Funky Meters is a good name for any band. However, the band that actually calls itself Funky Meters contains two original members of the legendary New Orleans R&B quartet The Meters and basically plays the same repertoire. In that regard, affixing "funky" to Meters is like calling snow "cold."
Some say The Meters invented funk. That's arguable, but there was something earthier and more exotic about the Meters' style of R&B than that of contemporaries like James Brown. George Porter, Jr., the Meters' bass player, says it was a lucky accident.
"It had to do with the fact that each of us came from a musically different background," Porter says over the phone from his home in New Orleans. "All this stuff combined into a gumbo — just throw it all in the pot and it comes out good."