#Bootzilla Records

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[mrmousetolliver]

Deep In Vogue (1989) by Malcolm McLaren and the Bootzilla Orchestra

Inspired by the documentary Paris is Burning, the film and record depict the underground dance and ball scene of the gay, African-American and Latino voguing houses in New York City during the 1980s. McLaren's record was released two years before the film's official release, and was the first to bring 'voguing' to mainstream public attention – it pre-dates Madonna's "Vogue" and topped the Billboard dance chart in July 1989, eight months before the March 1990 release of Madonna's single. The remix can be seen here.

[lboogie1906]

William Earl “Bootsy” Collins (October 26, 1951) is a musician, singer, and songwriter. Rising to prominence with James Brown in the early 1970s, and with Parliament-Funkadelic, his driving bass guitar and humorous vocals established him as one of the leading names in funk. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with 15 other members of Parliament-Funkadelic.

He moved to Detroit after Philippé Wynne suggested joining The Spinners, for whom Wynne had been singing. However, following the advice of singer and future Parliament member Mallia Franklin, he had another choice. Franklin there introduced both Collins brothers to George Clinton, and 1972 saw both of the Collins brothers, along with Waddy, join Funkadelic. He played bass on most of Funkadelic and Parliament albums through the early 1980s, garnering several songwriting credits as well.

He, Catfish, Waddy, Joel Johnson, Gary “Mudbone” Cooper, Robert Johnson, and The Horny Horns formed Bootsy’s Rubber Band, a separate touring unit of Clinton’s P-Funk collective. The group recorded five albums together, the first three of which are often considered to be among the quintessential P-Funk recordings. The group’s 1978 album Bootsy? Player of the Year reached the top of the R&B album chart and spawned the #1 R&B single “Bootzilla”.

Like Clinton, he took on several alter egos, from Casper the Funky Ghost to Bootzilla, “the world’s only rhinestone rockstar monster of a doll”, all as parts of the evolving character of an alien rock star who grew more bizarre as time went on. He adopted his trademark “space bass” around this time. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[myrecordcollections]

George Clinton, Bootsy Collins and the rest of the Parliament Funkadelic and Rubber Band hydra seem blessed with unlimited inspiration. Clinton, who helps produce and write nearly everything these bands release, taps a — you’ll pardon the expression — mother lode of black popular culture, gathering up all genres of music, humor and pulp fiction. Funkentelechy vs, the Placebo Syndrome is the new “funk opera” by Parliament, while Booty? Player of the Year further elucidates and obfuscates Collins’ deceptively hilarious challenge to modern soul balladry and funk vamping.

Clinton triggers Parliament’s album with a song so hard that bullets bounce off it. “Bop Gun (Endangered Species)” is an R&B you tickled by synthesizer fills and mugged by a gang of ribald trumpets. His lead vocal is both playful and passionate: Otis Redding as gunslinger philosopher. Later, when certain elements of Funkentelecln’s plot grow cumbersome and impenetrable, Clinton blasts away the confusion by simply losing it in the riffing, which peaks on “Flash Light,” a gritty disco digression.

If the name of the main character in Clinton’s latest scenario seems corny at first — he is Sir Nose D’Voidoffunk — it’s only because no one could possibly foresee the multiple puns, wise-cracks and convolutions its creator can wrest from it. From the start, all Parliament Funkadelic music has been enthusiastically excessive, in everything from verbiage to the number of musicians employed. While Funkentelechy is no exception. Clinton’s production work here is atypically light and clear. Whereas in the past he’s usually encouraged the bass and drums to sound murky, to retard the beat and thereby offset the jangle of his raft of hardnosed and Hendrix-inspired guitarists, he’s now developed an invigorating musical and verbal precision. Michael Hampton’s expert guitar solos quiver starkly in the mix, and Clinton even strives to make his own lyrics intelligible — not coherent maybe, but intelligible.

And, if “Funkentelechy” and “Sir Nose D’Voidoffunk (Pay Attention — B3M)” go on too long — the fatal P-Funk flaw — “Wizard of Finance.” which sounds a lot like Graham Central Station, and especially “Bop Gun” display a new rigorousness and brevity.

The dense dance beat of Bootsy? Player of the Year rarely lets up. Floating above the never-say-die drumming, the booming bass and the Rubber Band’s curt horn section is Bootsy Collins’ voice, a lovely, delicate croon that somehow cuts through the instrumental mesmerism like an FM DJ’s ultrasincere inflections infect the airwaves.

Bootsy Collins is the least macho male working in popular music; his pitch is never manipulative or nasty. On “May the Force Be with You” and the loping “Very Yes,” the long love songs that pad Player of the Year, he pushes beyond slick palaver into the area of the touching ballad. Which is nice, but has nothing to do with his magnanimous radicalism. He’s got this notion that absolutely anything — any phrase, surrealistic word association, cracked culture quotation, even any mistake — can be used as a narrative device in his stream-of-funk songs (e.g., this record’s best cut and Collins’ masterpiece to date, “Bootzilla”: “I’m a rhinestone rock star monster of a doll, baby/I’m a doll for all seasons”).

[julio-viernes]

El bien y el mal. El legendario bajista Bootsy Collins (James Brown, Funkadelic, Parliament) en la canción titular de su nuevo LP "The Power of the One" (23 de octubre Bootzilla Records / Sweetwater Studios) que suena sencillamente fantástica con invitados de relumbrón como el guitarrista de jazz George Benson.

[zeruch]

#quarantunes July 2020. Monday has been pretty crazy so far, so why not listen to something that's equally crazy. This is the only record that's a collaboration between Malcolm McLaren (svengali for the Sex Pistols until he and John Lydon had a falling out) and the Bootzilla orchestra (AKA bootsy Collins, most notably of P Funk) but also featuring contributions from Jeff Beck, Lisa Marie, Robbie Kilgore, Phil Ramone, Dave Stewart from The Eurythmics, News Davenport from the Brand New Heavies,and William orbit amongst others. And this is from 1989, so it's weird in that late 80s experimental pop way. #vinyl (at SoFA District) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDKGQ4lj_e3/?igshid=1onb5ilqxuo1a

[cincygroove]

Bootsy Collins Launches ‘Bootzilla Records’ (50+ Years of Personal Archives), New Video, EP & The House Guests Reissue LP http://www.cincygroove.com/?p=86627

[ezraz]

Tour Bootsy's Guitar Collection

Tour Bootsy's Guitar Collection #wfnk #bootsy #funk #video

This is old but so cool – someone gets around Bootsy’s studio and talks guitars and basses and films it all. Bootsy has been turning out gold records since the early 70’s.

Sidenote – I held one of his star basses, but I don’t think it was the original 1975 one. Still the coolest bass I’ve ever held in my hands.

Bootsy is the king!

Bootzilla’s here! The world’s only rhinestone rock star…

[countvinyldc]

Being played tonight in DC... Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy? Player Of The Year... 1978 on Warner Bros. Records... some super funk... Bootsy with a band that includes Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley create some great melodies... check out "Hollywood Squares" or "Very Yes"... the theme tonight is "Bootzilla"... just for the groove... lots of keyboard and bass... be sure listen to "Bootsy? (What's The Name Of This Town)" just to see if yours made it... mid way through the Saturday session on a cold night... cool music everywhere... finally found my way back to the one... "I've been loving you for days"... #nowspinning #vinyloftheday #vinylcollection #album #albumcover #DJ #recordcollection #vinyl #music #record #turntable #recordcollection #vinylcommunity #soulmixing #33rpm #vinylclub #recordplayer #instavinyl #love #onmyturntable #vinyladdict  #red #acreativedc #vinylcollectionpost #star #sunglasses #funk — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2qfXRnA

[outerspacezombieinvasion-blog]

OuterSpace Zombie Invasion is a new Virtual Reality Video Game for all Virtual Reality Game Platforms. Help our hero Chuck Bueller fight through 9 funk filled Zombie Levels of Apocalyptic Destruction as he saves the Universe from these Bad Alien Zombie Mamma Jammas! 

Coming Soon for All Virtual Reality Platforms Console and Mobile VR Visit Our Official OZI Website http://www.outerspacezombieinvasion.com

OuterSpace Zombie Invasion all Rights Reserved Paradox Games Inc. 

Music Performed By: William "Bootsy" Collins and the Rubberband Music 

Recorded at: Bootzilla Studios Audio 

Mixed and Mastered by: Critical Multimedia 

3d Animation: Paradox Games Inc

[lboogie1906]

William Earl "Bootsy" Collins (born October 26, 1951) is a musician, singer, and songwriter. Rising to prominence with James Brown in the early 1970s, and with Parliament-Funkadelic, his driving bass guitar and humorous vocals established him as one of the leading names in funk. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with 15 other members of Parliament-Funkadelic. He moved to Detroit after Philippé Wynne suggested joining The Spinners, for whom Wynne had been singing. However, following the advice of singer and future Parliament member Mallia Franklin, he had another choice. Franklin there introduced both Collins brothers to George Clinton, and 1972 saw both of the Collins brothers, along with Waddy, join Funkadelic. He played bass on most of Funkadelic and Parliament albums through the early 1980s, garnering several songwriting credits as well. He, Catfish, Waddy, Joel Johnson, Gary "Mudbone" Cooper, Robert Johnson, and The Horny Horns formed Bootsy's Rubber Band, a separate touring unit of Clinton's P-Funk collective. The group recorded five albums together, the first three of which are often considered to be among the quintessential P-Funk recordings. The group's 1978 album Bootsy? Player of the Year reached the top of the R&B album chart and spawned the #1 R&B single "Bootzilla". Like Clinton, he took on several alter egos, from Casper the Funky Ghost to Bootzilla, "the world's only rhinestone rockstar monster of a doll", all as parts of the evolving character of an alien rock star who grew gradually more bizarre as time went on. He adopted his trademark "space bass" around this time. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/CkLnAYKLpyT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[myrecordcollections]

George Clinton, Bootsy Collins and the rest of the Parliament Funkadelic and Rubber Band hydra seem blessed with unlimited inspiration. Clinton, who helps produce and write nearly everything these bands release, taps a — you’ll pardon the expression — mother lode of black popular culture, gathering up all genres of music, humor and pulp fiction. Funkentelechy vs, the Placebo Syndrome is the new “funk opera” by Parliament, while Booty? Player of the Year further elucidates and obfuscates Collins’ deceptively hilarious challenge to modern soul balladry and funk vamping.

Clinton triggers Parliament’s album with a song so hard that bullets bounce off it. “Bop Gun (Endangered Species)” is an R&B you tickled by synthesizer fills and mugged by a gang of ribald trumpets. His lead vocal is both playful and passionate: Otis Redding as gunslinger philosopher. Later, when certain elements of Funkentelecln’s plot grow cumbersome and impenetrable, Clinton blasts away the confusion by simply losing it in the riffing, which peaks on “Flash Light,” a gritty disco digression.

If the name of the main character in Clinton’s latest scenario seems corny at first — he is Sir Nose D’Voidoffunk — it’s only because no one could possibly foresee the multiple puns, wise-cracks and convolutions its creator can wrest from it. From the start, all Parliament Funkadelic music has been enthusiastically excessive, in everything from verbiage to the number of musicians employed. While Funkentelechy is no exception. Clinton’s production work here is atypically light and clear. Whereas in the past he’s usually encouraged the bass and drums to sound murky, to retard the beat and thereby offset the jangle of his raft of hardnosed and Hendrix-inspired guitarists, he’s now developed an invigorating musical and verbal precision. Michael Hampton’s expert guitar solos quiver starkly in the mix, and Clinton even strives to make his own lyrics intelligible — not coherent maybe, but intelligible.

And, if “Funkentelechy” and “Sir Nose D’Voidoffunk (Pay Attention — B3M)” go on too long — the fatal P-Funk flaw — “Wizard of Finance.” which sounds a lot like Graham Central Station, and especially “Bop Gun” display a new rigorousness and brevity.

The dense dance beat of Bootsy? Player of the Year rarely lets up. Floating above the never-say-die drumming, the booming bass and the Rubber Band’s curt horn section is Bootsy Collins’ voice, a lovely, delicate croon that somehow cuts through the instrumental mesmerism like an FM DJ’s ultrasincere inflections infect the airwaves.

Bootsy Collins is the least macho male working in popular music; his pitch is never manipulative or nasty. On “May the Force Be with You” and the loping “Very Yes,” the long love songs that pad Player of the Year, he pushes beyond slick palaver into the area of the touching ballad. Which is nice, but has nothing to do with his magnanimous radicalism. He’s got this notion that absolutely anything — any phrase, surrealistic word association, cracked culture quotation, even any mistake — can be used as a narrative device in his stream-of-funk songs (e.g., this record’s best cut and Collins’ masterpiece to date, “Bootzilla”: “I’m a rhinestone rock star monster of a doll, baby/I’m a doll for all seasons”).

[lboogie1906]

William Earl "Bootsy" Collins (born October 26, 1951) is a musician, singer, and songwriter. Rising to prominence with James Brown in the early 1970s, and later with Parliament-Funkadelic, his driving bass guitar and humorous vocals established him as one of the leading names in funk. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with 15 other members of Parliament-Funkadelic. He moved to Detroit after Philippé Wynne suggested joining The Spinners, for whom Wynne had been singing. However, following the advice of singer and future Parliament member Mallia Franklin, he had another choice. Franklin there introduced both Collins brothers to George Clinton, and 1972 saw both of the Collins brothers, along with Waddy, join Funkadelic. He played bass on most of Funkadelic and Parliament albums through the early 1980s, garnering several songwriting credits as well. He, Catfish, Waddy, Joel Johnson, Gary "Mudbone" Cooper, Robert Johnson, and The Horny Horns formed Bootsy's Rubber Band, a separate touring unit of Clinton's P-Funk collective. The group recorded five albums together, the first three of which are often considered to be among the quintessential P-Funk recordings. The group's 1978 album Bootsy? Player of the Year reached the top of the R&B album chart and spawned the #1 R&B single "Bootzilla". Like Clinton, he took on several alter egos, from Casper the Funky Ghost to Bootzilla, "the world's only rhinestone rockstar monster of a doll", all as parts of the evolving character of an alien rock star who grew gradually more bizarre as time went on. He adopted his trademark "space bass" around this time. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #phibetasigma https://www.instagram.com/p/CVfsOlOrARExoaL0p6cd17JIP9upRXtexWg2U40/?utm_medium=tumblr

[lboogie1906]

William Earl "Bootsy" Collins (born October 26, 1951) is a musician, singer and songwriter. Rising to prominence with James Brown in the early 1970s, and later with Parliament-Funkadelic, his driving bass guitar and humorous vocals established him as one of the leading names in funk. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with 15 other members of Parliament-Funkadelic. He moved to Detroit,, after Philippé Wynne suggested joining The Spinners, for whom Wynne had been singing. However, following the advice of singer and future Parliament member Mallia Franklin, he had another choice. Franklin there introduced both Collins brothers to George Clinton, and 1972 saw both of the Collins brothers, along with Waddy, join Funkadelic. He played bass on most of Funkadelic and Parliament albums through the early 1980s, garnering several songwriting credits as well. He, Catfish, Waddy, Joel Johnson, Gary "Mudbone" Cooper, Robert Johnson and The Horny Horns formed Bootsy's Rubber Band, a separate touring unit of Clinton's P-Funk collective. The group recorded five albums together, the first three of which are often considered to be among the quintessential P-Funk recordings. The group's 1978 album Bootsy? Player of the Year reached the top of the R&B album chart and spawned the #1 R&B single "Bootzilla". Like Clinton, he took on several alter egos, from Casper the Funky Ghost to Bootzilla, "the world's only rhinestone rockstar monster of a doll", all as parts of the evolving character of an alien rock star who grew gradually more bizarre as time went on. He also adopted his trademark "space bass" around this time. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #phibetasigma https://www.instagram.com/p/CG1PM5yriTobtEkGtGxGxCuwTAhpQZai_ffxA40/?igshid=f1b1o9shk323