Man, another reminder folks here. Just for a minute, walk out of that studio, stop crate digging, sampling, and all that and go connect with a legend today. There are plenty of them still out there, and you can go get them on your session. Get those last vapors, because I feel many funk fumes are up and just being let out into the atmosphere right now without us acting on them. So what’s this rant all about?? ….

RIP to funkmeister, vocalist and keyboard tickler Eddie Bo. The ever funkin on funkologist Oliver Wang, did a really nice post on Eddie Bo who just passed this week. Now you can also go over to NOLA.com and read this too, man of course the folks in New Orleans got the details. And of course we got EddieBo.com – so get it!

Man, because I’m ign’nt some times about the funk right around me, I didn’t realize that Eddie Bo was out there being active up until his passing. Here’s a great performance he did at Jazzfest 2008. I love how Eddie opens with the great impending question before the funk hits – “Ready?” Eddie proclaims – if you know your samples, you’ll hear that infamous “Ready?” on Justin Timberlake’s ‘SexyBack’…