Rare P-Funk – Parliament – ‘Terrestrial Touch’

Parliament – Terrestrial Touch

Sometimes I get so hung up on trying to tell you all about the music, it takes weeks to get a post up!

So let me be brief instead and get this one in.

A song that is labeled Parliament – and the title of the track is ‘Terrestrial Touch’.

Its a funk burner, likely circa 1980, about the time Parliament’s last album ‘Trombipulation’ was coming out. I just pinged Ron Ford on Twitter – http://twitter.com/RonProphetFord – to see if he can tell us more about this jamming P-Funk track that I believe he wrote and performed for the group. I was also trying to find a good web site that tells you all about Ron Ford, but I can’t find that. I know Ford was instrumental in P-Funk’s development in the late 70s into the 80s.

I’m not even sure how over the years I came across this track – but with lyric hooks like ‘I tried to get that mouth, that mouth was on the house’ + plenty of clippity clop horse type percussions + slap bass + pianos for days, this is late period Parliament at it’s best.

I’m using that Terrestrial Touch – now let’s get down y’all … I’m sure we’ll hear more in the comments. By the way, the artwork above made by George Clinton apparently for the CD that this song was reissued on, but again, I’m not sure how this track wound up in my collection.