Any good Funk Bands/Music to recommend?

[Mobius]

Any good Funk Bands/Music to recommend? Trying to dabble in playing some funk guitar, so need some inspiration Other than RHCP, which is funk rock, I don really noe much about any good funk bands.. So any to recommend?

 

[edgie]

Hi! Try to look for a james brown compilation album. He's got good funky rhythm guitar players.

 

[Panopticon-3]

try primus but that one more bass oriented....les claypool :twisted:

 

[tany]

tower of power? i'm also trying to learn some funk stuff

 

[popeye]

Johnny Guitar Watson

http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/Johnny Guitar Watson.html

 

[cold_static544]

any 80s stuff.

chic? steely dan?

kinda poppish tho.

 

[Taylorboy87]

for guitars, try tomo fujita... the parliament also some good ol'funk

 

[Kornrock]

try rage aginst the machine

 

[penta-tonic]

erm he did say funk band for a reason. RATM is not something id like to think of as funk.

 

[Guest]

level 42, spandau ballet

 

[superprog]

Parliament - Mothership Connection (this is the motherload!!)

Herbie Hancock - Headhunters (the album that invented jazz-funk)

Tortoise - Standards (postrock w/ healthy dollops of funky vibes)

Miles Davis - On The Corner (the most funked up fusion work of his)


go get seriously funked on these babies!!!!

no need for bloody RHCP.........

 

[AEnimic]

Primus...funkedelic slapping bitch,Les Claypool...

but they have their own genre...which is also called Primus...

but whatever...listen to John The Fisherman

 

[penta-tonic]

graham central station, the bassist larry graham was the supposed pioneer of the slap pop bass technique. a really good funk band.

 

[AgingYouth]

try rage aginst the machine

He's looking for funk guitarists. Morello's riffs are basically Black Sabbath's sludgish riffs with a Led Zep groove.

James Brown is still da bomb. His sessionists are amazing. "Sex Machine Part 2" and "Hot Pants"

Curtis Mayfield is amazing as a player and singer. Key songs: "Freddie's Dead", "Pusherman" and "Move On Up".

Issac Hayes played with the best. For some classic wah work-outs: "Theme from Shaft"

Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On?" and "Inner City Blues"

Something more modern.

Prince's 'Musicology' album is a return to form with slabs of funk lifting from the classics, your James Brown, Al Green, etc.

Maxwell works with Stuart Matthewman who is Sade's guitarist. Amazing player. His ideas are very interesting in the scope of modern R'n'B. If you are interested.

The Roots. Well, they are a live hip-hop band but then again, hip hop has roots in funk.

Have fun...