Product Details

• Actors: George Clinton
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Geneon [Pioneer]
• DVD Release Date: September 25, 2001
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (58 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305079080
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #266,826 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "George Clinton: The Mothership Connection" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

George Clinton struck the mama lode with The Mothership Connection. Includes such classic hits as: "Mothership Connection", "Cosmic Slop", "Gammin' On Ya", "Standing On The Verge Of Getting' It On", "The Undisco Kid", "Children Of Production", "Swing Down Sweet Chariot", "Dr. Funkenstein", "Comin' Round The Mountain", "P. Funk", "Tear The Roof Off The Sucker", "Night Of The Thumpasorus Peoples", and "Funkin' For Fun". Part of the Pioneer Artist Concert Film Series.

Customer Reviews

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50 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Improve Your Interplanetary Funksmanship, June 11, 2002

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doomsdayer520 (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: George Clinton: The Mothership Connection (DVD)

I'm in funk heaven! As a longtime Parliament/Funkadelic worshipper who was tragically born too late to see them in their prime, this DVD offers a long overdue pleasure overload. Never mind the cranks who are criticizing some parts of this DVD, and dig the pure uncut funk instead. Sure, the video quality here leaves something to be desired, but this was recorded on film in the mid-70's. I would also recommend that you increase the brightness on your player or computer as much of the video is very dark. But that's because the stage lights were presented for the live audience, not for some future DVD that people could pick apart on electronic equipment. My only legitimate beef with this package is the lack of documentation or background about the concert recorded, and a personnel listing of the huge mob on stage would have been helpful.

But on the good side (and all that is good is nasty) you get a wide selection of funk bombs from the catalogs of both Parliament and Funkadelic, performed by the best and brightest of the ever-evolving P-Funk mob, plus the Mothership itself in all its freaky glory. On top of it all we see mainman George Clinton leading the insanity in a parade of shock-inducing wigs and outfits, and whipping the crowd into a frenzy. Fave musical moments are the opener "Cosmic Slop" with Mike Hampton's superhuman guitar solos, a slammin' "Standing on the Verge of Getting' It On" featuring a frantic Fuzzy Haskins as MC, and "Mothership Connection" where the brilliant (and dearly departed) Glenn Goins really shines. Visually, you gotta love the classic outfits sported by all the members of the funk mob, like Maceo Parker and the Horny Horns, laidback genius Bernie Worrell, Stingray Davis, Grady Thomas, Calvin Simon (seen rarely), the Brides of Funkenstein, and especially Garry Shider with diaper and pacifier. Unfortunately the bass player and drummer are barely pictured through the entire DVD; my guesses would be Cordell Mosson and Jerome "Bigfoot" Brailey, but it sure would be nice to see them. In the grand finale, "Night of the Thumpasaurus Peoples", Bootsy Collins (who rules) makes a special appearance along with the rest of his Rubber Band. Apparently Sly and the Family Stone were up there too, but by that point it's hard to tell who's who among the 40-plus funksters on stage.

If you dig the funk in any way, and especially if you're a P-Funk aficionado, dismiss the minor technical limitations of this DVD and just let the performance blow the cobwebs out your mind.

43 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars HOUSTON...WE DO NOT HAVE A PROBLEM!, May 9, 2000

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tim kinley (Oakhurst, New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: George Clinton: The Mothership Connection (DVD)

Anyone who would give less than five stars to the performance on this DVD must be on some advanced form of crack-cocaine. I've had this concert on bootleg video for years and let me tell you the quality(video and audio) of this DVD is superlative. This is the U.S. Funk Mob at full tilt. To correct another reviewer, Sly Stone does not make an appearance at the end of this video. Several members of band do, including background singers Lynn Mabry and Dawn Silva who would later make up the first incarnation of the Brides Of Funkenstein, another P-Funk spin off act. The only objectionable thing about the DVD is that it is credited to George Clinton when it should be credited to Parliament-Funkadelic. This performance was also done at the beginning of the 1976 "Mothership Connection" tour and yet they still tore the roof off. Take it from somebody who has been archiving P-Funk for 22 years, you cannot possibly go wrong with this DVD.

33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Free Your Mind.....The year was 1976 Stupid!, September 25, 2003

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Dr. Feel (GA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: George Clinton: The Mothership Connection (DVD)

All of you critics who write negative reviews about this DVD must have been born in the 80's and are spoiled by modern technology. Just think for a minute...this concert was filmed in 1976 using 1970's video equipment, stage props, lights, audio, and of course pop-culture themes of that particular time in history. This is a historical collector's item of live entertainment as we knew it back in the day. This was long before DVD's, CD's, MP3's, drum machines, digital cameras, digital audio and other modern technological "conveniences" that you Gen-Xer's couldn't imagine living without. Hell, even the VCR had just hit the store shelves at the time.

True, the video quality pales in comparison to today's standards, but you must consider the times and the fact that the taping of this show was never intended to be made available for consumer home entertainment, especially on something called a DVD some 27 years into the future.

Anyway, now that I've put this in perspective for ya, this is and was an awesome concert, and in my opinion, the second best live tour ever performed in music history next to the Earth Wind & Fire tours of the '70's. You had to have been there to really appreciate the landing of the Mothership and other special effects since the video does not "pan out" enough to visually capture the entire stage set-up. This was NOT a cheap production - nobody had ever seen anything this exciting at a concert before this tour hit the scene.

This was George Clinton and the crew at their prime, singing the best songs from the "Mothership Connection", "Dr. Funkenstein", "Tales of Kidd Funkadelic" and "Hardcore Jollies" albums, all released the same year-1976. This was even before "Flashlight", "One Nation...." and "Knee Deep", so this was just the tip of the iceberg of what was to come from this talented group of musicians.

So if your imagination can take you there, or if you're old enough to have witnessed the P-Funk Earth Tour of 1976, then just reflect or maybe learn something about the days when you paid ($7.00 - I still have my ticket stubs) to see real musicians, real singers, funky costumes and creative LIVE special effects, not just some thugs with a mic, turn table, computer and gold teeth rappin' about booty and ho's.