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Grey Cooper - Guitar & Vocals
Jim 'The Pocket' Priestley - Drums
Lucian 'The Colonel' O'Neill - Bass
JRT - Keyboards
Tim 'Hitman' Brain - Percussion
Simon 'Too Funky' James - Trumpet & Trombone
Dave 'Dr. Sax' Roberts - Tenor Sax
Jon 'The Power' Dyson - Baritone Sax
Penny Millen - Support vocals & Alto Sax
Wookie - Tenor Sax
The Stick - International Voodoo
Influences
Roots Funk & Blues: Emmett North Jnr - My Main Man guitar teacher from Dayton, Ohio.. I met this brother when he was hot off a world tour with Barry White and appearing on Top of The Pops with a chart act. Virtually all the chords, shapes, voicings, vamps and riffs I use in all my playing, I got from Emmett North Jnr. He gave me the inside out on the sweetest jazz, funk and grooves this side of George Benson and Earl Klugh. This guy showed me how to play cool, feel cool and look cool all at the same time. The brother was born doing it effortlessly and he still does to this day. Me? I had to practise real hard. You cats hear me whacking those Funk chops out, dancing through the 4 string voicings and sneaking a lil' blues in - and wonder why I'm the only guy in town who can do that shit? I'll tell you. My Main Man guitar teacher was Emmett North Jnr - that's why. Check him out.
James Brown, Fred Wesley, Maceo Parker, Kool & The Gang, Jimmy Smith, Sam Cooke, Lonnie Smith, Grant Green, Howlin Wolf, Albert King, Elmore James, Booker T. & The MGs
FORGED FROM THE SHEFFIELD CULTURAL FURNACE, GREY COOPER LOVE PARTY ARE A 9 PIECE FUNK EXPLOSION. HEROICALLY FLYING THE FLAG FOR FUNK MUSIC, THE BAND HAVE RAPIDLY FORMED A NEW BOHEMIAN FRONTLINE IN THEIR HOMETOWN.
STRUTTING A SET OF ORIGINAL, HARD HITTING FUNK GROOVES, THEY ARE THE UNDISPUTED CREATORS AND LEADERS OF THE SHEFFIELD FUNK SCENE.
WITH DYNAMITE CALL AND RESPONSE VOCAL CHANTS, HOT HORN SECTION RIFFING AND A HIP THRUSTING RHYTHM SECTION, LOVE PARTY EFFORTLESSLY FUSE WELL CRAFTED SONGS AND CATCHY HOOKS, WITHIN AN ELECTRIFYING STAGE SHOW.
A UNIQUE SOUND, GROOVE AND VISUAL EXPERIENCE, SETTING DANCE FLOORS AFLAME EVERYWHERE.
GREY COOPER SAYS 'FUNK MUSIC IS REVOLUTION'
IF THAT IS THE CASE THEN GREY COOPER LOVE PARTY ARE AT THE VANGUARD AND ADVANCING FAST ON A TOWN NEAR YOU.
Brand New Funk – A message From Grey
Funk Music is revolution and the core test of any revolution is how well it manages change and how well it works with the brothers and sisters within it. Most importantly, a revolution is about creating something new. So we created a Brand New Funk and I re-wrote the liturgy to go with it. You dig that? STOP PRESS STOP PRESS COMING SOON:
FOUR SENSATIONAL REMIXES! JACKIN' IN CHICAGO, NEW YORK DISCO DUB, BERLIN TECHNO HI-LIFE, PHILADELPHIA MFSB DUB COMING SOON:
STOP PRESS STOP PRESS: LOVE PARTY NOW RECRUITING FOR FEMALE VOCALIST SEND MESSAGE FOR AUDITION: STOP PRESS STOP PRESS
Hi There! Thanks for the online friendship & support.
We are proud to announce that we are HEADLINING the Cream Insturment Cable Stage at the Lesser Muni as part of the 2009 Great British R&B Festival in Colne, Lancashire, UK on Monday August 31st. The Charlie White Project and Sheffield’s blues poet Mr Billy Martin Jnr are also appearing. Expect great music and utterly immaculate sound quality using cutting edge PA cables and power amps. Ticket details are available at www.bluesfestival.co.uk. Doors open at 7.30pm and we will be onstage at 10.15pm.
Our new album “A Time and Place” is available directly from www.robinhoare.com via Pay Pal and from good record stores.
Thanks for the heads-up! Although I have to say the date was already marked in my calendar! Looking forward to it. Am going to see if I can get the whole crew together again for it too (not always easy)!
We've a new single out NOW through Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporationl. It's a split 7" single featuring our song "Dancing". The single also features fellow SPC band Slow Down Tallahassee.
We've have some great reviews for it & radio play on XFM and 6Music.
You can order the 7" single (or buy the digital download now) from Thee SPC website at www.theespc.com or from our profile.
If you buy the 7" vinyl, you get a special code to access the digital download for free.
Ableton & Novation Open Day @ Sheffield College Of Music
Just letting you know that sheffield college of music is having a demonstration day by Ableton & Novation. All are welcome to this event on Friday the 1st of may. Please book if you are interested as places are limited. For further details please visit ; http://www.scmuk.com/index.php?id=111
hey sexy badger it's jimmy the fingers... i've got a tune out called grace you can buy it on itunes and a whole host of others including beatport and amazon... check out the video to get you in the mood.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRLv_KkkKiQ it's all on me profile have a gander! love and squidgy kisses jimmy the fingers xxx
Class stuff GCLP !!!!
<br />Cheers for being one of our new mates!
<br />Hope you dig the trax ;)
<br />All the best
<br />JT
<br />Smoove & Turrell
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Now that you're a friend of Cincy Music on MySpace, we'd like to invite you to BECOME A MEMBER of Cincy Music, if you haven't already, at our NEW website : http://cincymusic.ning.com/
hope you are all cool....and we are lookin forward to another dose of that heavyweight grey cooper funk too! it will be another beautiful thing.... keep your groove on til then.... the soul food cafe
Just thought we'd let you know about a gig we're doing which might (lump in throat) be our last. For a number of reasons we're calling it a day after October, at least for a while.
So Saturday the 18th of October is going to be pretty special.
We've got the big Live Room at Plug in Sheffield for the night, and pressganged almost everybody who has ever played with us over the years to join us for an Uber-Gig of Justice.
We're playing from 8 till 10:30 with a bit of a break in the middle. Then we've got the Earth Bar for more dancing and a nice chilled out after-party till 3.
It's £6 in advance from Plug Box Office on rockingham Gate (tel 0114 2413040), Jack's Records on Division Street and online at http://www.the-plug.com/tickets. And this one’s open to anyone over 14 too!
We're going to blast through into a better, oranger dimension. Please join us.
Would you like to get a FREE SONG from the NuGroove Records 2008 Sampler?! Of course you do! Just go to nugroove.songforfree.net to participate in this wonderful offer!
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