George Clinton And Parliament Funkadelic – Mothership Connection Newberg Session
December 25, 1995George Clinton – Greatest Funkin’ Hits
October 17, 199601. If Anybody Gets Funked Up (It’s Gonna Be You) 4:24
02. Summer Swim 5:37
03. Funky Kind (Gonna Knock It Down) 5:36
04. Mathematics 7:12
05. Hard as Steel 5:09
06. New Spaceship 4:00
07. Underground Angel 4:28
08. Let’s Get Funky 5:04
09. Flatman and Bobin 3:31
10. Sloppy Seconds 6:59
11. Rock the Party 3:33
12. Get Your Funk On 5:16
13. T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M. (Fly Away) 7:54
14. If Anybody Gets Funked up (It’s Gonna Be You) (Colin Wolfe Mix) (6:11)
T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M. is a 1996 album by funk musician George Clinton. The title, which is an abbreviation for The Awesome Power of a Fully Operational Mothership, refers to the P-Funk Mothership that was first introduced in 1975 on Parliament’s Mothership Connection album. The album was presented as a reunion album because it featured collaborations with former Parliament-Funkadelic members including Bernie Worrell, Bootsy Collins, Junie Morrison, Maceo Parker, and Fred Wesley – some of whom hadn’t worked with Clinton in many years. The album also included contributions by current members of the P-Funk All-Stars.
Following the release of T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M., Clinton launched the “Mothership Reconnection Tour” with Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, and the P-Funk All-Stars. The Mothership Reconnection Tour, which began in New York’s Central Park, included the landing of a full-scale Mothership on stage, from which Clinton emerged. The artwork for T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M. was unique among P-Funk albums in that it included contributions by all three artists associated with the band: Pedro Bell, “Stozo the Clown” Edwards, and Overton Loyd. The Japanese version of “T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M.” contains an extra track entitled “Secret Love”, co-written by Clinton’s son Tracey Lewis aka Trey Lewd. That track was later released in U.S. on the CD How Late Do U Have 2BB4UR Absent?.
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