Funkadelic - Funkadelic (Vinyle violet)
Bass, Vocals – Bill Nelson
Drums, Vocals – Tiki Fulwood
Guitar – Tawl Ross
Lead Guitar, Vocals – Ed Hazel
Organ – Mickey Atkins
1 LP, Standard Sleeve
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : purple
Speed : 33RPM
Size : 12”
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : Furnace
Label : ORG Music
Original Label : Westbound Records
Recorded 1968–69 at Tera Shirma Sound Studios, Detroit, Michigan
Engineered by Bryan Dombrowski, Ed Wolfrum, Milan Bogden, Russ Terrana
Produced by George Clinton
Mastered by Dave Gardner
Lacquer cut by Dave Gardner, Phillip S. Rodriguez
Originally released in 1970
Reissued in 2025
Tracks:
Side A
- Mommy, What's A Funkadelic?
- I Bet You
- Music For My Mother
- Got A Thing, You Got A Thing, Everybody's Got A Thing
Side B
- Good Old Music
- Qualify & Satisfy
- What Is Soul
Reviews :
« Funkadelic's self-titled 1970 debut is one of the group's best early- to mid-'70s albums. Not only is it laden with great songs -- "I'll Bet You" and "I Got a Thing..." are obvious highlights -- but it retains perhaps a greater sense of classic '60s soul and R&B than any successive George Clinton-affiliated album. Recording for the Detroit-based Westbound label, at the time Funkadelic were in the same boat as psychedelic soul groups such as the Temptations, who had just recorded their landmark Cloud Nine album across town at Motown, and other similar groups. Yet no group had managed to effectively balance big, gnarly rock guitars with crooning, heartfelt soul at this point in time quite like Funkadelic. Clinton's songs are essentially conventional soul songs in the spirit of Motown or Stax -- steady rhythms, dense arrangements, choruses of vocals -- but with a loud, overdriven, fuzzy guitar lurking high in the mix. And when Clinton's songs went into their chaotic moments of jamming, there was no mistaking the Hendrix influence. Furthermore, Clinton's half-quirky, half-trippy ad libs during "Mommy, What's a Funkadelic?" and "What Is Soul" can be mistaken for no one else -- they're pure-cut P-Funk. Successive albums portray Funkadelic drifting further toward rock, funk, and eventually disco, especially once Bernie Worrell began playing a larger role in the group. Never again would the band be this attuned to its '60s roots, making self-titled release a revealing and unique record that's certainly not short on significance, clearly marking the crossroads between '60s soul and '70s funk. » AllMusic Review by Jason Birchmeier
Ratings :
AllMusic : 4,5 / 5 , Discogs : 4,69 / 5