Bootsy Collins
R&B/Soul
The next Bootsy Collins concert is scheduled for Friday, May 30, 2025 at Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, CA, United States. See all 1 upcoming concerts
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![Watch Keep That Funk Alive (feat. Bootsy Collins) [Official Music Video] music video by Lettuce](/mkimage/image/thumb/Video112/v4/cc/73/44/cc7344f4-5106-ee22-def2-7b3c415242ea/196925122825_1_1.jpg/575x575mv.webp "Watch Keep That Funk Alive (feat. Bootsy Collins) [Official Music Video] music video by Lettuce")
![Watch We Outta B Funkin’ (Lyric Video) [feat. Soopafly, Temu Bacot & Myra Washington] music video by Bootsy Collins](/mkimage/image/thumb/Video116/v4/1d/c9/5b/1dc95b4d-54ae-6fb8-37ae-2b8a6dc986ff/617513926521_cover.jpg/575x575mv.webp "Watch We Outta B Funkin’ (Lyric Video) [feat. Soopafly, Temu Bacot & Myra Washington] music video by Bootsy Collins")
About Bootsy Collins
Hometown
Cincinnati, OH, United States
Born
October 26, 1951
Genre
R&B/Soul
Parliament-Funkadelic founder George Clinton remembers the first time he saw the cover for Bootsy Collins’ Stretchin’ Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band. The white suit, the star-shaped glasses, the mix of blaxploitation star and psychedelic kids’ cartoon: Bootsy had a look. That’s the link, Clinton thought: someone who could take the freedom and density of funk and make it pop. Not only did Collins (born William Earl Collins in Cincinnati in 1951) help shape the rhythmic spine of both Parliament-Funkadelic and James Brown’s band as a bass player, he expanded the parameters of Black music in ways that laid ground for everything from LA G-funk to Detroit techno and house. (And, as he noted, helped make it okay for Black people to wear bright colors at a time when it was still considered weird.)
The P-Funk material is impeccable (“Give Up the Funk [Tear the Roof Off the Sucker],” the delirious post-doo-wop of “Be My Beach,” and hey, did you know he played drums on “Flash Light”?!), and the solo and Rubber Band work is great too (“Psychoticbumpschool,” “Vanish in Our Sleep”). But like George Clinton realized in 1976, Collins is also one of those rare artists whose look, sound, and aura helped crystallize an entire culture: the funk incarnate. “Funk has always been making something out of nothing,” Bootsy tells Apple Music. “That's what funk is. That's what we do as athletes. That's what we do as entertainers, musicians—we take what we got and learn to get forward with it. And that's what funk is.” In 2022, he began hosting The Bootsy Collins Show on Apple Music Hits.
The P-Funk material is impeccable (“Give Up the Funk [Tear the Roof Off the Sucker],” the delirious post-doo-wop of “Be My Beach,” and hey, did you know he played drums on “Flash Light”?!), and the solo and Rubber Band work is great too (“Psychoticbumpschool,” “Vanish in Our Sleep”). But like George Clinton realized in 1976, Collins is also one of those rare artists whose look, sound, and aura helped crystallize an entire culture: the funk incarnate. “Funk has always been making something out of nothing,” Bootsy tells Apple Music. “That's what funk is. That's what we do as athletes. That's what we do as entertainers, musicians—we take what we got and learn to get forward with it. And that's what funk is.” In 2022, he began hosting The Bootsy Collins Show on Apple Music Hits.
Bootsy Collins has also released music as a member of Praxis, World-Wide-Funkdrive, The J.B.'s, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bonzo Goes to Washington, Funkadelic, Bootsy's New Rubber Band, The Groove Grass Boyz, George Clinton & The P-Funk All Stars Parliament.
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