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Honey, There’s Something Wrong With The Teevee

It will come as no shock to you to find out that P-Funk made virtually no teevee appearances during their 1970’s heyday. None of their act was suitable for Johnny and Ed, and even Dick Cavett wasn’t liberal enough for this kind of bullshit. Maybe they could have done Merv, but not if he saw this clip first. Starting in the mid-80’s, George and whoever he was calling the P-Funk All-Stars that day were allowed on the national broadcasts, but this is the sole teevee booking from the early years.

(The show–WGBH’s Basic Black–is still airing, but at the time it was called Say Brother, and I’m not making that up.)

7 Comments

  1. Dave Froth

    It’s only 6:30 am, and we’re having a religious experience.

    More Pop tarts!

  2. Dick Scratcher

    Can still see video links though

  3. Mean, Green, Devil Eating Machine

    pre-PFunk:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPWo2WxwRno The Parliaments – (I Wanna) Testify

    • Dave Froth

      Dude!

  4. JES

    That there Tiki-Tawl-Billy-Bernie-Eddie lineup is the bsst of all possible Funkadelics. If they could only capture one version of the band, they got the right one that night . . . Mmmmmmmmm nice!

    • Dave Froth

      More and more I’m inclined to agree.

      Groovy!

      • JES

        The Youtube caption says that’s Mickey Atkins on keys and Langston Booth on drums (I could not see either clearly, so assumed it was Tiki and Bernie), so that’s an even earlier, more primordial lineup . . . wow. The Tawl-Eddie-Billy Bass guitar line is there, though. Amazing clip. Glad it survived!!! Love that stuff!!!

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