{"id":1946,"date":"2011-10-11T13:10:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T18:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=1946"},"modified":"2012-02-22T12:36:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T17:36:13","slug":"chambers-brothers-funky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=1946","title":{"rendered":"Chambers Brothers – Funky"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – The Chambers Brothers – Funky <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

Greetings all.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

You know, as we here at the Funky16Corners<\/strong> blog approach our seventh anniversary (oh yeah<\/em>), which in blog years is like an eon or some such, every once in a while I have to lean on my Google crutch to make sure I haven\u2019t already expounded on a particular track, so lengthy is the list thereof.<\/p>\n

Such was the case when I started contemplating today\u2019s selection, in which the thought process went something like this:<\/p>\n

Did I already write up \u2018Funky\u2019?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I must have.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

No, wait, I didn\u2019t.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Are you (me) sure?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Let me check again.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nope.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well how about them apples?<\/strong><\/p>\n

You see, when you talk about the first time the funk hit me (deep) one must consider the day the teenaged me brought the Chambers Brothers<\/strong> \u2018New Generation\u2019 album home from the dusty, local flea market and dropped the needle, and got whomped upside the melon by \u2018Funky\u2019, which is as solid a \u2018truth in advertising\u2019 thing as has ever been committed to wax.<\/p>\n

I mean, those opening bars, with the congas, the traps, the cuica and then the oddly Mexicali guitar riff and of course that earth shaking bass (really the linchpin on which the whole enterprise hangs) are as earth shattering and elemental as any funky music, ever recorded, anywhere (at least here on earth).<\/p>\n

The mighty Chambers Brothers<\/strong> have always taken a back seat to brother Sly<\/strong>\u00a0 – which in terms of general funk is an accurate assessment –\u00a0 since they always trod a little bit more on the rock side of the tracks, but aside from the deadly and unfuckwithable guitar\/bass\/drums combo of \u2018Sing a Simple Song\u2019, even the Family Stone<\/strong> had to step back and take notice when the Chambers Brothers lit up \u2018Funky\u2019 and took a deep drag.<\/p>\n

Not only is \u2018Funky\u2019 great funk is the general, bad ass, \u2018classic\u2019 sense, but it also carries with it some of the Chambers unique hippie festival stomp, in that it sounds less like a \u2018band\u2019 than it does like a field full of party where everyone got themselves something to bang on, and in a once in a millennium roll of the dice, managed to all come down on the one.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018Funky\u2019, in addition to the basic, obvious funk power, also manages to be a veritable seven layer dip of complexity, with the cowbell, and especially that weird, bottleneck-y guitar twang that keeps bubbling up into the mix.<\/p>\n

Had the Chambers Brothers managed to whip together a half dozen such monsters (excepting of course the sui generis \u2018Time Has Come Today\u2019 which is verily the warp and weft of the psychedelic zeitgeist) – or, if \u2018Funky\u2019 was a hens teeth rare 45 – they might be more fondly remembered by the crate diggers. As it is, you could probably get your own copy (at least of the album) for less than a dollar at any respectable flea market which in some circles is grounds for disqualification.<\/p>\n

There is also the fact that A Tribe Called Quest<\/strong> thought enough of the song to repurpose a serious chunk of it for \u2018I Left My Wallet In El Segundo\u2019,<\/a> which of course rules.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig it and I\u2019ll see you all later.<\/p>\n

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Peace<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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