|
This is the printable version of DRUGS the Mis-Americans' EPK. To see the full and up- to-date EPK including photos, DRUGS the Mis-Americans' calendar, options to listen to audio and watch videos, visit http://www.ourstage.com/epk/drugsthemisamericans |
About DRUGS the Mis-Americans
What do you get when the worlds greatest funk band collides head on with the Woodstock Nation?Drugs: The Mis-Americans,(Rx) a band with a critically acclaimed debut album and an underground reputation for a live show that rivals the best on the jam band circuit.
Rx sprung from P Funk's frontman Mike Clip Payne's collaboration with Woodstock's Robert Chicken Burke and Adam Widoff (Toshi Reagon's Big Lovely), that grew to include an all-star cast of musicians. Joe Eppard of 3, Jeremy Bernstein of Stoney Clove Lane, Stephanie McKay ( Mos Def,) and Parliament Funkadelic's Lige Curry and Garry "Starchild" Shider (R n R Hall of Fame 97)
Their debut album, The Prescription for Mis-America was praised for
"reviving the psychedelic sound of the 60's but mixing it with a touch of Sly Stone and Curtis Mayfield to create their own sound, not a parody of those who came before." ushering in the Psychedelic Soul Revolution. P funk fan mags have described it as "take[ing] up where the 1972 Funkadelic classic America Eats Its Young leaves off."
The bands live performances are legendary. They debuted in Europe at the worlds largest new music festival, the Transmusicales and are the only band in the festivals thirty year history to be asked to play past their 45 minute time slot. Closing the first night with a 90 minute set that the international journal Le Monde called "the festivals highlight!"
DRUGS has toured with Parliament/Funkadelic in the United States and Europe. The band made an appearance at Super Bowl 39 in Jacksonville Florida on Super Sunday as part of the Offical ESPN/NFL Tailgate Party Band. Joining with the 420 Funk Mob and performing under the politically correct banner WEFUNK FM on a st age set up in the stadiums parking lot.
DRUGS traveled to Heidelberg Germany as part of the WEFUNK Entertainment showcase event at the Audiosoul Festival. The 420 Funk Mob with special guests DRUGS, George Clinton and Fred Wesley were joined by 6000 fan for a very special show set in the courtyard of the 1200 year old ruins of the famed Heidelberg Castle
In 2006 the band took part in a special Halloween concert at Sirius Satellite Radio They were the first band to perform live on the stations first day of WORLD WIDE INTER NET BROADCASTING and finished out the week with a CMJ Showcase at New York City's Crash Mansion.
DRUGS turned out Midem 2008. Over twelve hundred people jammed into the new muic tent causing officials at the Music Industries annual International conference to turn people away at the gate. The show was such a hit the band was yet again given permission to play past the curfew
The new DRUGS craze sweeping across Europe and the United States is heading for your neighborhood!
Members
Mike Clip PayneAdam Widoff
Robert Chicken Burke
Joe Eppard
Stephanie McKay
Jeremy Bernstein
Lige Curry
Garry Starchild Shider
Audio
Breathe
Strung Out
Brain on Drugs
Deep Down in the Dumps
Mis-America
To listen to DRUGS the Mis-Americans' audio, visit http://www.ourstage.com/epk/drugsthemisamericans
Press
INROCKUPTIBLES
DRUGS: The Prescription for MIs-America...
The meeting of a combative funk and a laid-back psychedelicism. A Prescription for Mis-America lives up to its title. You know some of the doctors in this excellent cross-generational group: three of them held long-time positions at the private psychiatric clinic of P. Funk, from Funkedelic to Parliament. It's the most experienced that produce the best soul. Moreover, they obviously took the medicine chest when they left. Thus, we have Drugs. Rooted in Woodstock: this sound is not new. Sobered up and mellowed out by the haze and the homeboys, their P-Funk has decided to make love here, not war. Drugs, as their name indicates, distorts perceptions and scrambles reality. We are at a Grateful Dead concert. No, a rave by Tranquility Bass. Or a show organized by N.E.R.D. It's a party in any case, where sounds and eras mix willy-nilly with the gleeful yet grave indecency, which will forever be the hallmark of soul-music -- whether produced manually or by machine. This soul is too slick and embellished to belong to the age of Sly Stone and Alex Gopher, and much too supple and loose to be stuck in the retro rut of Prince. Under the influence of Drugs, we continues to dream: we believe that an album so exceptionally smooth and cool comes from the Neptunes. Or is sung by Beck. Or rapped by Mos Def. Who is the idiot who sings Drugs Don't Work?
(Benjamin Montour)
The meeting of a combative funk and a laid-back psychedelicism. A Prescription for Mis-America lives up to its title. You know some of the doctors in this excellent cross-generational group: three of them held long-time positions at the private psychiatric clinic of P. Funk, from Funkedelic to Parliament. It's the most experienced that produce the best soul. Moreover, they obviously took the medicine chest when they left. Thus, we have Drugs. Rooted in Woodstock: this sound is not new. Sobered up and mellowed out by the haze and the homeboys, their P-Funk has decided to make love here, not war. Drugs, as their name indicates, distorts perceptions and scrambles reality. We are at a Grateful Dead concert. No, a rave by Tranquility Bass. Or a show organized by N.E.R.D. It's a party in any case, where sounds and eras mix willy-nilly with the gleeful yet grave indecency, which will forever be the hallmark of soul-music -- whether produced manually or by machine. This soul is too slick and embellished to belong to the age of Sly Stone and Alex Gopher, and much too supple and loose to be stuck in the retro rut of Prince. Under the influence of Drugs, we continues to dream: we believe that an album so exceptionally smooth and cool comes from the Neptunes. Or is sung by Beck. Or rapped by Mos Def. Who is the idiot who sings Drugs Don't Work?
(Benjamin Montour)
www.wefunk.com/French Review.htm
Le Monde
The Prescription for Mis-America
Dedicated to the resurrection of the psychedelic soul sound from the end of
the1960s, this American group has assembled a collection of distortion pedals, analogue keyboards, spangled costumes, and falsetto vocals. It's hard to know how to take pieces which straddle the line between homage and parody. Certain titles fall flat but others ("Mis-America," "I Wonder If," "Cold Hearted World"), reinvest the throbbing sounds inspired by Sly Stone, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, and Isaac Hayes with class and humor, managing to recall their style without plagiarizing it. Not surprising when it is known that behind Drugs hide Clip Payne (vocals) Gary "Starchild" Shider (guitar), and Lige Curry (bass), all former members of the Funkadelic, Parliament, and P Funk All Stars galaxy.
CD Kraked, Distributed by Discograph
Dedicated to the resurrection of the psychedelic soul sound from the end of
the1960s, this American group has assembled a collection of distortion pedals, analogue keyboards, spangled costumes, and falsetto vocals. It's hard to know how to take pieces which straddle the line between homage and parody. Certain titles fall flat but others ("Mis-America," "I Wonder If," "Cold Hearted World"), reinvest the throbbing sounds inspired by Sly Stone, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, and Isaac Hayes with class and humor, managing to recall their style without plagiarizing it. Not surprising when it is known that behind Drugs hide Clip Payne (vocals) Gary "Starchild" Shider (guitar), and Lige Curry (bass), all former members of the Funkadelic, Parliament, and P Funk All Stars galaxy.
CD Kraked, Distributed by Discograph
Drugs: Good for You
Open Mag
Pillars of the historic monument P-Funk, (a contraction of Parliament and Funkadelic), Americans Gary "Starchild" Shider (vocals/guitar),Lige Curry (bass) and Clip Payne (vocals/keyboard), are back in action and coming to us direct from Woodstock. Collaborating with these veterans are Robert "Chicken" Burke (drums, vocals), Joey Eppard (guitar/vocals), who have played on the albums of Alex Gopher and Cosmo Vitelli, and Adam Widoff (guitar) part of Lenny Kravitz's first group.
These living legends are still provocative enough to give the finger to American puritanical attitudes; the name of their group couldn't be more explicit. They made their first French appearance at Transmusicales 2001. A mesmerizing performance was made even more tantalizing in retrospect by repeated delays in the release of their first album, which finally ended up on Kraked, a new French label, created by Loic Dury, the producer of Nova and figure of the 90s hip hop scene. Here's the general information!
For the uninitiated, Drugs will quickly make you a surfer of the vintage wave. We will allow them their opportunism, so well do they get into that authentic groove which belongs only to the Blacks, that psychedelic old skool soul of which they are the legitimate trustees. A special word to all addicts of scorching instrumentals, chrome guitars, and oscillating basses, and a notification for all those who crave raspy soul voices: you by will not be disappointed by these dealers of big sound. A word of warning all the same: to take The Prescription for Mis-America ready your senses; take out your favorite Hendrix tune and the last Outkast album, fill your ears with a few grams of Sly Stone or the Grateful Dead, and enjoy Drugs without moderation. Drugs will give you a taste of true rhythm n blues and they will accompany you on your trip to the sources of this sound. The landing will be soft.
Pillars of the historic monument P-Funk, (a contraction of Parliament and Funkadelic), Americans Gary "Starchild" Shider (vocals/guitar),Lige Curry (bass) and Clip Payne (vocals/keyboard), are back in action and coming to us direct from Woodstock. Collaborating with these veterans are Robert "Chicken" Burke (drums, vocals), Joey Eppard (guitar/vocals), who have played on the albums of Alex Gopher and Cosmo Vitelli, and Adam Widoff (guitar) part of Lenny Kravitz's first group.
These living legends are still provocative enough to give the finger to American puritanical attitudes; the name of their group couldn't be more explicit. They made their first French appearance at Transmusicales 2001. A mesmerizing performance was made even more tantalizing in retrospect by repeated delays in the release of their first album, which finally ended up on Kraked, a new French label, created by Loic Dury, the producer of Nova and figure of the 90s hip hop scene. Here's the general information!
For the uninitiated, Drugs will quickly make you a surfer of the vintage wave. We will allow them their opportunism, so well do they get into that authentic groove which belongs only to the Blacks, that psychedelic old skool soul of which they are the legitimate trustees. A special word to all addicts of scorching instrumentals, chrome guitars, and oscillating basses, and a notification for all those who crave raspy soul voices: you by will not be disappointed by these dealers of big sound. A word of warning all the same: to take The Prescription for Mis-America ready your senses; take out your favorite Hendrix tune and the last Outkast album, fill your ears with a few grams of Sly Stone or the Grateful Dead, and enjoy Drugs without moderation. Drugs will give you a taste of true rhythm n blues and they will accompany you on your trip to the sources of this sound. The landing will be soft.