Legend has it that George Clinton, then a semi-employed songwriter and member
of an unsuccessful vocal group called the Parliaments, copped his first hit of
LSD from some Harvard students in Cambridge. Funk has never been the same. The
current incarnation of Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic mob includes many
who have been with him since the mid '70s -- and they play as if they
remembered the Mother Ship. "The bigger the headache, the bigger the pill,"
Clinton once sang, a prescription that tells us a visit from P-Funk is just
what the doctor ordered this September 11, when the group hit Toad's Place
(203-562-5589) in New Haven. Next Thursday, September 12, they're at the Roxy
(617-931-2000) in Boston. |