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Funk Connection

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Member Since9/19/2007
Band Websitehttp://www.funkconnection.co.uk
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Karan Raitt
I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits. One of the most valuable lessons I've learned is that wearing spanx can cause yer breeks to fa doon.

Lisa Paterson
I wound up using the TC-Helicon VoicePrismPlus on three songs. One was a funk song and I wanted a Vocoder effect that lowered my voice an octave. It worked incredibly.

Dave McIntosh
The message can be whatever pops into your head. The message is universal. Funk is a feel. It's a feeling. A situation.

Willie Milne
Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.

Andy Davie
If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.

Niall Scott
But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.

Mike Ferrie
I had this idea for a while to mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do that in many different ways.

Gillian Leiper
Most teachers waste their time by asking questions which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what the pupil knows or is capable of knowing.

Stewart Smith
And I try and accept all kind of music, and I love ballads, funk, soul, jazz, even calypso music I enjoy sometimes.

Gareth Kerr
But that kind of falls in line; when you think about it, James Brown was a funk minimalist. All of those parts create a sum that's larger than the individual parts.

Gerry Dawson
He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music.

Influences

A power affecting a person, thing, or course of events, especially one that operates without any direct or apparent effort....

or put more simply.....

funkee stuff ....

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nice

Sounds LikeBaxters Funk Soup
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We have a couple of gigs coming up in March and May. See details above.

We're also appearing at the Party on the Pier on 13th June on the picturesque quayside outside the Harbour Bar, Gourdon. There's no entry fee and the music is guaranteed to be excellent with local bands Radar and The Residents also appearing.

In band news: Gillian and Dave are feeling very special after playing a succesful spot with Sandi Thom at the Caird Hall in Dundee last month..... Mike has struck up a "fabulous" relationship with our biggest fan, Zak McCaulk. Both were recently spotted shopping for succulents in Dobbies garden centre. Watch this space for developments....... Willie has left us as apparently he's had to go and live in America because of his work!!?? We welcome with open arms his extremely able replacement, Joe Leonard. Joe's tounging technique is legendary around southern parts.....The rest of the band have been lying low because they're a bit tired after Christmas and it's quite cold...

Check out our main website which Andy has recently updated http://www.funkconnection.co.uk. You can download some of our tunes there if you like. Any bum notes or dodgy singing has been deliberately included to avoid copyright violations.

If you've ever thought to yourself; 'What is funk and why is it funky?', take a look at the funkiest man ever to wear a bacofoil cat suit.

Funk Connection are an amalgamation of funkateers from various bands across the North East of Scotland.

"The Afronauts", "The Pearsons", "Spoil the Dog", "Dougie's Bedroom" and "Kevin and Lisa at the Bankhead Inn"are the main sources of talent for this band.

The band's set includes classic songs from the likes of James Brown, Sister Sledge, Tower of Power, Edwin Starr, Kool and the Gang, The Jackson 5 and many more.


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Zak McCaulk





May 5 2008 1:55 PM

Phwoooaar - See that singer - I bet he's got a great on-line personality.
Davy Sparkle





Sep 28 2007 11:03 AM

Hey Funkers, you all look so groovy. Your bass player is such a cool guy!!!
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