Welcome to the Motherpage!

Here you will find information on Parliament, Funkadelic, George Clinton, the P.Funk All-Stars, Bootsy Collins . . .more than enough info to start gettin' funked up!

DISCLAIMER

Please note that this information is provided soley for pleasure and the greater knowledge of Funkateers everywhere. It is not intended for profit, only for use as a reference. Reproduction is allowable with permission by the administrator (Rob Clough), but not reproduction for the purpose of profit. Feel free to distribute to your local record supplier, your congressman, your DJ, your radio station, your milkman, or anyone else who can spread the funk or needs it spread to them. Anyone making a contribution will be credited. Live free and wax funky.

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The P-FAQ: got questions about the Funk Mob? This is the place to go. A general guide to the world of Parliament-Funkadelic and other information.
The P.Funk Discography: a complete listing of U.S. and international releases, detailed information on specific albums, lyrics, Funk Mob members' work before P.Funk, and more.
The P.Funk Samples List: P.Funk is likely more heavily sampled than anyone else in the business. Who's sampling what? Look here. (extremely incomplete)
The P.Funk Bibliography: a list of books, articles, concert reviews, etc. that talk about P.Funk, a lot or a little.
P.Funk Cover Art: details on the work of Pedro Bell, Overton Loyd, and Stozo . . .both their work on P.Funk covers, and their non-P.Funk work.
P.Funk Covers. Who's recorded covers of P.Funk songs? Here's a list.
P.Funk Session Work. What have Funk Mob members done in their spare time? Here's info on the P.Funk presence on other artists' albums as session musicians, special guests, etc.
P.Funk Images: album covers, pictures, comic books, and such.
P.Funk Biographical Sketches. We're just starting on this one, but the plan is to make available short bios on various members of the Funk Mob.
Funky Links: The gateway to more information about P-Funk, and the Funk in general.

Information About The Motherpage

The Motherpage is an ongoing effort by a lot of people to make information about P-Funk and related projects available to the funkateers. Click here to learn about what's been added recently, and what we hope to add soon.

Many people have put in a lot of time, effort, and other expense to make the Motherpage what it is. Here's a list of folks who've contributed to the Motherpage in some way.

Would you like to help? We'd like your help. Click here for some information on how you can contribute.

Construction Update

The Motherpage will probably always be under construction, as we add more information and think of new things to do. But here, we'll let you know what we've done recently, and what we think we'll be doing in the future.

June 27, 1997: More touch-up changes:

Several new links added.

April 12, 1997: Some touch-up changes have been made recently:

The Productions and Solo sections of the discography have been formatted like the other sections of the discography. References to albums in these sections (either in other album descriptions, or in the P-FAQ, now are links to the appropriate album descriptions.
Some new album covers have been added.
The links page has been updated with some interesting sites.
The top page to the in-progress biography section has been installed. Although there's no information there at present, this will give you an idea of what we have in mind.

Updates to come:

Switching from fixed-width font to proportional-width font for most of the Parliament lyrics.
A prettier interface for the graphics we have available.
The singles and samples lists HTML-ized; and links from songs in track listings to the singles and samples lists.
The rest of the album covers and lyrics (subject to our ability to get them!).

Updates not to come: Once again, don't expect to see lots of inline images, frames, funky backgrounds on your browser, etc. While these look really cool, they also make the pages take a long time to appear in your browser, and we want everyone (even those with slow net access) to be able to find the funk. We do, however, want to make images available to people who want to see them . . .so there'll soon be a collection of images available.

How Can You Help?

We're always looking for more information. For instance, there are lots of graphics we don't have. On an even higher priority, there are many albums for which we don't have lyrics or album covers or both. If you can take the time to transcribe lyrics for an album we don't have lyrics for, you'd be making a big contribution to the Motherpage. If you have images of album covers, or can produce them, that's a big help too. And we have the biography project coming up - if you have information about members or affiliates of the Funk Mob that'd be relevant for our brief bios, we'd really love to have it.

If you have something to contribute, or see a content error, write Rob Clough, the Administrator of the Motherpage, at tmc@acpub.duke.edu, or just click here.

If something is broken -- a link which doesn't work, a file which seems to be missing, whatever -- write Chris Metzler at metzler@denali.fnal.gov, or just click here. Please provide as much detail as you can about where and how the problem occurs, so it can be fixed as easily as possible. Thanks!

Key to Contributors:

(Executive Staff, Funk-A-Tech, Inc.)

Guide Administrator:
(Maggotrivia Maven and Fearless Funky Fact Finder)
RC = Rob Clough (tmc@acpub.duke.edu)

Co-Administrator Emeritus:
(Ingenious Innovator and Tireless Tinkerer)
MM = Matt McClellan

Technical Advisors:
(Funky Science Officers)
EA = Eric "DJ EJ" Akawie (World Wide Web source)
MI = Michael "MC MG" Grubb (FTP info provider)
CM = Chris Metzler (HTML formatting, organization, album covers)

Other Contributors:
(Funkateers Deluxe)
PJ = Peter Jebsen (mucho info on singles, catalog #'s, and much more. This discography has been combined with his old one.) Check out the New Funk Times web page!
GZ = George Zipperlen (provided original template for discog and reviews)
JB = Jon Brode (advice, suggestions, and **much** missing info)
MW = Melissa Weber (tons! of missing info/additions for every section). Check out the WWOZ web page!
MG = Maria Granditsky (lots! of obscure project info, tons o' track listings). Check out out Miss Funkyflyy's web page!
MT = Mike Theiss (reviews, suggestions, track info, singles info, much more)
TK = Tim Kinley (assorted additions in every section)
EF = Edward Friedman (most of the bibliography info)
CR = Chris Richards (valuable P.Funk session info)
AR = Anthony Rucker (much! valuable album info, lyrics)
DF = Dan Fefer (much samples info, cover version info, album info, reviews)
JS = Jeff Spirer (lots! of detailed session work info). Check out the Axiom web page!
CK = Charles Kupperman (lots of album info, videos info, covers info)
JC = Jason Chervokas (lots of obscure info, track listings, lyrics)
ST = Sean Terwilliger (much album info)
MV = Mike Veal (reviews)
LS = Les Stewart (samples info)
CT = Chuck Tomlinson (TV, videos, covers info)
MN = Matt Nowinski (videos, covers info) Check out the Funk web page!
JL = Jeffrey Lee (videos info)
DL = Dave Ludwig (videos, TV info)
JD = Jonathan Dakss (TV info, covers info) Check out the Sly and the Family Stone Web page!
KB = Ken Brown (TV appearances info)
BA = Blaine Armsterd (lots of samples info)
CF = Chuck Fishman (assorted info). Check out the Fonksquish Productions homepage!
GB = Gilles Bacon (track listings) Check out the Hammond Organ web page! (featuring a Meters discog)
KK = Kyosuke Kishida (track listings)
JJ = Jay Julian (reviews)
MB = Michael Burnette (reviews)
AT = Andrew Torda (concert info)
TP = Thilo Pfennig (film info)
GW = Gino Wilson (track info)
AG = Anthony Gliozza (singles info)
VW = Vince Williams (track info)
AC = Aaron Cohen (lyrics)
RH = Rory Huber (album info)
SP = Steve Pipkin (lyrics)
RM = Rowe Morehouse (effects info)
PB = Patrick Brown (session work info)
JA = Jack Abney (album covers)
TT = Thad Thompson (miscellaneous suggestions and tidbits)
JW = Jeff Wright (insight from articles in Uncut Funk)
PW = Peter Wetherbee (insight from articles in Uncut Funk)
MU = Maurice Monroe (Eddie Hazel info)
TV = trevorn@vossnet.co.uk (new One Nation info)
NB = Neil Blanket (tv info)
JO = Joshua Oakes (session info)
DS = Don Sigal (cover info)
SS = Scott Smith (cover info)
G? = Guido 100760.2436@compuserve.com (session info)
NT = Nick Titchener (video info)
MP = sapmrb@cf.ac.uk
MR = Miles Gray (samples info)
MO = Maurice Munroe (reviews)
BS = Bob Sitar (album cover scans)
OO = Olazani Olatunji (album cover scans)