Right now I am listening to the album "Bubble Gum" from a band called The 9th Creation. I had never heard of the 9th Creation until I started shopping for records. They were a funk and soul group from the 70's that I don't believe made it into the mainstream. I can tell by listening. It's not that it is a bad record or that they are a bad group, it's just that if you were a funk and soul band in the 70's, chances are you sounded like every other funk and soul band (see my blog about Southern Funkin'). It must have been very difficult to really break through unless of course you were Sly Stone or Stevie Wonder whom this band clearly based their sound on. I would imagine trying to be a funk and soul group in the 70s was probably like being a grunge band from Seattle in the early 90's but with less flannel and maybe a tad more heroin but not too much more (See Cobain, Kurt).
No comments:
Post a Comment