Lost Media Bytes #2: The P-Funk Cartoons

[@SidewaysBurnouts]

the art of funkadelic would make for a great table top book.

[@CantTellYou]

That would be fantastic. I were a rich man I’d buy every Overton Loyd original I could find

[@MetaphysicalMusician]

FACTS...Pedro Bell R.I.P.

[@kevingonzales5149]

Pedro Bell did Funkadelic, Overton Lloyd did Parliament!

[@MetaphysicalMusician]

@@kevingonzales5149 Still In the Family ❤️

[@HOSTGANGENT]

P Funk is the greatest genre to ever touch mother Earth

[@swankmank]

Facts

[@donnimetropolis9899]

Triple Facts

[@TravTheMan44]

Quadruple facts free your mind and your ass will follow

[@sex6cult9revolution]

Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time.

[@d33j4ybf]

​@@sex6cult9revolution "...for y'all have knocked her up!"

[@ggyugcxzzf]

R.I.P Shock G, the son of the P. Long live Pfunk Long Live Gfunk. Flowers and Blessings to Georgy Porgy and ALL THE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC

[@TeeRock70]

✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

[@iTheRealBigbosceoProductions]

Right on!✊🏿

[@lordfarquad444]

I’m 27 and y’all don’t understand how much FUNK positively affected my life! I LOVE FUNK! From James Brown to George Clinton i love it all these are songs that I’ll forever play! The songs the made with the tech they had at that time GOLD!

[@jeffreyhancock8831]

I've been a soldier in the great P-Funk Army ever since I heard my first riff. I was literally "knee deep" in the music, being raised in the projects. What an awesome experience, and to this day I still test the capacity of my speakers to handle "The Funk". The Agony of Defeet is the one that sends me sailing back to my youth. Some damn fine music for sure .......

[@zroy9263]

My homie Overton " O-DOG" Lloyd drew a picture of Sir Nose D'Void of FUNK for me back in the late 1990s which I had tattooed on my right bicep. I'm forever grateful to this genius and living icon for that! P-FUNK is in my DNA. It's like a vital organ. Like my heart. I will take this music to my grave. It's among the most brilliant, creative, and ingenious music that I've ever heard. It completes me as an individual and brings great joy to my life. Oh yeah, and that funk is infectious, groovin', nasty, and stupendous!

[@AntwhaleNearfar]

I know this man. I met him at a club when he was hanging out with one of the Marshall brothers (former Red Hot Chili Peppers geetar playa Arik “The Freak” Marshall). Z-Roy is a bonafide, certified funkateer. Go wiggle. 🤘🏿

[@zroy9263]

@Terence Trent Darby Crash Word Up! Good lookin' out! Yeah, man, I'm not sure who you are, but these are facts! Sounds like the good old days cold chillin' somewhere in Hollywood! Thanks, homie.

[@justallah2785]

Marvelous Commentary💘

[@zroy9263]

@@justallah2785 I appreciate that! P-FUNK FOR LIFE!

[@justallah2785]

@@zroy9263 💘

[@nuckelanmainsack4419]

hearing the P-Funk lingo in a unironic documentary way makes it mad funny

[@PRODUCEDBYKEV]

WOW somebody actually explained P. Funk so even civilians could understand

[@mooogg]

the narrator, sounds like SANDRA BERNHARD.

[@PRODUCEDBYKEV]

@@mooogg I had 2 go back & listen. It DOES sound like her! I always thought she was hot. ijs lol

[@armpitification]

Sounds more like Sandra Bullock to me.

[@joeh952]

Musical collective that’s funky and weird. GC is the main songwriter, producer, ring leader. Just listen and feel the funk.

[@apocalipsdoebermen8376]

Yea Dey don’t get it….

[@alyyoung7948]

I love this video! I wonder what the original fans of PFunk think about this! Also, Cosmic Slop by Funkadelic turned 50 this year. its a great album.

[@jayskywalker5049]

WE'RE HERE STILL AND LOVE IT

[@PRODUCEDBYKEV]

Been a Funkateer since the early 70s. I was there when the Mothership landed in Detroit (1978), the city where most of the P was recorded. I've watched this clip at least 15 times now.

[@alexbaum2204]

This isn’t just a genuinely interesting topic (I’m a huge P Funk fan), but it’s also a seriously well made video. Outstanding work from start to finish. Everything from the pacing, the information given, your narration, and the clips was done wonderfully. Kudos to you! This is what I wish KZbin was used for more often. Thanks for your work and hope to see more where that came from.

[@jacklund9366]

I bought those 4 albums when I was in high school, still listening to this day 😎

[@VINZBROWN]

ME TOO!!!!❤

[@newblue2468]

I remember coming across some p-funk albums looking into my grandfather's lp collection when I was 8. I found the illustrations absolutely mesmerizing !

[@vernonshaw7813]

My dad is a HUGE P-Funk fan and I have seen a few of the comics in his original vinyls. They are in decent condition too. Yea these cartoons should be recovered and restored

[@BobKnight-mm2ze]

Very nice job, lots of interesting insights. Hard to believe so much time has passed. George is still alive, anything can happen.

[@19chucki74]

Many people never knew these existed. P-Funk and the animations it rendered, as well as the imagination it had, is a musical treasure. And since Casablanca Records is now part of Universal Music Group, it should be rereleased on the label it first came out on back in the 70s. For nostalgia sake.

[@MrTSHUMWAY]

Thank you for educating a P Funk novice and animation lover on this groovy topic. Hopefully those cartoons will be preserved either here or their home planet. Job well done, I can dig it.

[@melvinsmith1769]

It was also rumored in the late 70's that a movie was being film entitled Motor Booty Affair: An Under Water Story featuring the music from the same titled album. The stars of the album would be featured in this under water production , however it never came to be. I wonder if the film footage is also out there yet to be discovered.

[@darkj3di336]

I’ve heard that too. Back in the day. That they had other projects that started and never came to light. I was too young to go to the concerts. I heard all the albums and saw most of the art work. Loved it. Overtone’s works are amazing. I seen other works of his and are eye popping!

[@oddracir28]

So glad someone brought up these lost P-funk cartoons

[@AntwhaleNearfar]

Overton was very influenced by Ralph Bakshi. I’d be remiss if I didn’t give major P props to the late great Funkadelic ‘toonist Pedro “Sir Lleb” Bell. Brilliant brotha. 🤘🏿

[@sex6cult9revolution]

Didn't know that Overton Lloyd was influenced by Bakshi but that's cool. Bakshi's films were a hoot. And Pedro Bell ruled!

[@CantTellYou]

Whoa you have just 3 uploads on this channel & this tribute to the unfortunately lost art of PFunk is gaining some traction! Beautiful to see

[@aaaambrose]

Great video! So much P-Funk media has slipped through the cracks over the years. One thing I did not see mentioned - there is also a Bootsy cartoon from his opening act. It's on another one of those Japanese tapes and looks to be recorded by the same guy on the same night.

[@JamesTorti]

James Brown pioneered funk with "Cold Sweat", but The Mothership made it intergalactic. The full cartoons are a funk treasure. Don't forget the song "Let's Play House" inspired The Humpy Dance.

[@STARCHILE-ox1fd]

Wow! Thanks for posting this. P-FUNK is my all-time favorite.

[@pressha443]

My dad has all those records in excellent condition. One of those albums came with a t-shirt iron on that was a picture of Clinton stepping out of the mother ship big space boots first almost like 3-D as it was landing and the caption read "Take funk to heaven in 77' " pretty cool.

[@billyjacc]

Yes... from the Parliament 🛸 Live album.

[@pika23]

Awww sweeeeeet😮

[@jayskywalker5049]

Yeah I had it

[@ronnietoonz2061]

Nice Blass From The Pass.!!..There was also Illustrator Cartoonist Multimedian Ronald "Stozo The Clown " Edwards whose Saturday Morning Cartoon style funky characters He also created album covers ,animation and puppet creations for Funkadelic,George Clinton & The PFunk Allstars and PFunk Spin off groups like Fred Wesley and The Horny Horns ,Parlet,and projects with Bootsy's Rubber Band,Fuzzy Haskins and more...some of his art is seen in this video and admired by pfunk fans around the Chocolate Milky Way !!

[@criderv11]

Thank you for putting this video together!❤

[@Gappasaurus]

Awesome coverage of this often-forgotten piece of music history 😳 Subscribed! 😁👍

[@davidhardy5670]

Great video, I've always loved Parliment-Funkadelic and it's great to see this rare stuff.

[@thejeneralj.u.-iceforever6706]

"Dr. Bombay" by Del The Funkee Homosapien, "Me, Myself, and I" by De La Soul (R.I.P Trugoy the Dove/ Dave), "Bop Gun" by Ice Cube, "Stoplight" by Snoop Dogg, "Fantastic Voyage" by Coolio (R.I.P), "Funken Lesson" by X-Clan (R.I.P Professor X and Sugar Shaft), too many hip-hop artists, groups, and producers to name from the "Golden Era of Hip-Hop (1986-1999)" that were influenced by Parliament Funkadelic. ✊🏾

[@robertmcdaniel6571]

Remember the Coke Cola commercial back in the early 2000-03 with Lisa Leslie and Derek Fisher dancing?

[@MrBey735]

You forgot Dr. Dre

[@JC-ug7qs]

"Fantastic Voyage" by Coolio was influenced by Lakeside, not P-Funk

[@thejeneralj.u.-iceforever6706]

@@JC-ug7qs Thanks for the correction.

[@azeyeseeyitt3435]

It was really cool to see that concert poster at 1:08 with Mothers Finest as the special guest, I really like them too.

[@tom11zz884]

Would love to have a digitally restored Blu ray of these cartoons. Sad they will probably never see the light of day though

[@afropowa1598]

This was an awesome watch! Another interesting cartoon you can do a video on is the R.Kelly one. He had a bunch of unique cartoons through out one of his concert.

[@emceeunderdogrising]

This important piece of history is blocked off because of lawyers. The least funkiest people in the universe.

[@MontezWashington-sd6fw]

Pedro Bell had design album covers for Parliament/Funkadelic as well.

[@samwest1097]

This was a great history lesson, thank you!

[@funkyworm6517]

When they brought in my man, Walter "Junie" Morrison, they really hit their stride!

[@robynsegg]

I would LOVE to see these P-Funk Cartoons!!!!! I more than likely saw them as a kid on TV watching the commercials, but I would LOVE to see them in full! Also, what's the anime at the end of the video? It looks like the work of the late great Leiji Masumoto (Space Battleship Yamoto Harlock Saga, Galaxy Express 999, Arcadia Of My Youth, Queen Emeraldas, etc.). I could be wrong though.

[@getblownup]

Pedro Bell's art was the purest representation of P-Funk art!

[@LarryStevenson-b2q]

I believe Pedro's work were Funkadelic specific

[@Merylstreep1949]

You are a bloody treasure for making this video! Who ever you are it's an amazing video ❤❤❤

[@ronaldjenkins1946]

Good job covering, and getting insights. Some of us hasn't know of 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🛸🤘🏾🛸🤘🏾🛸..Your on the FUNK TEAM

[@KamilaShakur]

Well done, thanks for the info. I learned about a Black artist from my city and I really value that 💯

[@malcolmwhite6637]

LOVE THIS ....A great flashback to my youth!!

[@jt2727]

P-FUNK EARTH TOUR IS THE GREATEST TOURS EVER. Started listening at 14 and won 3rd place in name the MOTHERSHIP. ME AND MY BROTHER CALLED IT CHOCOLATE RAINBOW. We won back stage pass to the shrine auditorium concert 1975 and all of the albums out from Casablanca . THOSE WERE THE DAYS

[@MrCalverino]

I never knew he was this talented! Snoop and Dre are literally this guy in modern times!

[@christophercarrasco154]

Honestly if they were to restore it, I HIGHLY doubt they'd censor it since Funkadelic has been known for being graphic. Plus a lot of rap songs from the 90's still have the word in their music. I'd chalk it up to Boondock status.

[@justallah2785]

❤

[@brodiehansen3843]

Thank you for this. This seems really comprehensive I've been looking for these cartoons for a long time and an explanation to some of the parliament albulms they relate too. This video helps me understand why even the albulm comics are so hard to find. Guess you need an original one of those records from the 70's for them mostly..

[@clebrane]

This documentary is amazing! Thank you so much for creating it! 🤘🏾🛸🤘🏾

[@diowil1]

Very good presentation. You have done the funk some justice continue the fight

[@patrickcarney8099]

I would love to see a mix of all the cartoons. The music, attitude, and funky-ness of the entire package would be cool. The Hip-Hop connection would seem to be a way to get funding. Litigation would be the problem, also archiving the original stuff. I must checkout Overton’s other stuff.

[@NeenMove]

Excellent, excellent video. Thank you so much for sharing this.

[@matthewtoy1977]

"Funkenstein is a f*g" is a reference to a lyric to Gamin' On Ya.

[@omarabdulalim4862]

George Clinton was musical genius

[@aplaceinthestars3207]

Parliament is legendary, so recovering and even restoring this would be painless endeavor lol. Imagine "having to" listen to P-Funk for hours on end?

[@juniorchavesopicassodeyahu988]

Funkadelic/Parliament are one of the best soul and psychedelic funk bands

[@pryingeyes1551]

I've listened to them for decades, and seen them once, and I had no idea about the stories associated with the albums.

[@gilwood7530]

Bootleg P-FUNK Video FROM JAPAN is the funniest thing I ever heard !!! I used to by tapes and even later DVDs on the streets in Philly ...And that camera ALWAYS DIPPED DOWN !!!

[@Duane-tl2zc]

Yeah, there is so many "bootleg" black music stuff in Japan, like the complete 'Soul Train TV show video tapes ( 20 VHS set) I once lived there, but it was cool, they respect the culture.

[@justallah2785]

😂👍🏽

[@billyjacc]

Yep on 52nd & Market, Erie Ave, Germantown Ave, etc.

[@JohnWilliams-sq7cj]

On the corner of 69th next to Krass Bros they used to sell them too.

[@robertmcdaniel6571]

I just remembered the Coke Cola commercial back in 2000-03 with Clinton and Bootsy bringing back the Funk. And they had Lisa Leslie and Derek Fisher dancing in too.

[@jeffreythompson6330]

Thanks for the education/information!❤

[@laurisaarinen1126]

I have a faint memory i would have seen some P-funk cartoons here in the early days of KZbin. They might have been just compilations of clips to a song though, i can't remember for sure. But as a fan it would be so cool to see the full lenght animations!

[@itskevinjustkevin]

Love this lost media, the p funk is strong with this one

[@Hybridsystem818]

This is a really awesome video, I hope this channel really grows ❤

[@wilsord11]

The little comics too. So dope. Digital Underground took the ball and ran with it. R.I.P Pac &Shock. Long live the Funk ya'll!!

[@proman1926]

Ahh. And you ended this great video with one of my favorite Leon Haywood songs, Out to Catch

[@chevymc233]

THANK YOU FOR THE FOOTAGE!!

[@iTheRealBigbosceoProductions]

I was 8 years old when the Mother ship landed. My brother bought me "Mothership Connection" on my 9th birthday.

[@furrepanther]

We NEED these cartoons.

[@lisaroberts8556]

The music was funky and classic. But the cartoon art work as a kid. Gave me a creepy sinister evil vibe. I feared it!

[@nrudy]

As far as I understand it, the rights to a couple of late 70's Funkadelic records are still owned by one of the former record companies (which is why they're not on streaming services) to recoup costs as part of the settlement that happened after Casablanca went bankrupt. So you're right about there being a complicated legal situation. Running two separate bands with two separate labels that contain the same people is apparently frowned upon.

[@kimba99950]

Thank you i would love to see them or even purchase them.. Funk Fan For Life

[@tonybennett3]

As a 10 YO in 1977, my mind was blown forever. Psycho Alpha Disco Beta Bioaqua Doa Loop!

[@Jamaicafunk]

The discussion of PFunk art would not be complete without mentioning the late Pedro Bell.

[@justallah2785]

I love it too & the voice of the Narrator is so good, so right,so 🔥👍🏽

[@bobjames5264]

Thanks so much for this history lesson. Let’s just hope the only copies of the cartoons weren’t lost in the Universal fire...

[@TravlingNow]

Fantastic video! Well done

[@gilwood7530]

Make mah FUNK tha P-FUNK ...I wants to get FUNKED UP !

[@keithspears5868]

This was very informative. Thanks for sharing.

[@bryanmaulana2259]

8:05 Also the earliest LED/stage screen concert Visual Jockey peformance ever commited within live musical peformance in history with their cartoon series showed in live peformance🙌🙌

[@JohnB5304]

Some of the Best Music to Campbellock to backin the day.

[@alanbarnes6207]

During his teen years, Clinton formed a doo-wop group inspired by Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers called the Parliaments, Wilkie

[@rodneyreynolds7387]

The funk will never die!! Go get your funk in your rump house!! 🎶🛸🌈✊🎼🤘

[@DarrylGray-h3u]

Love it !!! Bring it back !!!

[@ericcallender1575]

The cartoons would be gold. I wish that punk kid from Sarah Lawrence College who stole my Pfunk albums would grow a spine and return them.

[@carlbowles1808]

Pfunk memories still make me smile. 🌞😎

[@aaronj.brooks1977]

I would love to see a P-Funk cartoon

[@SidewaysBurnouts]

amazing. love some p-funk

[@8biminiroad]

PF was the greatest assemblage of genius musicians anywhere at anytime. I recall seeing the GloryhalllaStoopid show in the Fox in Atlanta in April 1980. The cartoon was pretty long too. I will tell you, I KNOW someone is sitting on a video of the tour from Chapel Hill NC. Also featured the Brides.

[@gordonallen9095]

George Clinton and Parliament/Funkadelic has left a distinct and UNIQUE legacy in the overall history of African American music and the Funk genre in particular. There has never been before or since as festive or entertaining a live concert than FUNKFEST. "Free your mind, and your @ss will follow."

[@rogerdogger6969]

There was a cartoon strip called weep house that was pinned by Morey Turner back in the seventies pre-p-funk

[@StacyDaFunkBoogie]

Release these cartoons, the fans deserve this!

[@waynefoote3781]

The most creative and funky band EVER! .............Total Genius of George Clinton Bootsy Collins Bernie Worrell and Gary shider! And a whole LOT of Funkin Friends!!

[@mecca777]

This is outstanding!! Thank you!

[@anthonytaylor7928]

I've seen a few live shows with the great floor shows in the 1970s but just think with all of the technology they have now with the kinda show they can put on .with promotion and marketing it wouldn't be an empty seat

[@Fezwald1]

Hopefully your video adds some momentum to the search. Thanks!

[@VINZBROWN]

GREATTTTTT VIDEO. Thank YOU!!!!!

[@TheMultigladius]

Glad you made this video, live the funk 🌌🚀🎉

[@wyntonblue4995]

Overton Loyd was a dope ass animator!! I still wished he did a movie

[@I_Love_my_adblock4408]

🙋🏾‍♂️ These guys was my super heroes when I was kid.

[@RonaldWilliams-qh7zc]

Really like the fact that you got the year right for mothership connection 1975 because most people always say it came out in 1976 and I'm like no it did not it came out in December of 1975 I was six years old when that album came out lol absolutely love the way you're narrating this you have a very beautiful smooth voice see this is why George needs to get ahold of all of his music in his cartoons all of that is his the placebo syndrome emerald City where you can dance underwater and not get wet go wiggle........

[@rgw1380rw]

What's that instrumental in the background at the 7:11 mark?

[@SINOJAY]

Thanks for that it’s well received and appreciated ✌🏼🤘🏼😀