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FRIDAY FUNK: Bootsy Collins
Yup, still on my P-Funk hype. So hopefully by now you’ve had a chance to take a listen to our new track “Gentleman’s Kool-Aid,” and for better or worse some of the reviews and comments have been that it’s “not quite hip-hop,” which is quite fine with us since our music centers around le FUNKE (that’s fake French for “the funk,” digit?)
So as we venture deeper into the voyage that is our upcoming record, I’d like to dedicate this installment of Friday Funk to none other than Bootsy Collins, the conductor of the album Player of the Year which convinced me that it just might be okay to drop a record with every single track exceeding 5 minutes.
And yes, I understand that making long songs is totally counter-intuitive for our increasingly-A.D.D. listening world, but this is certainly where the Funk lends its hand — primarily someone like Bootsy, who not only dresses outlandishly, interchanges several character voices within songs, and is quite overwhelmingly the king of doing too much — but in the most delightful way, because he has the musical prowess to back it all up.
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[Bootsy's Rubber Band "Very Yes"]
Add him to the list of artists whose books we take a considerably dense page from.
That was horrible grammar. Watch this interview.
