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re this FRIDAY 12/27/96 at
9pm in the Prodigy Music Urban Sounds Auditorum.
Well it's been a very interesting and exciting first six months of
existance for all of U.S. (Urban Sounds) and as our way of expressing
our apprciation that you have shown U.S. in 1996 we have decided to give
you all a little present ...Bernie Worrell !!
That's right you heard correctly Bernie "WOO WOO" Worrell the man who
put the "P" in P-Funk will be LIVE on Prodigy courtesy of the
"originators" at Urban Sounds !!
This Friday 12/27/96 AT 9PM est BERNIE WORRELL ....MASTER keyboardist
with Parliament/Funkadelic in the 70's and 80's....... and co-author of
Cosmic Slop, Flash Light, Chocolate City, Up For The Down Stroke, P.
FUNK (Wants To Get Funked Up), Mothership Connection (Star child), Do
That Stuff, Uncle Jam etc
Will be our guest in the Music Urban Sounds Chat Area Auditorum on
Prodigy from 9pm till 10pm and in the Music Urban Sounds FUNK room from
10pm - 11pm.
Our Board Leader Tony Taylor & I will co-host this chat.
Hopefully Prodigy has a "removable roof" so we don't do too much damage
when we "tear the sucka off" !!
Here is a little backround on Bernie for ya:
You have heard his name for years He started tickling the ivories at
three and a Half, proceeded to give His first concert at Four years of
age, and wrote His first piano concerto at eight -- a certified prodigy.
Studies at the New England Conservatory of Music, and Julliard laid a
undeniably strong classical foundation for the supernatural
experimentation to come. Bernie's extensive discography and
collaborations are too massive to list in its entirety. He was a
Founding member of the PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC Family. recording and co-
producing fifty-odd albums and crisscrossing the globe with live shows
that promised to free your mind as well as other body anatomy. This one-
a-kind melange of artists and visionaries influenced and continues to
influence music today, an epic legacy of psychedelic space-dance. Worell
added his brand of funky cleverness and Afro- polyrhythm to the TALKING
HEADS, contributing to the seminal album and video, Stop Making Sense.
Bernie Has never stopped working and creating, lending his eclectic and
capable talents to THE PRETENDERS, THE ROLLING STONES, SLY AND ROBBIE,
KEITH RICHARDS, GOLDEN PALOMINOS, FELA KUTI, THROWING MUSES, JACK BRUCE,
JODY WATLEY, DEE-LITE, SOUL ASYLUM, among others DAVID BYRNE cites Him
as "a genius," RICHARDS says, "the rare qualities of intuition and taste
, not to mention Humor all come together In Bernie Worrell" Rappers and
Hip Hop founders Have payed Homage to Bernie by making Him one of the
most if not the most, sampled musicians ever. Everyone from DR DRE, ICE
CUBE. SALT N' PEPA, SNOOP DOGGY DOGS, RUN DMC TONE LOG, REDMAN, LAST
POETS, EN VOGUE, to name a few, Have built songs around His imminently
catchy and complex riffs But let's face it, Bernie doesn't need a resume
or references--His cross-cultural genius is found in his fingers.
Check the Urban Sounds BB (Jump:Urban Sounds BB) in the FUNK topic for
more details on Bernie & on P-Funk !!
We certainly hope that this will hold ya .......till 97 !!!!
-- PeaceBob Davis =20 http://pages.prodigy.com/funk/=20 Jump:Urban Sounds BB