George Clinton's Farewell Tour heads to Truckee

Late-Nite Productions and One Vision Entertainment Group are presenting "George Clinton's Farewell Tour," Sunday, August 14, 2022, at the beautiful Truckee Regional Park Outdoor Amphitheater in Truckee. The tour features George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic. Doors open at 3:30 p.m.

At 78, the funk legend is headed to Truckee on the farewell tour with the latest edition of Parliament-Funkadelic, which includes his son, his daughter, and a number of his grandkids. He also says he is perplexed.

Tickets are for general admission. Advance tickets are $60 in advance and available at New Moon Natural Food (Truckee & Tahoe City), Recycled Records (Reno), The Buttermuffin (South Lake Tahoe), and online at www.Ticketweb.com ($10 increase day of show).

"It's weird," Clinton says, "because everything's getting so hot. I mean, the shows are selling out. The band is hot. It’s been great having a chance to see what the young kids are doing and how to make that work within the P-Funk band, and we’ve come up with some new things that are really working."

That’s what makes him so perplexed, he says, "‘cause yeah I'm ready to retire, but it’s getting so interesting out here with the people loving all the different things we're doing. But it’s their turn now."

The plan is for the P-Funk name to carry on without him.

"I’ve just got to get them together to make sure they keep going," Clinton says. "Because they’re not retiring."

He's still deciding who he thinks should run things when he comes in off the road.

"I’ve got all my grandkids and my son and daughter in there," Clinton says. "So I’m trying to figure out, like a reality show, who’s gonna be the one to do that."

In a recent chat with Rolling Stone, Clinton said he still feels like he did in the '50s and '60s when he was just starting out.

"That's what's confusing," he says. "It’s still exciting. We were actually inspired to do the new Parliament album we have out, 'Medicaid Fraud Dogg.' And people took to it so well; you just feel like you can do it again."

He never said he was saying goodbye to the studio.

"I’m gonna keep doing that," Clinton says. "I’m gonna keep producing and do some cartoons. I’m in that 'Trolls 2' movie. And then you’ve got Samuel L. Jackson playing me in this movie about Neil Bogart at Casablanca, 'Spinning Gold.'"