If you like classic R & B Funk, you are at the right place. What's Up? My name is T Phillip Gee -- a home-grown DJ who used to throw down the jams at house parties and college dorms in the midwest during 70s. It was something that I used to do in my spare time after my academic studies and organized sport activity (football). I grew up loving all types of music of the 60s and 70s particularly R & B Funk and Soul music. The classic rhythms, vocals, beat, dance grooves and crisp sounds of the instruments engulfed my spirit and soul.
I was also fortunate to have an older brother who was the leader of his own R & B band at the time in which I traveled with him on occasions to local gigs! It was an unforgetable experience which most likely motivated me to become even more connected to music and music industry. Although I was not a musician, I definitely learned to appreciate what it takes to make it in the music industry!
That's probably why I started making my own audio cassette tapes of my favorite groups. Groups such as Earth, Wind & Fire, The Ohio Players, Isley Brothers, Commodores, Parliment Funkadelics, Bootsy Collins, Heatwave, Lakeside, Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, Zapp featuring Roger Troutman and of course Average White Band -- all became apart of my classic audio cassette and eight-track tape collections.
Yet my love for R & B Funk and Soul music actually began at my first concert. I do not know exactly my age (maybe 9 or 10 years old) but I attended a James Brown concert in Cincinnati, Ohio with my relatives. Along with my cousins, we saw James Brown at the top of his fame doing the camel walk, throwing off his cap, and singing all of his FUNKY songs with his classic band!! It was an unbelievable experience -- one in which made me not only want to dance like James Brown (doing the Popcorn) but feel the FUNKY grooves like it should be felt!! From that point on, I was a funkateer!
That's how it all started with me and how I became emmersed into Classic R & B Funk and Soul music!! So here is a blog and eventually Podcast Shows that gives appreciation to Classic R & B Funk and Soul.
