![]() ![]() The same band recorded under both names with rotating memberships and with a different sound on both albums. The legal wrangling ended in 1974 and George reclaimed the name, so he started making records with the same Funkadelic personnel, under the name of Parliament for Casablanca records, with a softer, more radio friendly sound than the harder-rocking psychedelic sound of Funkadelic. Invictus prohibited them doing so, so they changed the name of the band to Funkadelic and started making records for Westbound. ![]() They made one flop album called "Osmium" for the Invictus label, before George wanted to leave and join another label. For example, in the 1960s, the band that George Clinton started as the Parliaments, became just Parliament by 1969. The reason I call P-Funk an "empire" or, more specifically, a "conglomerate", is because the actual structure of the band became very convoluted due to a number of legal problems and contractual issues that plagued the band. Further to the recent P-Funk post, I thought I'd post a video of one of the many classic tracks that are associated with the massive conglomerate that was the George Clinton empire, otherwise known as the "Parliafunkamadelicment Thang". ![]()
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