Have You Seen P-Funk's Mothership?

"It might be the most awe-inspiring stage prop in the history of American music and it belonged to funk legends Parliament-Funkadelic. Since the Mothership vanished in Prince George's County in 1982, rumors of its whereabouts have mutated into local lore: It burned in a fire. It was disassembled. It was stolen. Scrapped. Kidnapped. Thrown in the woods. Chained to a truck by a drug dealer and dragged to funk-knows-where. The band's most devoted followers say it flew off into space.

(...) In concert, the Mothership was last spotted in Detroit in 1981, belching dry ice fumes and flashing kaleidoscopic light. An aluminum flying saucer, it was about 20 feet in diameter and decked out with dazzling lights. Below it stood a band of otherworldly eccentrics celebrating the hard-won freedoms of the civil rights movement in a freaky, fantastical display."
By Chris Richards

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The Mothership in 1976 (Image by Shout! Factory)

Tags: Clinton, Funk, George, Mothership, P-Funk, Parliament

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Comment by Michael King on August 7, 2010 at 8:21am: It's so high you can't get over it... It may come back to Earth one day... And I'll be there when it does...

Comment by James Graham on April 17, 2010 at 6:02pm: It's trapped in a void far beyond the meager funk of the current junk and will resurface during the eclipse of the earth's axis when it reverses the polarity of the magnetic field that holds earth's atmosphere. Only one can save us all from the funk!

Comment by Darryl Dawson on April 15, 2010 at 10:39am: It waits in the seventh dimension, layin' low, preparing itself for the second coming of STARCHILD, and ready to funkatize the world once again.