Photo: JMSchneid (CC-by-3.0)Yesterday, music legend George Clinton told Rolling Stone that he will be embarking on his final tour with Parliament-Funkadelic after five decades in the biz.

“I would love to keep on doing this but I’ll be 78 in a few more months,” Clinton said in the interview with Rolling Stone. “Even though I feel like I’m just getting started, the reality is the group needs to go ahead and keep it going. We’ve got a new vibe in the band, and they’ve been carrying it for the last three years. I’ve been up there representing for people, but they’ve actually been turning the place out. And we’ve been selling out for the last five years, every night.”



The Funk icon kicks off his last run of U.S. dates in March, with concerts running through the end of the summer.

Clinton will bring his Parliament-Funkadelic experience — featuring longtime P-Funk players like trumpeter Bennie Cowan, saxophonist Greg Thomas, bassist Lige Curry and guitarist Blackbird McKnight — to Cincinnati's Riverfront Live on June 1. The Funk extravaganza will be further enhanced by special guests Fishbone and Galactic, as well as relative newcomers Miss Velvet & The Blue Wolf.

Tickets for Clinton's final Cincinnati concert go on sale this Friday, Feb. 8 at 10 a.m. here.

The legendary musician will receive a special Lifetime Achievement Award from the Grammys this year, which, in the Rolling Stone interview, Clinton said meant a lot to him because it offers a platform to celebrate the many musicians he's worked with over the years.

“It’s never been about me or no particular thing,” Clinton said. “The whole truth has always been what it’s about. As I’m getting ready to get a lifetime achievement award and all of that, there’s so many people that’s been in the band, it’s hard to even pick who all the people are. So people won’t get to see a lot of people, but still that award will belong to everybody that’s participated in making the P-Funk what it is. It will be for all the people that’s ever been through the P-Funk army.”





