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【The Man Who Created the Dawn of Explosive Funk! Early The Gap Band Member Ray D. Rowe Departs for Heaven at 90—Sending Love to the Groove That Never Stops】 Hey everybody! It's your groove-addicted party person, Funky Dave Monroe! This morning, as I was soaking in some funk on my usual packed commuter train, I was grinding my hips so hard to the baseline without realizing it that the salaryman next to me gave me a cold, double-take look and said, "Um, you're bumping into me..." But hey, once the 16-beat is lodged in your hips, nobody can stop it! ...Or at least, that's the usual high-energy pitch I'd love to drop, but some news has flown in from Tulsa, Oklahoma, that'll tighten the chest of every funk head out there. …