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."
  • the All Music Guide (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=SEARCH&sql=Ar69us37ba3xg)

Other external links:

• the Motherpage (http://www.duke.edu/~tmc/motherpage/albums_funkadelic/alb-2stage)

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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!)"
  • THC is the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana
  • "Fool and the Gang" spoofs the band Kool 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 (http://www.duke.edu/~tmc/motherpage/lyrics_funkadelic/lyr-2stage#lyr-s-2stage)

The lyrics are a rhyme-heavy, nursey-rhyme-styled, seemingly stream-of-consciousness-style and only borderline coherent.

Personnel:

• Lead Vocals: George Clinton

Critical response: