 During their heyday in the mid to late 1970s, following the success of their platinum-selling album, 1975's "Mothership Connection", George Clinton and his band Parliament Funkadelic - the Funk Mob - engaged in a series of high profile, no-expenses-spared stadium tours around the United States, culminating in the famous P Funk Earth Tour.At these gigs, the much referenced Mothership was seen to land on stage amongst the band and before a baying and expectant crowd.The Mothership was summoned down by the vocal tones of P Funk singer/guitarists Glenn Goins and later Garry Shider, and was represented in the form of a full-scale model complete with light and sound effects as well as pyrotechnics.