Three " down strokes " or " hard beats " mark the end of the chorus and beginning of the verse, and during these drummers while alter their dancing such as by hopping low like fancy dancers.
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PARLIAMENT, " Funked Up : The Very Best of Parliament " : Classics like " Up for the Down Stroke " and " Tear the Roof Off the Sucker ( Give Up the Funk ) " still sound fantastic.
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Album versions of the songs " Up for the Down Stroke "; " Mothership Connection ( Star Child ) " and " Aqua Boogie " are also used in place of the edited versions used on " Greatest Hits ".
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To help increase his playing speed, Lombardo made a strap out of duct tape and fishing weights that he would wrap around his right wrist while practicing : " I used to wrap this around my wrist, and I would play all down strokes, mind you.
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Ian Rilen on bass, playing his unique fast down stroke style, formed X with Steve Lucas on guitar and vocals, Ian Krahe on guitar ( who used to literally have blood on his hands from his thrashing playing style without a pic, by the end of a show ), and Steve Cafiero on drums in the late 1970s.
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"The Ladies Man " has some funny, dirty-minded jokes, a few amusing cameos ( including Julianne Moore in clown makeup ) and a soundtrack loaded with juicy cuts of mid-' 70s vintage soul and funk : a lot of Gamble and Huff, a soupcon of Isley Brothers and a plateful of Parliament's " Up for the Down Stroke ."
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Meanwhile, Clinton regained the rights to the name " The Parliaments " and initiated another new entity, now known as Osmium " for Invictus Records in 1970, and after a hiatus in which Clinton focused on Funkadelic, Parliament was signed to Casablanca Records and released its debut for that label " Up for the Down Stroke " in 1974.
