Artist: Con Funk Shun
Genre(s):
funk
Jazz: Funk
Discography:
Spirit of Love
Year: 1998
Tracks: 10
Electric Lady
Year: 1989
Tracks: 8
Fever
Year: 1984
Tracks: 8
The Best of Confunkshun
Year:
Tracks: 17
Con Funk Shun was formed by high classmates Michael Cooper and Louis "Tony" McCall, along with Karl Fuller, Paul "Maceo" Harrell, Dennis Johnson, Cedric Martin, and Danny "Sweetened Man" Thomas. All of them had been playing together since their senior high years in Vallejo, CA. Felton Pilate, too from Vallejo, coupled the grouping afterward his band, a local rival, disbanded.
In the early '70s, the group was a computer backup band for the Soul Children with the name Project Soul. And when they weren't on the road with the Soul Children, they were creatively on the job with various Stax stave writers. In the mid-'70s, Project Soul made an exploit to become a star, but they met dead-ends and footling success. However, they base good fortune at Audio Dimensions, a Memphis recording studio owned by manufacturer Ted Sturges. Around this clock time, he radical named itself after the deed of conveyance of one of their instrumentals, "Confidence game Funk Shun." During their three-year stretch at Audio Dimensions, Sturges, besides owning the studio, was likewise Con Funk Shun's manufacturer. Their association resulted in the group's first-class honours degree album, Organized Con Funk Shun.
As their good highly-developed, Pilate and Cooper emerged as the primary lead vocalists. Around the clock time their first-class honours degree album for Crankshaft Productions, Inc. was beingness recorded, the eighth phallus, MC and technician Dennis Johnson, left the radical to go to seminary in California. By 1976, the group signed to Mercury, where they remained for ten age. Their first strike for Mercury was "Ffun," written by Michael Cooper as a tribute to the R&B/funk band Brick. One of the premier party funk bands of its time, they too began recording ballads and instrumental tracks by the early '80s. Aside from being the main musicians on all their albums, Con Funk Shun as well contributed to each of their albums as writers, arrangers, and/or producers.
Burnin' Love, the septet's last album with Mercury, was recorded without their longtime melodious heart, Felton Pilate, wHO left the group in 1986 to get a successful producer. (Pontius Pilate eventually became the musical military group slow MC Hammer.) Melvin Carter, a haunt collaborator of Con Funk Shun, linked the group upon Pilate's departure, and that like class Michael Cooper left for a solo career. Con Funk Shun disbanded after their lowest album with Mercury, but reunited in the '90s, and began acting at festivals and concerts about the world.
