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Looks like Boots is gonna be first
[Edited 10/24/09 12:56pm]

Bangin'....

I'll be checking out this episode, if someone adds it to Youtube, can someone post the links as these 'Unsung' specials are really good.

um...two words...

AWE-SOME!...


yeah i know, really one word...what i'm trying to say is thanks very much for the heads-up on this! I will NOT be missing this episode for sure!

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lol at Boosty's comment said to him by Warner "if ya wanna sell records you gotta sound like Prince" ..... Bootsy's face ---->


loving this documentary ! yeah my pops was a Bootsy groupie silver platform wearing dude with those same big azz star shaped glasses on his bureau

he is glued to the TV

I forget about unsung the only one I saw this year was Shalamar

Bootsy's was great. Love how humble the cat is.

I always wondered about Body Slamn-that is my fave Bootsy song and the reason is cause it has that Minneapolis sound to it

Bootsy is a cool is cat, his stage persona.

It reruns at 11 p.m. EST tonight.

Wait a minute... How do you get to see this show?

It says it was Nov. 1st.

are y'all sayin' I can see this on my computer... tonight?

DakutiusMaximus said:

No, you can see it on TV now. Teena Marie was the 1st "Unsung" episode last week.

Dope...I gotta see this...

Timmy84 said:

Does anyone have the Teena Marie Unsung link?

I always wanted to hear P and Bootsy jam or collaborate together. Especially because they're both close with George.

I guess we know now why they havent!

Paris9748430 said:

WHy, I must have missed that part, I watched the whole thing??

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Basically they talked about Warner Bros. pressuring Bootsy to sound and look more like Prince.

Bootsy's like "Man, I'm not trying to be like Prince, that's his thing"!

Cut to a picture of him wearing a Purple Trenchcoat and lipstick!

Paris9748430 said:

I just saw it, I don't know how I missed that section.

Paris9748430 said:

Don't know about the lipstick but i remember the
Ultra Wave album. I had fulla waves in my hair too.

Paris9748430 said:

I died laughing at that part chalk one up for the kid again lol but seriously Parliament and Bootsy Collins were the blueprint for the the funk period so it was wrong for the company to even suggest that at that time,plain disrespectful to the funk fathers

utopia7 said:

Yeah, well some years later. It happened to Prince, too

I never considered Bootsy to be "Unsung".

He's been extremely influential and he's gotten a lot of love.

Paris9748430 said:

Yeah, I think Prince might have experienced this with him incorporating more rap in the early 90's the transition was odd but he got through it


TONY M where you at !!!! lol

utopia7 said:

Bootsy, on the other hand, had no problems transitioning into the Hip-Hop age. It's been perfect.

His stuff has been sampled so many times, and he's just embraced it. He's brought a lot of younger listeners to his music.

A lot of the comments on Youtube for his videos are young people saying they originally heard parts of the song from it being sampled, and that's what brought them to it.

That's why it's not odd at all to see Bootsy with Snoop or Q-Tip.

But when Prince performs with Will.I.Am. It looks really strange.

Paris9748430 said:

Wait a minute... what about that joint called Groove Eternal featuring "One" from Bootsy's 2004 release, Play With Bootsy, that had a whole lotta different musicians guesting?




There was one other cut featuring P on that album too but I couldn't find a vid. It was called Dance to the Music. You can hear a short clip here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/...8&disc=001

Paris9748430 said:

He's "unsung" in a way that the mainstream don't truly know how truly influential he is. He changed the entire landscape of funk, first with James Brown and then with George Clinton, you don't usually see them crediting him for these genius artists' changes. Boot's a genius himself.

Timmy84 said:

Alright, I could dig that.

DakutiusMaximus said:

Yeah, that song(and the other one) started a 14+ pages thread in the org at the time,,,,and no, the dude who sings in both songs is not Prince. Bootsy denied it in his website, and somebody posted a pic of them toghether here(Bootsy & One).

However the Body don't wanna quit, gotta get another hit is clearly a Prince nudge since its a line from All The Critics Love You In NY.

It was a good episode. Loved all the rare James Brown & P-Funk footage they showed. Now, I'm just waiting for the Roger Troutman & Zapp episode, but I think Klymaxx is next..

Harlepolis said:

Damn... so was kinda rick'rolled on that one, huh?

I did notice that "Prince" didn't sound quite exactly like himself on those recordings but I chalked it up to someone else being in charge of the production values.