George Clinton Interview on Factmag

Factmag features a current London based interview with Mr Clinton

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....sessions with Rudimental and Joss Stone, hanging out with Prince and Jalal Mansur Nuriddin (of The Last Poets), recording a whole album direct to vinyl, and chowing down on a chicken doner in a Goldhawk Road kebab shop, Dr. Funkenstein found time to impart his (other-)worldly wisdom at a Q&A session held at Shoreditch House, at a masterclass for young producers at Metropolis Studios, and over a can of ginger beer with...

...mother was a big Louis Jordan fan,” he says, humming the lead sax line from Jordan’s 1945 jump blues cut ‘Caldonia’. “Living in Virginia, what you heard on the radio was country and western —” and here he breaks into the refrain from Slim Willet’s ‘Don’t Let the Sun Get In Your Eyes’, “then R&B stuff, you heard on records.” Louis Jordan, along with Muddy Waters, Lightning Hopkins, and Elmore James was the music Clinton’s mum listened to when she was getting ready to go out...

Words by Robert Barry

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Uncle Jam: George Clinton talks sample trolls, Kendrick Lamar and UFO crashes

http://www.factmag.com/2014/02/23/uncle-jam-george-clinton-talks-sample-trolls-kendrick-lamar-and-ufo-crashes/