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Dude... Heh... DUDE... there is not much to say but... DUDE! xCeLenT!

Thanks Twig

Oooh, scotfree..Osibisa, I dig them...have fun in the jungle

I'm rollin' the twig ball with this xCeLenT music with my son at the front... Please know that with the twig ball we will not damade anything in the jungle or our toes... PEACE...

Oh, damage I meant (what eh heck is damade? sounds like a band aide that doesn't work), Can't see in 3D since lately since I got hit in the eye with a baseball... The vacation will be nice...

That is one 'ell of a Twig ball!

This sounds like a funky jazz session. I was trying to figure out which instruments were being played. Very funky! I cannot find that much about them here online but there was a lady over on amazon.com who said that the group is based out of California and that one of the players named "kornbread" is her Dad. This album is worth the investment! Thank you for sharing.

I wonder if the show The Electric Company which was on PBS had some affiliation with them. I was thinking of the scenes when there was the rhyming. For some reason that visual came to mind when I was listening. To tell you the truth, I know I learned a lot about funky music growing up watching Sesame Street!!

A visual of what I was yapping about. Please mind my silliness but this is what I was thinking about!!

With the music biz the way it is and with the state of music in our schools......... as a teacher I can attest to this. Its sad really, I look at how many opportunities I had growing up to pick up an instrument, and then I look at the music program at the school I am at now. Makes a person sick

2Serenity-One thing The Street had for sure..was Soul..some great music on there. Growing up I didn't see it too much..For many years I was in a no TV hippie-house.

Heard that,Rawk..I''m gonna get my kid playin (if he wants to) ASAP.

Very nice track. I have no idea, how it has been 20 - 30 years ago, but here are still a lot of local bands, that produce rock of rather lousy quality here. And I never had the impresson that they would be connected heavily to school. I don't have the impression, that it would have changed much but the means of sound generation and some musical genres were added to the musical jungle. But I can talk only talk for my country and only for what I see around me. I understand, what you say about sampling, but there are still many musical genres, that remain unexploited, regarding samples. For example the whole stuff from the Balkans is just at the very beginning regarding it's "exploitation status". In experimental music sometimes measured data, that originates from physical and/or stochastic processes and experiments is used as basic material. But that's not sampling, that's something else. I only remark this, to say that there are some sources that will never run out.

Hermes- I'm not worried that we will run out of bands..Someone will always take the plunge into learning an instrument. Rock bands are here to say. Funk/Rock bands (led by black artists) are hard to find though. Part of this is the rise of hip hop, but part of it is the lack of musical instruments in the schools. I believe it is a race and class issue. For poor folks, school is now about passing standardized tests. A great rush to push a children to a minimum, instead of enriching their minds (hey music does that right), and encouraging original thought.

It is great to be able to read, but will the new generation communicate?

I was joking about samples..those will never run out.

I understand what you say and I guess your right. I just had a small dicussion with an (U.S.) Amercian girl about the differences of both countries. Your problem is, that the social differences are so high. If your poor, you're really poor compared to the poor people here, as our social system is way more developed (and way more expensive, what is expressed by tax rates, that are 10 to 30 percent higher, than in the U.S.). Despite of that fact I already see a tendency of the rise of white ghettos for example in Berlin, as I already mentioned in my post about the German HipHop of Berlin. So even this highly developed, but partially inefficient social system, doesn't guarantee, that people from the underclass have the same chances as people from the middle and upper class. But it's less because of the lack of money but because of not seeing the possibilties, that one has. If your parents live of social wellfare and have no motivation of changing this situation, it's quiet improbable, that their children will develop a strong motivation and enthusiasm for a certain field. That's where your argument with the lack of instruments in school sets in. If they don't get pushed or get at least a strong hint into this direction, probabilities are low, that they will learn an instrument just on their own. Same for other potential fields of interest, like photography or arts in general. I guess those kids prefer to listen to Berlin gangster rap. And those rappers don't tell them, to change their situation through work or through enthusiasm for a certain field. In contrary. They have an attidude of self-righteousness and fatalism and advise them to "solve" their problem through violence instead or at least say that it's understandable to act like that, if you're living in a ghetto. This music is in my opinion part of the problem instead of contributing to its solution.

Right now some schools of Berlin are thinking of hiring private security companies, just for getting a grip on the rising violence in schools, which teachers can't get under control any more. I'm observing this development with anxiety.

Man Hermes, that's good stuff. Always enjoying the conversation with you, thanks.

Who will create the samples for the next generation?

Very good question that.

Chucky-Not that I'm against anybody learning to play instruments, I just hope it isn't only upper middle class folks with angst filled kids and garages that get a shot:)

I was thinking more about the desire to play instruments. Do any people still have that? Or is all the excitement in manipulation of other people's music?

I think there would be more desire if the kids could be exposed to instruments in school. I don't care how good the computers get..there is a lot of value to the uniqueness of sound created from "traditional" instruments. I see your point, seems like our culture is so bad at passing things on and keeping any kind of music alive. As Hermes sez, " I’m observing this development with anxiety."

Another nice find!

@Cody B: >> Funk/Rock bands (led by black artists) are hard to find though. <<

No matter how raw and sloppy some of their current shows may be, George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic should probably be required listening for the school (or at least music) classes of this world. There are few bands who integrate the best of rock, soul & funk of the past five decades as coherently as GC&P/F ... and who are as loud & as funky ;-)

Maybe there will be some kids whose musical horizon will expand through this. Even if they don't get into live playing, the raw energy and irreverent attitude of P-Funk may at least inspire the hip-hop aficionados among them to find a more creative approach to sampling - e. g., sampling noise (Bomb Squad), not loops ...

Sorry, I don't know why my last post shows up twice - unfortunately, I can't delete it.

I just want to add one thing: I was glad to see that you previously mentioned the Kashmere Stage Band.

Sometimes it seems to take just one dedicated teacher to make a difference.

Good point on Kashmere...pj..Can I call you buddy:)

I know the funk is with you...I hope it gets to others.

Great stuff. Funk never hurt nobody.

@Cody B: Sure thing, buddy! :-)

Short for buddyebsen!, the funkiest of all detectives

@Cody Buddy: Don't put pressure on me! ;-) I'd be hard-pressed to detect as many funky finds as you presented here ...