Friday, May 20, 2011

The Mothership Connects

"When the band lowered the Mothership from the rafters of the Capital Centre in Landover in 1977, the response was rapturous. Not only was it instantly stunning—it felt like a cosmic metaphor for the sense of possibility that followed the civil rights movement."

Chris Richards in The Washington Post reports that the Parliament-Funkadelic Mothership is on its way to the Smithsonian.

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