Bootsy Collins Will No Longer Play Bass Live In Concert
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Jan 3, 2019
Famed funk bassist Bootsy Collins announced he will no longer be performing live in concert. The 67-year-old revealed he will continue to record in the studio despite his retirement from playing bass on stage.
Collins, who rose to fame in James Brown’s band and later holding down the low end for Parliament-Funkadelic, posted a message declaring his intentions to stop performing live. He wrote that his doctor instructed him to stop playing live due to pressure on Collins’ inner-ear and right hand. The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame-inducted bassist’s note also indicated he plans to become a mentor for other musicians.
Read Bootsy’s message below:
Time has come for Me to tell all our Funkateers that I will Not be Playing Bass in Concerts anymore. I have decided to become a Coach for up & coming Musicians. I know u r Disappointed just think for a moment how I feel. Doc said to much pressure on my Inner-Ear & Right Hand. Yeah, I had to make up my Mind so I did. 2019 Sheriff Ping Ping Ping will continue to Funk from the Studio but Not Live playing Bass on Stage. I know u got question & I don't have answers, maybe one day u to will understand. Just remember; That This Year will be the Funkiest Year of them All. Watch for it. Bootsy baby!!!
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Praxis - Transmutation, a
Praxis - Transmutation, a mixed genre album from experimental rock super group featuring Bootsy Collins, Bucket Head, and Bernie Worrell (1992). The first album by Bill Laswell's ever-changing Praxis.
Transmutation full-album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJkdiOeCEjE&t=
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What a loss :(
What a loss :(
so grateful I was able to experience the magnificent glory of the space bass a couple times in person, for its creation and bootzilla's application of such, was one of the greatest heights the groove spiritual life force that is the funk shall ever know, babba.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1zs7TkEPPO0&t=1025s
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Praxis at B'roo 2003(?) blew
Praxis at B'roo 2003(?) blew everyone out. We walked away from whatever shit GD incarnation that was playing and into some of the craziest shit ever.
Watch Mike Judge's new season of Tales from the Tour Bus - the funk season.
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That's too bad but its good
That's too bad but its good he is taking care of himself. These legendary old musicians aren't invincible.
Saw Bootsy's band once in Missoula 1994. Tore the roof off the sucka and it was funkier than any of the many P-Funk shows I have seen.
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We saw Maceo Parker at SF
We saw Maceo Parker at SF Jazz last Friday. Despite his age the man still brought it!
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Country season of tales from
Country season of tales from the tour bus is a little better, imo.
but season 2 is certainly still worth watching.
i b overdriving and boosting the shit out of my envelope today in a sign of solidarity as I hope many a bassist is;
throw some octave and chorus on there while you're at it too.
this boot's for u, bitches!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M7WgXY_sbHw
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>>>>We saw Maceo Parker at SF
>>>>We saw Maceo Parker at SF Jazz last Friday. Despite his age the man still brought it!
Saw Maceo at the Waterfront Blues Fest a year or two ago. It freeking smoked.
KDTU is one of the funkier bands out there these days.
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Caught Bootsy in Portland on
Caught Bootsy in Portland on my way down to FTW in '15. When he picked up the bass (his bands' bass player was still on), shit got seriously heavy.
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Bootsy's use of space bass
Bootsy's use of space bass the few last tours he did wa splendorous.
Arguably the greatest of The Funk's manifestations date.
with another bass player already holding down the groove he'd walk around the stage with that thing like it was a Giant exclamation point; accenting the one, doubling up on riffs and taking phat ass solos.
it was spectacular, truly one of a kind.
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Good interview here:
Good interview here:
The Sound of Young America: Oct 10 2011: Bootsy Collins
The legendary funk bassist joins us to talk about creating the persona of Bootsy, playing music with two very different band leaders, James Brown and George Clinton, and more.
https://archive.org/details/TSOYA-2011-10-10-Bootsy-Collins
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Here's bootsy showing his
Here's bootsy showing his guitar collection:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gZGNbnD3kf8