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About Me

Greetings everyone! This is George the Funky Dread. I'm currently based in the groovy town of Blacksburg,VA. I'm a Rastaman in spirit&a drummer in livity!! I've been playin' the drums for well over 25 of my 40 years. I love all types of music&musicians so my influences are all over the place!! Here are some of my top cats: My father George,sr.,Funkadelic,Bob Marley&the Wailers,The Meters,Sly&the Family Stone(67-73),Led Zep,Jane's Addiction,Fishbone,Miles Davis,Third World,Peter Tosh,Dennis Brown, The Police,70's Stones,Pink Floyd,The Thin White Duke,Weather Report,Tribe called Quest,The Outkast,Pharcyde, The Allman Brothers,Dr. Dre,The Ohio Players,The Isley Brothers,Michael Franti,Traffic,Santana, Prince, 70's prog(Yes,Genesis,King Crimson), Frank Zappa,Fela Ransome Kuti,Jimi Hendrix,Billy Cobham,Tony Williams,Elvin Jones,Steve Jordan,Sly Dunbar&Robbie Shakespeare,Bad Brains,80's era Chilipeppers,Soundgarden,Steel Pulse,Stax Records, Westbound Records, Mango Records, etc etc etc........ I love all conscious people that are open&free!! I currently play with The Sol Creech Band & a few other projects here in VA. My 1st venture into the crazy world of rock&soul was with The Yams from Outer Space. Then I went onto the world of Reggae with The Mighty Jah Works out of Baltimore,MD. Right after that experience I rocked pon tha stage with True Sound-a Blacksburg based Hip-Hop Ghetto Rock thang. Music has been a continual blessing!!!Oh yeah, as far as musical mentors go i have to add Mike Kirby to the top of the list!! He was my main man in the Yams&1 of the baddest guitarists on the planet! Check out some of my current project at www.solcreechband.com U can check out music from our latest release "Freedom" and check for Sol Creech Band live dates!! Our sound is a mix of blues,funk and reggae. Big influences for us as a band are Band of Gypsy's(Jimi),Johny "Guitar" Watson, Taj Mahal Trio,Ben Harper&the Innocent Criminals,The Meters, 70's era reggae,Funkadelic(Maggot Brain era),ol' school hip-hop beats and Piedmont blues! Hot off tha blocks is HopeHop-my hip hop/jam project here in Blacksburg. Freaky-stylee stuff indeed!

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My Interests

drums&music, books on Spirituality&music bio's,basketball,martial arts,good food, nice people! I teach drum lessons at Rocket Music in Blacksburg,VA. I also have my own radio-show on 90.7FM WUVT Tuesday nights from 7-9pm "The Soul Jones"-check me out!This is 1 of my top drum heroes-Billy Cobham rockin' in '76 with George Duke,John Scofield&Alphonso Johnson

I'd like to meet:

I would like to meet Obama, Michael Franti,Warren Haynes,Willie Nelson, Bunny Wailer, Zigaboo(original Meters drummer), Joni Mitchell, Wayne Shorter(sax man for Miles&Weather Report),Muhammed Ali,KRS 1,Afrika Bambatta,Jaimoe(the black drummer in the Allmans),Don Cheadle,Robert Plant, Carlos Santana,Stevie Wonder,great musicians who wanna jam good music!!

Music:

70's funk&soul,reggae(roots rock,lover's rock,some dancehall)rock&roll,jazz,hip-hop,blues,afrobeat. This is a video of me introducing Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad at FloydFest '08

Movies:

Ray Charles, all the Star Wars flicks, Do The Right Thing, the Quinton Tarrentino stuff, Rockers,Blazing Saddles,The Last Waltz,Goodfellas,American Gangster,The Song Remains The Same, Boys In Tha Hood,Woodstock,Black Snake Moan

Television:

Flavor Of Love!! old epidodes of The Jamie Foxx Show, Chappelle Show, i used to love all the Behind The Music episodes on VH1, basketball, Sopranos re-runs, cool music dvds

Books:

Catch A Fire(Bob Marley story), The Brothers Neville, Hammer Of The Gods(story of Led Zep), Miles Davis Story, John Coltrane Story, Haile Salassie "I", Midnight Riders(Allman Bros.)

Heroes:

Haile Salassie, Miles Davis, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, George Clinton,Frank Zappa, John Bonham,Steve Jordan, MLK, Malcom X,Che, Fela, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Tony Williams, Zigaboo Modileste,Stewart Copeland,Billy Cobham,Richard Pryor,Carlos Santana,Rage Against The Machine,Maurice White(leader and creator of Earth,Wind&Fire), Sly Stone before all the craziness, my grandmother Mariah Penn Check out this early video of Earth,Wind&Fire-groovin' stuff!!

My Blog

Musical snobs suck!!

I have a real hard time with elitist musical snobs! Being into certain things in order to be a scenester or "cool" is not a good look. Free your mind!!
Posted by G Funk on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:57:00 PST