Seeing Parliament Funkadelic live in college was a formative moment for me. Ten people on stage (one wearing just a diaper!), all seemingly in their own little world (the keyboardist somewhere above the stratosphere), but as a unit creating one cohesive, miles-deep groove. Great funk embraces this magnanimous maximalism, the sense that anything can happen next...unless it’s stripping everything down to a hypnotic loop, as James Brown does on the gloriously petty “Payback.”