Bootsy Collins' larger-than-life persona and driving funk basslines have graced many a record, including most of the early ...

Bootsy Collins' 1976 album Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band has long been considered a funk masterpiece. But what becomes clear all these years later is the way in which the album transcends ...

More recently, Collins has collaborated with Bill Laswell ... still driven by Bootsy’s earthshaking bass. Bootsy’s Rubber Band: 9 p.m. Friday, June 26. The Fillmore, 1805 Geary Blvd., ...

Collins' solo albums in recent years have been long and varied, unlike the Bootsy's Rubber Band days, when he hit the studio, jammed with his bandmates and occasionally turned on the recording ...

In 1972, Bootsy joined George Clinton’s Parliament/Funkadelic. Collins and Clinton soon established a lifelong personal and musical friendship. He launched Bootsy’s Rubber Band as a spinoff of P-Funk ...

There couldn’t be a better time than now to be Bootsy Collins. At the moment, he has not one but two new albums in the stores: “Blasters of the Universe” by Bootsy’s New Rubber Band, and ...

It’s impossible to overstate Bootsy Collins’ influence ... and his own group, the Rubber Band, have fueled decades of hip-hop samples, sparked a Nineties disco revival with Deee-Lite and ...

With Collins’ bulging low end and the heavy ... I thought, ‘Nah, that has to go on a Bootsy’s Rubber Band album.’ So I re-recorded it once again with the emphasis on hip-hop and funk.