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[andrew_jorgensen]

This must be seen. (It's thirteen minutes and eighteen seconds, so I suggest hitting pause immediately and letting the whole thing load before playing.) The Parliaments, back in 1969, appearing on Boston public television. I never before realized that Mr. T got his haircut from George Clinton. And while Clinton takes the lead on a burning "Testify," the Parliaments temptation walk, but they're temptation walkin' with anarchy. I knew this was their Temptations-on-acid period, but it surprised me how synchronized they got with it. Clinton was probably looking for one of those four-headed microphone stands like the Temps used, too. Anyway, Fuzzy Haskins sounds amazing on the leads he takes, and you'll get to hear an early version of "Maggot Brain" . . . with words.

From this I Love Music thread, brought to my attention by TMFTML.

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[ann1962]

Thanks for posting that video. It took almost an hour to watch between cookie batches, but very cool!

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

Note to self: bake this week. There will be funk to watch.

[ann1962]

Speaking of which, glad to hear you will be home in the next few days. Incoming re baking!

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

Yes, I need to warn people not to send cookies to me in the second halves of either February or March, as they'll go stale while I'm away.

Of course, my waistline is screaming at me to forgo further cookies; but then my joining the exchange was never about my getting the cookies qua cookies, so much as the feeling of being more involved in the ATPo community.