I met Bootsy Collins in the late 90s in a shop in Covent Garden in London. I was installing their IT system, when Dave Stewart (of the Eurythmics) walked in with Bootsy. It was Dave’s shop and he was showing Bootsy around - wearing a silver spandex jump-suit, shades and a huge smile. As a long-term Funkadelic fan, I was so dumbstruck, I completely ignored Stewart to splutter “You’re Bootsy Collins!!”. The tall, thin bassist looked at me with a smile and said “Yeah, man . . . . I know!” It was the early days of the internet but I kick myself for not asking for an email address. The same thing happened when I met Brian Eno’s daughter - I talk to her for ages about her dad but didn’t think to ask until we’d parted 🤨 Bernie Worrell is a fine keyboard player, he’s up there with George Duke and Alice Coltrane and Herbie, an inspiration for aspiring amateurs like myself.
I worship Bernie, really. But Stevie was doing this synth bass stuff in the early 70s. Listen to "Superwoman", "Creepin", "All Day Sucker", or "Too High". I'm not sure who was doing it as funky before Stevie.
For some Good reason this will always sound better than the studio version.. I seen them back in 1990 downtown Detroit .. The way they played it that night blew my mind!!
I can imagine all.the wild groupies and all the drugs that went on Wonder how many grooves and riffs was influenced or inspired by drugs and wild sex Eddie wrote the book on how a funkadelic guitar should sound Bootsy, and Bernie and George insanity created the p funk sound
Rebooty ,before the Paradigm is getting nasty fellas ,Its Zombooty Zoo these days 2023 . You Gotta Jam youre A-nius through the Ewoke Booty war is getting Funkateerd Heelll Yeahhhh
I wanted to hear you sing that but you didn’t and I was so disappointed. Please perform your sing when you tour because people like it more than you can imagine.
