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Funkmob 420



Review 01/16/99
From: Dr.Brookenstein

FUNKMOB 420 (Part II) in NYC                                              

Imagine a group of funk musicians that make up about 15% of the P-Funk    
Allstars, but has twice the intensity of the Allstars......THAT'S RIGHT   
P-FUNKATEERS.....YOU GUESSED IT.....THE FUNKMOB 420!!  ALRIGHT FUNKATEERS,
LEND ME YO EARS AS I'LL TELL YOU A TALE.                                  

PICTURE THIS:                                                             

It's 8:50pm and the FUNKMOB 420 band takes it to the stage with a little  
spacy funk instrumental.....you may know it, the Eddie Hazel space jam    
workout "What About It?" (from his first Warner Bros.  album, released in 
1977...some may remember the Funkadelic vocal version "Clone Communicado",
featuring dialogue by the Uncle Jam label president Archie Ivy)  Clip     
announces the next song, which is one of the biggest killer tunes of the  
show, "There's Nothing Before Me But Thang"......which is a funky piece of
psychedelic rock with a country/western slant!  Every ass in the joint    
gallops to the fast-paced rhythm, while Mike Hampton gets down with those 
smokin', "country-twang" guitar licks!!  My homey, Mike, can make a Garth 
Brooks song sound downright funky!!!!                                     

Unlike the OSMIUM album, the 420 FUNK MOB band does the verses somewhat in
a subdued manner, but rock the  shit out of TRAMPS during the bridges!!!  
"Trash-A-Go-Go" is the next heavy-duty thrash-metal funk tune that sets   
the energy level of the club past the level of ten atomic bomb            
explosions!!  Again, Mike Hampton is the cause of this atomic blast, with 
some highly unstable vibes radiating from his GOOD-tar....we have FALLOUT,
people!!  "Funk With a Big Foot" is an excellent funk track with tight-ass
drumbeats, courtesy of Enemy Squad's Gabe Gonzalez....what a good piece   
for the 420 band because keyboardist Gregg Fitz performed on it back in   
1977 with the group QUAZAR. "Adolescent Funk" is a nice, moderately-funky 
number with a slow groove, but it doesn't compare to "Naked".  "Let's Take
It To The People" and "Naked" were very good, the former being a uptempo, 
Mike Hampton guitar-funk tune. The latter, "Naked", features some funky   
vocals by the crazy fool himself, Clip Payne.  Gregg Fitz provides the    
smelly key chords and the song itself is a nasty, slow-paced sleazy-funk  
tune with the sexually explicit chorus line, "I never saw you naked, with 
your booty up in the air!"  The other killer song, "Let's Take It To The  
Stage" is performed so damn well with bass and rhythm guitar licks that   
really surpassed the studio version, thanks to Lige Curry, Mike and       
Cordell "Boogie" Mosson.  Gabe kicks ass with some killer drums on "Better
By The Pound".  Of course, Kidd Funkadelic smokes up the club with some   
lethal guitar funk on that tune and the next song "Red Hot Momma". Special
thanks to Lige Curry for his extra-funky "bass-ics" on "Red Hot Momma".   

The show ends at 9:50pm.  I meet the fellas backstage and I run into the  
Brides own Sheila Horne......and boy, does she look great!!! Starr Cullars
is in the house, chilling with her other half, Lige.  I stay to check out 
Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers for about 15 minutes before going home.  
Chuck Brown is very, very good.....he performs the blues track "Stormy    
Monday" and it was smokin'!  By the way, James Brown covered that tune    
back in 1974 for the album, HELL.                                         


The FUNKMOB 420 personnel:                                                

Stozo Da Klown (Ronald P. Edwards)                                        
Mike "Kidd Funkadelic" Hampton                                            
Lige Curry                                                                
Cordell "Boogie" Mosson                                                   
Michael "Clip" Payne                                                      
Gregg Fitz                                                                
Gabe Gonzalez