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Connections & Disconnections is the 12th Funkadelic studio album, recorded by original Parliaments members Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon, and Grady Thomas. The album was released under the title 42.9% in 1980 in Germany and in 1981 in the United States. It was reissued by Rhino Records in 1992 with the title Who's a Funkadelic? The album was produced by Greg Errico, the former drummer for Sly and the Family Stone, Haskins, Simon, and Thomas.

Notable songs include "You'll Like It Too".


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Significance

Due to the combination of several factors, by the end of the 1970s, the Parliament-Funkadelic enterprise was starting to crumble. Dissatisfaction with George Clinton's style of financial management led to the departure of additional key members Bernie Worrell, "Billy Bass" Nelson, Glenn Goins and Jerome Brailey. Haskins, Simon, and Thomas (along with Clinton and bass vocalist Ray Davis) had been members of The Parliaments since the band's inception in the mid-1950s. Throughout the 1960s and into the 1970s, they (Haskins, Simon, and Thomas) felt increasingly marginalized by the influx of new P-Funk musicians, and in 1977, refused to sign a Backstage Management contract requiring them to relinquish all rights to the names Parliament and Funkadelic. Shortly after the trio left Parliament-Funkadelic, they formed their own band, which they also named "Funkadelic," and recorded Connections & Disconnections. Their use of the name Funkadelic resulted in an acrimonious legal dispute with Clinton's organization, and is rumored to have contributed to accelerating the disintegration of Parliament-Funkadelic

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Track listing

  1. "Phunklords" (Haskins, Mims, Simon, Thomas, Powers) – 5:35
  2. "You'll Like It Too" (Haskins, Simon, Thomas, Williams, McEvoy) – 4:29
  3. "The Witch" (Haskins, Jackson, Simon, Thomas, Drake) – 9:31
  4. "Connections and Disconnections" (Geter, Haskins, Mims, Simon, Thomas) – 5:02 (released as a single LAX WS8 70055)
  5. "Come Back" (Haskins, Simon, Thomas, Mims, Powers) – 4:32
  6. "Call the Doctor" (Drake, Haskins, Mims, Simon, Thomas) – 5:14
  7. "Who's a Funkadelic" (Haskins, Mims, Simon, Thomas) – 5:47


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