It may not be the most plausible of arguments but there is more than one kind of funk. There is what I like to call 'good' funk and quite unsurprisingly there is 'bad' funk. That's bad in the strictest sense of the word rather than the way that Michael Jackson interpreted it. Good funk is the like of Funkadelic, Parliament etc. You know the stuff the white middle class bought when it was referenced and sampled by Dr Dre and Ice Cube. For an example of bad funk look no further than Modeliste. Its not 100% bad, far from it. I'm sure in their native Halifax they are somewhat of an enigma, but songs like 'We need a dancer' and 'The Lick' are almost too contrived of an idea of what a Halifax funk band should sound like to ever have any chance of making you even contemplate tapping your foot, let alone strutting your funky stuff. If the idea is fundamentally flawed then the solution has little chance of success.
