Bootsy's a force of nature.

Bootsy is the living embodiment of supergroovalisticprosifunkstication.

Bootsy is from outer space!

I liked the Beavis and Butthead when they tore apart everyone else in the "Groove is in the Heart" music video except for him.

I would loved to party with Bootsy during PF's heyday.

Scratch that....I still do.

I love Bootsy. Everything he's played on, from P-Funk to Praxis is fantastic.


/My brother has a cat named Bootsy (and a dog named Jaco)
//Oddly enough, my brother doesn't play a lick of bass

he can see around corners.

I have no way of verifying this, but someone once told me they read an interview with Bootsy where the interviewer asked, "So what's it like to be the greatest bass guitarist in the world?" to which Bootsy responded, "It's alright."

I always think of the Roswell Rayguns whenever Bootsy is mentioned.

Apos: I would loved to party with Bootsy during PF's heyday.

Scratch that....I still do.

Saw him live not too long ago. Great show. I wasn't expecting much (I mean, the guy's how old now?), but I was totally blown away and had a great time. Show highlight was when he walked out into the crowd--NO bodyguard or security--, front-to-back of the venue for several minutes, embracing the fans in reach in the large crowd, never missing a beat.

"Force of nature" is easily the best way to describe the man.

Thank you for firing your band in Cincinnati in1970, James Brown

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saintwrathchild: Apos: I would loved to party with Bootsy during PF's heyday.

Scratch that....I still do.

Saw him live not too long ago. Great show. I wasn't expecting much (I mean, the guy's how old now?), but I was totally blown away and had a great time. Show highlight was when he walked out into the crowd--NO bodyguard or security--, front-to-back of the venue for several minutes, embracing the fans in reach in the large crowd, never missing a beat.

"Force of nature" is easily the best way to describe the man.


CSB/CSS. Wish I'd been there.

Irving Maimway: What happened when The Funk said he was done with that shiat?

pute kisses like a man: he can see around corners.

I like you two. We should get drinks. Do you like Bailey's?

/Love games...

Crewmannumber6: Thank you for firing your band in Cincinnati in1970, James Brown

James was not only the hardest working man in show business, but also the hardest to work for. He would fine any of his musicians that missed a note or a move on stage.

/Hendrix also played with James for a stint
//as well as most any great soul/funk musician from that era that wasn't playing for Stax or Motown

LewDux: Link
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Thanks for this. Hadn't heard the track or the album.

Irving Maimway: aspAddict: Irving Maimway: What happened when The Funk said he was done with that shiat?

pute kisses like a man: he can see around corners.

I like you two. We should get drinks. Do you like Bailey's?

/Love games...

As long as I don't end up like Curly Jefferson.

/Creamy

/ beige...
// you've seen my downstairs mix up

My first major concert was Parliament-Funkadelic P-Funk Earth Tour 1976. I was 14, and saw the Mothership!. I saw them 20 years later, and they brought back out the Mothership. Bootsy's Rubber Band opened for them both times, and brought the house down!! Bootsy walked out into the crowd and partied with us for 10 minutes. What a guy, and what a musician!!

There is a God of Funk, and Bootsy is His prophet.

Irving Maimway: What happened when The Funk said he was done with that shiat?

Not sure, but be quiet with that or you'll have Old Gregg 'round here in no time.

FTA: Born in Cincinnati in 1951, Collins grew up without a father but with a mother who worked multiple jobs to get him and his older brother Phelps (known as Catfish because, well, "he looked like one") whatever they wanted.

Huh, I didn't know that. Funny, my father was born in Cincy in 1947, there's a small but nonzero chance they actually ran into each other.

I did a month of University of the Funk. All it is is interviews with awesome bass players. I watched all their videos and unsubscribed. I'll probably resubscribe and watch more of them sometime when I feel like it. Worth it.

That being said Bootsy inspires me so much. "The One" is his religion and he teaches it so well. I've been trying to convert a couple of bands I play in to accept "The One" as a method to reching funkitude but no one seems to be understanding the cosmic significance Bootsy, James Brown, and George are trying to show us.

Bootsy is reaching out to young musicians like myself and showing us how to make funk music. Watch in a few years if there aren't some really funky groups popping up showing people "The One".

Also I think it's awesome to see that he played for a short while in a band that was inspired by Sun Ra. Sun Ra is another being that came to this planet and changed how we view the world.

pute kisses like a man: // you've seen my downstairs mix up

Yes suh....thank you suh....

I saw Parliament-Funkadelic several times in the '80s, and it was hypnotically funky each time. They put on a hell of a show and knocked out the funk for 3 hours. I was in my 20's and ended up collapsed in my seat, while George, Bootsy and the gang kept right on funkin'...

/csb

everyone should ehar CCBOBB

kungfu jesus with a side of lime: everyone should ehar CCBOBB

nevermind that I'm dumb

That article was kinda sad (about Jimi), but I found it funny to read this in Bootsy's voice:

"If LSD brought us together, cocaine surely split us up."

kungfu jesus with a side of lime: kungfu jesus with a side of lime: everyone should ehar CCBOBB

nevermind that I'm dumb

I think if Bootsy joined Colonel Claypool's Bucket Of Bernie Brains, the world would end.

/Bassocalypse.
//granted, all of them except Les played with Bootsy in Praxis (which was an awesome, awesome supergroup)

LewDux: Link
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Thanks, thumbs up, +1 would listen again.

One of the strangest things you can have happen in your day is for a 59 year old, spandex wearing Bootsy Collins wade through a crowd, come up to you, say "aww, come on baby", give you a hug, and headbutt you. I tried to hang back, but damn if he didn't find me anyway and make a bee line. Strange, but strangely nice :-)

I love how he has no filter at all. I don't think the guy is capable of telling a lie.

Watch this video for a great interview with Bootsy by David Sanborn. Skip ahead to 2:00 to see him talk about acid on nationwide TV in the 80s when that sort of thing was not kosher.

Frederick: Groove is in the Heart



/My supperdish, my succotash wish

Jake Havechek: I liked the Beavis and Butthead when they tore apart everyone else in the "Groove is in the Heart" music video except for him.

+1

If I were a famous multimillionare, I'd want to have Bootsy in my entourage.

/Also Sabine Schmitt
//And for some reason Norm Abram

Strange he didn't mention Eddie Hazel, Funkadelic's guitarist who had a decidedly Hendrixish style

for specific songs to check out bootsy, my two favorites are the studio versions of body slam and psychoticbumpschool. just some amazing shiat

I'm loving all these Mighty Boosh references in this thread.

"At first I thought it was a sea anemone, but soon I realized it was a funky ball of tits from outer space."

peewinkle: James was not only the hardest working man in show business, but also the hardest to work for. He would fine any of his musicians that missed a note or a move on stage.

I can't find the video, but there's one (I think it's Cold Sweat) where he turns around and say's to someone in the band 'You know I gotcha!' That was that guy getting fined for missing his cue.

I saw Bootsy's band play twice in the last year, both times at BB Kings in New York. Last year's show was the best show I have ever seen by anybody, hands down. Band included Bernie, Blackbird McKnight, TM Stevens, Frank Kash Waddy with a big horn section and three backup singers. Dr. Cornell West was there and spent most of the 2nd half of the show dancing and singing on stage with the backup singers. This year's show featured fewer P-Funk alumni (although Bernie did play most of the show) but it was still tight as a motherfarker.

If you see that Bootsy is coming to play in your town, drop everything and go see him. He is a farking legend and he gives up the funk, the whole funk, and nothing but the funk, every second of every show.

/subby