Lakeside is a 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...

 band, best known for their 1980 number one R&B hit, "Fantastic Voyage

Fantastic Voyage (Lakeside song)

"Fantastic Voyage" is a 1980 funk single by Dayton, Ohio-based group, Lakeside. The song hit number one on the R&B chart and was the group's only entry on the Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at number fifty-five....

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In early 1969, The Nomads, a singing quartet consisting of lead singer Mark Wood; Tiemeyer McCain; Tony White; and Brian Marbury, met the Montereys, a band that featured Stephen Shockley as the lead guitar player. The two groups played together in musical revues in the Tri-State

Tri-state area

There are a number of areas in the 48 contiguous United States known as tri-state areas where three states either meet at one point or are in proximity to each other. The best known of the latter type is the New York metropolitan area...

 (Ohio

Ohio

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, Indiana

Indiana

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, and Kentucky

Kentucky

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) area.

When the Montereys left the Tri-State area later in 1969 to pursue opportunities in New York, Stephen Shockley and The Nomads remained behind.