In the book George Clinton and P-Funk: An Oral History (For the Record), George Clinton states that almost $500,000 was spent on Parliament Funkadelic's stage production which included costume designs by Larry LeGaspi (who also designed costumes for Labelle and KISS) and stage props by Jules Fisher. It took 7 trucks to lug the elaborate stage production from show to show only for the Mothership to be "dumped off in a Maryland junkyard in 1982 by the group's management company".
Currently George is trying to reclaim copyright ownership of the P Funk catalog. According to Clinton, former manager Nene Montes along with Westbound Records' Armen Boladian forged signatures and illegally cut and pasted various documents together that gave legal ownership of the Parliament Funkadelic catalog to Bridgeport Music (Boladian's publishing company). "Armen Boladian has admitted in court that he signed George's name, changed wording of the contract without notification, and practiced these same tactics on numerous other documents".
In 2005 4 albums were given back to Clinton (Hardcore Jollies, One Nation Under A Groove, Uncle Jam Wants You, and The Electric Spanking of War Babies) but ongoing court costs have bankrupted Dr. Funkenstein.
Keep up to date with George Clinton's legal battles at http://www.funkprobosci.com/ and also at http://twitter.com/funkprobosci.
And now the featured presentation (and what half a million bucks of costumes and set designs look like).
Click this link for a pop up player with much better quality
http://youtu.be/iKcNH5CoaGI
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