George Clinton & the P-Funk All-Stars专辑介绍：by Stephen Thomas ErlewineThe Awesome Power of a Fully Operational Mothership is the first George Clinton album to show signs of a Dr. Dre G-funk influence. Where his previous album, Hey Man, Smell My Finger, was pretty much nothing but standard P-funk, Awesome Power slows the beat down just like Dre does on The Chronic. The difference is, Dre actually works those grooves into songs where Clinton just lets the funk meander. He doesn't even try to write songs -- he operates under the belief that ceaseless jamming and randomly interjected vocals constitues a good groove. And it does, when given the right source material and musicians. On Awesome Power, Clinton has neither. The musicians may have all played with various incarnations of Parliament, but they sound tired and bored on the album -- there isn't a single instant when they latch on to a good groove. And what that means is this: On Awesome Power, George Clinton sounds more out of touch with contemporary funk and R&B than he ever has.