It was Halloween night and Parliament Funkadelic was about to tear the roof off the
Houston Summit, ready to bless the crowd with their cosmic brew of interplanetary
funk. George Clinton, Bernie Worrell, Bootsy Collins and the rest of the P-Funk
collective were riding the success of their first Top 5 R&B hit, “Give Up The Funk (Tear
The Roof Off The Sucker),“ a track that had earned them the kind of radio play that
would bring the masses out to see the