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Forum nameThe Lesson
Topic subjectfunkateers...ever notice there's always a bobby or jimmy in a funk group?
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2737353, funkateers...ever notice there's always a bobby or jimmy in a funk group?
Posted by Bblock, Tue Sep-04-12 11:35 AM
i'm listenin' to this world's rarest funk 45 comp
and damn near almost every song where they talkin'
they mention somebody by the name of bobby or jimmy

then i think about james brown and his songs
and pfunk...
funny, huh?
2737355, the commodores, Brick, Brothers Johnson, tower of power
Posted by mistermaxxx08, Tue Sep-04-12 11:37 AM
Sly and the family stone, Rick James and the Stone city band, Eaarth,Wind and fire beg to differ
2737361, those bands were commercial homogenized funk. i'm talkin' bout
Posted by Bblock, Tue Sep-04-12 11:55 AM
true funk bands
2737367, Rick James is 'homogenized funk'?... that's some bullshit
Posted by Dr Claw, Tue Sep-04-12 12:25 PM
funk music would have been on life support if that dude wasn't making records in the late '70s

and Sly Stone? Cmon. that dude wrote the blueprint for damn near all the "real" funk bands
2737451, idc idc idc
Posted by Bblock, Tue Sep-04-12 04:02 PM
2737378, Who were the Bobby and Jimmy in P-funk?
Posted by Jakob Hellberg, Tue Sep-04-12 12:54 PM
I'm thinking hard and can't come up with any. Who were the Bobby and Jimmy in the Meters? This is a fail...
2737380, Haaa I just was listening to that comp too
Posted by T Reynolds, Tue Sep-04-12 12:59 PM
2737381, this ain't funk but
Posted by T Reynolds, Tue Sep-04-12 01:00 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ee_4ReBbU0
2737458, trying to think if P-Funk had a bobby or a jimmy....don't think they did
Posted by Warren Coolidge, Tue Sep-04-12 04:39 PM
Razor Sharp's first name was Robert..but people called him Razor ...not Robert or Bobby..

in fact...

who else BUT James had a bobby or a Jimmy...whose name used to be called out..

I'm pretty sure there were a lot of bands that copied that...if they had a bobby or a jimmy..and would call their names out for no other reason but to be like the Godfather and them.
2737460, He's listed as Robert Johnson on the albums...
Posted by Jakob Hellberg, Tue Sep-04-12 04:42 PM
...so technically, he might qualify as a Bobby but that's one hell of a stretch IMO...