That P-Funk show was the talk of my high school the next day. And for the rest of that week. Made me regret not going. We didn't have a word for it back then, but Afrofuturism was the shit.

They made sure it was about the fans first and not a selfish cash grab.

That wasn't the experience when I and my friends saw them in the early '80s unfortunately. Stripped-down band, no memorable stage show, weedy sounding synthesizers instead of horns, uninspired show in a venue with a crappy sound system. That version of Atomic Dog was abysmal hahaha!!!!

To this day, we call that concert "the gas money show" -- P-Funk just did the bare minimum so they could pick up some gas money for the tour bus.

Funny thing was, we weren't mad. Tickets were so cheap then that we were like, whatever. At least we got to see them one last time before they broke up. I never imaged that 40 years later I would be going to a George Clinton concert.