Bassist William 'Bootsy' Collins first made a name for himself between 1969 and 1971 as a key member of James Brown's famous backing band The JB's. In company with fellow JB's Fred Wesley an... Read allBassist William 'Bootsy' Collins first made a name for himself between 1969 and 1971 as a key member of James Brown's famous backing band The JB's. In company with fellow JB's Fred Wesley and Maceo Parker he defected to George Clinton's hugely-influential Funkadelic/Parliament se... Read allBassist William 'Bootsy' Collins first made a name for himself between 1969 and 1971 as a key member of James Brown's famous backing band The JB's. In company with fellow JB's Fred Wesley and Maceo Parker he defected to George Clinton's hugely-influential Funkadelic/Parliament set-up, where he developed his flamboyant and highly-visual stage act. In 1976 Bootsy formed... Read all