close encounter with the famous.....

I went up to ClearLake for a Parliament-Funkadelic / P.Funk All-Stars concert a few years ago...was eating a burger in the Konachti restaurant, when i looked outside, there was an old Ford Pinto double parking, out pops Dr.Funkenstein a.k.a. George Clinton. I immediately jumped up and out to greet him. Upon returning to my burger, my wife says,"i looked up to tell you who I saw out there, but you were already up his ass!"

for those who don't know WHAT the FUNK is?  a small sample of many!

an old Ford Pinto double parking, out pops Dr.Funkenstein a.k.a. George Clinton

I know what an old Pinto is 'cuz I had one. But a Dr Funkenstein????  I must be getting old.....ugh.

Al

I used to own a pizza parlor, and Kenny Roberts,Wayne Rainey, Kevin Schwantz,  Bubba Shobert, John Kocinski and Jimmy Filice ,would come in for lunch once and a while after riding dirt bikes, at Kennys ranch.

Badog65

Heard the name Kenny Roberts around the house growing up but don't remember ever meeting him. Funny how so many great motorcycle riders came from our local.

-Brian G

I took CHUB to see G. Clinton at thr Raddison when he was 10. He loved it as did I!!! You go Atomic Dog!!!

I went up to ClearLake for a Parliament-Funkadelic / P.Funk All-Stars concert a few years ago...was eating a burger in the Konachti restaurant, when i looked outside, there was an old Ford Pinto double parking, out pops Dr.Funkenstein a.k.a. George Clinton. I immediately jumped up and out to greet him. Upon returning to my burger, my wife says,"i looked up to tell you who I saw out there, but you were already up his ass!"

for those who don't know WHAT the FUNK is?  a small sample of many!

an old Ford Pinto double parking, out pops Dr.Funkenstein a.k.a. George Clinton

I know what an old Pinto is 'cuz I had one. But a Dr Funkenstein????  I must be getting old.....ugh.

Al

  It is old Al!...... from the Pinto Heydays!  the70's

~Tote* your a good father!   

HISTORY in FUNKOLOGY...He stole the horn section from James Brown aka "theHornyHorns" then when JB found new young bass player named Bootsy Collins, he stole him too.
Put together 2 bands, same members, different style of music.
*Parliament = Funky, HornDriven     
*Funkadelic = BlackAcidRock, HeavyGuitar and such.

another sample, just for the uninformed!


this one is long, but well worth it!  @1:30 the solo begins.

Bootsy Collins..LOL...no one where I grew up knew who he was except me. Even had the perforated pop out glasses from his album cover. FishHunter knows what I'm talkin' about.
I needed a poem in English in a pinch in high school so I used some of his lyrics..Like I said, No one knew who he was..esp my Engish teacher!
A smile of joy, a tear of laughter, as in happy...blah blah blah..That's all I remember. I do remember I got an A on it...
Always been down wit da funk!!!!

I got some real ones....ordered them from his site! 
and here is that song!  .....I never knew of your interplanetary-funksmanship?


SpaceBassInnovator~Bootzilla!

Adam~

It says video no longer available.
I remembered the beginning of those lyrics and corrected my post. Shame on me.

Adam~

It says video no longer available.
I remembered the beginning of those lyrics and corrected my post. Shame on me.

Tote~ I tried to load it again,but no good!  you came check it on YouTube if so desired....the other ones play?

good ol' days when music was made with instruments
Keepin the Funk Alive! 

Dennis Eckersley- asst. baseball coach
Brian Giles- bar patron
the late Terence Kiel- restaurant patron
Deion Sanders- Newpark mall
Joe Morgan- elevator at Chavez Ravine
MC Hammer- record store
Too Short- BBQ at park
Kristi Yamaguchi- road confrontation

thats all i got.
all before digital cameras!

Sold a car stereo to the kid that played "Eddie" in "Eddie's Father"

Met Skip Spence on Haight street in 1980 and once before in the dressing room at Union high School in Union NJ in 1967.  Spence was psychotic by 1980, but remembered our first meeting perfectly.  (Moby Grape, for you yungins)

Wow...Bootsy!??  Wind me up!!! Great thread!

I also met Coach Seifert at Cope and Mcpheter's old fishing store years ago.  He was fishing for Stripers on his Grady in bay at one time. Nice guy.  My son also played baseball with Steve Mariuchi's son.  I had a brief chat with Steve in the snack shack line.  He used to live in Saratoga.

I talked to Fred Balitnakov, Jim Otto and forgot the other Raider at a Burger stand in Sac after a shad fishing trip in the 70's. That was cool!!  Saw Martina Navratilova (the tennis player) at an airport and saw Ziyi Zhang during the filming of Memoirs of a Geisha at Hakone Gardens in Saratoga.  My wife is on the board there so we got to watch them film it!

I just missed Harrison Ford and Clarrisa in Belize last year on a bonefishing trip. They were at a restaurant they just ate at.

Dave

Dr. Milton Love was my undergrad thesis advisor

I walked past John Malkovitch at the Cabrillo art fair in Santa Barbara.
Rented kayaks to Lee Moyer (kayak designer, Pacific Watersports) in Alaska.
Hung out with sci fi fantasy author E.K. Knight in Costa Rica.

Recently became a one-day honorary member of the H.A.C. at Bean Hollow (For a caucasian cali boy this is like getting inducted into the Yanomano tribe in South America). I'm just lucky they didn't make me eat fried chicken feet.

I met Hugh Hefner's attorney in LA couple years ago.     No bunny pics with that report