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BOOTSY COLLINS
As Parliament-Funkadelic commander, George Clinton may have had most of the outrageous ideas, but it was his Second Officer of Funk, musician-arranger-producer William "Bootsy" Collins, who had the many talents to turn them into the masterpieces we still groove with today.
Cincinnati natives Bootsy and his older brother Phelps were already alums of James Brownβs legendary backing unit, The J.B.s, and were fronting their own psyche-funk band, The House Guests, when they hooked up with Clinton in 1972 and got Funkadelic. Four years later, Bootsy formed The Rubber Band and forged a larger-than-life identity as a colorful, wacked-out funkateer.
After an early-β80s hiatus, Bootsy staged a strong comeback in 1988 and toured with The Rubber Band well into the β90s, a move no doubt propelled by the reception his music was getting from big hip-hop names like Eazy E and Ice Cube (who both featured Bootsy in their videos).
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