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America Eats Its Young is a 1972 lbum by FunkadelicThis was the first album to include the whole of the JB's , along with Bootsy Collins, Catfish Collins, Chicken Gunnels , Rob McCollough and Kash Waddy .
1 Track Listing
- "You Hit the Nail On the Head" ( George Clinton, Clarence Haskins, Bernie Worrell)
- "If You Don't Like the Effects, Don't Produce the Cause" (Clinton, Garry Shider)
- "Everybody Is Going To Make It This Time" (Clinton, Worrell)
- "A Joyful Process" (Clinton, Worrell)
- "We Hurt Too" (Clinton)
- "Loose Booty" (Clinton, Harold Beane )
- "Philmore" ( Bootsy Collins)
- "Pussy" (Clinton, Billy Bass Nelson, Eddie Hazel)
- "America Eats Its Young" (Beane, Clinton, Worrell)
- "Biological Speculation" (Clinton, Ernie Harris )
- "That Was My Girl" (Clinton, Sidney Barnes )
- "Balance" (Clinton, Worrell)
- "Miss Lucifer's Love" (Clinton, Haskins)
- "Wake Up" (Clinton, James W. Jackson , Worrell)
Personnel:
- Keyboards & Melodica: Bernie Worrell
- Percussion: Zachary Frazier , Tiki Fulwood, Ty Lampkin , Kash Waddy
- Guitar: Harold Beane , Catfish Collins, Ed Hazel, Garry Shider
- Bass guitarThe electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument similar to the electric guitar, but larger in size and with a lower range. It is also closely related to—and inspired by—the double bass, and shares things in common with a range of bass instruments. It is: Bootsy Collins, Prakash John , Boogie MossonCordell "Boogie" Mosson was born October 16 1952. A good friend of Garry Shider, they left Plainfield, New Jersey in their teens to go to Canada. They joined a band called United Soul, which came to the attention of George Clinton, who invited them to joi
- TrumpetThe trumpet is a brass instrument. It is the highest in register, above the tuba, euphonium, trombone, sousaphone, and french horn. A person who plays the trumpet is sometimes called a trumpeter but more often a trumpet player. The trumpet is made of bras: Bruce Cassidy , Arnie Chycoski , Ronnie Greenway , Chicken Gunnels , Al Stanwyck
- Alto saxophone: Randy Wallace
- Tenor saxophone: Robert McCullough
- Steel guitar: Ollie Strong
- Juice harp : James Wesley Jackson
- Violin: Victoria Polley , Albert Pratz , Bill Richards , Joe Sera
- Viola: Walter Babiuk , Stanley Solomon
- Cello: Ronald Laurie , Peter Schenkman
- Vocals: Harold Beane , Diane Brooks , Bootsy Collins, Catfish Collins, George Clinton, Ray Davis, Ronnie Greenway , Clayton Gunnels , Fuzzy Haskins, Ed Hazel, Prakash John, Steve Kennedy , Garry Shider, Calvin Simon, Grady Thomas , Frank Waddy , Randy Wallace , Bernie Worrell
2 Songs
2.1 "America Eats Its Young"
This song has largely inscrutable lyrics that seem to be claiming that America is a "bitch" that "suck(s) the brains" of her "great grandsons and daughters."
- steel and string guitar arrangements by David Van De Pitte