Parliament Funkadelic featuring George Clinton to perform in Columbus in May
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Parliament Funkadelic featuring George Clinton will be making a stop in Columbus.
The concert will take place May 31 in Mershon Auditorium, with apecial guests Dumpstaphunk to open the show.
Clinton, one of the innovators of Funk, is the mastermind behind the legendary Parliament/Funkadelic, creating a uniquely identifiable art that has lifted Funk from what was once considered a simple style to an internationally recognized musical genre earning George Clinton and Parliament/Funkadelic their rightful place in music history: an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and recipients of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Clinton started his career with the Parliaments, a barbershop doo-wop ensemble, which scored a major hit with "I Wanna Testify" in 1967. The musician developed an act/sound that merged the polish of Motown acts, the rawness of James Brown, the bohemian style of Sly Stone and the pop sensibility of the Beatles — and set himself apart from the Motown era.
By the early ’70s, the group's tight songs evolved into sprawling jams around funky rhythms. They dropped the "s" from the band’s name and Parliament was born. Around the same time, Clinton spawned Funkadelic, a rock group that fused acid-rock guitar, bizarre sound effects, and cosmological rants with danceable beats and booming bass lines.
Clinton's dancefloor dominance continued throughout the ’70s reaching its peak with the 1983 George Clinton release of “Atomic Dog.”
Clinton is recognized as the godfather of modern urban music. Beats, loops, and samples of P-Funk have appeared on albums by 2Pac, OutKast, Dr. Dre, Busta Rhymes, Missy Elliot, De La Soul, Fishbone, Ice Cube, Public Enemy and Childish Gambino.
Tickets go on sale Feb. 23. Visit www.livenation.com.
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Parliament Funkadelic featuring George Clinton to play May 31 in Columbus
