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Comment on About This Site by I like My Funk Uncut

I like My Funk Uncut — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:57:52 +0000

Funk is its own reward! Cass Tech Class of 1981. I landed the Mothership between 1977 and 1985 religiously at Olympia Stadium and nightly with Mojo. I became a Funkateer at the age of 5 at Olympia Stadium when my father took me to see Funkadelic and Parliment featuring his cousin Eddie Hazel. I was mesmerized and have had the opportunity as an adult to work with Bootsy and George Clinton.

So glad you have this site!

May the Funk B with U!

Comment on About This Site by Diane

Diane — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:24:13 +0000

It would be fantastic if this site could get an actual audio or video interview with Mojo himself. Also, be wonderful to have him contribute photos and his own take on Detroit’s music scene past and present and where it is headed in the future. I listened to his programme every single time it was on never flipping a station. I love his deep resonant voice. I was rivetted to the radio waiting in high anticipation of the next song he’d play. He turned the music and everything in his world to sheer eloquent poetry. You literally felt as if you were on the Mothership being swept away to other realms, galaxies and stars. And I loved his line, “When you are down and feeling low, don’t say damn, say whammy whoa.”

Comment on About The Electrifying Mojo and The MFA by Angel

Angel — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 08:03:47 +0000

Absolutely LOVED MoJo and the Midnight funk Association…Used to love listening to Prince and Teena Marie jams (constantly on his show..Not to mention he introduced me to rock music!!! I think Mojo was the original apology line too(????). I so miss The Electrifying MOJO and this era. I hope he is doing WELL. He sure is missed!!

Comment on About The Electrifying Mojo and The MFA by Scott Brown

Scott Brown — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:18:42 +0000

Nice little write up. Absolutely,Mojo opened the musical ears of the entire Detroit metro area. Just about every night of the summer of 1979 especially the weekends, I can recall being in the car with a bunch of friends just waiting for the Mothership to come get us so we could “acquiesce to the prerequisites of the Midnight Funk Association”…12:00 am would hit and BOOM!!… Mojo would kick out something like Knee Deep…then after the cut was over go into some more P-funk, or Prince or sumpin else funky as hell. “Don’t say damn, just say Whoa” naw “Whammy whoa”…”Double whammy whoa”……I remember going down to WGPR and getting my Midnight Funk Association card just so i could say I was a member lol, Ah, some good memories.Thank you Electrifying Mojo wherever you are.

Comment on About The Show by Dale

Dale — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:40:55 +0000

I just want to say that I grow up on Mojo back in the 70′s and 80′s! Man you run Detroit back then! We couldn’t wait until 10pm come because we knew you would bring the funk every single night! Myself my brother and all my friends use to loose our minds went you would play flashlight or any Parliament record! It was good to come here and hear your voice, man it brings back so many good memory’s!! I just want to say thank you for all the good times and good music man…you know you ran Detroit back in the day!;-)

Later!;-)

Comment on About The Electrifying Mojo and The MFA by Jay Fresh

Jay Fresh — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:30:04 +0000

Hey Harold,

I want to thank you for this site and bringing back good memories

Comment on About The Electrifying Mojo and The MFA by Harold Mansfield

Harold Mansfield — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:58:02 +0000

Jay,
Thanks for stopping by and commenting. I do apologize to everyone, I haven’t been back to keep the site up as much as I should, but I wouldn’t want this domain to fall into the wrong hands so I will keep it.
I’m hoping that one day Mojo will call and ask for it, to start something new up.

Comment on About The Electrifying Mojo and The MFA by Jay Fresh

Jay Fresh — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:44:54 +0000

I lived in Detroit and Toledo and not only did hip hop music changed my life, so did the midnight funk association, Grandmaster Flash introduced the art of DJing and hip hop to me and the Electrifying Mojo introduced me to new wave, rock and listening to radio in a different way, i would not only turn the dial but if i had to use the bathroom i didnt move fearing i miss a good song and my guts would be hurting bad, but it was worth it Mojo changed alot of lives and made alot of future DJ’s, i even did his mothership landing on my college show when i was in broadcasting school, i always wanted to meet him in person and tell him thank you for changing my life, i already thanked Grandmaster Flash so my life cant be complete until i thank him, maybe one day i will meet the man who changed detroit and kept the funk alive for all theses years….we still remember and we will never forget.

DJ JAY FRESH

Comment on About The Electrifying Mojo and The MFA by Donald Cooper

Donald Cooper — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:45:42 +0000

While listenenig to Looking for the Perfect Beat I recalled my membership to the Midnight Funk Association, I still have my card.

I listened from the summer 1982 on WJLB while trying to find the songs I was dance rollerskating to. (120BPM).

I remember drinking Jim Beam and listening to the
Mothership land, then the extended mixes of Looking for the Perfect Beat, Blinded Me with Science, You Dropped a Bomb on Me, Atomic Dog, and Flashlight. I’d tape these and get my local rink to play them. (Dearborn Rollerdrome, which has since burnt to the ground and been replaced with Town-houses).

Acquiesced the prerequisites of the Midnight Funk Association and am standing up and showing my solidarity, with my porch light on.

I typed in Google, Midnight Funk Association and can’t believe the site is here. I left Michigan in ’84 and only had a few recordings. Can’t even find one of the landing, but still have a couple of the call to order’s (from 25 years ago on cassettes).

So I subscribed by e-mail to the newsletter and hope to get access to copies of performances from the era I listened because the people I explain it to just don’t get it unless the lived near Detroit.

It’s interesting to read Mojo went on to techno, because of the lack of disco music. I have a D.R.E.A.D. card too, which was a pathway to welcome funk over disco, rap too. I remember the battle to play Rapper’s Delight at the rink because it was so long. The DJ would always chop it part way through.

Tie your knot and don’t let go, just hold on tight and say, “Whoa Wammy Whoa”.

Comment on About The Electrifying Mojo and The MFA by Mark Vance

Mark Vance — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:25:41 +0000

Wow!
In 1979 I was a 16 year old white kid from London, Ontario Canada that new what music I liked but sure as hell didn’t hear much of ‘it’ in Canada. I worked weekends for a year at a local hospital and saved enough (at $5/hour) to purchase my first stereo receiver for the astronomical price of $245!!

I had to take one speaker from the family room ‘stereo’ and wire it to my brand new Pioneer
SX-580 with a whopping 20 watts of power! I had to thumb tack my aerial antenna wire to the bedroom ceiling (while rotating my outstretched arms like a slowly spinning crucifix to find the best reception, then stick the ends in) then at midnight while ‘spinning the dial’…. I found HIM! and the Midnight Funk Association; launching the mother-ship on the airwaves.

And thus began my Mentor-ship with P-Funk and the wondrous and Electrifying MOJO!!!
It was truly magical those many, many nights being swept away in a plethora of funkiness as I was introduced to so many great jams and phenomenal artists. I would even keep and pencil and paper bedside to write down the names of songs and artists the grooved me. I still have ALL the 45′s and 12″ singles and albums I bought simply by hearing them though the funktified ‘myst’ of MOJO…

AND now I find this site!!!! Truly awesome and so glad to see there were so many others caught up in the magnificent show and great music that oozed from the ‘mutha’-ship!

I’m smiling ear to ear and even teary eyed with the meaningful nostalgic memories the sound bites give me.

long live the funk; thank YOU ‘MOJO’ !!
*Mark ‘kid cannuck’ Vance*