Funkadelic - 2020 European Westbound label 180 gram Orange Vinyl 7-track LP Reissue

50th anniversary high quality reissue of psychedelic R&B-soul bands debut album originally released in 1970 on the Detroit based Westbound label - now a classic and an excersice in dark, dense and slowly rhytmic psychedelic funk beat mixed with searing fuzzy guitars... no wonder that Mojo later hailed Funkadelic as "the best blues-influenced, warped acid rock you're likely to hear" and why Robert Christgau jokingly referred to George Clinton as "someone from Carolina who encountered eternity on LSD and vowed to contain it in a groove" in his Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies from 1981. 

Presented as an orange 180 gram vinylpressing - housed in a thick card sleeve  displaying the original artwork.

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1. Mommy, What's a Funkadelic? (George Clinton) 9:04
2. I Bet You (George Clinton, Sidney Barnes, Theresa Lindsey) 6:10
3. Music for My Mother (George Clinton, Edward Hazel, William Nelson) 5:37
4. I Got a Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody's Got a Thing (Clarence Haskins) 3:52

Side 2:
5. Good Old Music (George Clinton) 7:59
6. Qualify and Satisfy (George Clinton, Edward Hazel) 6:15
7. What Is Soul (George Clinton) 7:40

Recorded 1968 - 69 at Tera Shirma Sound Studios, Detroit, Michigan

Credits:

Funkadelic:
Eddie Hazel – lead guitar, backing vocals on "Mommy, What's What's A Funkadelic?"; vocals on "I Bet You" & "Can't Shake It Loose", all Lead Vocals on "Open Our Eyes"; bridge vocals on "I Got a Thing"
Lucius "Tawl" Ross – rhythm guitar
Ramon "Tiki" Fulwood – drums on (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 13)
Billy "Bass" Nelson – bass guitar on (3, 4, 6); backing vocals; lead vocals on "Good Old Music"
Mickey Atkins – Hammond organ on (5, 6, 7)

The Parliaments:
George Clinton – lead vocals on "Mommy, What's A Funkadelic?" & "What is Soul", vocal on "Can't Shake It Loose"
Clarence "Fuzzy" Haskins – vocals on "I Bet You" and "Good Old Music"
Calvin Simon – lead vocals on "Qualify and Satisfy"; vocals on "I Bet You" and "Can't Shake It Loose"
Ray Davis – vocals on "I Bet You"
Grady Thomas – vocals on "I Bet You"

Additional musicians
Ray Monette – guitar on (2, 4, 9)
Bob Babbitt – bass guitar on (1, 2, 9)
Bernie Worrell – Hammond organ on (4)
Earl Van Dyke – Hammond organ on (2, 9)
Brad Innis – drums on (3)
Gasper Lawal – conga on (3)
Herb Sparkman – lead vocals on "Music for My Mother"
Hot Buttered Soul – additional backing vocals

Technical Credits:
George Clinton - Production
Milan Bogden, Russ Terrana, Ed Wolfrum, Bryan Dombrowski - Engineers

Artwork:
The Graffiteria – artwork