{"id":2585,"date":"2012-03-22T15:11:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T20:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=2585"},"modified":"2012-04-07T14:19:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T19:19:10","slug":"fatback-band-are-you-ready-do-the-bus-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=2585","title":{"rendered":"Fatback Band – (Are You Ready) Do the Bus Stop"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download Fatback Band – (Are You Ready) Do the Bus Stop<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

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

I hope you all find yourselves in a groovy place (literal, figurative or both).<\/p>\n

It is \u2013 as always \u2013 time to remind you that the Funky16Corners Radio Show<\/strong> returns to the airwaves of the interwebs this Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio.<\/strong><\/a> If you can\u2019t join us at airtime, make sure to fall by the blog and pick yourself up an MP3 of the show (or dip into the extensive Radio Show archives with almost 100 past episodes).<\/p>\n

I was wandering around inside my iPod the other night and fell upon a couple of rather hypnotic grooves, one provided by the Krautrockers Neu<\/strong>, and the other one you see before you today, as laid (very heavily) into the groove by the mighty Fatback Band.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Though I knew their name, they first entered my ears via my man DJ Prestige<\/strong> who whipped \u2018I\u2019m Going To See My Baby\u2019 on me back in the day during our collaborative mix Beat Combination Pts 1&2.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

If that is a record with which you lack familiarity, might I suggest you grab said mix.<\/p>\n

That said, I became hip to Fatback\u2019s Perception stuff, but it was only last year, whilts down in DC that my man DJ Birdman<\/strong> delivered unto me a stack of funky records, some of which I\u2019d asked he grab in his travels, and some he just laid on me because he is the very personification of a righteous dude, who never lets me visit without sending me away with some new sounds.<\/p>\n

The Fatback record he gave me that day was 1975\u2019s \u2018Raising Hell\u2019.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d heard of (but not heard<\/em>) a couple of the tracks therein, but once I dropped the needle, the one that really stuck with me was today\u2019s selection \u2018(Are You Ready) Do the Bus Stop\u2019.<\/p>\n

Fatback were one of those bands that straddled the funk and disco eras with ease, providing some transitional grease for those so inclined to take that particular trip.<\/p>\n

They are memorable because they managed to keep the funk burning while spreading things out enough that the bellbottomed, wide lapelled folk would follow them out onto the disco dance floor.<\/p>\n

\u2018(Are You Ready) Do the Bus Stop\u2019 (which grazed the R&B Top 40) has one of the pumping-est bass lines you\u2019re ever likely to hear, as well as some of that delicious clavinet partisans of 70s funk know and love.<\/p>\n

The lyrics \u2013 as they are<\/em> \u2013 are fairly dance floor chant-y, and the groove is as much late night drive through the city as they are bump it on the dance floor, thus the previous description as hypnotic.<\/p>\n

You can feel free to swing your ass about, or just nod your head, depending on your situation\/locale.<\/p>\n

Either way you will be compelled to move.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig the cut as much as I do, and I\u2019ll see you all on Monday.<\/p>\n

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The Fatback Band Listen\/Download Fatback Band – (Are You Ready) Do the Bus Stop Greetings all. I hope you all find yourselves in a groovy place (literal, figurative or both). It is \u2013 as always \u2013 time to remind you that the Funky16Corners Radio Show returns to the airwaves of the interwebs this Friday night […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,11,14,55,30,64,12],"tags":[163,166,167,164],"class_list":["post-2585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disconot-disco","category-funk","category-funky16corners","category-funky16cornersviva-internet-radio","category-lp-tracks","category-rb","category-soul","tag-funk","tag-funky16corners","tag-funky16corners-radio","tag-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-FH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2671,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions\/2671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}