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Rodney 'Skeet' Curtis


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I did post some of this previously as part of some questions about Maceo Parker but thought I'd re-post a few words about 'Skeet' Curtis who I was privileged to see on Tuesday evening.

He's just a great groove based funky bass man, early pioneer of 5 string Alembics with Parliament & Funkadelic & obviously still having a great time playing live with Maceo Parker. I loved how effortlessly he held it all together through Maceo's extended funky jazz songs & even kept an impossible groove going whilst Maceo held his jacket across 'Skeet's' face so he couldn't see anything he was playing :)

Well worth checking the man out. . .


Here's a great groove of his from a Maceo gig in '03.

I have no idea how he keeps this up for 9 minutes!

You only get to see him briefly at about 8:45




Here's him live with Dr Funkenstein himself (you have to bear in mind that Funkadelic Live is a pretty stretched out experience so these 'go on a bit' lol).




A different side of him on his trusty Alembic from '78 (I think last time I saw him live was from this tour in '79)




And this is a lot more how he looks these days:




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