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Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome is the sixth studio album by the American funk band Parliament, released on November 28, 1977, on Casablanca Records. Funkentelechy is a loose concept album set within the P-Funk mythology warning of the dangers of the "Placebo Syndrome", which according to bandleader George Clinton consists of consumerism and disco music, which he saw as a crass commercialized variant of funk. The album spawned the R&B number No. 1 single "Flash Light", which features a prominent synthesizer bass line played on a Minimoog by keyboardist Bernie Worrell. The album became Parliament's fourth consecutive gold album and second platinum album. The song "Sir Nose d'Voidoffunk" quotes the nursery rhymes "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" and "Three Blind Mice", with lyrics altered to refer to drug use. The original vinyl release contained a 22″×33″ poster of the character Sir Nose D'Voidoffunk, as well as an 8-page comic book that explains the album's concept. Both the poster and the comic book were illustrated by Overton Loyd. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funkent...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
