@@aliyourbrother1all these guys were deep artists and geniuses. Thats the only reason youd do something like Funkadelic to begin with. It ties together all the different strings of the psychedelic and post psychedleic era seemlessly. It was a collective of Black Musicians from the south and also detroit who both understood where european art rock bands were going and also the deeper traditional elements of funk,blues,soul,and country and combined both with the hard rock american rock sound of that era as well as earlier psychedelic influence like Sly and The Family Stone,Jimi Hendrix,and Small Faces. I personally think they also influenced as well as inpsired elements from the german krautrock movement a couple years later but regardless they represented American Rock as well as Roots Blues and RnB to The European Progressive Rock Scene of The 70s woth great pride and I think every American should know who Funkadelic were. They proved that American Music in of itself was winde spanning and a true form of art. They proved that Art Rock could rock with roots as hard as any of the europeans could do it and that American Rock in of itself could be just as spiritual and deep as what the krautrockers were doing and they also held onto the more traditional elements from african American Music that they started in while also never letting go of the future. They have some country inspired shit i feel like too at times on songs like cant stand the strain. Its this amazing beautiful and extremely well thought out mix of musical influences which fills funkadelic out and the level of vision i think they had stands over just about everyone. They were true rock stars of the time they came about.
Playin this today in honor of Bernie Worrell! Greatest and funkiest keyboard player of all time! Rockin like no one rocked before him and after him! Peace and Funk!
U MUST AINT HEARD NO SUN RA THEN BECAUSE SUN RA WUD TAKE TO HIS COSMIC HOME ON SATURN WITH SOME....AFTER THE END OF THE WORLD.....U AINT KNOW THAT YET??? BERNIE FUNKY FO SHO BUT RA WEARS ALL THE CROWNS!!!
This song takes me to a space where I wanna turn off the lights, close my eyes and take a ride on the mothership within and meditate. I find Funkadelic's music to be very spiritual in its essence.
It has been said this piece is "entirely an homage to Bach". For real: in a review of an academic paper by Ellen Exner called "Certifying J. S. Bach’s Interplanetary Funksmanship: George Clinton, Bernie Worrell, and P-Funk’s Baroque Aesthetic", it is written: [A] a survey of P-Funk’s works reveals that there are indeed [...] tracks that do overtly reference the style of [JS Bach]. One such is “Atmosphere” (Let’s Take it to the Stage, 1975), the music of which is entirely an homage to Bach. The infusion of Bachian and other “classical” textures into P-Funk’s eclectic blend was among the essential contributions of Clinton’s brilliant keyboardist, Bernard Worrell. The “Wizard of Woo,” as Worrell was sometimes known, brought an extraordinarily sophisticated level of musicianship to the band, having trained as a concert pianist at the Juilliard School and then the New England Conservatory. His virtuosic instrumental commentary, encyclopedic command of musical styles, contagious bass lines, and the signature extraterrestrial soundscape he created with his Moog synthesizer were indispensable to the group’s unique sonic identity. Exner's paper "marks the first scholarly exploration of P-Funk’s debt to Bach and by extension joins an ever-evolving discussion of how his music transcends generic boundaries. " From www.americanbachsociety.org/Newsletters/BachNotes28.pdf
It is shocking to me that only through Bach could one recognize the immensely sophisticated level of musicianship in P-Funk. As if, had Bernie not chosen to pay homage to Bach, people who consider themselves music aficionados wouldn't have been able to recognize talent outside of their chosen genre. Bernie was far from the only person who exhibited an "extraordinarily sophisticated level of musicianship" in the band even if he was the main one to reference Bach.
@@MLATX512 I believe you misunderstand what Exner wrote. There's nothing about recognizing P-Funk's musicianship "only through Bach" there! Bernie did bring HIS sophisticated musicianship to join with the different yet also sophisticated musicianships of others. Just like I can "bring my sense of humor" to my family dinner table without implying that nobody else in my family has a sense of humor. Exner also wrote that George Clinton, in his 2014 memoir, "specifically identified the contrapuntal style of J. S. Bach as an important musical influence while discussing composition of the track “Nappy Dugout” (Funkadelic, Cosmic Slop, 1973)" So maybe you should take your concerns up with George Clinton?! P.S. I am sure most of us who have loved Parliament/Funkadelic came to it with absolutely no idea that any of them were "into" Bach. It's not important, it doesn't make P-Funk any more legit, it's just a fun thing about music and musicians. Categories are not so important. But I do know for a fact that Bach never wrote anything like these lyrics, about pussies, clits and dicks.
I've been listening to this song for at least a decade and I used to play in an orchestra. I'm almost embarrassed to admit that I never listened to this song with classical in mind; thank you for giving me a whole new way to enjoy this piece!
As far as "recognizing the immensly sophisticated level of musicianship in P-Funk" through Bach - for me it was sort of the other way around. This song SPECIFICALLY was how i gradually got into the music of Bach. I was vaguely familiar with it before, as most of us might be, enough to recognize this song as a Bach pastiche. And for me it was Bernies interpretation that made me realize there was a .. funk and a beauty in the works of Bach that was worth investigating more thoroughly. I once told this story to an internationally acclaimed classical musician (who I was interviewing for the release of his "Goldberg Variations") - the response was pretty wide eyed (though not really in a dismissive way)
This is funk travelling through the atmosphere into the milky way... if you put a microphone into the universe, this it what it sound like. RIP to Bernie Worrell.. . The Woo Warrior!!!! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
BERNIE WORRELL!!!!.. the man is from another dimension... last half of this track sounds like he takes you to church and lights up a j before you walk in lol
It just captures something depressing, yet hauntingly soulful....like an inner pain, or fear, expressed musically. I get sad and reflective every time I hear it.
Funkadelic and Bernie Worrell is pure genius but don't forget the other subtle genius of Eddie Hazel playing the guitar riffs in the background in the 70s my 15 year old self used to lock the doors of my bedroom and blast my stereo system to the ceiling when playing Funkadelic Albums.
No wonder i'm mad. I listened to this in High School... 5:32 spacing off of the memories.Bernie Worrell (keys, synths,organ ) is a genius ! oh and another thang fried ice cream is a reality !
B.W. is one of those people that makes me appreciate being here during his existence. In this world of sampling, remixing and covers This is a true musician that could never be duplicated.. the only one...
THIS IS ALL ABOUT THE FUNK ,IF YOU'RE A FUNKADELIC AT HEART YOU WOULD KNOW THAT EVERY BEAT,NOTE THAT YOU HEAR IS WHY THEY ARE CALLED THE FUNKADELIC THE FUNKY FUNK MASTER. BELIEVE THAT.( DA SINBAD )FROM THE HOUSE OF SEVEN JOY.
Dam listen to this 8 grade my farther founding member of esquires told me about funkeldelic when he met them in studio about 1974 he said theywas raw and real and crazy
@Beachbootyman01 I guess because they're both in Detroit........and one of the Clark Sisters song has a bass line passage from "Dr. Funkenstine". "Overdose of the Holy Ghost" is the song from The Clark Sisters.
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Only Funkadelic, especially Bernie 'Woo' Worrell', can make a song 7-10+ minutes long and you think it's not long enough.
Funk on...1 Nation
ifkr?? haha i want to hear every edited clip from the cutting room floor! :( rip bernie! :( 🙏🏼💜💛💜💛😭😭😭😭
Bernie played piano at 3. Was playing Mozart at 5. Was playing concertos at 10. Amazing interview on RUclips.
@@aliyourbrother1all these guys were deep artists and geniuses. Thats the only reason youd do something like Funkadelic to begin with. It ties together all the different strings of the psychedelic and post psychedleic era seemlessly. It was a collective of Black Musicians from the south and also detroit who both understood where european art rock bands were going and also the deeper traditional elements of funk,blues,soul,and country and combined both with the hard rock american rock sound of that era as well as earlier psychedelic influence like Sly and The Family Stone,Jimi Hendrix,and Small Faces. I personally think they also influenced as well as inpsired elements from the german krautrock movement a couple years later but regardless they represented American Rock as well as Roots Blues and RnB to The European Progressive Rock Scene of The 70s woth great pride and I think every American should know who Funkadelic were. They proved that American Music in of itself was winde spanning and a true form of art. They proved that Art Rock could rock with roots as hard as any of the europeans could do it and that American Rock in of itself could be just as spiritual and deep as what the krautrockers were doing and they also held onto the more traditional elements from african American Music that they started in while also never letting go of the future. They have some country inspired shit i feel like too at times on songs like cant stand the strain. Its this amazing beautiful and extremely well thought out mix of musical influences which fills funkadelic out and the level of vision i think they had stands over just about everyone. They were true rock stars of the time they came about.
@@WocklessGamingforAnimeMoms Very well said
One of the most moving organ pieces ever in my opinion
This is some of the funkiest, creepiest, funniest, saddest, heaviest stuff ever.
Playin this today in honor of Bernie Worrell! Greatest and funkiest keyboard player of all time! Rockin like no one rocked before him and after him!
Peace and Funk!
U MUST AINT HEARD NO SUN RA THEN BECAUSE SUN RA WUD TAKE TO HIS COSMIC HOME ON SATURN WITH SOME....AFTER THE END OF THE WORLD.....U AINT KNOW THAT YET??? BERNIE FUNKY FO SHO BUT RA WEARS ALL THE CROWNS!!!
It was a sad day when Bernie left pfunk
Even sadder that Bernie is gone
I Believe What You Just "SAID "
There are no words to describe the depth of genius involved here.
Bernie Worrel on keyboards. Was playing classical music concerts at age 10. Very good interview on RUclips.
@@aliyourbrother1 like full concerts at an adult level?
@@WocklessGamingforAnimeMoms Yes
No words? That's too easy. Do it.
@@WocklessGamingforAnimeMomsyes, he was a prodigy. He was already playing classical at 4 or 5.
And he was the best uncle in the world.. Love you Uncle Bernie.. Always have those memories.. Tones still in my head... Like you taught me..
Wow dope!
Classical? Funk? Jazz? Soul?
Bernie Just goes into the zone and makes Music
deserves a billion more views, such a shame this piece is unknown to the public
You must be really into funkadelic and parliament to even think of this cut!
Bernie didn't die. He just beamed back aboard The Mothership.
BOOOOOOOOOOOO
Yes, haha😂!
this is some funk classical, video game, halloween, circus clown, mushroom music...these dudes were ahead of their time. go funkadelic...
This song takes me to a space where I wanna turn off the lights, close my eyes and take a ride on the mothership within and meditate. I find Funkadelic's music to be very spiritual in its essence.
It has been said this piece is "entirely an homage to Bach".
For real: in a review of an academic paper by Ellen Exner
called "Certifying J. S. Bach’s Interplanetary Funksmanship: George Clinton, Bernie Worrell, and P-Funk’s Baroque Aesthetic", it is written: [A] a survey of P-Funk’s works reveals that there are indeed [...] tracks that do overtly reference the style of [JS Bach]. One such is “Atmosphere” (Let’s Take it to the Stage, 1975), the music of which is entirely an homage to Bach.
The infusion of Bachian and other “classical” textures into
P-Funk’s eclectic blend was among the essential contributions of Clinton’s brilliant keyboardist, Bernard Worrell. The “Wizard of Woo,” as Worrell was sometimes known, brought an extraordinarily sophisticated level of musicianship to
the band, having trained as a concert pianist at the Juilliard School and then the New England Conservatory. His virtuosic instrumental commentary, encyclopedic command of
musical styles, contagious bass lines, and the signature extraterrestrial soundscape he created with his Moog synthesizer
were indispensable to the group’s unique sonic identity.
Exner's paper "marks the first scholarly exploration of P-Funk’s debt to Bach and by extension joins an ever-evolving discussion of how his music transcends generic boundaries. " From www.americanbachsociety.org/Newsletters/BachNotes28.pdf
It is shocking to me that only through Bach could one recognize the immensely sophisticated level of musicianship in P-Funk. As if, had Bernie not chosen to pay homage to Bach, people who consider themselves music aficionados wouldn't have been able to recognize talent outside of their chosen genre. Bernie was far from the only person who exhibited an "extraordinarily sophisticated level of musicianship" in the band even if he was the main one to reference Bach.
@@MLATX512 I believe you misunderstand what Exner wrote. There's nothing about recognizing P-Funk's musicianship "only through Bach" there! Bernie did bring HIS sophisticated musicianship to join with the different yet also sophisticated musicianships of others. Just like I can "bring my sense of humor" to my family dinner table without implying that nobody else in my family has a sense of humor. Exner also wrote that George Clinton, in his 2014 memoir, "specifically identified the contrapuntal style of J. S. Bach as an important musical influence while discussing composition of the track “Nappy Dugout” (Funkadelic, Cosmic Slop, 1973)" So maybe you should take your concerns up with George Clinton?! P.S. I am sure most of us who have loved Parliament/Funkadelic came to it with absolutely no idea that any of them were "into" Bach. It's not important, it doesn't make P-Funk any more legit, it's just a fun thing about music and musicians. Categories are not so important. But I do know for a fact that Bach never wrote anything like these lyrics, about pussies, clits and dicks.
I don't understand nothing you said but that was deep. We use travel listening to this tape over and over. The best album ever.
I've been listening to this song for at least a decade and I used to play in an orchestra. I'm almost embarrassed to admit that I never listened to this song with classical in mind; thank you for giving me a whole new way to enjoy this piece!
As far as "recognizing the immensly sophisticated level of musicianship in P-Funk" through Bach - for me it was sort of the other way around. This song SPECIFICALLY was how i gradually got into the music of Bach. I was vaguely familiar with it before, as most of us might be, enough to recognize this song as a Bach pastiche. And for me it was Bernies interpretation that made me realize there was a .. funk and a beauty in the works of Bach that was worth investigating more thoroughly.
I once told this story to an internationally acclaimed classical musician (who I was interviewing for the release of his "Goldberg Variations") - the response was pretty wide eyed (though not really in a dismissive way)
Atmosphere By Bernie Da Vinci Worrell on synthesizer, organ Gary Dowop Shider accompaniment on rhythm guitar and George Clinton with the trippy vocals
This is funk travelling through the atmosphere into the milky way... if you put a microphone into the universe, this it what it sound like. RIP to Bernie Worrell..
. The Woo Warrior!!!! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
sometimes I play this in my car and people always ask me what am I playing they are not hip to this masterpeice. ha! ha!
I don’t remember how I first found this song but every once in a while I come back. Lol. Trippy
BERNIE WORRELL!!!!.. the man is from another dimension... last half of this track sounds like he takes you to church and lights up a j before you walk in lol
Yes Lawd!😉
Damn good way to put it
I am really getting a good high from this. Bernie Worrell is the " Keyboard Wizard".
It just captures something depressing, yet hauntingly soulful....like an inner pain, or fear, expressed musically. I get sad and reflective every time I hear it.
No boundaries in music like this it goes where it needs to.
Long before i started studying piano...I loved this song. The synth at 2min 30 is awsome
Bernie Worrell is like a mad scientist on the keys. Complete genius.
Atmosphere is a keyboard "masterpiece"!!! Funkadelic was "RAW" back in the day!
Funkadelic and Bernie Worrell is pure genius but don't forget the other subtle genius of Eddie Hazel playing the guitar riffs in the background in the 70s my 15 year old self used to lock the doors of my bedroom and blast my stereo system to the ceiling when playing Funkadelic Albums.
Bernie Worrell is one of the illest dudes ever
LOVE THIS SONG
Bernie Worrel on keyboards. Was playing classical piano concerts at age 10. Was playing piano at 3. Amazing interview on RUclips about 1 1/2 hours.
RIP and endless respect to Bernie.
The beauty of random Yotube playlists has blessed me with this find 🔍
No wonder i'm mad. I listened to this in High School... 5:32 spacing off of the memories.Bernie Worrell (keys, synths,organ ) is a genius ! oh and another thang fried ice cream is a reality !
B.W. is one of those people that makes me appreciate being here during his existence. In this world of sampling, remixing and covers This is a true musician that could never be duplicated.. the only one...
Masterpiece
What Maggot Brain was to Eddie, Atmosphere was to Bernie.
Funkadelic takes you to the Medieval Days
I can listen to this all day!!
Bernie Worrell wrote this being trained in classical piano and writing concertos at the age of eight.
There is a (many) reason why Bernie Worrell is so respected across the entire spectra of musicians.
Fly on Bernie, fly on; I will miss you now, but will see you again in the sweet by and by:) Cherokee
Still got the original vinyl after all these years 😊
Man this is some good stuff, Funk adelic, yea.
this is krazy. its gotta eerie feel yet its sonically funky and cool in a sense. i just wish they ha the first part
thx for the post. im definitely hearing beethoven influences in this piece. RIP bernie...
The master's dead - and I cry.
i do too :( every time 😭😭😭😭rip🙏🏼🍻🎹🎹🎛🎛🎚🐛
vabbè, siamo nel 1975 quando sto pezzo è uscito ed io nel 2022 la trovo una produzione INNOVATIVA. Che dire, tanta roba!
Spiritual music!
THIS IS ALL ABOUT THE FUNK ,IF YOU'RE A FUNKADELIC AT HEART YOU WOULD KNOW THAT EVERY BEAT,NOTE THAT YOU HEAR IS WHY THEY ARE CALLED THE FUNKADELIC THE FUNKY FUNK MASTER. BELIEVE THAT.( DA SINBAD )FROM THE HOUSE OF SEVEN JOY.
Chill
Wow. I remember this vividly.
OH SNAP! Is this the sample the Luniz used on Ice Cream Man? 🤯
Also used on AMG “Janine” - I thought it was a whistle!
love creative bands like this
I can picture Craig, Smokey, & Day-Day right now doin' somethin' crazy. Why isn't this apart of a movie soundtrack?
+Sherita Hall because my movie hasn't been made yet! of course :P
Amazing piece, the Great Bernie Worrell
Best Spooky season song ever
Carnival of Carnage!!!!
Simply amazing man....Like you're listening to a man talk thru a synthesizer.
RIP Bernie Worrell #FEELTHEBERN
Respect!
Why is this so amazing?
For those who didn't know,Stetsasonic sampled this on Music For The Stetfully Insane
Outstanding key work!!
I think the Luniz sampled it to for Ice Cream Man.
Scratched it.....not sample
At 5 minutes, we have lift off...Bernie was a baaaaaaad man.
That's how i introduce the track now when i share it.
I was thinking about this song a couple of weeks ago thinking if Twinkie Clark ever heard this before and what she woulda thought about it. LOL
Rare Good Music! These dudes sure can produce some golden gems as well as steaming turds! When they do it they do it all the funkin' way baby!
The best of bernie worrell.
Il tuo show mi ricorda una canzone della Sindrome: GRATTA E GRATTA
Bernie Worrel, the genius of geniuses. The guitar work is spectacular too (It sounds like Eddie, but could be Garry).
Long live Bernie keep his funk alive
Dam listen to this 8 grade my farther founding member of esquires told me about funkeldelic when he met them in studio about 1974 he said theywas raw and real and crazy
First time hearing this...I like it though.....
I find it hard to explain why I like this song. By rights, I shouldn't. Damn near everything about it is unlikeable. But it's fucking magic. Funk on
The Wizard moves on to the Next Existence
I AM FUNKED UP!!!!! HIGHER I CAN'T STOP LISTENING AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
this shit took too long to enter my ears
A masterpiece
I love this track 😍
Scared the sh@t out of me when I was 10.
RIP is right. Goddamn it didn't get better than this.
Música é vida!!
RIH Bernie Worrell Classic ✊🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
cosmic !
The Genius.
They will be studying this man's work the same way we study Bach, Tartini, Vivaldi, ect.
such a ''simple'' track, and you just can play with it and make this huge story
I thought this was weak but inoffensive filler the first couple of times I heard it. Now I love it.
I’m loving it
Funkin wootiful.......
@uVueD2b Yes, is true. Hip Hop (the Real) keep the Funk flame alive..
classique funky man good for your brain
@exnewsanchor Woo is life!
Fried ice cream IS a reality! (repeat & fade out to infinity)...
Highly Humble to The Funk
RIP Bernie :(
Happy Halloween. Great haunted house funk! Bernie Worrell wrote an opus here.
Love it!!!
My oh my,almost like prog rock!
it make me crying really!
Very yes
Respect Pirate!
How did I end up on this videos and how do I do it again.
favorite
‼️❤️‼️My only song ♥️👁♥️
All the Woo in the world
@Beachbootyman01 I guess because they're both in Detroit........and one of the Clark Sisters song has a bass line passage from "Dr. Funkenstine". "Overdose of the Holy Ghost" is the song from The Clark Sisters.
great post :D
Miss Bernie 😢