George Clinton parties on -- and you're all invited

From: The Boston Globe | Date: August 28, 1996| Author: Michael Saunders, Globe Staff | Copyright information

One big party.

This is what George Clinton sees, standing in the wings smiling and bobbing his head to the beat during the waning moments of a three-, four- or five-hour concert of the P-Funk All-Stars.

People move for him, with sweat stains spreading in their expensive suits, dancing with no regard to how they look doing it, moving for the pure physical bliss of motion. At a show in New York, I once saw a woman in a wheelchair perform intricate moves from the hips up that would...

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