Whether it be James Brown, Parliament Funkadelic, Bootsy’s Rubber Band, through Dee-lite to the G-funk of Dre, Tupac, Snoop. Bootsy Collin’s impact on funk anf the emergence of west-coast hip hop cannot be understated.
In this brilliant film by our friends at Reverb we get to look into his “Boot Cave” and see that his totally unique approach to music, whether it be performance, production and presentation runs deep through a workflow that has organically grown from decades in the studio with giants like Brown and Clinton. A particular highlight is a shrine devoted to his long-time friend and collaborator keyboard legend Bernie Worrel. Top take away, those whining synth-lead tracks you hear in the heyday of Dr Dre’s canon. They’re not a moog.
Bootsy is not just a trailblaizer musically his technical approach to multiple bass signal chains sets him aside from any other bass player. With saolid gold observation is effects aren’t just something you add to a signal but in fact inform, and are informed by how you perform the music you’re playing on.