Bootsy Collins Live 1978 Stretchin' Out

[benzelbmore]

There go big bennie

[heckto35]

HALLELUJJIA!!! 

[dreadtodred]

bootsy is one funky mofo

[TheBirdtrain]

Was that really a live track or the studio track/ Check out Bootsy's live in Louisville 1976 CD..outta this world.. Also absolutly check out Betty Davis "Nasty Gal" LP&CD1975 way ahead acid funk. That lean&mean record by Miles Davis ex wife actually paved a lot a ways for Funk to come.

[Robert85435]

Bootsy = lightyears ahead of his times

[twiztidlestat]

@Robert85435

We're STILL not in Bootsy's time..

[RunNingTheoRy]

since ive started playing bass ive goten into funk and cantget enough of bootsy's funky bass lines hes my idol.

WE LIKE TO PARTY

[BigRay514]

Aw man !! thanks for sharing I was at this show those were the days.

[ProfanationXXX]

GLORY B! THE FUNKS IN ME!!!!

[esquibelle]

I love you Bootsy.

[Khaddar]

FUNKTACULARIFICESTICLES FUNKY MO!!! My god!!! I sprouted an afro, my pants exploded into bell bottoms and a convertible is outside full of bikini clad women with Mr. T are honkin the horn for me!! Praise funk!!! BOOTSY!!! BOOTSY!!! BOOTSY!!! BOOTSY!!!

[Apsu72]

1hundred-ninety % FUNK!!!!!!!! Don't be fooled by those clowns that's on that corny ass 80's shit!

[jenniferjuniper97]

like that funky bass!

[slickluw88]

boosty my idol

[PeartDisicple481]

LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!!!!!

[desidtb]

Super-tough poppin' on that bass line..

Way to put some serious stank on that groove!!!

[curtisunit]

OOOOO I wish I had the whole thing!

1:42 aint long enough to keep me on this cloud!

[venus3003]

stretch dat shit out boot! you a bad motherfucker!

[swmuzik]

Drummers don't funk like this anymore!

[upT3mpo]

the originators of badass!!

[granpastreetz]

This is so funky..it hurts!

[Chadsxxy]

my eyes!my ears! I'm stunned with funky awesomeness

[jteshuwah]

Great stuff, but he shoulda stayed with James Brown. The JB's were the funkiest bastards on the planet...this just isn't the same. Sorry

[groovadelika73]

I love James Brown but.. shut the funk up!

Bootsy is THE funkiest bassmaster in the world.

[tubeworm00]

He use to play live shows for James Brown way way back with two of his friends when he was younger. Bootsy said James used to act like he was their father. He was always scolding them for their behavior especially off stage no doubt picking up women, drinkin, and smokin. Bootsy said he was such a hyprocrite. Brown was doing the same thang FULL SCALE and Boosty and them were just kids having fun. Bootsy got tired of his fatherly self-righteous act and left the band. So the story goes.

[ThePhilly1979]

I heard he got fired for doing too much acid on stage and forgetting his part.

[BountyHunter233]

luvin the hair bootsie!

[stgothards]

i wish bootsy was my dad

[Imaginitivename4]

This funky shit is sick as the dying man

[deitchadam]

the FUNKIEST thing on youtube....soo ILLLLL

[ballsack5]

i think everyone that argues on here should just watch the video and only comment when you want to comment on how much you love bootsy collins mind and all those that created the sound for this

[softtail061961]

Bootsie Baby!!!!

[Krob22]

Im 20 and I realize that

[kansas66204]

listen up you people in your 20's and early 30's , once a pon a time there was real musicians who playued their own intruments and did their own singing, and did not depend on lip syncing or digital machines.. this is called real showmanship, real music.....

[brunobonioliveira]

I'm 21 and I really know and lament that...

[FlavorRed]

What the fuck. I'm 29 years old. Old enough to remember this shit. Tell the kids born in the 1990's this about people playing real instruments and shit. Fuck, I do play a real instrument and have been for 13+ years now.

[Geeowj]

I was born in '92, I play bass, piano, trumpet and cello. obviously not real instruments (:

[FlavorRed]

Ha ha ha ha, Geeowj!

I know what that other guy was trying to say but there are plenty of people who still learn and play real instruments. And the kids who are born on this day, right now, some of them are bound to play real instruments when they become teenagers. My brother was born in '91 and he plays guitar and also plays in the band at school. Shit, I've been playing 13+ years and my brother is better guitar player than me. (And I'm good.) He's just gifted though.

[RyRobb813]

Hey watch it, I was born in 90' and I'm a bassist, currently in college for music. You don't need to remember something to appreciate it's awesomeness, and Bootsy is certainly awesome. It is sad these days that there's no real musicians in the limelight at least. Every generation has their great periods of music to look back on and study. What do have from the late nineties to today? Oh remember the great Myspace techno bands of 04?!  Sad. Take it easy

[s0nny80y]

thumbs up...its like a fuc*ing dream when i watch these videos like "did this really happen?"

[vicwootenisgod]

yu are such a sak you deserve to die for steriotyping evri1 lyk dat,im 16 and i love music and ders still ppl hu play der own music

[dalcon555]

and there is still people who use correct spelling and pronunciation.

[beale80]

"and there 'are' people who use correct spelling and pronunciation." Come to thing of it, pronunciation shouldn't even figure here.

[queekers]

"Come to [think] of it..."

You fail at failing.

[futuristique]

a good conductor can cry just from reading a beautiful score, music isn't just about performance... (although it is an enjoyable side of it). It can also be about studio perfection. You just gotta appreciate both for what they are.

[sdgullsfan]

Collins!!! Clinton!! PFunk!!! What Else Needs Be Said?!!! Funk Out Forever!!!!! Free Your Mind And ......

[AtomicDopeDog]

...ya ass will follow!!!

[BassPlayer121692]

hahaha!

[nickeljoe]

Holy crap, I just exceeded the FDA's daily recommended dose of funk by about 1 million.

[Martinvanvannostrin]

Funk upon a time... In the days of the Funkapus.

[funkmetwice]

what effects is he using? wah. distortion? what kind of pedals? i have a wah, but i love that tone and extra fuzz. ANYONE KNOW WHAt's UP?

[dbell10]

envelope filter...mutron i'm pretty sure

[theman66613]

Oh my Lord...THIS AMOUNT OF FUNK IN A SINGLE SERVING SHOULD BE ILLEGAL!

[bootsycollinswifey]

GLORY BE!

[PhiyukYu]

you really have to look around to find the really insane bootsy collins bass stuff (type in bernie worrell solo)

[ElectricSparkBass]

funky!

[lewbai]

SO MUCH FUNK!

[leysia13]

WOW

[leysia13]

R u 4 real this sucks

[jaguarbassist9]

are you for real? what music do you listen to?

[UtbRhcp]

my house just blew up coz this guys funk radiated out and exploded in a funk tastic explosion! :P ☺

[jkosciol]

I bet Jimi and Bootsy would've have a blast playing together

[anilated2345678]

hell yeah

[bestkepsecret]

I was just thinking if Bootsy and Hendrix were the same person, cause I love them both, man, I feel them so much that its like sometimes when I'm hanging out with them I get amnesia and so now I was like, hey Jimmy, or something, but yeah, Jimmy Hendrix is in some sense part of the funk soul brotha order amen

[g1999]

FUNKKKKKKKKK

[OntZ]

funk bassists freak me out =))

[tywill10]

Bootsy be puttin' the STANK on that bass, don't he?????

[dostfez]

Damn funky!

My fave from Bootsy is "Blasters of the Universe" SO badass!

Anybody know if any vids exist from that record?

[acidtones1]

Bootsy Collins sure is awesome though.

[torific]

that's awesome! ahah i wish it was like that now

[Pootjuice]

This was when people took instruments to the show to take part in the show!!Tambarines,whitsles,cowb­ells,maracas,blocks,you name it and it was brought to the show.Nowadays I guess people think since I have to pay so much to see you,you better do

everything!!

[jangofettish1]

Did that get started because of Kool and the Gang ? I seem to remember people doing a lot of that with the percussion instruments and whistles when they came out with "Funky Stuff".

[Pootjuice]

I Don't know if it started with them or not I

just remember as a kid seeing my people go out to shows and they would take stuff with them!!This was during the mid to late 70's.

I do remember Richard Pryor telling someone blowing a whistle on one of his LIVE records,"THIS AIN'T KOOL IN THE GANG MOTHERF#@$ER!!",so maybe they did start it??

Let me know what you find!!

[LIMUSBEAN]

well with out bass and drums there would be no bands at all wouldnt there?!?!

so whats the deal?! just because guitar isnt dominant in all music doesnt mean you pay it out!! it just means bass has to keep the beat and rythm and the guitar can run and do all the things bass usualy does in rocks or metal bands etc!

[TheCoopermanCan]

You suck balls. I'm presuming MCR stands for My Chemical Romance, if so please through yourself in a bath of acid.

You're fakin the funk worse than Sir Nose

[heckto35]

@TheCoopermanCan Who the hell are you talking to?!?

[museman94]

omg u fukin gay cunt wat u got against bootsy and bass could u imagine red hot chilli peepers with out bass or rage against the machine without bass seriously there is no music if there is no bass!!!

[hellbumkin85]

you know how dumb you are...dont you.

[RocketRalf]

Occidental harmony is born and based on the BASS. All of Bach's works rely heavily on the basso continuo, even the violin solo works have some form of bass in them. And Bach has influenced every single composer this side of the world since Mendelsohn, and then some. Historic fact.

I understand you may not like some genre, but don't call it a waste of time unless it is My Chemical Romance.

[jayleeds2006]

Every musical genre will have one or more instruments that dominate. That is part of what makes for a different sound. What does a "real band" actually mean? It's subjective. MCR is heavily guitar-based. Does that make it less of a musical genre because it doesn't include strings, brass, woodwinds, etc.? A classical enthusiast could say MCR does not create real music using your same argument targeting different instruments.

[lizardn]

u idiot, MCR sucks.

this is music. "..just bass and drums.." what do you want to play?

just because there isnt a metal fast guitar solo this one is not music?

learn something.

listen to hendrix, he was/is the greatest guitarist of all the time but his guitar solo are not just loud and fast.

he used solo drums and bass as well.

[basslord7188]

This is good music, but Hendrix is not the best guitarist. Most influencial maybe, but not the best.

[Sypher474]

Who would you suggest is the best in that case?

[ijb446]

Are you fuckn joking?

[syeroku]

LOL, emos can't handle the funk?

[winpointmedia]

Sir Nose D'Voidoffunk has caputured the Brides of Funkenstein hoping to use them for ransom . Starchild lost his memory and is walking the streets of an alien city. Sir Nose is jamming his funkentelechy so Star Child can't communicate with the MotherShip. Parlet the protectors of Starchild are searching for him. Unknown to Sir Nose a robot ship has landed in the ocean. This protector ship (Aqua Boogie) contains a form of liquid sunshine that will transform StarChild and create funkateers.

[dandersonF102]

You need to stop droppin' acid and come back to reality!

[winpointmedia]

Earthanarin chemicals don't effect funkateers Baby Baba. You got zapped by Sir Nose and your funk metamorficided. You can get it back with this real funk; you just have to believe in the Big Bang Theory. The Night of the Thumpasorous is coming. You better be prepared. All those who fake the funk we shrivel under the glow of this liquid sunshine. So if ya don't want to get spanked and become a maggot brain you better be on the verge of regaining your funk!!!

Dr. Funkenstein is coming!

[winpointmedia]

Bootsy isn't human. He was created in a lab by Doc Funkenstein on the planet Thumpasorous. The Mothership came through a Black Hole and crashed in Cincinnati. The ship was sabotaged by Sir Nose. He wanted to possess the bop Gun created by Dr Funkenstein. Bootsy survived because his avatar Casper whispered Supergroovalisticprosifunkstic­ation the code words for the flashligh transporter. This started the clone wars. Dr Funkenstein's funkentelechy module created clones for the coming battle. More.

[sienus53]

Peace in da house

[parklife101]

I just got the bootsy sig wah and fuzz pedal. Now I know why bootsy was the lord of funk. ROCK ON! "We like to party.. you like to party!" Bootsy collins for life.

[FleaFruscianteLOVE]

hey how do you like that thing? hows the fuzz sound?

[parklife101]

oh the fuzz is PERFECT. I use all types of pedals for guitars and bass. Distortion, wah, fuzz, phase, chorus, whammy pedal, repaetes, tremelo, delay you name it. The fuzz is I would say above standerd fuzz seeing as they are hard to find these days. The pedal itself rocks. It has little lights on the dog's eyes. Very stylish, very funky, very cool. Check out bootsy collins space bass solo on youtube to see what the pedal sounds like.

[KarlheinzSchelker]

Damn, that is some brilliantly demented, squishy, funky-for-its-own-sake Funk.

[gwupete]

Ladies and gentlemen, what you are witnessing is the Awesome Power of a Fully Operational Mothership of Funk!!

Slap that bass, Bootsy!!!!

[bigwillylandis]

i wish i could play like that

[STARCHYLD77]

p-funk was huge in england do your research.

[rastaman1017]

bring back the funk and u will bring back some real music

[magovenor]

" Well uh, suck my guitar, and some bump music...!"

[MariosLasagna]

fuck my cheese wheel

[muzikman183]

DAMN!! This is retartedly funky as hell!!! It hurts so good!!!!

[jaffijoe]

Bootsy IS funk bass. There is no other place to look if you seek da funk bass. Bootsy is it! I still can't get the phrasing of 'Give Up the Funk" 100%. It is the simplest bass line in history. But, the problem is that it has that "Bootsy" feel to it. And, no mother-sucker can get that "feel" down to 100%, but Bootsy.

[ShangoDC]

Boosty, one of the badest bass players of the funk still.

[EEEEELAD]

GREAT BASS PLAYER why was P-FUNK NEVER VERY POPULAR IN ENGLAND ?

[acidtones1]

Because you all were too busy listening to bands like The Damned, The Clash, and Sex Pistols to even notice. Plus there's hardly any black people there so there wasn't a big demand for funk. But us whities, no matter where were from, can still dig it.

[briddocheez]

you fucking idiot, there are millions of blacks here, and our taste in music stretches beyond punk, you dumb fuck

[acidtones1]

No shit, cock sucker. Your panties are in a wad! Lighten up. Don't take everything so serious. Enjoy the music and forget about being "correct" all the time.

[briddocheez]

don't make stupid comments, learn before you comment, and then perhaps you will become less ignorant

[MUN7001]

oh is this another racist, come on shutup, not all of us are manipulated by media, like you are, we know, what's true groovy, baby, funkafied, no guitar, no cigar, rock

[turner02]

Maleek, the only you know is...getting it up the ass. lol

[jazzzbass]

you're a dick

[jazzzbass]

that was a reply to acidtones1.

who is a dick

[acidtones1]

You all are really offended by stuff. That's your problem. I make no apologies. Get a life. Amen.

[JensAcrackWhore]

the reason we werent listening to funk was cos of ska reggae and punk there was a whole different seen going on. And a s for no black kids around at the time, how the fuck do you explain all the race equality marches and the fukin brixton riots?

[MUN7001]

you're an idiot, come on man, you know black people were living in England long time ago, get a life ok lol

[turner02]

no, you're the idiot. "black people were living in england long time ago"....wow, nothing gets by you. whata retard. you deserve the muntard award for that enthralling revelation. lol

[MUN7001]

shut the hell up, you're opinion is a piece of shit, remember to wipe it out of your ass, cause it stinks

[turner02]

the truth hurts, doesn't it? loser moron. lol. my ass is clean. your dumshit mom licks it all the time. lol

[britgran]

The space bass is still magafunkylicious even now ! I think he is the best Bass player of this genre ever !!!!

[jwervel16]

This is funky as HELL! Is there a full vid or album available?

[Mindfunky]

Yaba Daba Do Baby!!!!-HB

[niccoide199cp]

golden era

[Resplendence6]

that bass has such an amazing tone

[gmailsgarbage]

prbly has some tricked out phat pickups

[Resplendence6]

he has like 5 pickups on the space bass.

[gmailsgarbage]

do you happen to know what bootsy is up to nowadays?

[SidewalksOfNY315]

Bootsy just released a Christmas CD last year, contributed to the Superbad soundtrack this year along with performing the MNF theme song with Gretchen Wilson, Brian Setzer, and Hank Williams Jr.

[ikecot3]

he has the mutron an oldschool effex proccessor built in to his basses. this is a great video because it shows all the horny horns including fred wesley , maceo parker and randy and michael brecker. great

[hidehitosatoh]

最高！

[kidmerkury]

bootsy collins is the man..you might recognize both his bass playing and singing in "superbad"

[SidewalksOfNY315]

Yep. Not only Bootsy, but his brother Catfish along with the rest of the JB's did the entire soundtrack and recorded a short clip and uploaded it on You-Tube!

[SidewalksOfNY315]

On the back of that robe that Bootsy is wearing in this video clip actually has the cartoon character Casper The Friendly Ghost on it! LOLLL!

[pdautg]

This is fresher than ever. I want funk in

today's music, NOW!

[oneloveatatime]

Funkerrific baby, just funkin awesome. Bootsy is the King of Funk. Nobody can work a bass like him

[bacampbell2]

thisis so funky it should come with some glade plug ins

[SidewalksOfNY315]

LOLLLLLLLLL! That is funky!

[korHan7]

big bang seems to occur with 26th second wth the command 'hit me!'.. mann.. how funky drums there wth boooooooottttttzzzzzz....

[raleigh2001]

This some funky shit right here.

[GroveStreetHustla]

Funkariffic!

[funkadelicchille]

funkey

[edgysound]

It's the first time a bass player makes me cry ! No jokes, can't stop the tears over here ! waw !

[winstonschwarz]

I know that feeling brother. That`s the power of music in action. The funk is like that emotive feeling distilled to it`s very essence.

[SidewalksOfNY315]

It should be considered a sin for this clip to be so short!

[keithanddeb]

Boosty the LEGENDARY funk bass maestro!!!

[swmuzik]

Damn - that's funky!

[TW0man4RMY]

I-76!! I've been wondering where I heard this before.

[GeorgeJansen]

to all my dc-go go heads/can u guys here the beginnings of go-go in the background? just a little bit?

[VideogeekinMD]

I can hear a slight resemblance. Bootsy did end up producing a Trouble Funk album. The pattern heard is fairly common in funk though.

[GeorgeJansen]

o wow/i didnot know that/appreciate that yo

[VideogeekinMD]

Yea, I forget what it's called at the moment.  But, I don't think it did well though.

[FrenchFootballLegend]

That's the funkiest bass I've ever seen.

[BigRickSharpe]

Love Boostys Old school Bass style, never dies yo!

[curtisunit]

N O B O D Y moves a band like that, NOBODY!

[spyderman57]

one of the funky,s dudes to ever pick up a bass

[sweet1red]

I was at that concert!!! 70's baby

[tlbabin]

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[hubbawubbub]

I like Bootsy. Sooo funky!

[AerosmithTour2005]

I love Bootsy. So much.

[ceddie2000]

He's Casper...not friendly ghost but, the "Holy Ghost!!

[msscott73]

i was going to say funky ghost :-)

[Blhite]

its always great to see bootsy, and hear him playing, too bad the vid is so short

[Scrutinizer5]

You've Got the Groove, and WE WANT SOME.

FUNK IS COMIN BACK IN A BIG WAY, ONCE UPON A TIME CALLED RIGHT NOW

Cause I said so.

[V1T3K]

fucking groovy!

[stevemanson]

i don't like funk lyrics but the bass is awesome

[bigniko]

shut the fuck up

[supermanflash9000]

bootsy is the king of basssssss

[supermanflash9000]

cool ass video

[groovebilly]

bootzila bootzilla is the funky killa

[fekalier]

Funkiest man ever walked this planet...the groove, the sound, the look. Halleluja.

[OlSkoolRulz]

Bootzilla!

[45ounce]

Aint nobody funkier than casper.

[robertboy]

I love this s***!!!!!!!!

[PhuckHue]

GLORY BE! THE FUNK'S ON ME!

[emmo5]

sooo godamn funky that rocks my socks

[Dixmoordelic]

Oh thats funky

[adrian480]

Super funk with BOOOOOOOTSY