How best to describe slide trumpeter {{Steven Bernstein = 16405}}'s singular quartet Sex Mob? Maybe we should start with mercurial musical magician Bernstein himself, whose exotic career as sideman, musical director, arranger and composer has included ten years with {{John Lurie = 8915}}'s Lounge Lizards and stints alongside everyone from {{Bill Frisell = 6859}} to {{Sam Rivers = 10719}}, the Flying...
The first-ever documentary on the life of Bootsy Collins will air nationally at 8 p.m. Sunday on TV One. It's the most comprehensive look ever at Collins' life, covering his childhood in Cincinnati; his years touring with James Brown, Parliament-Funkadelic and his own band, and a motorcycle accident that threatened his career but helped him conquer drug addiction.
To executives from TV One and Los Angeles-based production company A. Smith & Co., Bootsy Collins was an obvious choice for the third installment of the TV One biography series "Unsung."
I'm realizing that my oldest looks more like Bootsy Collins than a White Cat, but there she is, feeling mighty awesome in her furry ensemble. A closer look at my boy: Life is swirly these days, with continued uncertainty about my sister's health. We met with the Nurse Navigator today, and received a giant binder of information and a book to review. We got her biopsy results, but still don't have much...
This is Bootsy Collins. We called her this mainly because it was a good name for a cat, and secondarily because it was the name of the bassist from Funkadelic. Either way, the first half of her night in chez Tai and Val was free of any major trauma. In fact, it was really fun and I think we were lucky to get such a sweet kitten. Aww (barf!!). Below is proof that Bootsy Collins' soul is alive and well,...
When not getting greasy with legends like Bootsy Collins , San Francisco's Claude VonStroke is passing more insanely clean, hyphy-infused house tracks like "Monster Island," the lead to his new–and cohesive!–LP, Bird Brain . The minds at Pitchfork named it "Best New Track" yesterday, so if you're influenced by that sort of thing then you've probably already bought the...
Gig-fx (www.gig-fx.com) has released the US$225 SubWah, a bass version of the MegaWah. According to the folks at Gig-fx, it captures the signature wide sweep range and funky low end of the Megawah, but has tailored the frequency ranges to bass guitar.The SubWah was developed with cooperation from pro bass players in Boston, Nashville and LA, including Bootsy Collins. The all-analog [...]
Claude Van Stroke / Bird Brain / Dirtybird Records Local house/techno producer and record label owner Claude Van Stroke is back at it with a new album, Bird Brain. He drops a lot of whomp on each plodding track, it sounds a bit like a rubber ball being dropped to a beat - which is [...]
An MTV crew has been filming Milford teen-agers who fight crime as masked superheroes for a reality series pilot. Two other MTV crews have been filming for "Taking the Stage" at SCPA and a "16 and Pregnant" episode at Notre Dame Academy.
[Wyclef] (Come on) Root to the fruit More bass than Bootsy Collins You verses me Thats like Ali verses Foreman (a-ha) God’s act, stand back and watch Devil’s time out Can’t be timed with no swatch watch Who I am, the black Abraham Zunga zunga zang, yellow man, Vietnam Add an extra bar as I spar with literature Taking kingdoms from tsars Winning more wars than the Moors [Forte] Hey,...
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