# I'm going to see Parliament!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 9, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-see-parliament/372034 "2006-09-09T03:24:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-see-parliament/372034/1 "2006-09-09T03:24:44Z")
WoooooHooooo!!! Not only am I going to catch them at B.B. King’s in The City, but Mrs. Dvl and I are actually bringing my 60+ y.o. mom with us—we just turned her on to the Mothership Connection a few months ago, and now we’re all stoked. How funky is that? Ain’t no party like a P-Funk party and a P-funk party don’t stop!!! Rhythm (My apologies if this should have been posted to MPSIMS, but given that it’s mundane and personal about _music_, I thought to put it here.) ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-see-parliament/372034/2 "2006-09-09T03:27:12Z")
[QUOTE=Rhythmdvl] WoooooHooooo!!! Not only am I going to catch them at B.B. King’s in The City, but Mrs. Dvl and I are actually bringing my 60+ y.o. mom with us—we just turned her on to the Mothership Connection a few months ago, and now we’re all stoked. How funky is that? Ain’t no party like a P-Funk party and a P-funk party don’t stop!!! Rhythm (My apologies if this should have been posted to MPSIMS, but given that it’s mundane and personal about _music_, I thought to put it here.) [/QUOTE] Ahhh… who? ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-see-parliament/372034/3 "2006-09-09T03:39:00Z")
The Godfather of Funk—one of the last of the greats who still has it together. Check out Wiki’s entries on [Parliament-Funkadelic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_Funkadelic) or P-Funk, or George Clinton, Bootsy Collins… except please excuse the white-breadedness of answering the question with references to Wiki. That was weird. Better yet, go to [pandor.com](http://pandor.com) and set up a station based on Parliament, then get your groove on. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-see-parliament/372034/4 "2006-09-09T03:52:38Z")
Going to see Big Ben as well? Ok, sorry…I caught Clinton and P-Funk a few years ago (holy crap…that was in 1994…seems like yesterday), and damn, they rocked. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-see-parliament/372034/5 "2006-09-09T04:01:51Z")
Saw them two years ago at the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam. Awesome, awesome show. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-see-parliament/372034/6 "2006-09-09T11:25:22Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] Saw them two years ago at the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam. Awesome, awesome show. [/QUOTE] That’s quite the combination, **Miller**! /envy ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-see-parliament/372034/7 "2006-09-09T17:07:00Z")
[QUOTE=Struan] That’s quite the combination, **Miller**! /envy [/QUOTE] Seconded! ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-see-parliament/372034/8 "2006-09-10T04:15:21Z")
Went to see the Doobie Brothers the other night. Oh, it was cool. But can you imagine Doobie n your funk? ---
**Author:** ![Roonwit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/54ee81/32.png) [@Roonwit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roonwit)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-see-parliament/372034/9 "2006-09-10T16:07:52Z")
I saw the original Mothership Connection tour in Birmingham AL in '76. I think I was the only white boy in the house. If I wasn’t, I never saw the other guy. 😃 I was nervous as hell when we walked in. The 70s in Birmingham were still a tense time for a black person to be surrounded by thousands of white people…or vice versa. I got a lot of cold stares, and noticed a lot of nudging and whispering. But the friends I was with played it down, I laughed off the ‘Oreo’ jokes, we all got blazed, and everybody found out that The White Boy could Bump (though not too gracefully, since I don’t have much ass to bump _with_). I’ve always hoped that I wasn’t the only one there who was disabused of a stereotype or two. To be honest, I’ve never been a big fan of P-Funk. George is just a tad too freaky for me. Give me the O’Jays or Mother’s Finest (or Led Zeppelin or James Taylor…) any day. But that show was a Life Experience. Yes, Rodney, in the world of Dr. Funkenstein, we _can_ all get along. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-see-parliament/372034/10 "2006-09-10T16:28:10Z")
I was gonna say, “Big Deal, we’ve had C-SPAN over here for years.”, but I guess I’ll just mosey on out of this thread. ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-see-parliament/372034/11 "2006-09-10T23:39:07Z")
Bow-wow-wow-yipee-yo-yipee-yay! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-see-parliament/372034/12 "2006-09-11T00:37:49Z")
I saw them last Memorial Day and caught part of their set a few years earlier. That is a Fun Ass Band. Congrats, **Rhythmdvl**!