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The funk will never die.

However, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic may be hanging it up for good soon.

Starting July 27, the legendary group will launch their 29-concert ‘Just For The Funk Of It! Final Tour?!?’ that just might be their last.

Yes, we’re not sure if this is it for the 82-year-old and his intergalactic band or not.

And if you’re in New York and New Jersey you thankfully still have a few more chances to see the band live.

Clinton and co. will bring “Flashlight,” “Atomic Dog,” “Give Up The Funk,” “One Nation Under A Groove” and more to Port Chester, NY’s Capitol Theatre on Aug. 18, Montclair, NJ’s Wellmont Theater on Aug. 19 and Westbury, NY’s NYCB Theatre on Oct. 28.

But that’s not all — the band has tickets available for all 29 of their “maybe” final shows this summer, fall and winter.

Some Parliament concerts have rather inexpensive seats ready for purchase too.

At the time of publication, we found some Parliament tickets going for as low as $18 before fees on Vivid Seats.

Now, that’s truly Funkadelic.

To be fair, that is a bit of an outlier. Most shows’ ticket prices start in the $30 to $110 range .

Want to tear the roof off the sucker again?

Here’s everything you need to know and more about the ‘Just For The Funk Of It! Final Tour?!?’

All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.

Parliament Funkadelic 2023 tour schedule

A complete calendar including all tour dates, venues and links to the cheapest tickets available for Parliament’s tour can be found below.

(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time. All prices are in US dollars, subject to fluctuation and include additional fees at checkout .)

Vivid Seats is a verified secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand. 

They offer a 100% buyer guarantee that states your transaction will be safe and secure and your tickets will be delivered prior to the event.

Riot Fest 2023

On Sept. 15-17, the annual Riot Fest is returning to Chicago, IL’s Douglass Park for three days of genre-bending fun.

Just a few of the headliners on this year’s bill include Foo Fighters , Death Cab For Cutie , Queens of the Stone Age , The Cure and The Mars Volta .

Yes, none of those acts are like Parliament but they all have something in common — they’re all great live.

Want to go to the three-days extravaganza?

You can pick up 2023 Riot Fest tickets right here, right now .

Parliament Funkadelic set list

With a career spanning over 50 years, it’s hard to whittle a set list down to just a few songs.

Somehow, Parliament does it night in and night out.

For a closer look at what to expect at a live show, here’s what the band played at a recent concert courtesy of Set List FM .

01.) “Dr. Funkenstein”

02.) “Funkentelechy”

03.) “Up for the Down Stroke / Rumpofsteelskin” 04.) “Pole Power” 05.) “Meow Meow”

06.) “Get Low” 07.) “One Nation Under a Groove” 08.) “Flash Light” 09.) “(Not Just) Knee Deep” 10.) “All Your Goodies Are Gone” 11.) “Maggot Brain” 12.) “Jump Around” (House of Pain cover) 13.) “Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker) / Night of the Thumpasorus Peoples / Get Off Your A– and Jam” 14.) “Atomic Dog” (George Clinton song) 15.) “Mommy, What’s a Funkadelic? / Hit It and Quit It / Super Stupid / Standing on the Verge of Getting It On / Promentalshitbackwashpsychosis Enema Squad (The Doo-Doo Chasers)”

Parliament Funkadelic opening acts

At select shows, Clinton and co. (who you might remember from the classic film “Good Burger”) will take a few major stars along with them for the ride.

To make sure you’re familiar with their music, we found each special guest’s most streamed track on Spotify.

You can hear them here:

Fishbone: “Ma and Pa”

Dumpstaphunk: “Sheez Music”

George Porter Jr.: “Fall Right In”

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While there are no acts quite on par with Parliament, here are five genre-bending shows that might whet your appetite for visually stunning live shows.

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Who else is on the road? Check out our list of the 52 biggest concert tours in 2023 here to find out.

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Funk legend George Clinton brings P-Funk farewell tour to Napa's Blue Note

By Dave Pehling

June 3, 2024 / 3:41 PM PDT / CBS San Francisco

George Clinton and his Parliament-Funkadelic crew brings the funk maestro's ongoing farewell tour to the Blue Note in Napa Sunday for an outdoor show.

Though he came after originators James Brown and Sly Stone, George Clinton has undoubtedly earned the title "Godfather of Funk." Colorful, subversive and groundbreaking, Clinton fused rock and R&B in the '60s, set the dance floor on fire with funk classics in the '70s, helped usher in computer-driven new wave and was a cornerstone of hip-hop since the '80s.

He started in the '50s as a vocalist in New Jersey soul group the Parliaments, but Clinton soon relocated to Detroit to try to jump aboard the Motown gravy train. Though he did some songwriting work for the soul label, his sensibilities were far grittier than what Berry Gordy was aiming for to remain "the sound of young America." The vocal group put out several one-off tracks for a variety of labels before eventually released a string of 7-inch singles for the Revilot Records in 1967 before a disagreement with the label led to the band splitting off and shortening its name to Parliament. 

The group issued one wide-ranging soul album entitled Osmium  for Invictus Records in 1970 that embraced elements of country, funk and psychedelia, but would go dormant for several years as Clinton and company focused their attention on the other outfit he'd started with the same musicians and vocalists called Funkadelic. 

For that group, Clinton took cues from high volume acid-rock era giants Jimi Hendrix and Cream (not to mention the influence of Detroit rockers the MC5 and the Stooges) to bring together soul grooves, psychedelic guitar and an outrageous stage show. But despite the crew's outlandish theatrics, Clinton also proved to be an astute sociopolitical commentator, addressing serious subject matter on the seminal albums  Maggot Brain  and the sprawling double LP  America Eats Its Young .  

By the mid '70s, Clinton was leading both Parliament and Funkadelic from underground status to chart success and extravagant arena productions that put the group on the same strata as Earth Wind and Fire. Clinton's excellent ear for talent also brought some of the best players in the business to his outfits including the late psychedelic guitar giant Eddie Hazel, keyboard scientist Bernie Worrell, and former James Brown sidement like Bootsy Collins, Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley. The subversive ringmaster and self-proclaimed Maggot Overlord shepherded his Parliament Funkadelic disciples to create classic hits like "P. Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)" "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)" "Flashlight" and "Not Just (Knee Deep)," which would some of the most influential and heavily sampled music of the decade.  

Combining humorous, satirical lyrics and space-age concepts with ferocious grooves, Clinton has remained an influential original throughout his career. Even as his solo star waned after early '80s hits "Atomic Dog" and "Do Fries Go With That Shake?" Clinton's songs were soon being sampled relentlessly by hip hop's new guard (Dr. Dre and N.W.A, Digital Underground, De La Soul and Tupac to name just a few).

Though his live performances during the 2000s added loose-limbed improvisational element that took away from the bite of his funk, Clinton has returned to performing and recording with a vengeance since breaking a longtime addiction to crack cocaine. The funk maestro detailed his triumphs and tragedies in the revealing memoir  Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard on You?  that came out in 2014 to glowing reviews. More importantly, Clinton and his collaborators issued the first new Funkadelic album in over three decades two years later.

A sprawling three-disc release that touches on the classic Funkadelic sound (soaring corrosive guitar solos, tongue-twisting vocals and scatological humor),  First Ya Gotta Shake The Gate  finds Clinton adding modern elements of hip-hop production and Auto-Tuned vocals to the mix. In 2018, Clinton announced he would retire from touring after continuing his modern renaissance with the first album under the Parliament banner in nearly four decades --  Medicaid Fraud Dogg  -- a sprawling 100-minute opus that tackles the nation's struggle with pharmaceuticals and social media while still indulging in the funk overlord's habit of "sayin' somethin' nasty."

The funk icon was also featured prominently in the latest season of Mike Judge's animated Cinemax show  Tales from the Tour Bus , which featured the twisted escapades Clinton and his band got caught up in during the '70s (the band leader also served as a consulting producer and provided this season's revamped theme song). Clinton has suggested that P-Funk will continue on without him when he finally retires from the road, continuing to bring his music to audiences live.

The timeline of his retirement has changed since his original announcement. Clinton and company appeared at what was thought to be the band's final Bay Area appearance at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga in the summer of 2019, but since the pandemic derailed more touring plans, he has since returned to the region with the band several times despite passing his 82nd birthday. The current "Just For the Funk of It! Final Tour?!?" brings P-Funk back to the Bay Area for this outdoor show at the Blue Note in Napa .

George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic Sunday, June 9, doors 5:30 p.m., show 7 p.m. $49-$99 The Blue Note Napa   

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and producer for KTVU.com in 2003. He began his role with CBS Bay Area in 2015.

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George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic Tease Final Tour, Drop Summer 2023 Dates

George Clinton and his Parliament-Funkadelic brethren have released an extensive list of tour dates that will take the crew from coast-to-coast this summer. The run has been dubbed Just For The Funk Of It! Final Tour?!? and arrives after Clinton’s most recent so-called farewell jaunt last summer.

The funk icons run will commence on July 27 in Reno, Nev., before following up the next evening with a show in Napa, Calif., where the ensemble is expected to participate in the Blue Note Jazz Festival. Next, they will pick up a pair of Pacific Northwest dates slated for Portland, Ore., and Seattle before moving on to the middle of the country. 

In continuation of the impending summer tour, the bandleader and his team of collaborators will take stands in Oklahoma and Texas in addition to an August 8 performance in Atlanta. Ensuing gigs in North Carolina will set up the group’s arrival in Boston on August 17.

Next, the crew is scheduled to play a show in Port Chester, N.Y. Then, they’ll return to the road on August 19, trekking over to Montclair, N.J., up until the time arrives for their show in Mashantucket, Conn., a few short days later, on August 20.

The so-called, Just For The Funk Of It! Final Tour?!? will take the musicians through Pittsburgh and Cleveland and continues with stops in Indianapolis before the last August date, which will occur in Louisville, Ky. A lone Nov. 25 concert is set to take place in Oakland, Calif., and serves as the band’s last date of this tour. 

On the road, Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic will welcome special guests Fishbone, Dumpstaphunk and George Porter Jr., who will join the headliners in select cities.

Despite the tour’s name, it has not been confirmed that this will be the final run of dates for Clinton and the ensemble. The bandleader has a history of taking breaks from the road and embarking on periods of retirement.

Scroll down to see the official tour announcement. For tickets, visit the band’s official website . 

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Just For The Funk Of It! Final Tour?!?

July 27 – Reno, Nev.

July 28 – Napa, Calif. 

July 29 – Portland, Ore.

July 30 – Seattle

August 4 – Oklahoma City, Okla. 

August 5 – Irving, Texas

August 6 – Houston

August 8 – Atlanta

August 9 – Raleigh, N.C.

August 10 – Charlotte, N.C. 

August 12 – Richmond, Va. 

August 15 – Baltimore

August 17 – Boston

August 18 – Port Chester, N.Y.

August 19 – Montclair, N.J.

August 20 – Mashantucket, Conn.

August 22 – Pittsburgh

August 24 – Cleveland

August 25 – Indianapolis, Ind. 

August 26 – Louisville, Ky.

November 25 – Oakland, Calif.

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George Clinton Announces Final Tour With Parliament-Funkadelic

By Matthew Strauss

Last year, George Clinton revealed that he would retire from touring in 2019 . Now, he’s announced his final tour with his legendary group Parliament-Funkadelic . The “One Nation Under a Groove Tour” officially kicks off on May 30 and wraps up in August. Find George Clinton’s full schedule below; purchase tickets here .

“I would love to keep on doing this but I’ll be 78 in a few more months,” George Clinton told Rolling Stone in a new interview. “Even though I feel like I’m just getting started, the reality is the group needs to go ahead and keep it going. We’ve got a new vibe in the band, and they’ve been carrying it for the last three years. I’ve been up there representing for people, but they’ve actually been turning the place out. And we’ve been selling out for the last five years, every night.”

This May, Parliament-Funkadelic will receive a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award . “As I’m getting ready to get a lifetime achievement award and all of that, there’s so many people that’s been in the band, it’s hard to even pick who all the people are,” Clinton said to RS . “So people won’t get to see a lot of people, but still that award will belong to everybody that’s participated in making the P-Funk what it is. It will be for all the people that’s ever been through the P-Funk army.”

George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic:

02-19 Sydney, Australia - Qudos Bank Arena ! 02-20 Sydney, Australia - Qudos Bank Arena ! 02-23 Hunter Valley, Australia - Hope Estate 02-25 Brisbane, Australia - Entertainment Centre ! 02-25 Brisbane, Australia - Entertainment Centre ! 02-28 Melbourne, Australia - Rod Laver Arena 03-02 Geelong, Australia - Mount Duneed Winery ! 03-03 Adelaide, Australia - Super Cars Post Race Concert ! 03-05 Perth, Australia - N.I.B Stadium ! 03-09 North Adams, MA - Mass MOCA 04-11 Honolulu, HI - Blue Note Hawaii % 04-12 Honolulu, HI - Blue Note Hawaii % 04-13 Honolulu, HI - Blue Note Hawaii % 04-14 Honolulu, HI - Blue Note Hawaii % 04-20 Sydney, Australia - Enmore Theater % 04-21 Byron Bay, Australia - Bluefest % 04-22 Byron Bay, Australia - Bluefest % 04-25 Melbourne, Australia - Forum Theatre % 04-27 Osaka, Japan - Billboard Live (2 shows) % 04-29 Tokyo, Japan - Billboard Live (2 shows) % 04-30 Tokyo, Japan - Billboard Live (2 shows) % 05-26 Chillicothe, IL - Summer Camp Music Festival % 05-30 Milwaukee, WI - Miller High Life Theatre $ 05-31 Chicago, IL - Aragon Ballroom $ 06-01 Cincinnati, OH - Riverfront Live $ 06-04 New York, NY - SummerStage, Central Park $ 06-05 Boston, MA - Rockland Trust Bank Pavilion $ 06-06 Philadelphia, PA - Franklin Music Hall $ 06-09 Columbia, MD - Capital Jazz Festival % 06-15 Tunica, MS - Gold Strike Casino % 08-02 Los Angeles, CA - Greek Theater $ 08-03 Saratoga, CA - Mountain Winery $ 08-04 Lincoln, CA - Thunder Valley Casino ^ 08-08 Seattle, WA - Showbox Sodo $ 08-10 Portland, OR - Oregon Zoo $ 08-11 Eugene, OR - Cuthbert Amphitheater $ 08-15 Denver, CO - TBA $ 08-17 Phoenix, AZ - Celebrity Theater $ 08-18 Las Vegas, NV - Brooklyn Bowl $

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Parliament-Funkadelic featuring George Clinton bringing its “Final Tour?!?” to the MGM Northfield Park in August

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• Published: Apr. 03, 2023, 12:47 p.m.

George Clinton will bring the "Just For The Funk of It: Final Tour?!?" to MGM Northfield in August. George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic perform at Club XL in Harrisburg on Sunday, December 1, 2019. Vicki Vellios Briner | Special to PennLive Vicki Vellios Briner | Special to PennLive Vicki Vellios Briner | Special t

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NORTHFIELD, Ohio - George Clinton, Rock & Roll Hall of Famer and conceptual mastermind behind Parliament, Funkadelic and every iteration of the P-Funk All-Stars is bringing live P-Funk to the legions of funkateers one final time, maybe, on Thursday, August 24, at MGM Northfield Park. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday, April 7, at via ticketmaster.com .

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Clinton, a class of ‘97 Rock Hall inductee and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient has titled the tour “Just for The Funk of It! - Final Tour?!?” The extra punctuation allows for some doubt as to whether the 81-year-old is permanently retiring from the stage.

Clinton and fellow P-Funk Hall of Famers bassist Bootsy Collins, late keyboardist extraordinaire Bernie Worrell and their many P-Funk bandmates, reshaped funk and R&B, deeply influenced the sound of hip-hop and brought the world perennial jams, including “Flashlight,” “(Not Just) Knee Deep,” and “Atomic Dog”

Opening for Parliament Funkadelic featuring George Clinton will be the legendary Los Angeles-based ska, rock fusion band Fishbone. The band founded in the ‘80s was influenced by P-Funk and became quite influential in their own right, with bands such as Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sublime, Faith No More and No Doubt counting themselves as fans. The band which has gone through numerous lineup changes, has a new song.

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George Clinton’s Final P-Funk Tour Just Got Really Real

The 77 year old Godfather of funk George Clinton made the announcement that he will be touring with Parliament Funkadelic one last time this year on a new farewell tour appropriately called the One Nation Under a Groove .

While tickets went on sale months ago for each of the tour stops, a brand new announcement was just recently added yesterday that adds a slew of opening acts including funk soldiers Galactic , Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk , legendary ska-funk band Fishbone , and Miss Velvet & The Blue Wolf .

For those not acclimated to a typical Parliament Funkadelic performance, they typically run between 2 and half to 3 hours in length. While not all of the bands listed will perform at each stop, the selection of opening acts basically insures that each one of the tour stops will be the equivalent of mini-funk festival that will not be designed for the weak-hearted.

George Clinton began his musical career that spans over a half of a century that began with doo-wop group The Parliaments and then slowly became the funk psychedelic powerhouse that it is today when George Clinton ingeniously put together two separate bands Parliament and a rockier version called Funkadelic that resided on two different record labels.

The result of which created a laundry list of 40 R&B hits and funk standards that set the bar including Flashlight , One Nation Under a Groove , Aqua Boogie , (Not Just) Knee Deep and many others.

While this leg of the tour officially starts in May, they unofficially kick everything off in Atlanta on April 4th which will be his final performance in Atlanta. Even though George Clinton will no longer be at the center of Parliament Funkadelic performances, he did announce that the band would continue on in his absence indicating that it was always about the band and the legacy must continue.

Get ticket and tour info here and tickets to the final Atlanta show here . Official One Nation Under a Groove Tour Dates are below;

Parliament Funkadelic One Nation Under a Groove Tour Dates (source: JamBands.com )

May 30 Milwaukee, WI—Miller High Life Theatre* May 31 Chicago, IL—Aragon Ballroom* June 1 Cincinnati, OH—Riverfront Live* June 4 New York, NY—Central Park SummerStage^ June 5 Boston, MA—Rockland Trust Bank Pavilion^ June 6 Philadelphia, PA—Franklin Music Hall^ August 2 Los Angeles, CA—Greek Theatre^ August 3 Saratoga, CA—Mountain Winery^ August 4 Lincoln, CA—Thunder Valley Casino^+ August 8 Seattle, WA—Showbox SoDo^ August 10 Portland, OR—Oregon Zoo^ August 11 Eugene, OR—Cuthbert Amphitheater^ August 15 Denver, CO—TBA^ August 17 Phoenix, AZ—Celebrity Theater^ August 18 Las Vegas, NV—Brooklyn Bowl^

* w/ Galactic, Fishbone, Miss Velvet & The Blue Wolf ^ w/ Fishbone, Dumpstaphunk, Miss Velvet & The Blue Wolf + also w/ Zapp

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So bummed there are no North or South Carolina dates! Ahhh, will have to get out to one of these!

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George Clinton Reflects on Five Decades of Funk, Retiring From Touring

By Kory Grow

“What’s happening, man?” a spry-sounding George Clinton asks when he picks up the phone. The Parliament – Funkadelic mastermind is turning 78 in July, but says he still feels like he did when he was just starting out in the Fifties and Sixties.

Despite this, he’s announced that his upcoming run of shows , a trek he’s dubbed the One Nation Under a Groove Tour, will be his final outing. It’s something that’s been in the works for a long time, the latest step in a plan he mapped out for himself when he put out his 2014 memoir, Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard on You? and two new recent albums with Funkadelic and Parliament. Once he stops touring, he expects the P-Funk band to continue without him, spreading funk across the planet.

“It’s like theater now,” Clinton tells Rolling Stone . “So I feel good to be able to help direct it. The band is keeping on into this new generation of representing what the funk is about.”

Ahead of the tour, the Funkmaster General recently took some time to reflect on just what the funk he’s been talking about for all these years.

You’re calling the trek the One Nation Under a Groove Tour. Why that name now? We got the masters back to that album. We own the masters. Then we got the publishing back. So the album belongs to me now, even though there’s still a few bootlegs out there. We’re re-releasing it along with some extra cuts and things. I have lots of stuff in the vault.

That record came out under the Funkadelic name in 1978, a couple of months before you put out Parliament’s Motor Booty Affair . And then you had new Parliament and Funkadelic records the next year. What was going on back then? When we did “One Nation,” we went out on what we called the Anti-Tour. We had been out on the road so long with the Mothership and the “underwater tour” [for Motor Booty ] and all of that stuff. We’d introduced [the group] the Brides of Funkenstein, and we went on tour with them. We had on fatigues, like army pants. We had no limos, no roadies. You had to go in and set up the shit yourself. Then “One Nation” hit out of the clear blue, because we wasn’t ready for it. We didn’t have time to get a production behind it. We just said, “Get a flag and some fatigues,” and the band went out as an army. That was the “Anti-Tour.” We didn’t know what to do, but Funkadelic just stayed like we always were: funky.

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We bought all the stuff out of the Army-Navy stores, and after that you started finding it in the department stores. It became fashion. And the shit went up so high at the Army-Navy; it wasn’t cheap like it was when we bought it.

What do you remember about writing “One Nation”? We had just gotten a bunch of equipment from Yamaha. Everybody opened it up, brand new out of the box just to test it out, and it was the first track they was just jamming on. It was Junie Morrison, who had just got with us from Ohio Players, and Bernie [Worrell, keyboard], Doug Duffy [keyboard], Garry Shider [guitar]. It flowed so good that I had a name for it from something someone said. Some people from Washington, D.C. said we looked like one nation under a groove, and that this was my land. And then [ sings ] “Ready or not … ” and it all flowed together so easy that we put it together in a couple of days. We never really mixed it. We tried to mix it for real with all of the EQs and stuff but we actually took the board mix, and that’s the mix that came out on the radio. We tried to mix it again but nothing sounded as good.

And it became the anthem to all of what we was doing. We was doing funkin’ from every which direction. You better be ready, ’cause here we come. We’re gonna dance our way out of this shit.

You were singing about uniting people. That’s always been the thing. We came through that from Motown, which was a big family, right into that rock & roll, hippie type of vibe in ’68 and ’69. For me, that was the best thing. One big community of those two sets of families was always the dream to me. It could be like Woodstock with the fans. Funk, to me, was just the groove that united everything.

What should people expect from the tour? We have to go through the history, and we have to do the new stuff because we have such young kids that’s into the group now that know the history, by way of the Chili Peppers and hip-hop groups. They know us through these different realms, so we have to represent all the different eras we’ve been through. So I usually call the songs when I get on the stage, according to what the crowd feels like to me. I can jump from 50 years ago to right up to now, and people will be familiar with the songs. And since we never do them the same way, it’s a new experience.

It sounds like the band must have hundreds of songs rehearsed then. You never know what I’m gonna say. With some audiences, we can just jam, so I can just call something that we don’t even know and go through it right there. You can’t do that everywhere. We could play a Motown set and nobody would look up to say, “Why are you doing that?” If we go to Oregon or San Francisco, we can go straight rock & roll and take a little bit of “Flash Light” and “We Want the Funk” and turn them into rock & roll. And then we’ll play some songs that people sampled us on. We’ll do [De La Soul’s] “Me Myself and I” [that sampled Funkadelic’s “(Not Just) Knee Deep”] and sing their lyrics, ’cause they made those licks so famous.

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How will you be presenting it? Will you be bringing back the Mothership? The Mothership is in the Smithsonian now. That’s probably one of the biggest displays there.

So what will you have? Since [Parliament’s 2018 album]  Medicaid Fraud Dogg album is out, it’ll have a doctors-and-nurses look. It’s so theatrical. It’s brand new. It gives it a whole ‘nother energy that looks like the Mothership.

It sounds like you still enjoy performing. Is it going to be hard to stop? It really is, but I still have a lot to do.

Like what? I’ll still be making music, but I’ll be finding different ways of getting it out there, through social media and whatever these new equipments they’ve got going on. Once you reach a certain age with radio stations, you’ve got to be an oldie but a goodie. If you wanna do something new, you’ve got to find a new way to present it to people. Otherwise, ain’t nobody trying to hear that shit. But it can be done.

So you’re not considering a full retirement, where you stop everything? No, I’ma be in there doing something that my old ass can do real easy.

There are a lot of artists right now doing their final tours: Ozzy Osbourne, Elton John, Kiss are on their second farewell tour. Yeah, we all old as a motherfucker.

“I’ma be in there doing something that my old ass can do real easy.”

Are you still going to come out and do appearances with the band? Yeah. I’ma check in on them. I’m probably gonna do a reality show to see which one of them is gonna be capable of leading the band [ laughs ]. That would be a good thing to keep them focused.

How do you take care of yourself on the road these days? I don’t do shit until I get on the stage. I save all the energy until I get on the stage and then I have a burst of energy and look like I’ve been jamming all day long. But other than that, I’m a granddad, great granddad. I’m all of that shit. A lot of [the band members] are my grandkids. I have no illusions on that. I can do it on the stage and entertain and motivate them, and then I take my ass home.

What was it like in the old days? Oh, in the old days, you partied all night. You didn’t go to bed ’til 7. You were in bed from 7 to 10 and then you get back up. But I don’t even do legal meds. Back then I had every kind I could get my hands on, illegal or not. Now I look around, and everybody on legal meds look like I looked when I was doing street shit.

Every time you turn around, people are talking about the meds and the government. It’s about your insurance and your meds. Big pharmaceuticals run the world. It’s one nation under sedation.

When did all this change for you? About six, seven years ago.

That wasn’t very long ago. That wasn’t long ago, but I ain’t trying to count no days either. It would have come in handy if I had got out of it before then. But that’s the way it is, so shall it be.

When you look back on all the years of touring you’ve done, what stands out as the wildest concert you’ve played? The first time we played Madison Square Garden [in 1975]. We already had done the spaceship landing, but not with that massive audience with flashlights and things. The whole place lit up like lightning bugs. They had flashlights and those Star Wars swords. That’s where the whole concept of “Flash Light” came from. You couldn’t even hear yourself. When Bootsy stepped in and said, “Hallelujah!” it sounded like the world came to an end.

Do you think you’ll get Bootsy up for any of these last shows? Oh, yeah. He’s retired, too. He can say he can’t play, but he’ll be up there doing something. He’ll play drums or something. He ain’t gonna let this go by. Him or Sly. They ain’t gonna let that whole thing go by. They gonna do something.

Other than the flashlights in the audience, what stands out to you as the craziest thing you’ve seen in a crowd? People had boomboxes of every kind in the audience. They tried to dress like Bootsy or myself, but a giant-sized version of it. There were people on stilts and shit. We used to have a crew of people go around with us and be on stilts and you never knew who they were, because they had all these big, 12-feet-tall, big doll costumes. They followed us around for a while.

When you were doing the shows with the Mothership, did you have to pay for that out of pocket or did the label support you? I did. I told Neil [Bogart, Casablanca Records founder] that it was easier for him to put the money into financing the Mothership than it would have been to give me that much money. That was, like, a quarter of a million dollars. Then the costuming was the same thing. That was Larry LeGaspi, when he was doing all the Broadway plays.

Do you remember your first concert? The first concerts would have been around Jersey at the high school, the Y or the park. We’d also go over to Brooklyn or up to the Apollo Theater for amateur night. When “Testify” came out [in 1967], we played a block party right on 125th St. with WWRL and [radio DJ] Frankie Crocker. He introduced us with “Testify” being Number One on WWRL. We was friends throughout his whole career. He brought us to Madison Square Garden with some other people, and he brought us back in ’96 at Central Park.

Lately, you’ve been fighting to reclaim the copyrights to many of your albums. How is that going? That’s been my mission. I’ve got One Nation back, Knee Deep and Hardcore Jollies ; now I gotta fight for “Flash Light.” You gotta fight for these copyrights. It gave me energy to reignite my career and write new shit, and I’m thankful for that. I’ma kick they ass. That’s my mission now. I’m gonna do a documentary on this. Nobody would believe what they had to go through to try to hide the millions of dollars that they’ve taken. That’s a bigger story than anything you could write about. So that’s my next mission.

But we got those back and we’re going to pay some respect to those songs. They’ve been a part of a lot of people’s careers — all the people that sampled those songs, everyone. So we gonna try to give it something worthy of it. And we’re getting new shit and getting those copyright straightened out for our families. Some of them, I will probably have some problems with, but we’re up for the down strokes.

Finally, what did you think of Ice Cube’s new song, “That New Funkadelic” ? He kind of replicated your sound. I love it. I had it for six months before he put it out. It took everything in the world I had not to post it. [ Sings ] “Ice Cube’s got that new Funkadelic, new Funkadelic.” Matter of fact, we’ll be doing it onstage pretty soon.

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PHOTOS: George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic Bring ‘Final Tour?!?’ To East Coast One Last Time (?)

George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic brought the Just For The Funk of It! Final Tour?!? to the Xcite Center in Bensalem, PA on Friday.

P-Funk’s potentially final outing made weekend stops in New York and Pennsylvania, skipping over New Jersey, where Clinton founded the seminal funk collective with members of his bands Parliament and Funkadelic back in the ’60s.

Clinton was recently nominated for induction into the New Jersey Hall of Fame alongside actor Paul Rudd , football player Tiki Barber , chef Anthony Bourdain , Joe Walsh of the Eagles , and first lady Jill Biden , though after voting, the 82-year-old bandleader was passed over this time around; of the five, only Barber made the cut.

Clinton’s achievements were previously celebrated on his 80th birthday with the dedication of Parliament Funkadelic Way, which includes the section of Plainfield Avenue where his first group, The Parliaments , used to rehearse in his family’s barbershop.

Click below to view a gallery of photos from George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic at the Xcite Center in Bensalem, PA courtesy of photographer Ken Spielman .

Limited dates remain on the Just For The Funk of It! Final Tour?!? including a run of shows in California and Texas in November through December. For a full list of upcoming tour dates and ticketing details, visit the band’s website .

George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic | Xcite Center | Bensalem, PA | 10/27/23 | Photos: Ken Spielman

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