#1 Bimini Road [Paperback]

Diem Jones (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1996

Photo biography of George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic

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Downtown Atlantis, where you might see the jellyfish jamming with the salmon, come face-to-face with a mouth named Jaws, freak out with a mermaid named Rita, and meet Mr. Wiggles the Worm . So speaks Mr. Wiggles/George Clinton over the opening basslines of Parliament s 1978-79 underwater funk sextravanganza Motor Booty Affair . As he told High Times magazine in November of 1978 about he and space bassist Bootsy Collins deep sea fishing excursions off of Bimini; a lot of the time we be out here and a whole school of dolphins will hang around and party with us. They ll follow us all the way to harbor. We is really in tune with them dudes whoever they is. That s what I am working on next, gonna call it Dol-Funk. We is gonna take the Mothership Connection underwater here for the next album and road show. We are going to vibrate Atlantis to the surface and connect the continents. That s the ultimate power of the Funk. It ll be the greatest bumpathon ever. Gonna call it the Motor Booty Affair. Gonna be all kinds of trips comin down real soon, a whole army of dudes called Rump of Steel Skin-they got bombs in their ass that explode when they bump with you . I still remember when the album came out, around Christmas of 1978, everybody was wondering now how they gonna pull this off? The band had just come off the road with the Funkadelic anit-tour in support of One Nation Under a Groove, with almost no props or costumes. It would be a couple of months at least before they loaded up the massive Motor Booty stage set and headed back out, but you can bet, we were gonna be there! Now after almost 25 years here comes Diem Jones #1 Bimini Road, Authentic Pfunk Insights , a truly remarkable book that chronicles this now legendary performance with amazing photography and philosophical intelligentsia truisms . In other words, the truth as seen thru the eyes of a Sufi Warrior. Over 120 pages of full color photos of arguably the most significant musical phenomena of the past quarter century: George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic. Jones holds no punches. Not only do you get shots from the Motor Booty Affair, and believe me the gangs all here- Mr. Wiggles with Giggles and Squirm, Starchild, Rump of Steel Skin, Sir Nose, Dr. Funkenstein, Queen Freakalene; Diem has included here a plethora of pix from the original Mothership Earth Tour, the Funkentelechy/Flashlight show and well into the 80s with the Pfunk All Stars Atomic Dog throwdown. Beautiful shots of Brides of Funkenstein Dawn, Lynn, Sheila Horne, Jeanette McGruder and Parlet s Jeanette Washington and Debbie Wright are interspersed with pictures of all the Mob s major players. Funksters like Bootsy, Mike Hampton, Eddie Hazel, Glen Goins, Garry Shider, Pfunk Horns, Maceo and Kush, Cordell Mosson. My favorite is a two page center shot in the middle of the magazine of George Clinton as the Butterfly. So its indeed one of a kind. One day this book will be as legendary as the tour that produced it. Jones, art director for Uncle Jam records, took the shots during the peaking of the Pee behind the scenes during the late 70s and early 80s. Also included are a selective funkography and a historical chronicle of the Funk Mob s activities in the studio and on the road throughout this amazing period. --The Funk Store.com

About the Author

Diem Jones is a poet, musician and arts administrator living in Mountain View California. His own poetry can be found in Sufi Warrior, A Collection of Words (Juke Box Press) and on Spoken Song collections; Black Fish Jazz (Sufi Warrior Entertainment) and Equanimity (Clear Vision Entertainment). As a renowned photographer, Jones authored #1 Bimini Road, a photo history of George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic in the 1970 s. His forthcoming project, Wizards of Ra will be released as a book and CD the third quarter of 2008. The Executive Director of The Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation and Director of the Voices Writing Workshops (U of San Francisco), focused on writers-of-color, Jones is also Director of Programs for Arts Council Silicon Valley and has also served as Administrative Director of East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Saint Mary s College, National Director of WritersCorps, Grants Administrator at the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and Associate Director of Associated Writing Programs.

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Sufi Warrior Publishing (October 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0965376400
• ISBN-13: 978-0965376402
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,858,862 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A fun trip down memory lane, June 3, 2000

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This review is from: #1 Bimini Road (Paperback)

I enjoyed the book. It's mostly a collection of photographs from Parliament's "Aqua Boogie" tour. The costumes are crazy and it's fun to read about the methods behind the madness. A must for any true P-Funk fan but it probably would not interest the part time funkateers.