It wasn’t so many years ago that I had
never seen one of my long time musical idols, Candi Staton. Then, I couldn’t
quite believe it, she came to my hometown, and there I was one evening standing
in a crowd of people (and next to Mrs Darce who I had dragged along) staring up
at Candi on the stage. Something I never thought I would do – certainly not in
my hometown.
Well it’s time for those feelings all
over again as another one my musical idols is coming to town. The other day I bought
my ticket to see George Clinton and the 21st Century incarnation of Parliament/Funkadelic.
In celebration of this fact I decided it
was high time I fleshed out my Parliaments' singles collection a bit more. The Goose That Laid The Golden Egg was
one of their numbers that had previously left me, not cold, but a bit luke warm.
What had I been thinking?! I played it again the other day (from a CD comp) and
bang! the full crazed majesty of it finally hit me. So I had to go and source a
copy of the 45, and here it is, on that wonderfully lysergic Revilot label, for
your listening pleasure.
The Goose was released in February 1968 and on it you can hear the full on collision
of George and The Parliaments earlier doo wop and soul style with modish stoned
psychedelic rock influenced sounds they would go on to explore to the max as
they first dropped the s from their name (the album Osmium in 1970) and then transported
(temporarily) into Funkadelic land in the early Seventies.
Will they play The Goose on stage in
April? I hope so, but they have new material to plug so I’m not sure how much
of their older material will feature. Of course in true Parliafunkadelicment
fashion they could choose to give us a reimagined - 21st century - version.
The Goose made an appearance on their 1974 album Up For The Down Stroke, and another, organ drenched, Funkadelic wig
out exists too from an indeterminate time in the PFunk continuum.
I’m as happy as a monkey with a peanut
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1 comment:
love it. thanks from Boston, MA, US
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