GEORGE CLINTON COMES BACK FROM THE DEAD

Two years ago, George Clinton's funk train was stalled on the tracks. Parliament had become a non-factor, Funkadelic could not get it up to funk and Bootsy's Rubber Band had been given the boot. Various other clones had never even become serious contenders and such unlikely spinoffs as The Brides Of Funkenstein, Parlet and a Bernie Worrell solo project had been quietly put to rest. To make it worse, the only thing making any noise was Zapp, a band discovered by Clinton and produced by Bootsy that became the center of an incredible legal hassle that put Clinton up against some of the biggest entertainment corporations in the world: Warner Brothers and CBS.