"You're so 'andsome, Marc." "Thanks, Ringo." "Like, really really 'andsome." "I appreciate that." "Can I touch yer face?" "I'd rather you didn't." "But I'm a Beatle." "Nevertheless I'd rath--" "I'm gonna touch it..." "Will someone go and get my wife, June, please...?"
"Anyway, that's where I found this hat. Same place Joe bought that ukulele." "It's a cuatro. Not a ukulele--" "It's a ukulele, Joe." "It's not a ukulele, Mick. It's a cuatro, from Venezuela." "It's not Venezuelan--" "It bloody well is Venezuelan. They use it in joropo, a sort of fandango music that originated in the plains, east of the Andes..." "I know what the man in the shop told you, but it's a ukulele. It's tuned GCEA. A cuatro's got reentrant tuning." "Never mind all that musical mumbo jumbo. I'll hit the last string... Hear that? It's a B..." "That's an A, Joe."
"I need to speak to everyone in Manowar. All four of you... It says here, 'He was met at the gates of Hades by the guardian of the lost souls--' So this is referring to the Bible verse...? In Matthew...?" "Um... I guess." "Well, is it or isn't it, Joey?" "Yeah, I mean, it is." "Then there is not someone guarding the gates. For they are metaphorical gates. You see, Peter is the rock upon which--" "Orson, can we just run it again--" "I can't read it until I understand what you mean." "Well--" "No one is guarding these gates. Why would they? Wouldn't the devil want you to enter easily?" "Hmmm...." "Moreover, down here it says, 'woeful tears of the unavenged.' Doesn't it go without saying that tears are woeful...? They're tears." "We could say sad tears...." "That's worse! That's just idiotic. Who is speaking now?" "I'm Donnie--" "Which one of you is Ross the Boss? There's too many bosses around here!"
I love Funkadelic. They’re one of my all-time favorite bands. I also love reggae. So I freaked out the first time I heard “Shockwaves,” Funkadelic's loving tribute to the Jamaican musical genre off their Electric Spanking of War Babies album. The album has a somewhat laid-back, jam-friendly feel for Funkadelic, featuring friends like Sly Stone and Cynthia Robinson, and is one of the band's stronger efforts.
Here’s Funkadelic performing "Shockwaves" live in Landover, Maryland, in 1981. It features Ron Dunbar on lead vocals—alternating between soulful-reggae crooner and spit-shouting preacher. Backing vocals are provided by the incomparable "diaper man" Garry Shider and a death-rattle-era Brides of Funkenstein. “The third world is on the one…. Right on the down beat…”
