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Con Funk Shun Featuring Michael Cooper: Funk Legends ("Ffun") at the Rrazz Room

Rrazz Room @ Hotel Nikko (222 Mason Street San Francisco, CA 94102)
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Funk veterans Con Funk Shun play at the Rrazz Room. Led by singer/guitarist Michael Cooper, the platinum-selling funk band had eight top-ten R&B hits between 1977 and 1986, including the chart-topping "Ffun" and "Love's Train." They're known for their dazzling vocal harmonies, inventive horn arrangements and infectious on-stage enthusiasm.

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Rrazz Room @ Hotel Nikko
222 Mason Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
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415.394.1111
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    Maitre'D seating, but small club so most seats are good - just a little tight at the upper tables.
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Another set of R&B Funk Royalty!! I just love the Rrazz Room and the artists they bring through. It was a FUNKY GOOD TIME!!
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If you weren't in the mood to party when you walked in, it wasn't long before you were!! I've attended many events at the RRAZZ Room and I have to say this is the first time I've seen practically everyone on their feet partying and having a great time! Confunkshun brought it! Thanks to the venue host who did his best to accommodate our party's seating request. I was disappointed with the slow table service which is usually very good.
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This was a fantastic show. The Rrazz room is a very intimate venue. There was not a bad seat in the room. And let me say the joint was rockin!! Everyone in the room was up on their feet dancing and singing to the groove.
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The concert was off the chain. With each song they took it higher & higher. What a way to start the holiday season for me personally. My first time to the Rrazz room and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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More Information About Con Funk Shun Featuring Michael Cooper

Website

http://www.confunkshunusa.com/

Quotes & Highlights

  • Hear Con Funk Shun's hits at their website.

Description

Con Funk Shun was formed by high-school classmates Michael Cooper and Louis "Tony" McCall, along with Karl Fuller, Paul "Maceo" Harrell, Dennis Johnson, Cedric Martin, and Danny "Sweet Man" Thomas. All of them had been playing together since their high-school days in Vallejo, CA. Felton Pilate, also from Vallejo, joined the group after his band, a local rival, disbanded. In the early '70s, the group was a backup band for the Soul Children with the name Project Soul and when they weren't on the road with the Soul Children, they were creatively working with various Stax staff writers.

In the mid-'70s, Project Soul made an effort to become a headliner, but they met dead-ends and little success. However, they found good fortune at Audio Dimensions, a Memphis recording studio owned by producer Ted Sturges. Around this time, the group named itself after the title of one of their instrumentals, "Con Funk Shun." During their three-year stint at Audio Dimensions, Sturges, besides owning the studio, was also Con Funk Shun's producer. Their association resulted in the group's first album, Organized Con Funk Shun. As their sound developed, Pilate and Cooper emerged as the primary lead vocalists. Around the time their first album for Crankshaft Productions, Inc. was being recorded, the eighth member, MC and technician Dennis Johnson, left the group to attend seminary in California.

By 1976, the group signed to Mercury, where they remained for ten years. Their first hit for Mercury was "Ffun," written by Michael Cooper as a tribute to the R&B/funk band Brick. One of the premiere party funk bands of its time, they also began recording ballads and instrumental tracks by the early '80s. Aside from being the primary musicians on all their albums, Con Funk Shun also contributed to each of their albums as writers, arrangers, and/or producers. Burnin' Love, the septet's last album with Mercury, was recorded without their longtime musical center, Felton Pilate, who left the group in 1986 to become a successful producer. (Pilate eventually became the musical force behind MC Hammer.) Melvin Carter, a frequent collaborator of Con Funk Shun, joined the group upon Pilate's exit, and that same year Michael Cooper left for a solo career. Con Funk Shun disbanded after their last album with Mercury, but reunited in the '90s, and began performing at festivals and concerts around the world.