{"id":3421,"date":"2008-10-30T22:32:13","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T02:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=946"},"modified":"2018-11-16T12:37:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:37:22","slug":"george-clinton-rb-skeletons-in-the-closet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2008\/george-clinton-rb-skeletons-in-the-closet\/","title":{"rendered":"George Clinton &#8211; R&#038;B Skeletons in the Closet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/clintongeorgeskeletons.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-947\" title=\"George Clinton - R&amp;B Skeletons in the Closet\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/clintongeorgeskeletons.jpg\" alt=\"George Clinton - R&amp;B Skeletons in the Closet\" width=\"500\" height=\"939\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All the ingredients, and the players, Bootsy Collins, Maceo Parker, McKnight, Shider, and more are here, but <em>R&amp;B Skeletons in the Closet<\/em> (1986) is not the most vital piece of George Clinton&#8217;s body of work. Some of songs are perfect and some are down right grating. The two I like the most are &#8220;Hey Good Lookin&#8221; and the semi-hit &#8220;Do Fries Go With That Shake!?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The album cover art alone is worth the price. I wish you could see it better, but I&#8217;m feeling too lazy for detail shots. In a nutshell the whole thing is a commentary on black artists that sell out to &#8220;cross over.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I got to see Mr. Clinton, George that is, live somewhere between this album and that video. Maybe I&#8217;ll dig out the t-shirt I got and post that later.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/R%26B_Skeletons_in_the_Closet\" target=\"_blank\">George Clinton&#8217;s R&amp;B Skeletons in the Closet<\/a> at Wikipedia<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/gclinton\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the ingredients, and the players, Bootsy Collins, Maceo Parker, McKnight, Shider, and more are here, but R&amp;B Skeletons in the Closet (1986) is not the most vital piece of George Clinton&#8217;s body of work. Some of songs are perfect and some are down right grating. The two I like the most are &#8220;Hey Good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[465,452,453],"tags":[510,689,702,46,921,1033],"class_list":["post-3421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c","category-music","category-record-collection","tag-510","tag-funk","tag-george-clinton","tag-music","tag-rb","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3482,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions\/3482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}