"Earth Tour" redirects here. For the tour by Prince, see Earth Tour (Prince).
The P-Funk Earth Tour was a concert tour by Parliament-Funkadelic in 1976-1977, featuring absurd costumes, lavish staging and special effects, and music from both the Parliament and Funkadelic repertoires.
The P-Funk Earth Tour was ambitious from the start. Casablanca Records executive Neil Bogart gave George Clinton a $275,000 budget for production, the largest amount ever allocated for a Black music act to tour.[1] Clinton hired Jules Fischer as set designer, who had previously worked on tours for The Rolling Stones, KISS, and other rock bands.[1][2] Both the show's music and production elements were extensively rehearsed at an aircraft hangar in Newburgh, New York.[1][2] The show required seven trucks to transport its equipment and scenery.[2] With a broad range of themes embodied in the show's production, culminating in the Afrofuturist landing of the P-Funk Mothership, author Rickey Vincent states that the P-Funk Earth Tour "drew from the ribald, uncensored entirety of the Black tradition in mind-blowing ways no one had yet even attempted."[1]Rolling Stone viewed the tour as embracing Clinton's "semiserious funk mythology" with "[a] mixture of tribal funk, elaborate stage props and the relentless assault on personal inhibition [that] resembled nothing so much as a Space Age Mardi Gras."[3]The New York Times described the tour as featuring "superbly silly, lavish costumes" and an "opulent Baroque ... stage show".[4]
The tour began in April 1976 in Nashville.[1] The 1977 live albumLive: P-Funk Earth Tour was recorded at two early 1977 concerts, January 19 at the Los Angeles Forum and January 21 at the Oakland Coliseum.[1] The tour drew to a close in mid-1977; its expenses were as high as its innovation level and it was losing money steadily;[5] indeed one tour assistant's job was "to tell the musicians why they weren't getting paid."[5] Nevertheless, the tour served as valuable publicity and marketing for "the P-Funk brand",[5] making reference to the greater Parliament-Funkadelic-Clinton enterprise of acts, records, side projects, spin-offs, and so forth.
funk, earth, tour, this, article, about, concert, tour, parliament, album, live, earth, tour, redirects, here, tour, prince, earth, tour, prince, concert, tour, parliament, funkadelic, 1976, 1977, featuring, absurd, costumes, lavish, staging, special, effects,. This article is about the concert tour For the Parliament album see Live P Funk Earth Tour Earth Tour redirects here For the tour by Prince see Earth Tour Prince The P Funk Earth Tour was a concert tour by Parliament Funkadelic in 1976 1977 featuring absurd costumes lavish staging and special effects and music from both the Parliament and Funkadelic repertoires The P Funk Earth Tour was ambitious from the start Casablanca Records executive Neil Bogart gave George Clinton a 275 000 budget for production the largest amount ever allocated for a Black music act to tour 1 Clinton hired Jules Fischer as set designer who had previously worked on tours for The Rolling Stones KISS and other rock bands 1 2 Both the show s music and production elements were extensively rehearsed at an aircraft hangar in Newburgh New York 1 2 The show required seven trucks to transport its equipment and scenery 2 With a broad range of themes embodied in the show s production culminating in the Afrofuturist landing of the P Funk Mothership author Rickey Vincent states that the P Funk Earth Tour drew from the ribald uncensored entirety of the Black tradition in mind blowing ways no one had yet even attempted 1 Rolling Stone viewed the tour as embracing Clinton s semiserious funk mythology with a mixture of tribal funk elaborate stage props and the relentless assault on personal inhibition that resembled nothing so much as a Space Age Mardi Gras 3 The New York Times described the tour as featuring superbly silly lavish costumes and an opulent Baroque stage show 4 The tour began in April 1976 in Nashville 1 The 1977 live album Live P Funk Earth Tour was recorded at two early 1977 concerts January 19 at the Los Angeles Forum and January 21 at the Oakland Coliseum 1 The tour drew to a close in mid 1977 its expenses were as high as its innovation level and it was losing money steadily 5 indeed one tour assistant s job was to tell the musicians why they weren t getting paid 5 Nevertheless the tour served as valuable publicity and marketing for the P Funk brand 5 making reference to the greater Parliament Funkadelic Clinton enterprise of acts records side projects spin offs and so forth Date City Country VenueApril 16 1976 Nashville United States Nashville Municipal AuditoriumApril 18 1976 Cleveland Allen TheatreApril 24 1976 Richmond Richmond ColiseumMay 14 1976 Cincinnati Riverfront ColiseumMay 15 1976 Pittsburgh Civic ArenaMay 29 1976 Philadelphia SpectrumJune 11 1976 Tulsa Tulsa Assembly CenterJune 20 1976 Detroit Masonic TempleJuly 13 1976 Orlando Orlando Sports StadiumJuly 18 1976 Nashville Nashville Municipal AuditoriumAugust 12 1976 Seattle Paramount TheatreAugust 14 1976 Los Angeles Shrine AuditoriumSeptember 26 1976 Newburgh Stewart International AirportOctober 2 1976 Providence Providence Civic CenterOctober 27 1976 New Orleans Municipal AuditoriumOctober 28 1976 Baton Rouge LSU Assembly CenterOctober 29 1976 Jackson Mississippi ColiseumOctober 30 1976 Lake Charles Lake Charles Civic CenterOctober 31 1976 Houston The SummitNovember 3 1976 San Antonio HemisFair ArenaNovember 5 1976 Dallas Dallas Convention CenterNovember 6 1976 Norman Lloyd Noble CenterNovember 7 1976 Tulsa Tulsa Assembly CenterReferences Edit a b c d e f Vincent Rickey 1996 Funk The Music the People and the Rhythm of the One St Martin s Press ISBN 0 312 13499 1 p 245 a b c Thompson Dave 2001 Funk Backbeat Books ISBN 0 87930 629 7 p 90 McEwen Joe 1980 Funk The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock amp Roll New York Random House Rolling Stone Press ISBN 0 394 73938 8 p 375 John Rockwell 1977 07 01 The Pop Life A Secular Niche For Gospel and Jesus Rock The New York Times Retrieved 2007 12 16 a b c Kempton Arthur 2005 Boogaloo The Quintessence of American Popular Music University of Michigan Press ISBN 0 472 03087 6 pp 380 381 External links EditP Funk Tour List Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title P Funk Earth Tour amp oldid 1122069842, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
