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Aced Out Podcast
by Ace Alan
Dispatches from Planet FunK: it’s the Aced Out Podcast. Dedicated to all whom the Man tried to ace out by profiting from soul without stopping to give props to the prophets of Soul. Hosted by Ace Alan, aka Barack Wayne. Brought to you by the letter P, sponsored by P.E.T.E.(People for the Ethical Treatment of Earholes), and Funkanaut fam affiliated. Because FUNK is spelled FUN with a K—that’s why.
Episodes
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Ep 32: Linda Shider [P-FUNK/GARRY SHIDER]
visit acedoutpodcast.com to see photos and more When singer/musician/songwriter LINDA SHIDER met the folks in Parliament-Funkadelic, she was working as a stewardess for Pan Am. A friend of hers had just moved to San Francisco, so she invited Linda to come visit. That friend in turn introduced her...
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Episode 31: Dawn Silva [FUNK QUEEN]
visit acedoutpodcast.com to see photos and more When DAWN SILVA – (Brides of Funkenstein, P-Funk, GAP Band, All My funky Friends] – shopped her autobiography, The FUNK QUEEN to book publishers, they didn’t exactly grasp the entire vision. “Everybody said the same thing,” she says. “‘You can’t do...
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Episode 30: Rickey Vincent [HISTORY OF FUNK]
visit acedoutpodcast.com to see photos and more As an undergrad at Cal Berkeley in the early 80s, RICKEY VINCENT— (History of Funk show and book/ Party Music/ Phool 4 the Funk)— stumbled into a music history course. It was quite dense with Black culture, but on the very last day of the 2nd...
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Episode 29: Rustee Allen & Levi Seacer Jr. [SLY/ PRINCE/PURPLE ONES]
visit acedoutpodcast.com to see photos and more “I remember I got paid $20 for a gig, man,” says RUSTEE ALLEN, funk bassist extraordinaire, first introduced to the world via the transcendent soul staple FRESH by none other than Sly & the Family Stone. “I thought I made a ton of money!” he laughs....
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Ep 27: Patryce “Choc’let” Banks! [GRAHAM CENTRAL STATION]
visit acedoutpodcast.com to see photos and more “Keepin that funk alive, to me, there’s no more of an important mission.” So declares PATRYCE “CHOC’LET” BANKS, cofounder of one of the most important bands in all of funk history: Graham Central Station. “That’s my mission,” she promises. “To keep...
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Episode 24: Starr Cullars [P-FUNK, et al]
** visit acedoutpodcast.com to see photos and more ** In the late 80s, when wonder woman of funk and rock bass STARR CULLARS was in her senior year in college, Prince—who was then in the midst of working on the Lovesexy album—offered her a spot with his crew. This was after a grueling audition...
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EP 23: Muruga Booker [P-FUNK, et al]
** visit acedoutpodcast.com to see photos and more ** “The funk is the stench that you smell after you work really hard.” So says MURGA BOOKER, drummer, percussionist, shaman & card-carrying funkateer. And he would know. After all, from 1980 to ‘85, Booker was deeply embedded in the P-Funk camp,...
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EP 22: Gooch Gang [KALIBAN & MWNSTR]
** visit acedoutpodcast.com to see photos and more ** The powerpack West Coast hip hop duo GOOCH GANG began out of necessity. Just over 10 years ago, LA-raised, longtime Bay Area Cali resident MWNSTR recorded a single with WAES, “Brutalizin.” When they realized the cut needed another verse, they...
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EP 21: Grady Thomas [P-FUNK]
** visit acedoutpodcast.com to see photos and more ** Lifetime Achievement Grammy winner, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, and Original P-FunkateerGRADY THOMAS’ first job in the music biz wasn’t all that glamorous. “I had a job working at a record plant,” he explains. “I used to drive a truck around…
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EP 20: Marshall Thompson [CHI-LITES]
** visit acedoutpodcast.com to see photos and more ** 2021 is the year that MARSHALL THOMPSON—driving force and choreographer for Chicago hitmakers the CHI-LITES—shimmies from star to superstar status. Specifically, his group has been selected for inclusion among this year’s additions to the...
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Episode 19: Andre Foxxe [P-FUNK, et al]
** visit acedoutpodcast.com to see photos and more ** By the time guitar hero ANDRE FOXXE (P-Funk/Jimmy G and the Tackheads/Incorporated Thang Band/Psychedelic Ghetto Pimpz) was in his early 20s, he had a production deal with the legendary Don Davis at United Sound, the funk pride of Detroit....
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Episode 18: Richard Segovia [PURO BANDIDO]
** visit acedoutpodcast.com to see photos and more ** “When you think of Motown, you think of Detroit,” explains timbale player RICHARD SEGOVIA, celebrating his 42nd year with his band PURO BANDIDO. “When you think of LATIN ROCK, it’s right there in the MISSION”—the Mission District that is, the...
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Episode 17: Steve Boyd [P-FUNK/FIVE SPECIAL]
** visit acedoutpodcast.com to see photos and more ** If you’ve hit up a GEORGE CLINTON & the P-FUNK ALL-STARS show anytime over the last 30 years, you’ve seen a whole lotta STEVE BOYD, the golden-voiced Detroit doo wop master originally of the group FIVE SPECIAL, best known for their hit “Why...
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Episode 16: Patrick Owens aka Brotha P [FUNKANAUTS, et al]
** visit acedoutpodcast.com to see photos and more ** FUNK FAM: This is your boy Ace. Like the rest of you, last year brought us our share of heartbreak. Specifically, on Nov 6, 2020, we lost a member of the FUNKANAUTS—guitar wizard, bassologist, soul rock encyclopedia, and Bay Area CA legend...
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Episode 15: Sweet LD [OAKTOWN 357/MC HAMMER]
“I have literally danced my entire life,” says SWEET LD, OG member of MC HAMMER and the POSSE and its pioneering, all-women offshoot OAKTOWN 357. And as a young lady living in the East Bay, CA in the 80s, that was just about all LD aka Suhayla Sabir and her friends ever wanted to do. She…
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Ep 14: Shirley Hayden [PARLET/P-FUNK]
When SHIRLEY HAYDEN [PARLET/P-FUNK] auditioned for Parliament-Funkadelic in singer Malia Franklin’s family basement, she was scared. It was the late 70s and, like every other artist raised in Detroit, she had already been a fan of George Clinton’s clan, then in the midst of recording the stank...
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Episode 13: Wayne Foote [SLAVE]
WAYNE FOOTE aka “Foote Funk” never would have thought he’d be asked to replace Steve Arrington as lead singer in monster funk outfit SLAVE. After all, he was 19 years old, living with his folks just outside San Francisco in Daly City, while Slave were based out of Dayton, Ohio—part of the Ohio...
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Episode 12: Emily Palen [KNIGHTRESSM1]
“I think, if I didn’t have music, I wouldn’t know what I would be living for,” says EMILY PALEN, leader of Bay Area, CA superpower trio KNIGHTRESSM1. And from the sound of her soon-to-be-released album Dreams and Devastation, this composer, singer, producer, and shreddingly innovative violinist…
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EPISODE 11: Patryce “CHOC’LET” Banks [GRAHAM CENTRAL STATION]
Don’t even get PATRYCE BANKS aka CHOC’LET from Graham Central Station started on the expression “old school,” which she can’t stand. “Here in America… it’s all about what is next,” she explains. “So anything that is vintage is considered old and old is considered no good… They want to throw...
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Episode 10: Willie “Wild” Sparks [Graham Central Station]
Please join us for a celebration of the Life & Drums of WILLIE "WILD" SPARKS of Graham Central Station (1951-2020). Cohosted by Patryce “Choc’Late” Banks (Graham Central Station) Featuring: Ray White (Frank Zappa / Wild Bunch) Rustee Allen (Sly & the Family Stone) Eddie “Cold Bird” Wright (road...
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Episode 9: Rick Gardner [HORNY HORNS, BOOTSY, P-FUNK]
By the time O.G. Horny Horn RICK GARDNER (Bootsy’s Rubber Band, Parliament, et al) had reached his mid-20s, he was already a seasoned vet. After all, he had played with Kansas’ own Fabulous Flippers, a rockin’, blue-eyed soul outfit with a mean horn section famous for humbling Chicago at the…
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Episode 8: Stymie [& THE PJLO / SOUL SKA]
Each and every time he sets foot onstage or breathes into a mic, singer/songwriter/soul superhero STYMIE steals the show. Indeed, his beautiful, bountiful band of misfits, STYMIE & THE PIMP JONES LUV ORCHESTRA, has been assiduously stankifying stages since the mid-90s, when Stymie put together…
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Episode 7: Robin Russell [NEW BIRTH]
Drummer’s-drummer ROBIN RUSSELL (NEW BIRTH/THE NITE-LITERS) sure takes it to the stage—under protest, that is. He’d much rather do his thing where the drum was invented: OUTSIDE. In fact, whenever he can, this Crenshaw native gets up at 3 am, loads up his gear, and heads over to LA’s Griffith…
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Episode 6: Joe “Pep” Harris
It’s hard to believe that JOE “PEP” HARRIS—the commanding soul man of the groundbreaking classic, “Smiling Faces Sometimes”—tends to be modest about his vocal skills. After all, this Detroit native and Motown vet was handpicked by genius hit-maker NORMAN WHITFIELD (Marvin Gaye, Temptations, Rose...
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Episode 5: Jay Double You! [P-FUNK]
JIM WRIGHT (now Jay Double You!) was just 12 years old when his big sister Debbie Wright’s bandmates—George Clinton, Bootsy, and the rest of Parliament-Funkadelic—started hanging out at his mother’s house in Detroit. In fact, Tiki Fulwood gave little Jim his first pair of drumsticks. And by the...
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Episode 3: Vet Stone
If her life were a mathematical formula, it would be Family + Church = MUSIC. Indeed, Vet Stone (Vaetta Stewart-Reese) began making sweet soul sounds when she was a five-year-old girl standing on a table, singing with her parents and siblings—including big brother Sly. At church, she met lifelong...
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Episode 2: Amuka, Bride of Funkenstein
Amuka solidified her place in funk history with her recent appearance on Mike Judge’s animated doc series Tales from the Tour Bus, the George Clinton episode. Back in the day, her rock and roll chops earned her a spot in the Brides of Funkenstein, with whom she laid down the funk classic, Never…
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Pilot Episode: RUSTEE ALLEN
Through his tenure as bassist for Sly & the Family Stone, Rustee Allen has solidified his place in Funky Soul history, with standout work on such pivotal releases as Fresh and Small Talk, including his breakout performance on “In Time.” Rustee honored us with his presence, sitting down for a deep...
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Dispatches from Planet FunK: it’s the Aced Out Podcast. Dedicated to all whom the Man tried to ace out by profiting from soul without stopping to give props to the prophets of Soul. Hosted by Ace Alan, aka Barack Wayne. Brought to you by the letter P, sponsored by P.E.T.E.(People for the Ethical Treatment of Earholes), and Funkanaut fam affiliated. Because FUNK is spelled FUN with a K—that’s why.
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Dispatches from Planet FunK: it’s the Aced Out Podcast. Dedicated to all whom the Man tried to ace out by profiting from soul without stopping to give props to the prophets of Soul. Hosted by Ace Alan, aka Barack Wayne. Brought to you by the letter P, sponsored by P.E.T.E.(People for the Ethical...
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