The case centered on N.W.A.’s song “100 Miles and Runnin’” and Funkadelic's “Get Off Your Ass and Jam.” Essentially, N.W.A. sampled a two-second guitar chord from Funkadelic's tune, lowered the pitch and looped it five times in their song.
As early as 1989, Dr. Dre's production was styled around fewer samples per track, studio instrumentation, and heavy sampling from artists – Parliament-Funkadelic most notably in Dre's case – who were amenable to having their music sampled by hip hop producers.
Bernie Worrell (born 1944), keyboardist and composer known primarily for his keyboard and production work with Parliament and Funkadelic.
The group's costuming and style changed as well, becoming even more unusual and Funkadelic-influenced.
The rest of the song is jams of various Funkadelic or Parliament songs, such as "Cosmic Slop" and "Cholly (Funk Getting Ready to Roll!)", as well as John Frusciante's "Untitled #2".
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This was all done without Funkadelic's permission and with no compensation paid to Bridgeport Music, which claims to own the rights to Funkadelic's music.
Cosmic Slop is the first Funkadelic album to feature artwork and liner notes by Pedro Bell, who assumed responsibility for the band's gate-fold album covers and liner notes until the band's collapse after 1981's The Electric Spanking of War Babies.
Doonie Baby, Big Lurch, and Rick Rock met at Slop Shop Studios in the San Francisco Bay area and formed Cosmic Slop Shop, condensing the studio's name with Cosmic Slop, the 1973 album by Funkadelic.
A personal management company, Available Entertainment went on to represent George Clinton, Parliament/Funkadelic, Brian Auger, Living Colour, Vanilla Fudge, Cactus, Iranian singer, writer, performer Sussan Deyhim.
The earliest use of sine wave synthesizers and Parliament-Funkadelic-style bass grooves in Dr. Dre's work appeared on N.W.A's single "Alwayz into Somethin'" from their 1991 album Efil4zaggin.
He was a prominent contributor to albums by both Parliament and Funkadelic until the dissolution of those two bands in the early 1980s, after which he continued to work regularly with Clinton's P-Funk All-Stars.
Heavy Metal Funkason is the first full-fledged solo album by Parliament-Funkadelic guitarist Michael Hampton.
Their unique contributions to Funkadelic's sound can be heard on that band's 1972 release, America Eats Its Young.
With the help of veteran soul producer Rena Sinakin, Michael Chance recorded early song demos with such laudable talents as Robert Martin (Orleans, Frank Zappa, Etta James), Wayne "Tex" Gabriel (of John Lennon and Elephant's Memory), Steve "Muruga" Booker (of the Parliament-Funkadelic), Steve Wise (Stevie Wonder's protégé), and Bruce Hawes, a pioneer of The Sound of Philadelphia.
Most of the songs were influenced and sampled from funk artists such as Marvin Gaye, Parliament, and Funkadelic, but one track in particular was influenced by other genres, "Beautiful But Deadly", a rock-hip hop track, influenced by Run-D.M.C. with a heavy guitar riff throughout the song (it borrows from Funkadelic's Cosmic Slop).
Warner Brothers Music censored Bell’s initial artwork for Funkadelic’s 1981 album The Electric Spanking of War Babies.
Notable national performers (on the B and C stages located in the parking lot south of the stadium) included Sister Hazel, John Ondrasik of Five for Fighting, George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic, Tonic, The Charlie Daniels Band, STS9, Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers, as well as guitar greats Eric Johnson and Buddy Guy.
Additionally, Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrell (of Parliament-Funkadelic), both also featured on the debut album, return for one lengthy track each: "Deathstar" includes Collins' "free-form bass explorations" and "Crossing" features Worrell's "psychedelic improvisation on a distorted Hammond organ".
Lucius "Tawl" Ross (born October 5, 1948, in Wagram, North Carolina) was the rhythm guitarist for Funkadelic from 1968 to 1971 and played on their first three albums.
Several songs from the early repertoire of the Parliaments would be re-recorded on future Parliament and Funkadelic albums, including "Testify," "The Goose," "All Your Goodies Are Gone," "Fantasy Is Reality," "Good Ole Music," "I Can Feel The Ice Melting," "What You Been Growing," "I'll Wait," and "That Was My Girl."