In response to Christian Querry's letter, I apologize if I confused you. Perhaps this might help to clear things up.

I left the P-Funk concert at 11:15p.m., which was about 45 minutes after Clinton exited stage right. So if the "party got started" sometime after that, my letter was inappropriate. But if it takes three hours for it to get started, there's something fundamentally wrong with the "party."

Excuse me if I wasn't "touched" as you may have been by the guy with the beak and the black cape who oscillated his abdomen for 15 minutes. No, I didn't mindlessly sway back and forth, half-singing words to a song that I didn't know like so many others did. Those "endless grooves" must have flowed right by me.

But I also didn't leave at 10 p.m. like most others did either. I stayed on the hope that something better would follow. I was hoping that they were building to something. But they built to guitar solos and drum breaks that lasted until midnight.

I'm sorry, but it's disappointing when you leave a George Clinton concert because Clinton isn't even on stage and a guitar solo won't end. That wasn't George Clinton concert. That was a Parliament Funkadelics concert which partially featured George Clinton, which is the equivalent of going to a James Brown concert and hearing the JBs sing by themselves for half of the show. So pardon me if I was disappointed.

Perhaps my expectations were too high, but it seemed as though a lot of people had the same expectations as me. Had I know that those "great epic songs" were going to be played without amps until around midnight I might have stayed.

Wouldn't want to miss those endless grooves.