Bootsy Collins ' 1976 album Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band has long been considered a funk masterpiece. But what becomes clear all these years later is the way in which the album ...

Bass player Bootsy Collins created his distinctive sound with the Original J.B.’s, the band behind James Brown hits like “Sex Machine.” He went on to help George Clinton ’s Parliament ...

Bootsy’s Rubber Band emerged in 1976, a spirited ensemble that included Collins’ brother Phelps (“Catfish”), as well as fellow James Brown bandmembers Fred Wesley and Maceo Parker, Joel ...

Bootsy’s Rubber Band emerged in 1976, a spirited ensemble that included Collins’ brother Phelps (“Catfish”), as well as fellow James Brown bandmembers Fred Wesley and Maceo Parker, Joel Johnson, Gary ...

It was here, after all, that Bootsy and his star-shaped Space Bass rocketed into the funk-soul universe, first with George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic and later with his own Bootsy’s Rubber Band, ...

Stretching Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band: Bootsy enlisted J.B.'s Fred Wesley and Maceo Parker as well as his Pacesetters core unit to make Stretching Out, released in the U.S. Bicentennial year.

There couldn’t be a better time than now to be Bootsy Collins. At the moment, he has not one but two new albums in the stores: “Blasters of the Universe” by Bootsy’s New Rubber Band, and ...

Legendary sideman and film composer Lyle Workman recounts how he managed to reunite the legendary funkateers for 2007’s Superbad – by approaching Bootsy at NAMM ...

After their smooth performance at the American Music Awards on Sunday (November 21), Silk Sonic—aka the silkiest band in town, fronted by Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak—has been feeling the ...