Chew, himself a musician, has performed and arranged music for some of the industry's biggest names. “George's and P-Funk's music is just waiting to explode through that orchestra.”For Clinton, it was inevitable. We expected to gravitate into classical or something.”Creating the ‘Parliafunkadelicamentthang’Clinton formed The Parliaments in Plainfield, New Jersey, in 1955. “The colors that are already in the music are going to be spoken through violins and French horns and everything. The group has been on the road for the past three years and last performed in Detroit about a year ago.