They were so pleased with the high volume that they immediately got their own. Like Jimi Hendrix and Sly and the Family Stone, they reclaimed rock music as their own. Their crossover appeal to white audiences, while on a much smaller scale than Hendrix and Sly, was demonstrated when they graced the cover of the second issue of Creem . While they could not compete with the other two giants at their best, Funkadelic synthesized their own fusion of styles that would eventually be just as influential. Their grim inner-city blues were just as soulful as Marvin Gaye's and Stevie Wonder's concurrent explorations in social consciousness.
Soul is a joint rolled in toilet paper.
By 1970's Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow , Funkadelic sounded as if they had absorbed some of MC5's aggression and The Stooges' decadent nihilism. I'm so embarrassed. We did that entire record in one day, mixed it and walked outta here. Despite, or maybe because of that, it worked. Their drug abuse reached critical mass in 1971, and the band was on the verge of falling apart.