What the Funk?

This was aired on Sesame Street, I love the kid funkin' out on the balcony. Right now public broadcasting is under threat and it's a damned shame. PBS meant so much to me as a kid growing up in a rural area with two and a half channels depending on what I could get through the antenna on my TV. I wouldn't have had exposed to culture and music like this otherwise.
PBS was a window to a world that I would not have had access to if it weren't for federally funded educational content.
Keep the Funk alive!

Funkentelechy said:

This was aired on Sesame Street, I love the kid funkin' out on the balcony. Right now public broadcasting is under threat and it's a damned shame. PBS meant so much to me as a kid growing up in a rural area with two and a half channels depending on what I could get through the antenna on my TV. I wouldn't have had exposed to culture and music like this otherwise.
PBS was a window to a world that I would not have had access to if it weren't for federally funded educational content.
Keep the Funk alive!

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I still depend on public broadcast for most of my news and entertainment. NPR and PBS cost each person a buck fifty a year. The mommie tappers (in DC) want to shut them up because they are the most accurate and least biased. Since the viewers pay for the vast majority of their budget, there is no way to put pressure on advertisers.

raise a glass and twist one up … rip

I just read that he passed, damn! Amazing genius and a beautiful soul.
R.I.P.

Check out Sly Lives! It's a great documentary.

I had a friend who traded some weed for some backstage passes to a P-Funk show. I was hanging out in the dressing room with the band, I loaded up some pot and passed it around. I was having a blast passing around the pipe and just listening when I heard someone say "hey Syl' you want this", they lifted the pipe and nodded to someone that was standing out of sight in the hallway just outside of the dressing room. The person responded "yeah" and I loaded some more bowls and passed them around. It wasn't until I left the dressing room, because the band was starting their set, that I saw the man in the hallway. "Syl" was Sylvester Stone(Sly Stone)!
I recognized him nodded and smiled, he smiled and looked down. I didn't say anything because I knew he was extremely private. During the show he came out at one point and George gave him a shout out, but he mainly hung out at the back of the stage and sang with the other vocalists.

It's still one of the highlights of my life that I got to load a pipe(well more than one) of my homegrown for Sly Stone! I got Sly high! To be fair a lot of people have, LOL, but it meant a lot to me.