Hoje é o aniversário do baixista Bootsy Collins (65 anos), um dos maiores baixistas quando o assunto envolve o groove e a música funk americana. Já participou de inúmeras bandas: The J.B.’s, Parliament-Funkadelic, Bootsy’s Rubber Band, Axiom Funk, Praxis, Material.
Collins faz parte do Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, para o qual foi indicado em 1997 com quinze outros membros do Parliament-Funkadelic.
Um forte abraço, mesmo que há distância e o nosso Feliz Aniversário Bootsy Collins!
*Saca só a discografia do querido:
1976 – Bootsy’s Rubber Band – Stretchin’ Out in Bootsy’s Rubber Band (Warner Bros. Records)
1977 – Bootsy’s Rubber Band – Ahh… The Name Is Bootsy, Baby! (Warner Bros. Records)
1978 – Bootsy’s Rubber Band – Bootsy? Player of the Year (Warner Bros. Records)
1979 – Bootsy’s Rubber Band – This Boot is Made for Fonk-N (Warner Bros. Records)
1980 – Bootsy Collins – Ultra Wave (Warner Bros. Records)
1980 – Sweat Band – Sweat Band – (Uncle Jam/Columbia Records)
1982 – Bootsy Collins – The One Giveth, the Count Taketh Away (Warner Bros. Records)
1988 – Bootsy Collins – What’s Bootsy Doin’? (Columbia)
1990 – Bootsy’s Rubber Band – Jungle Bass (4th & Broadway)
1994 – Bootsy’s New Rubber Band – Blasters of the Universe (Rykodisc)
1994 – Zillatron – Lord of the Harvest (Rykodisc)
1995 – Bootsy’s New Rubber Band – Keepin’ Dah Funk Alive 4-1995 (Rykodisc)
1997 – Bootsy Collins – Fresh Outta ‘P’ University (WEA/Black Culture)
1998 – Bootsy’s Rubber Band – Live in Louisville 1978 (Disky)
2002 – Bootsy Collins – Play With Bootsy (WEA International)
2006 – Bootsy’s New Rubber Band – Live In Concert 1998 (ABC Entertainment / A Charly Films Release)
2006 – Bootsy Collins – Christmas Is 4 Ever (Shout Factory)
2008 – Science Faxtion – Living on Another Frequency (Mascot Records)
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