GCS 2000 is a studio album by funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

 group Graham Central Station

Graham Central Station

Graham Central Station is a funk band named after founder Larry Graham . The name is a pun on New York City's Grand Central Terminal, often incorrectly called Grand Central Station....

 released on July 21, 1998, on NPG Records. It was
their first new album in America since 1979's Star Walk.

Background

Prince

Prince (musician)

Prince Rogers Nelson , often known simply as Prince, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Prince has produced ten platinum albums and thirty Top 40 singles during his career. Prince founded his own recording studio and label; writing, self-producing and playing most, or all, of...

 had greatly boosted the career of another funk artist, Chaka Khan

Chaka Khan

Chaka Khan , frequently known as the Queen of Funk, is a 10-time Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter who gained fame in the 1970s as the frontwoman and focal point of the funk band Rufus. While still a member of the group in 1978, Khan embarked on a successful solo career...

 in the 1984 with her platinum-selling album, I Feel for You

I Feel for You (album)

I Feel for You is the Platinum certified fifth solo album by American R&B/funk singer Chaka Khan, released on the Warner Bros. Records label in 1984.-Overview:...

. In 1998, he tried to revitalize her career with the album Come 2 My House

Come 2 My House

Come 2 My House is the ninth studio album by American R&B/funk singer Chaka Khan released on the NPG Records label in 1998.Come 2 My House was Khan's first full-length album since 1992's The Woman I Am, due to the Warner Bros...

It was released the same day as GCS2000 and peaked at #49 R&B.

Prince's attempt to salvage Graham Central Station's status, however, was not as successful, and neither the album nor its singles charted in the U.S. One of the chief issues, as noted by Greg Prato at allmusic, was that "Too much Prince and not enough Graham makes GCS 2000 sound like a Prince solo album with Graham guesting, instead of a triumphant return to form from this trailblazing funk bass great." Another complaint was that the album, in contrast to prior Graham Central Station works, sounded much more like Prince's "studio perfection", whereas the group's prior works sounded "as if they were recorded entirely live".

A quick preview of the album reveals a departue from the slapping

Slapping

In music, the term slapping is often used to refer to two different playing techniques used on the double bass and on the bass guitar.-Double bass:...

 technique the band was known for. "Just B My Lady", "Don't Let 'Em Change You", "Groove On", "I Just Found Somebody to Love" and "Outro" (5 of the 12 tracks) all feature several characteristics reminiscent of P-funk's style.

Track listing

All tracks were composed by Graham alone, except for "Utopia", which Prince helped compose:

1. "Intro"
2. "GCS 2000"
3. "Free" (with Chaka Khan
   Chaka Khan
   Chaka Khan , frequently known as the Queen of Funk, is a 10-time Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter who gained fame in the 1970s as the frontwoman and focal point of the funk band Rufus. While still a member of the group in 1978, Khan embarked on a successful solo career...
   
    and Prince
   Prince (musician)
   Prince Rogers Nelson , often known simply as Prince, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Prince has produced ten platinum albums and thirty Top 40 singles during his career. Prince founded his own recording studio and label; writing, self-producing and playing most, or all, of...
   
    )
4. "U Move Me"
5. "Just B My Lady"
6. "Love 4 1another"
7. "Don't Let 'Em Change U"
8. "Utopia"
9. "Groove On"
10. "I Just Found Somebody 2 Love"
11. "I'magettin'" (Instrumental)
12. "Outro"

Personnel

• Larry Graham
  Larry Graham
  Larry Graham, Jr. is an African American bass guitar player, both with the popular and influential psychedelic soul/funk band Sly & the Family Stone, and as the founder and frontman of Graham Central Station...
  
   - bass, vocals
• Cynthia Robinson
  Cynthia Robinson
  Cynthia Robinson is an American musician, best known for being the trumpeter and vocalist in the popular and influential psychedelic soul/funk band Sly & the Family Stone...
  
   - trumpet
• Jerry Martini
  Jerry Martini
  Jerry Martini is an American musician, best known for being the saxophonist for the popular and influential psychedelic soul/funk band Sly & the Family Stone...
  
   -saxophone
• Gail Mudrow - guitar, vocals
• Wilson Rabb - guitar, vocals
• Robert "Butch" Sam - organ, vocals
• The NPG - additional shouts
• Brother Jules - scratches