Jimi did Are You Experienced? That changed my life forever when you heard that s**t. We knew we was doing loud Motown and that became Funkadelic, extreme bass. From Curtis Mayfield, Lightning Hopkins, all the different places, you could hear, but it was loud now. And just getting into how funky Jamerson was on the bass at Motown and then all of a sudden here comes this rock and roll stuff, psychedelic and then Jimi Hendrix took straight blues, Muddy Waters, cranked it, then it was psychedelic, a brand new music. I would watch Phil Spector and the Motown Revue and Ike & Tina Turner. We got our niche, people loved it that heard it. And we went and did what we call funk, good old funky music. That was my decision coming from choreographed, straight Motown, which had to be strictly arranged and precise to turning it loose and being the black version of what a lot of the rock bands were doing, especially the west coast Grateful Dead and bands like that. We borrowed their amps and I made a decision to go and do what we call funk. Their instruments were the ones we used to realize these were the kinds of amps we had to have to play like this. While "Testify" was hitting we saw all the groups that we was playing with were all rock and roll bands, like Vanilla Fudge. So as we got a hit record with "I Wanna Testify" it changes, so we had to change again. We got a hit record with "I Wanna Testify." Soon as we got that music started changing from being predominantly Motown and it started becoming rock and roll.
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