Let's Take It to the Stage
Title of album:
Let's Take It to the Stage
Artist: Funkadelic
Release date: 1975
Record label: Westbound
Compared to most Funkadelic albums, Let's Take It to the Stage features many short and to-the-point songs, and fewer epic jam sessions.
Track Listing:
- Good To Your Earhole (George Clinton, Grace Cook, Fuzzy Haskins)
- Better By The Pound (Clinton, Cook)
- Be My Beach (Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell)
- No Head No Backstage Pass (Clinton, Ron Bykowski)
- Let's Take It To The Stage (Clinton, Collins, Garry Shider)
- Get Off Your Ass And Jam (Clinton)
- Baby I Owe You Something Good (Clinton)
- Stuffs And Things (Clinton, Cook)
- The Song Is Familiar (Clinton, Collins, Worrell)
- Atmosphere (Clinton, Shider, Worrell)
Personnel: (given as credited in liner notes)
- Vocals: 'Cool' Cal Simon, 'Bad Bosco' Bernie Worrell, C 'Boogie' Mosson, Garry 'Dowop' Shider
- Bass Vocals: 'Sting' Ray Davis
- Genie Vocals: 'Shady' Grady Thomas
- Werewolf Vocals: Clarence 'Fuzzy' Haskins
- Maggot Overlord: George Clinton
- Congas: Calvin Simon
- Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
- Bass: C Boogie Mosson
- Percussion: R Tiki Fulwood
- Guitar: Michael Hampton, Garry Shider
- Alumni Funkadelic: Bootsy (vocals), Billy Bass, Eddie Hazel, Ron Bykowski
- Guest Funkadelic: Paul Warren, Reggie McBride, Frosty, Mello Garcia, Honeys, Denise Hurd, Delores whats-her-name, Gary Cooper, Parliament
Critical response:
- "One of Funkadelic's goofiest releases, Let's Take It to the Stage also contains more P-Funk all-time greats as well, making for a grand balance of the serious and silly."
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Title of song: Let's Take It to the Stage
Artist: Funkadelic
Title of album: Let's Take It to the Stage (see above)
Year of first release: 1975
Trivia: (Includes covers, alternate versions)
The incomprehensible noise at the beginning of the song is actually a voice repeating "oh, yeah!" repeatedly.
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Songwriters: George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Garry Shider
Memorable Lyrics:
- "Everybody funking and don't know how/They shoulda seen the bull when he funked the cow/He funked her so hard they saw some smoke/He said, let's get in the bed and funk like folks"
- "Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet snorting some THC/Along came a spider, slid down beside her/Said: what's in the bag bitch/She said I'm laughin' at ya, ha, ha!/(Hey Fool and the Gang!)"
- "Crazier than a sex maniac in a whorehouse with a credit card!"
- "Sittin in the woods upon a log/(Tricky Dick wasn't worried about no incriminating Watergate)/Finger on the trigger/My eyes on a hog/(Information being on those tapes)"
- "Tricky Dick" refers to Richard Nixon
- "Watergate" refers to the scandal that ended Nixon's career
- "Information being on those tapes" refers to gaps in recordings of Nixon and other administration officials, presumably information deleted because of its incriminating nature
Complete lyrics at
the Motherpage
The lyrics are a rhyme-heavy, nursey-rhyme-styled, seemingly stream-of-consciousness-style and only borderline coherent.
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