13th December 1978 at the Hammersmith Odeon 7.30 PM-12.30 AM. five hours!
The P-Funk Earth Tour. Featuring...
Parliament
Brides of Funkenstein
Parlet
Funkadelic
That's where I was. It went over by about 90 minutes. We had a fire chief from the local station walking up the aisle trying to stop everything, not sure why he walked out, Parliament hadn't stopped playing and the roof carried on lifting.
It really was the best gig I'd ever been to, The Motorbooty Affair hadn't been out long, Funkadelic were in the charts or close to getting in with One Nation.
I can't remember who was holding the biggest Maglite to the strains of "Flashlight" but he blinded me and few others with it. [[That torch is on the front cover of "Uncle Jam wants you" BTW)
Most of the Parliament stuff was from Mothership, Funkenstein, Funkentelechy . The Mothership came down, they had to extend the back of the Odeon to get the thing in. The inflater Limo was there too.
The Brides of Funkenstein did tracks from "Funk or walk"
I can not remember a thing Parlet did, Might have been in the bar!
At one point I was stood behind Chris Houten, Spurs player, now the Norwich manager and Garth Crooks, Spurs player, and now BBC football pundit. They didn't like me and my brother's whistle blowing at all.
If I hadn't been to the bar so many times I might remember a bit more.
We just made the last bus from Victoria to Brize Norton got home 2.30 AM.
Thirty five years.......where did that go?
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