George Clinton offers thoughts on Bowie, playing shows with P-Funk touring, including NYC at B.B. King's (dates)

photo: George Clinton at the Paramount in 2015 (more by Greg Cristman)

George Clinton and P-Funk are fueling up the mothership for a couple East Coast dates, including a touchdown in NYC at B.B. King Blues Club on February 9. Tickets for that are on sale now. They’ve got a few other shows in the spring, too. All dates are listed below.

Clinton is one of the many, many folks to eulogize the late David Bowie this week. He talked to Billboard about Bowie’s influence on P-Funk:

Yeah, that actual song, “Fame,” the feelings on that record — they did the James Brown accent on the one, they hit it so hard. So when I heard him do that on “Fame” I thought, “Oh yeah, wow… ‘Weee want the funk, get up off that funk, weee need the funk.'” [Laughs] You know, just that serious accent. James would do it in the music, and that was one of the times where [Bowie] did it with the vocals. He did it real light, but on the one. So yeah, I borrowed that one and it worked very well. [Laughs]

You can read the whole interview over at Billboard.

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George Clinton and P-Funk — 2016 Tour Dates
2/6 Washington, DC @ Howard Theatre
2/9 New York, NY @ BB King Blues Club
4/14 Oakland, CA @ New Parish
5/5 Detroit, MI @ Sound Board at MotorCity Casino Hotel