Replacement Theory

2012-05-222020-04-15 ezzy

I’ve never been clear on the difference in “replace” and “displace”, I just know that tablets are the future and people who degrade them as faddish or toys are in denial. I type this before hitting the dictionary to see….… Read the rest

You Don’t Know

2012-05-212020-04-15 ezzy

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Stretched Out and Shining

2012-05-192016-05-24 ezzy

Here’s a rare track from US TV, circa late 80’s, with Bootsy and The Rubber Band destroying some late night. Turn this up and get your party started:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sh9cezHNec

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It’s Been Built Inside

2012-05-172017-09-05 ezzy

If you haven’t picked up some new funk lately, check out this excellent double album from Bootsy – 17 amazing tracks for only $10!

I picked this up on blue vinyl a few months back and I’ve been wearing it … Read the rest

I Got Spirit

2012-05-162016-04-04 ezzy

Nice live War track with Eric Burdon, circa 1971.

Need I remind everyone that this was the last band Jimi Hendrix jammed with before his demise? Damn you pills taking Jimi away from us.… Read the rest

Dayton’s On The Mothership

2012-05-152015-08-12 ezzy

More classic Ohio funk for you, this time from Faze-O. Dayton & Cinci are really making their pitch as the home of funk and I like it. So many good funk bands and all kinds of killer players came out … Read the rest

We Miss Curtis

2012-05-132016-10-03 ezzy

Excellence.… Read the rest

A Fitting Tribute

2012-05-122016-11-15 ezzy

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Tighten Up Your Stroke

2012-05-112016-10-04 ezzy

Live Ohio funk on prime-time TV? Watch the set turn into a huge party a few minutes in. Oh the seventies, oh the seventies…

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Super Group Redux

2012-05-102016-05-12 ezzy

Here’s maybe the first super-super group, given that their bass player was in one of the worlds first super groups back in the 70’s. Fear not rock is not dead!

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NEW ROAMING CRAZY!!

2012-05-092017-05-12 ezzy

Awww Yeeeah!! The latest and greatest from Roaming Crazy is done and on its way to the epresses!

“Sing Too” is liable to cause spastic brain flams and incoherent fist swings.

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Juice Juice

2012-05-082016-10-24 ezzy

Encore for The Infesticons: Mike Ladd & Juice Aleem do the get down…

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Rare TV Funk

2012-05-062020-04-15 ezzy

TV appearances by funk artists are often stunted affairs of micro-sized forced funk, easily mocked and pulled away from for commercial break. I had never seen this Sly performance from 1983 playing with Letterman’s Paul Shaffer band. The tempo a … Read the rest

RIP MCA

2012-05-052015-08-25 ezzy

We’ve lost another pioneer to cancer. Adam “MCA” Yauch, the voice that helped transition the Beasties from goof rap to good rap, succumbed to cancer on May 5th, just a few days after his band was inducted into the Rock … Read the rest