Some Punk Funk.

 

 


Is punk racist?

 

Yes?  Most especially in it's spruced up "New Wave" manifestation. Are you kidding?

 

Look at some group names,  Blondie ... Hello? 

 

Another ... The Police ... Hi hi hi ???  

 

Lest there be doubt, "The Police" were hardly "Four Non-Blondes."

 

They were, believe me, three.

 

And trust me, they were blond. 

 

The main thing, they shop-lifted black music (Funk, beaty, meaty, funky.  Funky "funk," and dressed it "in white face."

 

Not that that was anything new.   Paul Whiteman, anybody?  The "business man's bounce"?

 

There were the Count and the Duke, okay, but who was the "King"?

 

And who was the king not of swing but of ... "Rock and Roll"?

 

Elvis Lives Matter  ... ELM ... ECM ... for that matter, Eberhard Weber.

 

And a German Machine-music Band ... Kraftwerk.  Literally robots as musicians, and funk-yyyy ... it was, undeniably.

 

So a binary arises, which be better?

 

Which is better?  Punk or Funk?

 

You tell me:

 

 

                                                  The Chief!

 

He might not be the King ... but he is ... the Chief!

... 

 

Also see ... "Sly" Stone ... and maybe ... this guy: 

 

Excuse me, Little Wing, while I kiss this guy ...  

 

                                                         Herbie Hancock 
 

  Punk or Funk?

 

A conception taken from here:

 

 


... New Wave at once smoothed over and commercialized the crude resentful punk over-heatingly wasteful "energy," it at the same time bleached it out.

 

Duran Duran might not have been explicitly blond or even beastly except in a friendly humane-society tail wagging way, but they were, the "second British Invasion" an invasion not only from Britain, but from the England part of the U.K. And from the Echt-Englisch portion of England.

 

Yes had previously been from here, and though "Owners of a Lonely Heart" were sui generisly not New Wave, and certainly not amateurishly vaguely "punk."

 

A very disco discovery. 

 

A word about "disco," "disco sucks" was a self-righteous, very like today's anti-female "women" in name only WINOs of wearily warring on "shit stain" social justice Xena Warrior "dolls" and their "them" saying doomer days "allies."

 

Saying "disco sucks" is racist in the same manner (that) Pat Metheny's mechanical stylings and opinions on Kenny G. are at deepest root, antisemitic. 

 

He's one (human) sweet potato (only haters call 'em "taters.") 

 

Which brings us to Jeff Lorber.

 

Jeff Lorber is to Kenny G. what Sonic Youth were to Nirvana.

 

And Jeff Lorber however smooth and shiny he became superficially was as funky as Herbie. 

 

Enough said. 

 

 

 

 

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