Long Stroke

from the LP Long Stroke, Cotillion Records, 1978



Yes, this is unarguably a shameless imitation of the P-Funk sound, but their fellow Detroit denizens, the ADC Band, do a flawless job in their reproduction of that vibe, managing to create a song worthy of inclusion into the P-Funk cannon. Much like their musical inspiration, these cats weren’t afraid of psychedelic drugs, praising the almighty mushroom openly, “…do you know what I mean, or have your eyes ever seen?...let the fungus be among us, ya’ll give a big hoorah for the fungus; hoorah rah, da da da-de-de-da for the fungus…”