterday about this film, Soundz of Spirit. If you are into Hip Hop documentaries (not the Master P/50 Cent kind), then I'd recommend checking out the two links below.

Soundz Of Spirit Site
Trailer

I'll get at yawl later on.
Brother B. Deenie aka Furious.MC