Bootsy Collins
11 July 2008 | Nile | 00:30 - 01:45 |
Line-up:
Bootsy Collins (vocals, bass); Candice Cheatham, Vicki Anderson Byrd, Tomi Rae Hynie - Brown, Anthony Wilson (vocals); Danny Ray (MC); Donald Moore (rap); Keith Cheatham Jr., Miguel Cheatham (rap, dance); Eric Person, Sylvester Scott (sax); Fred Wesley, Thomas Sullivan (trombone); Phelps Collins, Khari Wynn, Keith Cheatham Sr. (guitar); Bartlett Anderson (keyboards); Charles Hargrove (bass); Erik Hargrove, John Starks (drums); John Griggs; Collins, Patty, Dodwell, Serge, Fraser, Alex, Logan, Dwight, Williams, Kathie.
About Bootsy Collins
The "hammering and plucking" on the bass guitar plays a
prominent role in funk. Everything goes to the groove. If there's
one person who knows the sound of that groove, it's showy and funky
Bootsy Collins, the bassist who became a big name through James
Brown, who "discovered" him; the same bassist who played with
George Clinton's Parliament/Funkadelic and who led Bootsy's
Rubberband in the seventies. His hard, funky bass lines dominate
many albums, but his singing and of course his extravagant costumes
have become the trademarks of his p-funk. Since Collins scored his
greatest hits, The Pinocchio Theory (1977) and Bootzilla (1978),
the legendary musician keeps reinventing himself. With his New
Rubberband, but also in the guise of various alter-egos, like
Bootzilla, Boot-Tron and King of the Geepies. At North Sea Jazz,
Bootsy pays homage to James Brown, together with the members of
James Brown's old band: the J.B.'s.