Funk Rock – 1967-1980s – The new “revolution” of funk music with its emphasis on the new styles of the bass guitar and rhythm section brought about a melding of the guitar-heavy rock music with a bass and rhythm funk music.

This new mixed music “funk rock” started out with many of the blues and hard rock groups of the UK like Led Zeppelin, Vanilla Fudge, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton as well as the Beatles & the Stones did some experimenting with very pleasing results.

Then with American groups like Grandfunk Railroad, Chicago, Bachman Turner Overdrive and even Crosby Stills Nash & Young had a mix of funk rock and created sounds that would forever keep the phrase from Wild Cherry’s “play that funky music, white boy”.

Groups like the Temptations, Earth Wind & Fire, and Funkadelic would mix rock with funk with some very extraordinary results that led to arena-sized, magnificent, deeply creative, theatrically extravagant show tours.