P funk mothership
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The P Funk Mothership, otherwise known as The Holy Mothership, is the awesome and arcane space vehicle of Dr. Funkenstein aka George Clinton and his stank agents of Supergroovallisticprosifunkstication. Powered by unknown means, presumably The Funk, the P Funk Mothership appeared over the Planet Earth many times during the second half of the Twentieth Century, and was even seen to physically land at a number of live music venues in the United States during the 1970s in order to disgorge its Funk to the people.
Venerated Landings Of The Holy Mothership
During their heydey in the 1970s, following the success of their platinum-selling album Mothership Connection, George Clinton's Parliament Funkadelic - the Funk Mob - engaged on a series of high profile, no-expenses-spared stadium tours around the United States, culminating in the famous P Funk Earth Tour. At these most outrageous of gigs, the much referenced Mothership was seen to land on stage amongst the band and before a baying and expectant crowd. The Mothership Brothership was summoned down by the liquid vocal tones of P Funk singer and guitarist Glenn Goins, and was represented in the form of a full-scale model complete with light and sound effects as well as awesome pyrotechnics. At this point in the show George Clinton would emerge from the Mothership in the form of Dr. Funkenstein, the "cool ghoul with the bomb transplant", in order to better funkatize the land.Well documented examples of the Mothership's landing during this period include:
- Oakland 1977. - Houston 1978.
Where Is The Mothership Now?
In recent years the Mothership has been seen less, because of the financial constraints placed upon the most modern incarnation of P Funk, the P Funk All Stars. It's landing is now only alluded to at live concerts, although it is still presumably the key means by which the band travels to its venues, and crossing the Atlantic for European shows.It has also been conjectured that an as yet unexplained source of cosmic interference blotted out a good deal of the energies of the Dog Star during the 1980s and 1990s. This key flow of interstellar Funk energy was therefore partially blocked as it radiated down toward the Earth, not only lowering the Planet's global Funkentelechy rating and increasing the instances of noxious jivations and unfunk by a factor of a hundred or more. This drop in world Funk levels could also have prevented the Mothership from visiting for a time, at least in a fully corporeal form, as it struggled to draw power from an increasingly unfunky world. Most often visitations were made in an energistic state, similar to the manifestation of ghosts and other supernatural beings.
However scientists from America's MIT and Europe's ESA have both observed a strong trend toward increasing world Funk levels since the end of the Twentieth Century, circa 1995, suggesting that the energies of the Dog Star are now once more penetrating to the Earth. We have already seen a strong upswing in the levels of worldwide stank, and several sightings of a wobbly fuzzy flying disk have been made over the airspace of several Western countries. Radar operators reported that their communication systems were rendered useless by the sound of loud, bass-heavy Funk swamping all channels... Has the Mothership returned?
See Also
External Links
- George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic (Band Website)[link]
- George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic (Myspace)[link]
- The Motherpage (Monumental P Funk Resource Site)[link]
- The P Funk Crew[link]
- Children Of Production (Myspace)[link]
- Children Of Production (Band Website)[link]
- Divadelic (Kendra Foster & Sativa Diva) -- [link]
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