Oh I definetely will play around with this one. Mark, I love the tone and lines on your take - it's stratty but you've got all these slippery licks snaking in and out. Gives me something to shoot for.
Peeker - I love your heavily FX'ed Hendrixian freakout! It's actually cool. It's like a freaked out 50s tone to begin with then it goes into the 70s, and then the 80s and 2000s!
Jeremy - it kind of seems like the type of guitar playing you might hear on Paul Simon's Graceland - kind of a South African thing meets early Talking Heads kind of thing.
Here's my take:
http://madsound.dyndns.org/asbtunes/new/Funk.mp3
I used my black strat thru the VG-99 and set up a kind of cloudy fake synthesized strings (pitch transposer into modulation, chorus and delay with a little reverb) backing following what I play - giving everything a lot of space rather than cramming everything with notes.