{"id":148334,"date":"2020-06-15T15:39:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T13:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/06\/15\/bootsy-collins-were-all-funky-just-not-all-of-us-know-it\/"},"modified":"2020-06-15T15:39:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T13:39:22","slug":"bootsy-collins-were-all-funky-just-not-all-of-us-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=148334","title":{"rendered":"Bootsy Collins: &#039;We&#039;re all funky, just not all of us know it&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The P-Funk bassist was a street kid in the 60s, got his break with James Brown, then spent much of the 70s taking LSD. He talks about drugs, racism, police brutality \u2013 and the healing power of musicAt the age of 17, William \u201cBootsy\u201d Collins packed up his homemade bass guitar and left home to tour the world with James Brown. He was heading off in pursuit of the funk. Or, as he calls it now \u2013 aged 68, in his high-pitched rasp down the phone from Cincinnati, Ohio \u2013 \u201cthe fonk\u201d.&nbsp;In the five decades since, Collins\u2019s bass has changed the shape of music. Not only did he play on some of Brown\u2019s best-known and most political records \u2013 Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine, Superbad and Soul Power \u2013 but he has also had a hand in pop hits from Deee-Lite\u2019s Groove Is in the Heart to Fatboy Slim\u2019s Weapon of Choice and Snoop Dogg\u2019s What\u2019s My Name (Snoop Dogg). After working with Brown, he would discover LSD, join George Clinton\u2019s Parliament-Funkadelic and help carry the torch for unapologetic bohemian black music after Jimi Hendrix\u2019s death. He found his signature style \u2013 star-shaped sunglasses, skin-tight leathers and top hats \u2013 and became an icon of afrofuturism. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2020\/jun\/15\/bootsy-collins-were-all-funky-just-not-all-of-us-know-it\" target=\"_blank\">Bootsy Collins: &#039;We&#039;re all funky, just not all of us know it&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The P-Funk bassist was a street kid in the 60s, got his break with James Brown, then spent much of the 70s taking LSD. He talks about drugs, racism, police brutality \u2013 and the healing power of musicAt the age of 17, William \u201cBootsy\u201d Collins packed up his homemade bass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}