https://www.mixonline.com/recording/classic-tracks-earth-wind-fires-shining-star-365478

Does anyone know anything more about the vocal production on Earth, Wind & Fire's - Shining Star? This article mentions the mic, but also that it was modded and combined with some other custom gear. Anyone know what that gear was based on or what the mods were? It's a great sound.

 

Man, can you just the brother have not have the "Y."

Even when he's trying to take less, some people just can't stand letting him have something that is just his. BTW, @blaqmatic is taking a very close to purist view of what FUNK (not funky) music is. As he said he's removed the Mu-tron and and Moog from the equation. He's not only excluding white people by the way, he's excluded a whole lot black, brown, red and whatever color you want to think of under sun, people. Shyeete, he's even put James Brown out, cause being funky doesn't make it FUNK.

Now this is art and some people might disagree ... and in art ... that's OK. What is happening here is the analogue of people in art gallery arguing about contemporary vs post contemporary painters and where is one to draw the line, or whether Hieronymus Bosch and Jan Steen should be counted as painters of the Dutch Golden Age, even-though stylistically they do not conform and tend to pre and post date that particular time span - but they are Dutch and they are great painters .... ?

Let the man give away the "Y" and just let it be. You can be as funky as you want, you can get down and boogie woogie till massa come home and who knows what the future will bring... After all I just spent 10 minutes searching Youtube for an "all back polka band," and come up with nothing outside of the the Washington Monument 2.0.

For some people FUNK and the FUNK movement was very close to religious movement. The same way the flower power hippie movement was. It was more exclusionary to a point, but some people got passes to cross the lines... Hendrix got one to Woodstock... and Micheal MacDonald (one of the whitest dudes on this planet - hair / beard / even his eyes are almost white) has had his Black Platinum Black VIP Card for as far back as I can remember.

So if to him FUNK is about that religious experience, why do some people want to turn it into something ugly. Why can't some of you just let it go, and be like, good on you old man, you lived through some shit - glad there was something beautiful in it.

Maybe the next argument we should spark up after this - is can you have Christian Pak-Alaoui Suffi Muisc?

 

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@dbmuzik, yes sir! Like your expression definition.

@midi-man you are alright by me! Lol. Btw, the “Black” card is really an unspoken thing. You will just know it. It will be felt.

@taskforce...we are kindred spirits. I really appreciate your words and thoughts. Respect you much!

Now let’s address the ugliness that is showing up here now...
@Lambchop...you really need to find another thread to troll.
@Rasputin...you also need to find another thread to troll...

@mozee I feel ya man!

This thread isn’t about hate so don’t make it so, it’s about “Freeing up your mind so your Ass can follow”. (If you couldn’t relate to what I just quoted then you really don’t know Funk!) It’s about more than you thinking you can just simplify music and take away the culture that spawned it. Yes, no one ever likes talking about negative experiences that played in a mix of a good and creative part of music via an American society. But you will never be able to detach that. This dialog began and is necessary and a part of that music and time as to help some “feel” where it was coming from so you know how to discern fake Funk music from the real deal, that’s all! But so many either don’t know or refuse to acknowledge the how’s and why’s in it as well. So if you don’t care about this subject why are you here? Such is why the state of the world is as it is today. If we overlook not to correct (which is commonplace) we stay a world in chaos.

As a “Black” person we tend to “feel” more about everything. Perhaps it is our way of after many years of racism and “feeling” that nonsense that we hold on to that one last thing that is humanity to us. A “Feel”, as we say in music. Quincy Jones said it best when he said: “Music is Emotion “. Gospel music which is the Foundation of ALL Black music whether it is excepted by the rest of the world or not Technically would be the foundation of funk if you want to be truly correct. Now maybe from a different cultures view you can’t accept my “blackness”. Maybe you think you can run from the horrible things associated with racism. Maybe like a great deal of “White” Americans you want to hide from and bury the truth. No problem. Lucky for you this thread truly was meant to be about the Funk! Not about Funky or about Racism! Just about the music which I love and live and breathe it to this day.

No matter what a troll wants to spew out of its nasty mouth.

To the musicians here that love Da Funk, I respect you. To the musicians that don’t but just love playing a positive role in music, I respect you too.

We don’t have to agree as long as we respect one and another. ✌

 

Not about racism, yet somehow you're allowed to have more emotion than those straight-laced vanilla whites that have never had a care in the world, right?

You admitted in your very first post that you were injecting race into the issue and that it was contentious, so whom is more likely to be trolling here?

 

90% certain you're some Stormfront/SA kid flying a false flag & giggling as you type. Have a funny

 

I tend to ignore the ignorant. So this is my last response to you on race.

Being black which is what I was stating is and will always be a part of the equation of Funk music. It is a part of that ingredient of that formula every time you think funky or Funk whether you realize it or not. It is in its purest form a “Black” thing that some in this world love. It in not meant to be used as an instrument of hate by you. Just because you want to make it a hate or racism debate doesn’t make it so.

Now please refrain from doing so.

@Lambchop ...I get paid to ignore people like you! Lol.

 

I don't get why people feel the need to turn this into some racism thing.

We all gonna die at some point... and if there's a hell bellow, we all gonna go.

We are mortal - funk proof of that - Even GC is old 76 or 77 now!!!!

OLD GC.

Now GC

Man didn't sit down for 3 hours, now the man can't stand up for 4 minutes. Still got that sound though, no autotune bullshit or any of that.

Am going to let that stand on its own... nothing left to say on this subject.

 

What is Funk:

James Brown is the Godfather to me.. But many prototype records is out there!

 

I guess you don't realize how absurd it would be to say something like "whiteness is inherent in writing industrial music."

Now if you want to argue that the origin of funk stems from the social climate and cultural forces of being an African-American (especially of a particular era) then that's something entirely different than some dubious and undefined element of "blackness", whatever that means.

You are the one that injected the notion of race privilege and exclusivity from your very first post, and not just as a historical trend, but the notion of some inherent status.

 

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If your Stormfront handlers see this, I'm guessing not for long :\

 

Shining Star is a masterpiece: here you have the stems:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AmingGnqHQF_ggt0Fo9IY2iW2AN0

 

Mr James Brown. The One.

 

Yeah, we all get old at some point. Me, I’m still 25. Lol.

 

Lol. I am 16. Thanks for the black Card. Here.

On a very serious note I really miss Obama. What a decent person he was.
Did you ever read what he told Trump as advise when he left office.

 

IMO this is not remotely funk or even funky . . . thats some shit dialed up to sell me cellphones and diet sodas. boo.

 

You're very welcome. Again, it's just a unspoken thing. But you my friend are Kool.

Obama was a Great President and is a Great Person. I miss him much as well.

Yes, I know them well. But Trump ignored that as some others have ignored my words and just focused on the Race of things. As if we all aren't from some ethnicity.

I'm ready to move on. Ya can't please them all! LOL.

 

Wasn't funk, but...

Thank you for sharing that song! I really enjoyed that. Do that thang Fudsey!

Man, I just love music with good lyrical content and a strong melody. And that beat over the intro is contagious. The rest of the hooks kinda remind me of a MJ song...

But, Don't put the Blame on me! lol.

 

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For the Haters! Some new(90's) FUNK for your Arse! After all, this would be like the passing some 80's funk on. Still waiting on it for the 2000's.

 

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I stand remiss, for the 2000's I guess I should give mention to one of the baddest bands in the land that are Unsung heroes for R&B, But they Dang sure were always Funky with deep Funk roots!