2845578, preach Posted by rdhull, Fri Oct-04-13 11:29 AM
>>HECK NO.....cameo fell off and started watering down their >>funk. Rick and the city band stay HARD and didnt water shit >>down and i like that. the first two rick james records kills >>almost anything that cameo ever did..... > > >This is simply not true...At all...I won't go into who is >better because that's just a cluster fuck...lol > >But from 1979's Cameosis to 1985's Single Life, Cameo was the >cutting edge in funk alongside Roger/Zapp...The irony is Cameo >proved to be more adept at surviving than a lot of their funk >based peers including Rick (who started to fall off after >1983's Cold Blooded....)...it's crazy how Cameo and Zapp >proved to be the survivors of that late 70's era when a lot of >other bands were forced to completely bite Prince.... > >By '83 Cameo had already moved on to the new dope ("Alligator >Woman" was cutting edge funk....Heavy on synths, a nod to that >rockish, black new wave turn by you know who while still HEAVY >in the funk...) > >"She's Strange," "Single Life," "Hangin Downtown," "Attack Me >With Me With Your Love" ect...They all came after 1983...Even >when Cameo went "pop" with Word Up in '86 they still kept the >funk..."Back And Forth" was THAT shit... > >Underrated band to this day and they def. kept the funk along >with Roger after Rick fell to drugs....
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