Tragic

This is going to be a quickie.
I just wanted to share with you something that I find to be both sad and tragic. My wife was flipping through the channels this afternoon and came across CMT. I am not a country music fan, but I took note for a second. A new season of their reality show "Gone Country" was being advertised and I noticed a familiar face on the show. Now, I realize that the point of this show is to take B-list celebrities that are not associated with country music out of their element and into the studio and onstage singing country music. Great! Plenty of washed up celebs have passed through the show's first two seasons. I think I saw that media whore Bobby Brown was on, along with one another one of the Brady kids. Good for them! I'm glad they both found another outlet to make money and garner them a little more attention years after their careers had gone the way of the Dodo. This face I saw, was the face of an actual credible artist. It was the face of the composer of some of the most important, influential, and beautifully funky music of all time. He is responsible for Maggot Brain and One Nation Under a Groove, two of the most important records of the rock era. It was the face of one of the reasons that we have Prince. This was the face of George Clinton. The guy is old, so I can think that maybe he was suckered into doing the show somehow, but it still makes me very sad. Let's hope that this is just a temporary case of senility and George is back in the studio soon.