I want my daddy's records

In the classically hilarious words of Pot Belly aka Bubba, friend of Fred Sanford: I want my daddy's records. As we continue to get bombarded with autotunes, shoddy covers of classic songs, and copycat artist who steal the gimmicks of predecessor; many of us are yelling: I WANT MY DADDY's RECORDS! Indeed, why pay cheap imitations when you can listen to the real thing or see it in action on YouTube?

I love going to Funk concerts. So, I have seen, in no particular order of greatness because they are also so fantastic:

- The Gap Band
- Lakeside
- ConFunkShun
- WAR featuring Latin Alliance
- Midnight Star
- SOS Band
- Average White Band
- Kool and The Gang
- Midnight Star
- Carl Carlton
- Dazz Band
- Brick
- The Time
- Slave
- Frankie Smith

ALLLLLL of them were phenomenal! I was born in the 80's and I realized that, in concert, most pop songs DO NOT sound like they do on records. They sound like crap. Most of it made me hate live versions of stuff,lol. Yet, when I was a preteen and a teenager, I began to notice that the poison of New Jack Swing had completely take over the airwaves. All of a sudden, I was hearing music that was hot was I was anywhere from 2 to 7 years old except it was only samples of it. Worst of all, there was some tired rapper or untalented hack of a vocalist singing over some of MY FAVORITE SONGS. Then, I entered the twilight zone when I realized that my peer, MY PEERS didn't know that the best part of the song, the "beat" that claim was the only reason they listened to the song, was SOMEBODY ELSE's beat to a MUCH BETTER SONG!!!!!!!!!!!! I could do a Sam Kinison scream everytime I think about that,lol.

The number of times that the Gap Band's "Outstanding" and George Clinton's "Atomic Dog" was unfreaaaaaaaaaking REAAAAAAALLLL. Po' James Brown -that man should have been a TRILLIONAIRE.