Mother's Finest

Ray Parker Jr.'s riffing here qualifies this song as another funktastic funk mutation.

That is, the sub-genre of funk rock, similar to leading-edge recordings of bands like Funkadelic or Mother's Finest, which have also been coined as psychedelic soul.

Of course, Parker would go on a few years later to launch his own successful band, Radio, which focused on hardcore funk before being mellowed out and crossing over to pop.

There's some dispute that the lead licks here might actually have been by Al Siner, an original band member who would soon leave to be replaced by Tony Maiden and Rufus.

Yes.

The previous year it was called the Dog Days Rock Fest, and it was not all southern artists, but I think Mother's Finest was.

It's another band that we are all familiar with, and you know, I believe you know Moe.

I think you know some of the players from Mother's Finest.

And they're still out there.

They are.

And I've been trying to get the amphitheater to book them.

I think that would be – I think we could do an ARS Mother's Finest concert here.

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Mother's, Mother's Finest is here, is here out of Atlanta.

So, and it just had that-

Yeah.

[laughs] We gonna go all out.

We going all in on who we really are, which is a funk rock band.

Yeah, and, and, you know, the whole, the, the Mother's Finest laid that foundation a long time ago, you know, especially with the, with the guys and the one girl.

But, but, but you know, we, that was who we actually were, you know-