2023-06-01 23:40:20
Parlement/Funkadelic vers 1970. Photo : Archives Michael Ochs/Getty Images
The late Fuzzy Haskins and Calvin Simon, both founding Members of Parliament and Funkadelic, will be inducted tomorrow (3) into the Class of 2023 into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame.
Michael Lipton, director of the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame, raconte wvpublic.org from the varied list: “It’s not necessarily by design. It just happens because everyone who votes has different tastes and there are so many different types and styles of artists who have come from West Virginia.
From Haskins and Simon – both Mountain State natives whose paths first crossed as teenagers, after moving from West Virginia to Plainfield, New Jersey in the late 1950s, joining a group including also George Clinton, Grady Thomas and Ray Davis – Lipton recounts: “They started hanging out at Clinton’s barber shop, the Pink Palace. There were singers and players hanging out there. Clinton, Haskins and Simon formed this doowop group called The Parliaments.
Of Parliament and Funkadelic’s breakthrough in the 1970s, and their personalized P-funk style, he adds, “They got into that stuff in outer space with the mothership and everything. That. Someone asked George Clinton, how did it happen? He says, “Well, I was thinking, where is the last place you would expect to find a black person – outer space? So that’s how it is.
Haskins’ award will be accepted by his son, musician and Bible study teacher, Nowell Scott, who told wvpublic.org: “With Connection to the mothership, they gave their opinion of the time. They were culturally relevant and pushed the boundaries of thought. But there is a source for A-funk, B-funk, C-funk to P-funk, there is a source, and it is GOD.
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