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George Clinton

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

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The First Funk Record From Anyone

We played MC5 and all of them. They called us the young punk brothers. We went to a real raw funk with simple lines, chants and extremely slow. When he started doing Pop, I got a brand new bag. That's when you start seeing bands pop up that imitate him. It was like we had two or three generations of styles,. The Jimin Ricks, the James Brown, the Motown, and Parliament Funkadelic at one time.

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