This is a period, when Clarke and Duke were paying homage and respect to Gorge Clinton's 70's P-Funk sound.
What a great honor to George Clinton, and Bootsy sound.
However some Funk Puritans was not too happy with it.
Back in the day, I heard people say, Stanley is trying hard to capture Bootsy's audience, and George Duke tried to do it before with Dukie Stick with mimicing Bootsy's stage voicing and phasing.
Dukie Stick was a Boosty Funk-like dance sound... Bootsy was known for terms like: Ahh this and Ahh that. George Duke did use some of this lazy-haziness phasing in his music like Bootsy. Honestly when I first heard Dukie Stick I thought it was Bootsy's jam... He could had fooled me...
What I believe is both Stanley/Duke is about all music. There's nothing taboo about Stanley/Duke jamming the funk. Bootsy was probably kicking back, smokin a J with his wonderful smile from ear to ear listening to Stanley's phasing and SPACE-BASS sounds.
Besides, everybody knows... there's only room for one George and Bootsy... I am sure Stanley and Duke knows it too.
It's all about their love for the Funk... I SAY: FUNK-ON!
(Message edited by toma_hawk01 on August 18, 2009)
