Virtuoso rock star Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, leaving legions of guitarists – especially Black musicians like guitar phenom Eddie Hazel – wondering how to take up and extend his legacy.Īt the same time, R&B stars like Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and the Temptations were looking to break the straitjacket of their traditional approaches and experiment with new sounds.Īs Funkadelic made its early records, Clinton noticed white rock bands – and their audiences - were focused on blues artists his mother liked from years ago. And they emerged at a pivotal time in music. The Parliaments backing band evolved into a rock-edged group called Funkadelic. "He felt the people he met back then would literally give you the shirt off their backs." "He spoke about how it's the first time he met white people who were genuinely kind and genuinely nice," Reid recalls. Vernon Reid says Clinton once told him that the psychedelic era and Summer of Love were life-changing experiences. But we realized, right then, this is what it is that made them sound like that." "But we didn't have no instruments, so we borrowed the Vanilla Fudge's instruments. " Vanilla Fudge was one of the groups we went out with," Clinton says. But Clinton, who had enlisted a teenage Eddie Hazel to back the Parliaments on tour, was increasingly drawn to blending psychedelic rock sounds with funk grooves-especially when The Parliaments went on tour with hard rock bands.
The Parliaments were a Temptations-style singing group "Testify" was a typical midtempo groove about a man in love.
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