Funky Friday:Pleasure And Pain From The Players
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In the spirit of Funk and "exploitive album covers", I offer up,Pain and Pleasure from the Ohio Players.I see other OP posts have covered the Player's history, but lemme tell ya, these guys go way back to the 50's á la George Clinton and the P-Funk mob. They started as the Ohio Untouchables in Dayton,OH with "guitar master Robert Ward" ,evolved into the Ohio Players and signed to Westbound Records in 1972, where they were labelmates with Funkadelic.Like Funkadelic records on Westbound, The Players offerings were full of experimentation, jazz,funk,soul, and most importantly...Freedom.By the time they reached their zenith in '76, the Players were as or more popular than P-Funk for a minute, but the weirdness was gone. Even the album covers, which were exploitive, but dangerous (at least the man gets a whipping on the Pain cover), became just plain exploitive, and Hooters©-esque; in line with the disco age that brought the players fame, but also killed them by association.Check out their breakthrough hit "Pain" here and the jazz-funk slowjam Pride and Vanity in comments.May The Funk Be With You
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