By the way, if you listen to podcasts, Mark Maron on his WTF show recently had a great conversation with Bootsy Collins. They covered a lot of ground about his early days with James Brown, and info about his childhood, etc. He also had a big brother who was a big part of his musical introduction.
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Nice. I’ll have to check that out. I’m new to the Boing, but goddam, I never expected this many funk fans collected here or anywhere. Glad I’m in the family now.
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One name: Bernie Worrell.
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Really, at least with P- Funk, they often didn’t Part of the reason for the high turnover of the band is that people were routinely not paid what they were owed.
Edit: This seems like a good time to post this Bootsy song with four guest bassists. Bootsy Collins - Bass Rigged System (World Wide Funk) 2017 - YouTube
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Please, Lord, don’t ever let my respect for Sly’s music outweigh my worship of James Brown’s music.
Amen.
You don’t have to worry about that. There’s always room for more funk.
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Truth is, I think Sly handled his band(s) much better than JB did.
JB was notoriously hard on his supporters and Sly, (when he was coherent, lol,) treated them more like friends/family.
Some of his players would disagree, but as far as I can tell, they were treated really well.
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