The History Of Funk

The History Of Funk

10:00 PM Pacific Time: Fridays

Two hours of the strongest, stankiest, uncut funk anywhere on the airwaves, hosted by Rickey Vincent.

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The History Of Funk

The History Of Funk with Guest Host Spliff Skankin – October 25, 2013 at 10:00pm

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Music from early 60’s guitar icon, Link Wray, along with his comments about his style and the 60’s begin this episode, followed by more from the Apollo space program’s many trips to space before landing on the Moon, accompanied by some hard rock and some otherwise music from the 60’s. Up it’s mixed. The receptacle … Continued

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The History Of Funk – October 18, 2013 at 10:00pm

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Getting high in the 60’s continues, this time with a focus on marijuana and the rare LP, “A Child’s Garden Of Grass,” along with even more Moody Blues (one of the most underestimated bands of the 60s) and Pink Floyd, plus lots of other 60’s songs about the pleasures and dangers of smoking the weed. … Continued

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The History Of Funk – October 11, 2013 at 10:00pm

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Timothy Leary, The Moody Blues, and Pink Floyd lead us through a sonic acid trip back when, for a period in the 60s, that was our drug of choice. Everybody did it, but now you can listen to the results just as if you were doing it now. Maybe you are. 3 Hours

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The History Of Funk – September 27, 2013 at 10:00pm

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This entire show is an intermixed collage of the thoughts and impact of Marshall McLuhan during the electrically charged 60’s with an emphasis on the mass effects of TV, along with music from Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention and Captain Beefheart. The medium is the massage. 3 Hours.   

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The History Of Funk – September 20, 2013 at 10:00pm

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Beginning with all four of our CD players filled with lots of 60s jazz played all at once, and a reprise of The Last Poets relating the history of jazz, we continue with Nico and The Velvet Underground, The Byrds, Country Joe McDonald vs. LBJ, an ode to Richard Nixon, and lots of other mid … Continued

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The History Of Funk – September 13, 2013 at 10:00pm

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This one is all about The Last Poets, who introduced everyone to rapping in the mid 60’s, accompanied by civil rights radicals like Malcolm X, and the whole aura of black radical revolutionary lyrics and speeches that scared us all in that short but intense era of black political emergence. Vietnam underlies much of this … Continued

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The History Of Funk – September 6, 2013 at 10:00pm

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Subbing for Barb and the Crack-O-Dawn usually here on the first Thurs of every month, this extra OTE continues with yet more songs and radio from the mid 60’s, most of which are from Great Briton, including a BBC parody retrospective, “1966 And All That.”  Suddenly it’s 1966. At 3:00 AM, I continue subbing another … Continued