They were but the drugs were all pure psychedelics. 😂😂😂 Not that synthetic shit laced with fentanyl. If that made them better players I ain't mad @ em.
@@paulchristie8452 Dwayne Blackbird did not come in with Parliament funkadelic until the late 70s bro come on you guys are supposed to know about this band he was nowhere in the picture doing this particular time period LOL even though he's a bad guitars though he came in around the time they recorded motor booty affair in Gloriahollastupid pin the tell on the funky album that was the time to Dwayne came around
These dudes were clinically insane. Thank God, because the most beautiful and iconic music was conceived from every last one of them, especially George Clinton.
I'm a 60-yo white man, but I still have my vinyl copy of Parliament's Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome. I was 14 when that album was released, and it showed me that a big helping of funk makes everything better. I listen to an eclectic assortment of music, but this is some of my favorite.
This song is important, very important as this was when the tradition motown sound began to break into another genre. This music was for the children of the "motown era" parents. The whole funkadelic mixed with jimi hendrix style held hands. This is fantastic
Yes. But it was not popular at the time. We could not say the word "Funk" in public because it was considered vulgar. The record companies didn't take them seriously and the Motown musicians would dress-down to attend their underground shows. George Clinton reformed Parliament in '74 so he could sell records. Most of the black community still didn't know who Funkadelic was until One Nation (1978).
@@robotboy719 i K the whole story of the song is underclass struggles. When I first heard the song I fell slave to the beat and arrangement but when I heard the song over and over I learned it was about illicit acts in the ghetto which begged for forgiveness; particularly from the one transgressing. Psychedelic richness converted from tough and rough beginnings.
Please dont forget bootsy and his brother brought Fink to James Brown and then you have Sly and the Family Stone also. I remember thats when things began to change including the Temptations with "Ball of Confusion".
I saw the “Mothership Connection “ show around 1980-81? I was the only white guy in the crowd that evening. They must’ve played 3 hours, and most of the characters in this video were in that crowd.
I've taken acid and shrooms about 20 times in my life, last time being 1999. I'm 55 and watching this clip gave me a full-on flashback just now. Al hail the mighty P-Funk and George Clinton. Been a big fan since 1975.
I saw them in ‘79 at the Santa Monic Civic Center…that had people dressed in costumes doing the Star Child story…it was the first concert I ever went to…it was amazing
Bro I was at that show. We came late and they were playing maggot brain. A friend of mine was a photographer at that show he took pictures and I had them for a long time. But rare earth stole the show
Nope it was straight up Anarchy and one of the greatest parties of all time. And a event and a happening with Hundreds of your closest friends that you didn't even know. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been to their concerts. And ut was wsy more than a concert it was an experience.
I ran into them in LA in Feb. 1975 via their road manager L.B. I was at Hollywood Recorders when they were mixing the P-Funk Earth Tour live album! I was witness to the Funk in person!! That was a special time. RIP Larry Benjamin (L.B) and all the deceased P-Funk members.
@@j.spearsmagnolia3rduptown331 Not sure but I think the one with the p bass and the gold headress robe combo is him. You can potentially see him at 3:18 on the left.
The lyrics to this song are about a single mother who has to turn tricks to feed her family, so it's actually a prayer which makes this gospel as much as it's funk. The whole thing is genius.
Funk music is chicken soup for the soul. It brought us all together. We need more of this to heal the sickness affecting people’s souls today. Love on ya!
@Carlos Garza Look up stuff about an artist named Sun Ra. I've read my share of Funkadelic histories, writers generally cite Hendrix, Sly and James as crucial influences. Can't remember reading anyone ever including Sun Ra and his Space Arkestra. Look him up, in my opinion there are definite similarities there.
No, you can't safely say that, because people like James Brown were bringing the funk, and other people wore makeup and clothes like this. This is a combo of that with some Hendrix style guitar playing.
I've hard of all of the artists that have been posted. I'm just saying George and the band most definitely were influenced by all bands. They just infused all of the sounds into the Funkadelic sound.
Could you imagine how much better the world would be if everyone listened to at least 30 min of Funk per day….we’d probably have like 99% less wars and personal conflicts
Way ahead of their times! George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Eddie Hazel, and the other fantastic musicians of Parliament/Funkadelic deserve unlimited praise and respect
And They' Get'It👉All of That💯 Especially in The*D*💪...The'Funk Has'Always Been 💪💪💪StronG💪💪💪and 🙏🙏🙏🙏 Highly Re'$pected🙏🙏🙏🙏 In The*D*😉aka=Detroit 💪 aka Mo'Town aka 🎶The'Sound of Young'America 🎼 The'Heart'Beat of America 🇺🇲 The Arsenal of America and The Free'World! The Big'D ❤️Long'Live Detroit City,❤️✌️💪🙏💯...And The'Funk 🎼🎶🇺🇲🔥🤫
Ahhh, New York City when it was fun… and P-Funk was on the radio every day and all through the night! What a decade to be alive: in many ways, like growing up in the future. 🚀
Very cool; I hadn't seen this clip, probably my favorite Funkadelic album. Good to see film of this awesome lineup. The guitarist there is Ron Bykowski. The only white band member that was ever in Funkadelic! There's a bit of trivia for you!
Ron was an incredible player. I was saddened to learn that he passed away only a couple of years ago. It’s a joyous song but it also makes me sad looking at that clip to know a few of those awesome dudes are no longer with us. Eddie Hazel, Bernie Worrell, Gary Shider, Cordell Mosson, Ron Bykowski. All huge talents. RIP.
George Clinton Parliament/Funkadelic played at my little hometown Caloundra music festival here in Australia a few years back and it still blows my mind that he was here, i tried to tell anybody who'd listen to me to go see these legends play, ill never forget it, it was wild.
All I can say is Wow! Never knew this video existed. What an amazing time capsule. 1973 and the world had no idea what these guys were about to unleash on all of our collective eardrums for about the next decade. I was a teenager in the 70's and Parliament/Funkadelic was the absolute shiznit back in the day. It was Parliament/Funkadelic, EWF and then everybody else, which is saying a lot because anybody that lived through it knows that there were some absolute monster Funk bands around in the 70's. Thanks for posting!
Oh Wow.....I have always loved "Cosmic Slop" , and never knew that a video of this track existed until now....George Clinton and his" Funk Mob" is one of the baddest funk bands in all the land, and "Let's Take it to The Stage" is one of their best albums.....thank u so much this!!!!!
The Cosby show brought me to this song, there is an episode where Vanessa and her boyfriend Robert are sitting at the kitchen table jamming this song, and I looked it up soon as I heard that beat!
i fee like someone with a camera said to funkadelic, hey let's make a music video, and then everyone all together said, "what's a music video" and this is what you get. Perfection.
I was born in 1973.😊 When watching this video, I SO WISH that I could travel back to the year of my birth - as a young at heart middle-aged adult😁 - and GROOVE & BOOGIE down with Funkadelic!!!!😋🎸🎵💗😃
I was born in '74 so I hear ya! You should see George Clinton tour. He still tours with the Parliament-Funkadelic All Stars... Great show.. Hopefully post pandemic he still can..
Ah hear my mother call I'm one of five born to my mother An older sister and three young brothers We've seen it hard, we've seen it kind of rough But always with a smile, she was sure to try to hide The fact from us that life was really tough I can hear my mother call I can hear my mother call Late at night I hear her call Oh lord, lord I hear her call She said, "Father, father it's for the kids Any and every thing I did Please, please don't judge me too strong Lord knows I meant no wrong Lord knows I meant no wrong" Then the devil sang "Would you like to dance with me? We're doin' the cosmic slop" She was well known through the ghetto Tricks would come and then they'd go The neighbors would talk and call her Jezebel But always with a smile, she was sure to try to hide The fact from us that she was catching hell, hey! Hear my mother call I can hear my mother call Late at night I hear her call Oh lord, lord I hear her call She says, "Father, father it's for the kids Any and every thing I did Please, please don't judge me too strong Lord knows I meant no wrong Lord! She says, "Father, father it's for the kids Any and every thing I did Please, please don't judge me too strong [End Cadences]
Okey the white guy with the guitar is obviously a guitarist, but what are the rest of their roles? Especially the guy with the white face paint. Tell me their names, especially the white guitarist guy. Its a shame Dwayne Blackbyrd Mcknight's not in the video.
This is some of the most bugged out shit I have ever seen 😳 I don't think I blinked the whole time this video played. The song was so funky I had to open a window and light an incense!
Man, I wish I would have been around in Parliament Funkadelics heyday. Those years must have been something else entirely!! Everyone looked like they were having a hell of a lot more fun than we did lol.
I used to drop decades ago, and as a sister , I wish so much I knew about this. I grew up listening to George in his different ventures in music. I’m 51, my dad was a big fan, but I’ve never heard of this until a few months ago. Who knows why it took us so long to cross paths. I was 4 when this was released, maybe that’s a good reason. I just wish I had seen or heard this when I was still smokin and trippin. Perfect!!!!
I keep coming back to this song several times a day. Idk why. It doesn't wake up any conscious feelings. But does something to me in an unconscious level.
Ever since I found this video. I never get tired of watching it! Being a fan since 9 years old. It's a a thrill discovering any and everything they've done! ❤️
I can't believe they were doing music videos like this way back in the 70s! They were way ahead of they're time! I could see a video like this being done today! Thank you Parliament funkadelic for giving us years of great music. The best funk band of all time!
This is not ahead of the 70s at all. Not even late 60s. This is fairly common for that time. You should look at some Isley Brothers, Ohio Players, Slave, or Earth, Wind and Fire performances and their outfits.
@@carltonbanks5470There are some performance videos. There aren't too many like this, where a band _aren't_ playing, but making a visual illustration.
My pops used to tell us to take the rap crap off his radio or it would stain his CD player and tape deck. So we went to the record store and got a used 45 of this. Pop's walks in while it's playing stops and stares at all of us and asks us"y'all ever seen the cover"and proceeds to break out the original full album and put it on and listen to it with us
guess Pops knew what was goin' down cause he knew what was laid down. I remember seeing them with Parliament in the early 70s. Just funkin' with ya... they one in the same
I find myself coming back to the 70,s a lot these days. Watching a clip like this, i can almost smell and taste the 1970,s. Anything is better than 2023!
This is so so so so so so so so so so so great! When I hear this kind of greatness way back from 1973 it just makes me sad that 99% of modern music just flat-out absolutely sucks rotten ass. Long live the glorious George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic. I'm so grateful that I've had the opportunity to meet George Clinton about 5 different times in my life. It was wonderful to shake his hand and say "Thank you, George. Thank you for the funk. Thank you for making the world a better place because of your music."
One of my oldest brothers “R.I.P Johnny” turned me on to the Funkadelic while growing up in Cincinnati when I was 8yrs old.. well, im 62 now and I been a HUGE fan every since 👌🏾
Overcast day in the Apple. My parents meet in N.Y.C. but raised me in the sleepy south. They went back ever year and took me and my siblings along for the ride. More than likely I was in the city that year at the age of five. Whenever I smell diesel exhaust I thing of N.Y.C. The air bathed in diesel exhaust mostly from the city buses. Certain smells will unlock memories. Also a Funkadelic fan.
My Dad is 67 loves Gorge Clinton, he always tells me different stories about their concerts and how the parliament funkadelics always put on the best shows and hearing the stories I believe every word. He said when its his time to go he wants the Funk played at his funeral ❤
I found this song six months ago, sad I didn't find it earlier. I have listened to it and analyzed it over and over again since then and I can conclusively say this is one of the best songs ever written, easily in my top 10. The melodies are so strong and powerful. The lyrics and storytelling are unmatched. The guitar playing is badass. The rhythms are incredibly deep.
I never knew this existed! Thanks for posting. George would often have this many people on his stages through the 70's, I have no idea how they made money😅
“The fact from us that life was really tough” 🎶 Get with it y’all 🛸✨🎶 1. Facepaint: George Clinton 2. White guy (guitar): Ron Bykowski 3. Diaper Man, gold belt (guitar): Garry Shider 4. Ripped longjohns, red headband: Fuzzy Haskins 5. Red floppy hat (melodica): Bernie Worrell 6. Checkered jester/clown suit (drumsticks): Tyrone Lampkin 7. Colorful sheet with white feathered headdress (bass): Calvin Simon 8. Purple keffiyeh/headrag, black leather vest (guitar): Grady Thomas 9. Black tux jacket, leather codpiece, jeans, headband: Eddie Hazel 10. Black cape, pacifier necklace, grey beard: Ray Davis 11. Ruffly shoulder pads, sleeves, and shorts, pom pom hat (bass): Cordell Boogie Mosson 12. Wolf mask (melodica): Tiki Fulwood
This is the coolest thing I've seen lately. They were like the Merry Pranksters from the 60s. Funkadelic was on the same wavelength as Sun Ra Arkestra, except Funkadelic was on acid and Sun Ra was drug-free.
Me, a bottle of 90 year old whiskey, a handheld camcorder on a stand, this album, frank zappas apostrophe. A small redneck town and the only other guy in town that was cool. Jamming in his mom's living room. What a random memory that this has recalled. I was 15.
I lived in Hollywood as a little girl and we would listen to Funkadelic upstairs in the apartment complex on the stairwell. White girls. Little ones. Learned how to dance from them. Perfect beings, fun. Full of life and God
@@yommish They were common. There is just a bunch of misinformation about them not being as such back then. They might not have had great production value but quite a bit was done to promote pop music.
@@alexkx8599 reading the Wikipedia article on music videos, yes the concept has been around as long as film and audio tape existed, but videos like this were not very common until the 80s when they exploded…from my understanding. Alright it’s not “visionary” but it’s cool and somewhat ahead of its time, albeit not groundbreaking. Still I’d like to see another funk band with a music video like this out in 1973
No drugs were harmed during the making of this video
No but they were smoked 👍🏾
hahaha...oh my you said it..
not harmed, but severely abused.
@@diggersouth This video is so raw and freeing...it looks like the party got loose outside..the drugs got used, haha..severely abused.
@@goddessnoele Not sure they got enough weed to slow down the acid trip.
I'm not into cults at all but if a group of people who looked and acted like this came up to me and said "come and join us" I'd seriously consider it.
😂😂😂😂
🤣😂...hell yeah
same
I just did... Full On !!!
Same here!
The fact this exists is amazing.
yaya I didn’t know funkadelic invented music videos too
@@clumsiii back then i think they were called promotional videos
So very amazing!
😆
Agreed
DON'T LET THE COSTUMES FOOL YOU IN ANY WAY,THEY LOOK SCARY BUT ALL THESE MEN WERE WORLD CLASS MUSICIAN ON THEIR INSTRUMENTS OF CHOICE.
Especially that alien on keys! Mr. Bernie Worrell.
They were but the drugs were all pure psychedelics. 😂😂😂 Not that synthetic shit laced with fentanyl. If that made them better players I ain't mad @ em.
My grandmother who is 65 and my grandfather who is 61 introduced me to P-funk and I’m only 18 😭 I love this group
Me too
OG’s just have to put this shit on when we try to act like our generation is more wild lol 😂
Where is Black Byrd Mcknight? Was he just an on and off reoccurring guest member of the band?
Grandparents have the best music taste. ❤️
@@paulchristie8452 Dwayne Blackbird did not come in with Parliament funkadelic until the late 70s bro come on you guys are supposed to know about this band he was nowhere in the picture doing this particular time period LOL even though he's a bad guitars though he came in around the time they recorded motor booty affair in Gloriahollastupid pin the tell on the funky album that was the time to Dwayne came around
These dudes were clinically insane. Thank God, because the most beautiful and iconic music was conceived from every last one of them, especially George Clinton.
I’m not sure if I heard that music in my head or if I was listening out loud.
Not crazy lol, high on LSD!
How do you know? I mean I get why you say it...but still
man, we need some of this genuine creative insanity right now. non aggressive, funky and just lovely to be around
Yes...yes..and yes.
These men were my super heroes when I was a child. My mom bought me their albums and I still have them too. Long live the funk! ✊🏾🤘🏾
Long Live
YOU . . . had a very cool mom, my friend.
Moms are cool like that, aren't they?
I imagine if they're original pressings they've appreciated in value quite nicely
Mine too! 🤘🏽😛
I'm a 60-yo white man, but I still have my vinyl copy of Parliament's Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome. I was 14 when that album was released, and it showed me that a big helping of funk makes everything better. I listen to an eclectic assortment of music, but this is some of my favorite.
Make my funk the P Funk cause I wants to get funked up! Ohh yeah?
Me Too! I’m with ya brother!
Long live da funk!💥
Thanks for meeting the minimum Funk Requirements.
Very relevant point
*_Yo! You are a real OG!!!_*
This song is important, very important as this was when the tradition motown sound began to break into another genre. This music was for the children of the "motown era" parents. The whole funkadelic mixed with jimi hendrix style held hands. This is fantastic
Yes. But it was not popular at the time. We could not say the word "Funk" in public because it was considered vulgar. The record companies didn't take them seriously and the Motown musicians would dress-down to attend their underground shows. George Clinton reformed Parliament in '74 so he could sell records. Most of the black community still didn't know who Funkadelic was until One Nation (1978).
A story of the underclass through a perception altered and elevated by psychedelics. Genius.
@@robotboy719 I couldn't have said it better my brother!
@@robotboy719 i K the whole story of the song is underclass struggles. When I first heard the song I fell slave to the beat and arrangement but when I heard the song over and over I learned it was about illicit acts in the ghetto which begged for forgiveness; particularly from the one transgressing. Psychedelic richness converted from tough and rough beginnings.
Please dont forget bootsy and his brother brought Fink to James Brown and then you have Sly and the Family Stone also. I remember thats when things began to change including the Temptations with "Ball of Confusion".
LOVE this. Thank You, Mike D.
If you that one white guy playing with Parliament/Funkadelic, you KNOW you gotta be bringin that funk.
Lol
The white dude plays good though
I saw the “Mothership Connection “ show around 1980-81? I was the only white guy in the crowd that evening. They must’ve played 3 hours, and most of the characters in this video were in that crowd.
@@guitarzan2626 that's the point 👈
artificial intelligence is much better than before, however people and their movements still look very strange
I've taken acid and shrooms about 20 times in my life, last time being 1999. I'm 55 and watching this clip gave me a full-on flashback just now. Al hail the mighty P-Funk and George Clinton. Been a big fan since 1975.
Same here, brother
Why’d you stop
Dam, same here, started tripping
I only did acid like 43 times man...no, I mean twice - Chong
Ah, this old white guy hasn’t dropped since ‘71 but this clip brought me right back to seeing trails off every move.
I was 17 in 1973 and saw these dudes open for Rare Earth in Louisville, Kentucky. BADASS and I am still a fan in 2021.
I was only 7 in 1973, but was already jamming to Parliament & Funkadelic!
I saw them in ‘79 at the Santa Monic Civic Center…that had people dressed in costumes doing the Star Child story…it was the first concert I ever went to…it was amazing
You are badass too😀
Bro I was at that show. We came late and they were playing maggot brain. A friend of mine was a photographer at that show he took pictures and I had them for a long time. But rare earth stole the show
These dudes are the best. What they did for music and art is so amazing.
This song is hipnotic.
Truly revolutionary music
Pure funk I don't listen to the black music out there now this is black music to me forever funk!!!
So ahead of their time we still ain’t been there
Revolutionary yes the drugs were as well
@@tonyallen6510 ????? Thats is because
You are confused with rap and good music!!!!
Nope it was straight up Anarchy and one of the greatest parties of all time. And a event and a happening with Hundreds of your closest friends that you didn't even know. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been to their concerts. And ut was wsy more than a concert it was an experience.
One of THE BEST times of my life was having the privilege of traveling with these guys and being able to call Ray Davis a true friend...RIHP Ray💔🙏🏼💔
I ran into them in LA in Feb. 1975 via their road manager L.B. I was at Hollywood Recorders when they were mixing the P-Funk Earth Tour live album! I was witness to the Funk in person!! That was a special time. RIP Larry Benjamin (L.B) and all the deceased P-Funk members.
Which one is Ray
@@j.spearsmagnolia3rduptown331 Not sure but I think the one with the p bass and the gold headress robe combo is him. You can potentially see him at 3:18 on the left.
The lyrics to this song are about a single mother who has to turn tricks to feed her family, so it's actually a prayer which makes this gospel as much as it's funk. The whole thing is genius.
Yeah but the devil answered her prayers not god unless you consider satan a god
So very genius🤘🏾
Yes
@@chrisedwards3214 yeah. its a very disturbing song.
@arthurswanson3285 ------ u shouldn't be a suprised it's a very disturbing song, it's from a very disturbed looking group of men that were on acid.
I’m born in 98’ and this song gets to me 💯 Rest in power MY MOM💙💙💙
I’m 92 and this songs always touches my soul ❤️🔥💯
Funk music is chicken soup for the soul. It brought us all together. We need more of this to heal the sickness affecting people’s souls today. Love on ya!
Exactly…Funk is one of the more organic music there is….it truly touches the soul
Can't duplicate this sound anymore!!!
Musicians today don't have that vision anymore.
@@NicholasMcBride-dt6zv Some do.
I can safely say no one was doing this kind of music and imagery for their shows. George Clinton and the musicians were so ahead of their time.
@Carlos Garza
Look up stuff about an artist named Sun Ra. I've read my share of Funkadelic histories, writers generally cite Hendrix, Sly and James as crucial influences. Can't remember reading anyone ever including Sun Ra and his Space Arkestra. Look him up, in my opinion there are definite similarities there.
No, you can't safely say that, because people like James Brown were bringing the funk, and other people wore makeup and clothes like this. This is a combo of that with some Hendrix style guitar playing.
You’ve never heard of the silver apples?
I've hard of all of the artists that have been posted. I'm just saying George and the band most definitely were influenced by all bands. They just infused all of the sounds into the Funkadelic sound.
WAAAAY ahead of their time.
Funkadelic made me realize I needed the funk more in my life. What a band.
We Need the Funk. Gotta Have the Funk.
Could you imagine how much better the world would be if everyone listened to at least 30 min of Funk per day….we’d probably have like 99% less wars and personal conflicts
With more funk....you will be.....DOUBLE HUMPIN TO PLEASE.
@@Gl6619 EXCELLENT OBSERVATION!!!! DEFINITELY ON THE ONE.
Showed this to my cat and he turned into a space puma.
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Lolololololololol
As a man who appreciates a creative handle/user name I'd like to take this moment to commend you on a job well done!
@D E you mean like an.......ATOMIC DOG!?
Battle Cat!
This is simultaneously the most terrifying yet spiritually uplifting thing I've ever seen.
that is nothing but a fact!!!
@@deaconstrange Seems like this is something one could only experience in “old” New York.
That's the Funk effect
That's so funny lol
I remember this from an episode from The Cosbys Show. Vanessa and Robert studying in the kitchen with two radios playing... who else remembers that?
I remember! I yelled PFunk on the Cosby Show!
On one of the 1st episodes of the Cosby show, the children were jammin to this in the kitchen while doing homework
Big Los1967 You’re right. It was Vanessa and Robert.
Yep Vanessa and her boyfriend Robert
That was classic.
And Cosby told them to turn it off. Is there no end to his monstrosity?
Yes one of my fonder memories of the Cosbies
Way ahead of their times! George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Eddie Hazel, and the other fantastic musicians of Parliament/Funkadelic deserve unlimited praise and respect
as far as I know this is the first music "video" ever
i know beatles and stones had movies and shit but this is a Video
And They' Get'It👉All of That💯 Especially in The*D*💪...The'Funk Has'Always Been
💪💪💪StronG💪💪💪and
🙏🙏🙏🙏 Highly Re'$pected🙏🙏🙏🙏
In The*D*😉aka=Detroit 💪 aka Mo'Town
aka 🎶The'Sound of Young'America 🎼
The'Heart'Beat of America 🇺🇲
The Arsenal of America and The Free'World!
The Big'D ❤️Long'Live Detroit City,❤️✌️💪🙏💯...And The'Funk 🎼🎶🇺🇲🔥🤫
Ahhh, New York City when it was fun… and P-Funk was on the radio every day and all through the night! What a decade to be alive: in many ways, like growing up in the future. 🚀
NYC in the 1970s was no joke. Both good and some seriously bad stuff going in there back then.
I loved it, super freaky. They were high AF. We need that type of revival spiritually. We want the funk, gotta have that funk.
I’m a metal head, sabbath, Motörhead & maiden!!! I want to say this song is fantastic!!!! Brilliant!!!
Motorhead isn't metal 🎉
Well , they are metal sounding to me & I stand by that! 😊
@@seldomsceen "We're Motorhead and we play rock and roll!"
Very cool; I hadn't seen this clip, probably my favorite Funkadelic album. Good to see film of this awesome lineup. The guitarist there is Ron Bykowski. The only white band member that was ever in Funkadelic! There's a bit of trivia for you!
I was just about to ask. Thanks
Ron was widdout a doubt the funkiest white man of the 70's 'til Rufus, at least.
Yep,he was. I remember him.
As Bernie Worrell said: "Ron Bykowski: our Polish cohort out of Detroit"
Ron was an incredible player. I was saddened to learn that he passed away only a couple of years ago. It’s a joyous song but it also makes me sad looking at that clip to know a few of those awesome dudes are no longer with us. Eddie Hazel, Bernie Worrell, Gary Shider, Cordell Mosson, Ron Bykowski. All huge talents. RIP.
This music and energy is Beyond Earth. The most free and expressive band to ever exist !!
LSD is a hell of a drug. Wheeeeee!
George Clinton bitch...
🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄
Shrooms are better.
@@privatecitizenguy2640 no
A drug so powerful u rather stay sober the rest of ur days🍄
It's hard to believe this video still exists some true classic funk!! Awesome voice
George Clinton Parliament/Funkadelic played at my little hometown Caloundra music festival here in Australia a few years back and it still blows my mind that he was here, i tried to tell anybody who'd listen to me to go see these legends play, ill never forget it, it was wild.
I remember first hearing this song on the Cosby Show. Vanessa and Robert where listening to it in the kitchen.
Was just going to say this 😊
Looks like a regular day on the NYC subway😱
Especially now
@@bluetheory2 😂😂😂
You gotta love it Ny Ny🎊🎉
2train going to Flatbush or the J/Z going through Williamsburg🤣😂😂
Warriors! Come out and play!
All I can say is Wow! Never knew this video existed. What an amazing time capsule. 1973 and the world had no idea what these guys were about to unleash on all of our collective eardrums for about the next decade. I was a teenager in the 70's and Parliament/Funkadelic was the absolute shiznit back in the day. It was Parliament/Funkadelic, EWF and then everybody else, which is saying a lot because anybody that lived through it knows that there were some absolute monster Funk bands around in the 70's. Thanks for posting!
Oh Wow.....I have always loved "Cosmic Slop" , and never knew that a video of this track existed until now....George Clinton and his" Funk Mob" is one of the baddest funk bands in all the land, and "Let's Take it to The Stage" is one of their best albums.....thank u so much this!!!!!
The Cosby show brought me to this song, there is an episode where Vanessa and her boyfriend Robert are sitting at the kitchen table jamming this song, and I looked it up soon as I heard that beat!
Sammmeee
Sameeeeeeeee
Thank you Funkadelic, Parliament, and P-Funk
God Rest Peacefully Eddie Hazel
Rock on in Heaven king 🤘🏿 💜
Me: "Dad how much of that shit were ya'll smoking back then?"
Dad: ****smiles****
"All of it sucka......"
This ain't no smoke
This isn't smoke. This is acid.
How much acid?? Dad: yes
Lol!
@@xx-bg2dj it was really both substance.
I'm white and I like very much that. Too cool.
This funckin' Atomic Dog leaded me here. Greetings from Paris, France (not TX)
i fee like someone with a camera said to funkadelic, hey let's make a music video, and then everyone all together said, "what's a music video" and this is what you get. Perfection.
Lol I could totally see that happening
you could kinda imagine the inspiration to make a band to create brilliant music and make your own aesthetics.
R & B on "Acid"! Groovy Man!
I was born in 1973.😊 When watching this video, I SO WISH that I could travel back to the year of my birth - as a young at heart middle-aged adult😁 - and GROOVE & BOOGIE down with Funkadelic!!!!😋🎸🎵💗😃
I was born in '74 so I hear ya! You should see George Clinton tour. He still tours with the Parliament-Funkadelic All Stars... Great show.. Hopefully post pandemic he still can..
Ah hear my mother call
I'm one of five born to my mother
An older sister and three young brothers
We've seen it hard, we've seen it kind of rough
But always with a smile, she was sure to try to hide
The fact from us that life was really tough
I can hear my mother call
I can hear my mother call
Late at night I hear her call
Oh lord, lord I hear her call
She said, "Father, father it's for the kids
Any and every thing I did
Please, please don't judge me too strong
Lord knows I meant no wrong
Lord knows I meant no wrong"
Then the devil sang
"Would you like to dance with me? We're doin' the cosmic slop"
She was well known through the ghetto
Tricks would come and then they'd go
The neighbors would talk and call her Jezebel
But always with a smile, she was sure to try to hide
The fact from us that she was catching hell, hey!
Hear my mother call
I can hear my mother call
Late at night I hear her call
Oh lord, lord I hear her call
She says, "Father, father it's for the kids
Any and every thing I did
Please, please don't judge me too strong
Lord knows I meant no wrong
Lord!
She says, "Father, father it's for the kids
Any and every thing I did
Please, please don't judge me too strong
[End Cadences]
lyrics were COLD man... damn
This is NOT slop
Heartbreaking
Poetry for the people✊🏽
The mother and the jezebel are one in the same... Can't be mad at her... 💜
One of the baddest jams of all time!
THE TRUTH
Yup. That lead freakin blows the doors off my house...oh and my neighbor’s house, too. Feel like they need some Funk P, too.
They used to terrify me as a child!! Thanks UA-cam for putting this on my feed to bring that trauma back🤣
This never gets old.
Okey the white guy with the guitar is obviously a guitarist, but what are the rest of their roles? Especially the guy with the white face paint. Tell me their names, especially the white guitarist guy. Its a shame Dwayne Blackbyrd Mcknight's not in the video.
I just discovered the white guy's name, Ron Bykowski. But what guitar parts did he play and did he play any guitar solos??
A Funkadelic album cover has come to life
I love how ORIGINAL and WEIRD this is! Funkadelic mann...What a band!
They were great!
This should be in the Library of Congress… it is culturally significant.
In 1968, MCI built the first 24 track tape recorder (2" tape). The music of the 70's is deep in the exploration of high count multi-track recordings.
Glad I was able to check their concert off my bucket list, quite an awesome experience.
A whole lot of dust was snorted during this video shoot.
Tru😂
That’s acid
@@bernardhargraves527 😆😆😆
.... coke heroin LSD weed hash pills uppers downers everything man
L.N. ……………..that DUST still aint settled ?????
This is some of the most bugged out shit I have ever seen 😳 I don't think I blinked the whole time this video played. The song was so funky I had to open a window and light an incense!
😅
Bro I relate this. I cant even blink
This takes creepy early 70s music videos to the next level. Looks like something you would’ve seen on Night Flight at 2:30 a.m.
You are a KING for that Night Flight reference!
Night Flight! Best show ever!
Night Flight Legion.
Or night gallery!
Man, I wish I would have been around in Parliament Funkadelics heyday. Those years must have been something else entirely!! Everyone looked like they were having a hell of a lot more fun than we did lol.
Yup, it was👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
What a great band . If you ain’t groovin when you here these guys you gotta be dead . Bring Back the Funk 👊🏼
This video was sponsored and brought to you by LSD!!!!
I used to drop decades ago, and as a sister , I wish so much I knew about this. I grew up listening to George in his different ventures in music. I’m 51, my dad was a big fan, but I’ve never heard of this until a few months ago. Who knows why it took us so long to cross paths. I was 4 when this was released, maybe that’s a good reason. I just wish I had seen or heard this when I was still smokin and trippin. Perfect!!!!
😂 😂
🤣🤣🤣
Could you imagine tripping your balls off on LSD and run into them shooting this video?😳🤯
@@kingsean1500 🤣🤣🤣
Lots of legendary artists in this early video. RIP Gary Snider, Fuzzy Haskins.
rip calvin simon
Been listening ever since , certainly kept me sane this last 40+ years
Wow! Bumping this in my car Now. 50 years ago this was thumpin'! #73baby
I keep coming back to this song several times a day. Idk why. It doesn't wake up any conscious feelings. But does something to me in an unconscious level.
Still one of my most favorite Funkadelic songs, I remember seeing this on TV when I was 13, I was almost spellbound, it was different, and I loved it.
Late 60's, early 70's. Folks was really cuttin' loose. Folks was going for that freedom. You had to be there.
Ever since I found this video. I never get tired of watching it! Being a fan since 9 years old. It's a a thrill discovering any and everything they've done! ❤️
I can't believe they were doing music videos like this way back in the 70s! They were way ahead of they're time! I could see a video like this being done today! Thank you Parliament funkadelic for giving us years of great music. The best funk band of all time!
This is not ahead of the 70s at all. Not even late 60s. This is fairly common for that time. You should look at some Isley Brothers, Ohio Players, Slave, or Earth, Wind and Fire performances and their outfits.
@@carltonbanks5470There are some performance videos. There aren't too many like this, where a band _aren't_ playing, but making a visual illustration.
My pops used to tell us to take the rap crap off his radio or it would stain his CD player and tape deck. So we went to the record store and got a used 45 of this. Pop's walks in while it's playing stops and stares at all of us and asks us"y'all ever seen the cover"and proceeds to break out the original full album and put it on and listen to it with us
🤟🏾😂 😂…Bro! Thank u for sharing that moment 🙏🏾.
Make you want to listen to real music
😂 OMG OG
That's what's up...each one teach one! ✊🏿🤟🏿😎🎵🎶📀🎧
guess Pops knew what was goin' down cause he knew what was laid down. I remember seeing them with Parliament in the early 70s. Just funkin' with ya... they one in the same
This is one of my favorite videos of all-time. This is like if Hype Williams went back to the 70’s to film this 😆
This video is way too bright to be Hypes’s vision. If it was filmed at night, then sure.
I wish I could tell George Clinton how much i appreciate him.
48 years after this video was recorded, I saw George perform this song in the same park!
Wowwwww 🤩
No Drama, Just Love in those days. Being Free & Funky was the order of the day.
I find myself coming back to the 70,s a lot these days. Watching a clip like this, i can almost smell and taste the 1970,s. Anything is better than 2023!
This is so so so so so so so so so so so great! When I hear this kind of greatness way back from 1973 it just makes me sad that 99% of modern music just flat-out absolutely sucks rotten ass. Long live the glorious George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic. I'm so grateful that I've had the opportunity to meet George Clinton about 5 different times in my life. It was wonderful to shake his hand and say "Thank you, George. Thank you for the funk. Thank you for making the world a better place because of your music."
Wow ... this sure blows the dust off of those funky brain cells.☺
One of my oldest brothers “R.I.P Johnny” turned me on to the Funkadelic while growing up in Cincinnati when I was 8yrs old.. well, im 62 now and I been a HUGE fan every since 👌🏾
HALLELUJAH!! They call me Casper!👻👻🤘🏾👻👻
Ohio is one of the birthplaces of Funk.
Overcast day in the Apple. My parents meet in N.Y.C. but raised me in the sleepy south. They went back ever year and took me and my siblings along for the ride. More than likely I was in the city that year at the age of five. Whenever I smell diesel exhaust I thing of N.Y.C. The air bathed in diesel exhaust mostly from the city buses. Certain smells will unlock memories. Also a Funkadelic fan.
My Dad is 67 loves Gorge Clinton, he always tells me different stories about their concerts and how the parliament funkadelics always put on the best shows and hearing the stories I believe every word. He said when its his time to go he wants the Funk played at his funeral ❤
I'm young, not sure how this showed up on suggestions, but this goes hard.
George is a staple of all that is funky.
What do you mean this goes hard?
You say you’re young - watch out! “America Eats Its Young” is one of the best albums ever
@@mclovin8739 It means it's very very cool!
Now go listen to maggot brain
I found this song six months ago, sad I didn't find it earlier. I have listened to it and analyzed it over and over again since then and I can conclusively say this is one of the best songs ever written, easily in my top 10. The melodies are so strong and powerful. The lyrics and storytelling are unmatched. The guitar playing is badass. The rhythms are incredibly deep.
Being born in 1977 in NY , this is the most comforting 💩 ever. It’s soothing.
I never knew this existed! Thanks for posting. George would often have this many people on his stages through the 70's, I have no idea how they made money😅
Never gets old!
Love this tune, in so many ways . All those layers.
“The fact from us that life was really tough” 🎶
Get with it y’all 🛸✨🎶
1. Facepaint: George Clinton
2. White guy (guitar): Ron Bykowski
3. Diaper Man, gold belt (guitar): Garry Shider
4. Ripped longjohns, red headband: Fuzzy Haskins
5. Red floppy hat (melodica): Bernie Worrell
6. Checkered jester/clown suit (drumsticks): Tyrone Lampkin
7. Colorful sheet with white feathered headdress (bass): Calvin Simon
8. Purple keffiyeh/headrag, black leather vest (guitar): Grady Thomas
9. Black tux jacket, leather codpiece, jeans, headband: Eddie Hazel
10. Black cape, pacifier necklace, grey beard: Ray Davis
11. Ruffly shoulder pads, sleeves, and shorts, pom pom hat (bass): Cordell Boogie Mosson
12. Wolf mask (melodica): Tiki Fulwood
12. processing all that people while yo dancing semi-naked with sunglasses on top of my head for the moon's bright sake. Fantabulous!
Blazing Jester.
This is the coolest thing I've seen lately. They were like the Merry Pranksters from the 60s. Funkadelic was on the same wavelength as Sun Ra Arkestra, except Funkadelic was on acid and Sun Ra was drug-free.
Some of the craziest people are the ones who never do drugs.
Look at sun Ra s eyes in that old footage. Like a truth tortoise
Me, a bottle of 90 year old whiskey, a handheld camcorder on a stand, this album, frank zappas apostrophe. A small redneck town and the only other guy in town that was cool. Jamming in his mom's living room. What a random memory that this has recalled. I was 15.
Love the almost non-stop continuous guitar work on this song
Man.....do I remember these funky soul-psychadelic cats here!!!!! Those were the ' Good Ol' days '
Hip Hop wouldn't exist without Funk .
No fuckin duh. Funk wouldn't exist without gospel, ragtime, jazz, blues, rock n roll, and R&B. Its call evolution.
@@jasoncoles9086 and none of this would exist without God💯
@@lewesleyacklin1408 none of this would exist without the devil also.😐
@@jasoncoles9086 yep Gods plan💯
@@lewesleyacklin1408 I know buddy.... believe me , I know 🙄
Never knew there was a video for this sonic freakout!
2:13 That "The Godfather is now a movie" in the background put that date in perspective for me.
Great video, great song....had me funkin' in my seat!
This Jam is still better than most percentage songs out here now! Long Live The Funk!
While most of us kids growing up in New York were chilling out to Sesame Street. there were scenes like this going on all around town in 1973.
This is the adult Electic Company!
I lived in Hollywood as a little girl and we would listen to Funkadelic upstairs in the apartment complex on the stairwell. White girls. Little ones. Learned how to dance from them. Perfect beings, fun. Full of life and God
Lived in West Hollywood. Did the same but I was a black kid
What a stupid comment.
@@theconfusedatheist6028 Me too I lived on Harper and on on San Vincente skateboarding up and down Sunset early to mid 70's...
VISIONARY! Do you realize this was almost A DECADE before artist really started making music videos? I would love to hear the story behind this!
Are you serious ,like I never knew ,absolute nonsense, do some research , people have been making music videos since the 20s
@@valley_robot music videos as we know them today were not common
@@yommish They were common. There is just a bunch of misinformation about them not being as such back then. They might not have had great production value but quite a bit was done to promote pop music.
@@alexkx8599 reading the Wikipedia article on music videos, yes the concept has been around as long as film and audio tape existed, but videos like this were not very common until the 80s when they exploded…from my understanding. Alright it’s not “visionary” but it’s cool and somewhat ahead of its time, albeit not groundbreaking. Still I’d like to see another funk band with a music video like this out in 1973
We gotta bring people together like this again. Album after album they're absolutely beautiful.
They moment the sounds entered my ears I am into the groove of letting it all go. Keep the funk alive.
I was 2yrs old living at East New York Brooklyn when this came out