A Conversation with Bootsy about Bernie Worrell 

Permanent smile on Bootsy's face. Love it.

I was friends with Bootsy Collins when I was on Facebook. He was so sweet and kind. He is a precious and brilliant soul

Bernie once advised Me to Not Forget The Artist that came Before me... I immediately added 500 Thank You's to the Liner notes of my first A wisdom from The Woo!

Bootsy keepin it real! God bless BOOTSY!!!!

Interview With A Giant! Long Live Bootsy!!! One of The Most Influential Artists of All Time, Especially since he played w/King James Brown on some of The Greatest Compositions of All Time-With James Brown & ParliamenFunkadelic.

Bernie is definitley THE GREATEST keyboard player! I am truely a Bernie Worrell fan. What a lot of people are unaware of is that he was a child prodigy who not only studied classical music but wrote his 1st concerto before he was a teenager. He studied Bach, Beethoven, etc. and could play their music note for note. George Clinton was very blessed to get some of the very best, if not THE best artists in music and have them surround him on record & stage. P-Funk guitarists can put Prince to shame!

thanks for posting this. i love hearing such legends talk about the theory of their work

And you can guarantee they were BLAZED 💨💨💨💨💨😎

My idols. I'm one who listened to those p-funk and later Talking Heads records backwards and forwards. Bernie will live on in my heart, no matter what industrial guise my music takes.

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.

To the Wizard of "WOO"...You will be with us "ALWAYS"!!!

2 people have lost their FUNKING MINDS!

R.I.P Bernie, I'll be diggin' your grooves for days and days!

Bootsy is such a cool cat. Nicest dude ever.

minimoog '70-'81 Bootsy still looking young

RIP brother Bernie.

Excellent interview!

R.I.P. to the great, musical genius Bernie Worrell, you will be missed !

AMAZING conversation... thanks so much for posting, I really enjoyed this

Bernie's stuff to me was like he put the icing on the cake, he finds spaces in the music that need fillin[feeling],,,, thanks and blessing to Bernie Worrell

Bernie is way too underrated !

I agree with you wholeheartedly about Bernie, love him on the moog, and love you too, Bootsy!

The keyboard master and legend!!!!!

who in the hell gave this a "thumbs down"?

So this is what Theo Huxtable was talking about, when he said " jamming on the one".

There’s a piece of me in every record you hear. - JB

On the one is unequivocally the most intoxicating and habit forming beat in music!

what a legend

Bernie Worrell...Ok...since Bootsy let the whole mug out of the bag, I will give up funk...Truth is, on AquaBoogie...I only dance to piano section. So, it would look off beat but always right on the one~~ Now where you get your funk from? I got mine from Bernie!~~

I wants them glasses

I ran into Bernie at Rickel's on rt 22 in Watchung NJ back in the 90's!. My son Jensen

"one" nation

B O O T S Y 4 L I F E !! 5 21.

Holy crap can you imagine being a fly on the wall of that P Funk bus? In addition to seeing quadruple microdots, had to be as fun as the merry prankster bus!

im 18 pops put me on shout out to my pops love u big kev aka kevy boi IE sb

LOL @ Play it on the one !

There were some great 1970's funk bands but nobody did it like P/Funk !

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.

@fonkfiend I am glad you enjoyed it.

Bootsy is 2Chainz dad

whats the deal with the horse on the bottom right corner haha

You know...

2 Chainz actually looks like him and sounds like him....Interesting

2 chains sure as heck favors him and his voice a little bit

Need more funk : )

Funk History 201

Hank Sr. did the same thang@!! Alll round worl same song@@@

Likeuhmyaknow

fink with prince is just as good

.Bernie Worrell is the innovator for synthesizer bass. A truly gifted and talented musician that was not arrogant. We miss you.

Not one of the best Keyboard players on the Planet. But the Best Keyboard Player on the Planet...

Bernie was Amazing...I was like , we're did he get those coool sounds man🎶💓

Bernie Worrell = Thelonious Funk

Glad to see a classic Memorymoog in the background, when so many of the older guys only have the lastest plasti-synth and the LITE plasti sounds that go with it. Bootsy, unlike many other long-time musicians, still has vibrancy and life, and looks healthy. Glad he's giving props to Bernie (and others deserve mention), because Wonder always gets all the credit when there were always others, like Herbie Hancock and others.

i want those glasses

7:18 he mentions Bernie.

All these years I thought Bernie was playing Clavinet on "A Joyful Process." My mind is blown!

thats funkier than nine cans of shaving powder

Nice Memorymoog synth behind him.

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

Your either on the bus or off the bus.

Memorymoog

Cool convo, it was on the 1!!!!!!

Dudes and dudettes.... in the world of musicians Bernie "Woo" Worrell made his mark! The people who don't know about Bernie, really don't deserve to know. So, it all evens out.

Bernie's parts in Bootsy music is very idiosyncratic. Dude had a great ear.

Wish I could have been on that bus :D

A wizard at a piano

Play it on the one ! LOL !

I was a kid when one record producer which I know told that it is extremelly difficult to play other instrument on keyboards as yoy need to know exact timing and techniques of that particular instrument. Bernie did it with ease!