6. "They feel like the reverse Hendrix in a way to me..." In response to In response to 0 Fri May-29-15 04:25 PM by Jakob Hellberg
Just like I feel people here have a tendency to exaggerate how soul/funk/"authentically" blues Hendrix sound, I also feel people exaggerate how rock Funkadelic sound.
To put it differently, I think people raised on soul/funk/R&B hear them as much more "rock"-sounding than your typical rock-fan do. Sure, there are *songs* on their first three albums (and VERY few later-even the disappointing song that tried to make a point) that sound very rock but even on those, they don't really sound *that* rock as a whole even if "Free your mind..." comes closest I guess. My personal favorite of those first three is the debut and on that one, they to me sound like a heavier, more freaky and "Hendrix" take on 60's Sly rather than *rock(tm)*.
Also, many rock-fans actually don't like funky beats; the rhythmic foundation of rock(tm) is rooted more in 50's rock'n'roll/R&B or even 60's soul a bit later than funk(tm) which has never been a MAJOR rhtyhmic component in rock outside of isolated songs.
The rock popularity of a blatantly Funkadelic-inspired band like RHCP may seem to contradict this but it's worth pointing out that they didn't become huge until they started to partially move away from funk-rock a bit; when they played more uniformly, explicitly funky (or "funky") music (=first three albums), they were never more than a mid-size cult band.
Basically, I suspect (actually, I *know* from personal experiences with people I've tried to turn out) that many rock-fans hear them more as a funk-band and since there's a chance they don't like-or even understand-funk, there's that too...