Funkiest groove laid down by a white artist/band or predominantly white band

Thomas Dolby? Funky?

Try this one:

 

Which is basically the Toto rhythm section.

 

Agreed! Lots of non-funky examples, as well as things that were more disco (like Rolling Stones - Miss You, and Zeppelin - Trampled Under Foot).

 

KC and the Sunshine Band-Get Down Tonight

 

Good call but .....meh, he's trying too hard on that one. It has to come from the heart, too much George Clinton influence.

 

Rush "Cinderella Man", especially that little bass and drum breakdown toward the end.
Show Don't Tell, too.
Seriously, tell me those aren't funky! Rush can funk it up.

 

Yeah!!! Excellent song!

Very strong early RHCP vibes here - they must have been influenced by this.

 

Stayin Alive by the Bee Gees. That bassline just smokes.

 

How about a funky white lady - Nikka Costa - "Like a Feather".

 

Deep Purple from 1974 (a very funky year)

 

Seriously, those aren't funky.

 

Disco... not funky.

 

Yes, but they also played instruments and came up with songs that were duper funky that way.

 

Gang Of Four

 

I saw The Dapps a few times back in the mid 60's,this is before they hooked up with James Brown and before they were known as The Dapps.
They played at a club near the University of Cincinnati,The Inner Circle,now known as Bogarts and were lead by Troy Seals,the singer who was also white.So they were known as "Troy Seals and the Cincinnati Kids" back then.I went to see them when i turned 18 and could legally go to clubs and still remember how damn good they were.Troy sounded like a white Otis Redding and that band was hot!
Troy moved to Nashville and became a very successful songwriter and they became The Dapps.When they broke up some of the members hooked up with bassist/singer Roger "Jellyroll" Troy and started a new band "Jellyroll" in the late 60's.
They only recorded one record together,sort of funk,soul and psychedelic.Got to see them once at a popular club in Northern Ky called The RoundUp.
Rockasteria: Jellyroll - Jellyroll (1971 us, remarkable brass jazz blues rock, 2015 korean remaster)

 

The drummer and bassist, Dennis Davis and George Murray, were black. Carlos Alomar, the rhythm guitarist, is Hispanic, born in Puerto Rico.

 

I feel like a more appropriate thread would maybe be "Who laid down the funkiest groove period' rather than doing this by race.

 

Well, I guess I don't mind it 'cause I happen to love a good George Clinton influence...

Although, it might be disqualified since I think the bass player is actually a person of color...

 

Then howzabout a little Pre-disco:

 

As with funk itself the funk and the groove was heavier in the earlier part of the 70s and became lighter and more electronic from 77 onward it seems, with 75-76 being a transition period.

 

Glenn Hughes – Feel (1995)

This was the era where Glenn kind of bounced between genres. Feel came between a more traditional rock album and a grunge album.

He always had a funk influence as others have pointed out in mentioning Deep Purple and Trapeze (and his first solo album).

 

Smak Nevidljive terazije (1978)

 

They also sampled a lot of not-funky white records and made them... funky...

 

That's not pre-disco! That's basically the birth of disco.

 

Eddie's dreaming by the Small Faces.