BOOTSY COLLINS: MASTER FUNKATEER
#BEFOREHIPHOP Stories and Wisdom from one the world's greatest bass players
Well, if all William ‘Bootsy’ Collins did was anchor the James Brown “new breed” band for eleven months starting March 1970 and then play on and co-produce the bulk of the mid-70s Parliament-Funkadelic classics, he’d be one of the most important musicians of the ‘70s. With his brother Phelps ‘Catfish’ Collins on guitar and childhood friend Frankie ‘Kash…