Funk is coming back.
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Funk is coming back. I repeat The Funk is Returning.
I didn't really notice it, just seemed like a musical style or a reference, but so many songs have that funky sound now, and every little band has some guy with the saxophone or other brass instrument instead of just electric guitars.
The thing about a funk band is there is *no upper limit* to the number of brass players you can add. The bands of the 70s just kept expanding in size until they were orchestras.
Will it happen again?
@futurebird I read that Brazilian funk is big on TikTok.
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@futurebird Hey, Larry Graham and Bootsy Collins are still alive!
And Nile Rodgers (though I think he would be more disco than funk, but the borders are vague.)
@pare @futurebird Bootsy Collins still* does an amazing live show.
*just realized this memory is nearly a decade old
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Funk is coming back. I repeat The Funk is Returning.
I didn't really notice it, just seemed like a musical style or a reference, but so many songs have that funky sound now, and every little band has some guy with the saxophone or other brass instrument instead of just electric guitars.
The thing about a funk band is there is *no upper limit* to the number of brass players you can add. The bands of the 70s just kept expanding in size until they were orchestras.
Will it happen again?
@futurebird Only if it lives up to the stylings of Bootsy Collins!!
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Funk is coming back. I repeat The Funk is Returning.
I didn't really notice it, just seemed like a musical style or a reference, but so many songs have that funky sound now, and every little band has some guy with the saxophone or other brass instrument instead of just electric guitars.
The thing about a funk band is there is *no upper limit* to the number of brass players you can add. The bands of the 70s just kept expanding in size until they were orchestras.
Will it happen again?
@futurebird hearing Lords of the Underground sing
"But they don't understand how I feel about the funk
I walk with the funk, I talk with the funk
I eat with the funk, I sleep with the funk
I live for the funk, I'll die for the funk"Was like being reborn. Learning about funk after that taught me so much, it's almost indescribable the effect it had on me, it was profound.
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this is Ohio music in every good and bad way
Do you mean this Ohio
https://tidal.com/playlist/8e159e7c-f2c4-416d-aec8-dd944c5c7eb7
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Funk is coming back. I repeat The Funk is Returning.
I didn't really notice it, just seemed like a musical style or a reference, but so many songs have that funky sound now, and every little band has some guy with the saxophone or other brass instrument instead of just electric guitars.
The thing about a funk band is there is *no upper limit* to the number of brass players you can add. The bands of the 70s just kept expanding in size until they were orchestras.
Will it happen again?
@futurebird may one Bootsy Collins spawn a thousand more Bootsys, forevermore, amen.
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Funk is coming back. I repeat The Funk is Returning.
I didn't really notice it, just seemed like a musical style or a reference, but so many songs have that funky sound now, and every little band has some guy with the saxophone or other brass instrument instead of just electric guitars.
The thing about a funk band is there is *no upper limit* to the number of brass players you can add. The bands of the 70s just kept expanding in size until they were orchestras.
Will it happen again?
@futurebird The upper limit is money. More players means a smaller split after a gig. Which is a shame, because even a medium sized brass section adds a lot to a performance.
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Funk is coming back. I repeat The Funk is Returning.
I didn't really notice it, just seemed like a musical style or a reference, but so many songs have that funky sound now, and every little band has some guy with the saxophone or other brass instrument instead of just electric guitars.
The thing about a funk band is there is *no upper limit* to the number of brass players you can add. The bands of the 70s just kept expanding in size until they were orchestras.
Will it happen again?
@futurebird Trombone Shorty rides again!
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@futurebird it will absofuckinglutely happen again. The time to get the funk out is NOW. We NEED the funk. Funk can and will destroy tyranny.
@xan @futurebird You both are keeping an eye on HONK Fest, yah?
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Funk is coming back. I repeat The Funk is Returning.
I didn't really notice it, just seemed like a musical style or a reference, but so many songs have that funky sound now, and every little band has some guy with the saxophone or other brass instrument instead of just electric guitars.
The thing about a funk band is there is *no upper limit* to the number of brass players you can add. The bands of the 70s just kept expanding in size until they were orchestras.
Will it happen again?
oh i hope it happens. funk is still one of my favorite choices for how i get myself *out* of a funk. it's just hard to be a gloomy gus when you're blasting out a good funk tune.
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Funk is coming back. I repeat The Funk is Returning.
I didn't really notice it, just seemed like a musical style or a reference, but so many songs have that funky sound now, and every little band has some guy with the saxophone or other brass instrument instead of just electric guitars.
The thing about a funk band is there is *no upper limit* to the number of brass players you can add. The bands of the 70s just kept expanding in size until they were orchestras.
Will it happen again?
@futurebird You're right. Funk is back.
I was thinking the other day of how pop had finished circling back to disco. It was obvious it's been on this trajectory for awhile. It was so slow and subtle that I really can't pinpoint when it crossed over. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that disco is back too, distinct from funk. But either way, somehow the 70s returned.
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@xan @futurebird You both are keeping an eye on HONK Fest, yah?
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Funk is coming back. I repeat The Funk is Returning.
I didn't really notice it, just seemed like a musical style or a reference, but so many songs have that funky sound now, and every little band has some guy with the saxophone or other brass instrument instead of just electric guitars.
The thing about a funk band is there is *no upper limit* to the number of brass players you can add. The bands of the 70s just kept expanding in size until they were orchestras.
Will it happen again?
@futurebird there can never be enough brass instruments, imo
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