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This includes artists who have either been very important to the funk genre or have had a considerable amount of exposure (such as in the case of one who has been on a major label). Bands are listed by the first letter in their name (not including the words "a", "an", or "the"), and individuals are listed by last name.
Those 10 years gave birth to distinctly '70s genres like disco and subgenres like hard rock, while other genres like R&B, soul, funk, and country continue to thrive today.
Funk rock (also written as funk-rock or funk/rock) fuses funk and rock elements. [101] Its earliest incarnation was heard in the late '60s through the mid-'70s by musicians such as Jimi Hendrix , Frank Zappa , Gary Wright , David Bowie , Mother's Finest , and Funkadelic on their earlier albums.
And only in the '70s did genres start asserting themselves: singer-songwriter and interpreter, art-rock and heavy metal and country-rock and boogie, fusion and funk and disco and black MOR, punk and new wave, and somehow straddling them all, the monolith of pop-rock." [12]
It’s a polished set with some fairly uptempo renditions of VU’s avant-rock classics, with Yule’s brother Billy sitting in on drums for a pregnant Moe Tucker. ... Elton John – 17-11-70 ...
The classic rock/country rock song talks about the enticing yet convoluted pull of California, and more aptly Los Angeles, amidst the ambiance of 12-string guitars, bass, and percussion.
Lafayette Afro Rock Band was an American funk band formed in Roosevelt, Long Island, New York in 1970. Shortly after their formation, they relocated to France. Though little-known in their native United States during their recording period, they have since become celebrated as one of the standout funk bands of the 1970s and are particularly noted for their use of break beats. [2]
Funk rock is a fusion genre that mixes elements of funk and rock. [1] James Brown and others declared that Little Richard and his mid-1950s road band, the Upsetters, were the first to put the funk in the rock and roll beat, with a biographer stating that their music "spark[ed] the musical transition from fifties rock and roll to sixties funk".
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