Vinyl Wednesday: Bootsy Collins - Stretchin Out In Bootsys Rubber Band
41 years ago, this masterpiece was delivered. It is the first album by American funk and soul band Bootsy's Rubber Band led by bassist and vocalist William "Bootsy" Collins. It was recorded around the same time as Funkadelic's "Let's take it to the stage" and Parliament's "Mothership Connection". (Wikipedia).
I love the opening track Stretchin' Out In Bootsy's Rubber Band. What a way to start an album with. Bootsy's brilliant first words are: Halleluia! They call me Casper! Not the friendly ghost But the holy ghost! Dig! And I'm Here To make ya shout Glory be to the one Who knows what the funk's about Like the ridin' rhythm Only if you can stand The elastic music Of my Rubber Band I'm gonna hit ya with the one (ughh) And Glory Be, the Funk's on me, cuz DIG! This is Casper here, and I'm callin' short distance, baby I'm gonna hit ya with the one on the fun (...)
Without a doubt, this is a more than funky welcome to another continent of the P-Funk empire. Another favourite, the second tune:
So the first time we played the music from Royalty For Real wasn't in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, but in Bengaluru and Mumbai, all the way in India in 2023!Here you'll see me play Au Privave, Classy Cats and Royalty For Real, together with Timothy Banchet (piano), Marius Beets (bass) and Sven Rozier (drums).Au Privave is a well-known blues by Charlie Parker which I often like to start with, almost like a soundcheck tune. Although most of the time a soundcheck is done I found out it's a good idea to play a tune everybody of the band knows very well so we all can get used to the sound of the stage, the presence of the audience and it also gives the sound engineer the chance to adjust microphones last minute. During the soundcheck, the sound of the room is significantly different because of the lack of audience. All that flesh and clothes work a little bit like a totally empty room versus a room with furniture and carpets, if you know what I mean :-)Acoustics are so interesting and full of surprises.. Anyways.. hope you like it! - 41 years ago, this masterpiece was delivered. It is the first album by American funk and soul band Bootsy's Rubber Band led by bassist and vocalist William Bootsy Collins. It was recorded around the same time as Funkadelic's Let's take it to the stage and Parliament's Mothership Connection.(Wikipedia).I love the opening track Stretchin' Out In Bootsy's Rubber Band. What a way to start an album with. Bootsy's brilliant first words are:Halleluia! They call me Casper! Not the friendly ghost But the holy ghost! Dig! And I'm Here To make ya shout Glory be to the one Who knows what the funk's about Like the ridin' rhythm Only if you can stand The elastic music Of my Rubber Band I'm gonna hit ya with the one (ughh) And Glory Be, the Funk's on me, cuz DIG! This is Casper here, and I'm callin' short distance, baby I'm gonna hit ya with the one on the fun(...)Without a doubt, this is a more than funky welcome to another continent of the P-Funk empire.Another favourite, the second tune:Of course, horn arrangements by Fred Wesley. Also nice to know that Bootsy Collins will be touring Europe again this summer, I saw 22-06 Paradiso, Amsterdam and 23-06 O2, London. Website Bootsy Collins
