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..<a href="httpIn the beginning there was DoWop....singing under the streetlight on hot summer nites. Emerging into Motown clones like Jr. Temptations challenging all comers to do battle citywide participating in every talent contest available. Performing Acapella or with local bands emerged "The Young Generation". Observed by the likes of Mr. Big Stuff Barry White we cut our first single entitled "The Young Generation" whereupon TYG became "The Clique" performing with "The Burning Coal", a local band consisting of Dennis Musgrove (Bass), John Lundy(guitar), Elsworth Moultrie(keyboards), Jeru Morgan(drums), with additional percussion, and saxaphone sidemen. Having a taste for the aesthetics of Jazz, Motown gave way to a group of talented musicians whom has taken 2nd place in a talent search @ the Hollywood Bowl playing the classics of Miles, Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Lee Morgan, and McCoy Tyner. We were a natural fit, my vocals and their compositions. Playing all over Southern California The Aesthetic Brotherhood wound up in the first Watts Festival @ the Coliseum playing with groups like Eric Burdon and War and The Watts 103rd Street Band . With our original compositions like "Beautiful and Now" and Lamentations of a Middle Passage" we were set to sign our first record deal with Black Jazz Records then....well...you know. On a brief haitus, moving up to Northern California to San Jose, I met a young lady celebrating her graduation with honors in music @ San Jose State (Valarie Simpson) who encouraged me to continue to evolve. Embarking on a solo career wasn't easy singing @ local Fraternity and Sorority events. Kappa Alpha Psi came into my life and led me to another talented group of Brothers deeply emersed into the "Cosmic Slop" of Funkadelic. Back to Southern Cali with my mind on the Funk,The MotherFunkingNupeBand was born. Kappa Bred and totally driven by the Crimson and Kreme, MFNB traveled the College circuit throughout California bringing a new brand of music on the scene, DaFunk... MFNB laid the foundation for musical experiences that included Sly Stone, his brother Freddie, Rose Banks, Johnny Guitar Watson, Bobby Womack, and many members from Parliament/Funkadelic, Bootsy, Parlet, and Brides of Funkenstein. All the above led to the formation of Ra-Daze and The Electric War Babies. Through these two bands the outreach has been worldwide encompassing each member and crosscutting from concept to concept. Ra-Daze Ltd. has become an institution spanning 4 decades with more that 50 musicians and singers. Undefinable, Ra-Daze can't be labeled but must continue to be heard. Ra-Daze is a myriad of concepts engaging all members of the musical community not to exclude the ancient masters of African edenic past. Detailing every genre from Aardvark to Zygote. Hitting all catagories combining charts from Billboard to Soundscan. Pay attention cause Ra-Daze Ltd. will change conceptually from week to week reaching out to all friends and neighbors worldwide. If you want some....just ask. We iz outtathebox. streetwize baybay!

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Member Since: 6/29/2006
Band Members: Tim Jones, Louis Ledbetter, Nemiah Mississip' McNair, John Holden, Don "Ramono" Baker, Bruce Fisher, Larry Fisher, Vic Ledbetter, Court Devine, Cedric Smith, Paul Foster, Beenie, Donald Fox, "Guitar" Larry Mitchell, E.J. Pierre, Archie Ivy, Marsha Ivy, Dean "the Dream" Jones,Tila, Brem, Amanifu, "Big One", Eric Ward, Alan Mays, Rick Toldon, Shad, Jeru, Blackbyrd Mcknight, Donald "Jim Buck" Matthews, Karl Suttles,Tyrone Griffin, J.C., Richard Morrings, Matt Bragg, Stephanie, Lisa, Pricilla, Francine, Michelle, Bonnie, Michael "Clip" Payne, Frankie Waddy, Tracy "Treyluude" Clinton, Kevin Goins, Jack Sherman, Barry Goldberg, Cliff Martinez, "Plodine", John "Big J" Mitchell, Eric "Shueby" Garner, Stanley Lucky, Kenny Devine, Randall Horton, and others to name as soon as I can remember.
Influences: The Funk Brothers, Isley Brothers, Jimi Hendrix, Coltrane, Miles Davis (post Bitches Brew), Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Sun Ra, Tony Williams, Bo Didley, Sly Stone, Larry Graham, EWFw/Phenix Horns (Satterfield, Harris, and Myrrick), James Brown, Parliament/Funkadelic (Bernie Worrell, Gary Shider, The Baltimore Horns, Eddie Hazel), George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Stanley Clarke, George Duke, Santana, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Richard Smallwood, Andre Crouch, Commissioned, Tupac Shakur, Digital Underground, Kurtis Blow, Teddy Riley, Prince, Thom Bell, The Beatles, David Bowie, Robert Palmer,
Sounds Like: A sampling of all influences and musical innovations, trends, concepts, and individual identity.
Record Label: Ra-Daze
Type of Label: Indie

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G.L. Moody: writer, composer, producer, and arranger.  Former  member of Parliament/Funkadelic U. S. Funk Mob(1975-1985). Purveyor of umitigated, uncut,as well as classic musi...
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