let george do it

the new george clinton double cd, how late do you have 2bb4ur late?, arrived without much fanfare last fall -- strange that a major release by one of the two or three most significant artists in black music who's still treading the boards should go so ignored. anyhoo, it's big 'n' sprawling in the way only george can do: so far, i've heard beatle references and classical gtr in addition to the usual stew of choral shenanigans, pitch-shifted recitativos, hip-hop (which uncle jam incorporated into his music as long ago as 1983's "nubian nut"), hendrixian acid-blooze gtr, cameos by prince (weird to think of him as one of the old guys) and bobby womack (on a medley of r&b classicism), and so on. i haven't even listened to the whole thing yet, but i can already tell this is gonna be one of my _obsessive listens of the spring_. yeah!