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Bootsy Collins Interview

New Funk Times did an interview with Bootsy on July 25, 2002. I pulled these excerpts from a page at their website

Bootsy talks about ...

1. His new album (16")

2. His single "Play with Bootsy" (38")

3. Getting new exposure through the Nike commercials (2'55")

4. Reuniting with Ray Davis, Fuzzy Haskins, and Grady Thomas at the Nike "Funkship" video shoot (42")

5. Working with Snoop Dogg (and not having to ask him to watch his language) (0:46)

6. Shipping tapes from the U.S. to Germany (49")

7. Recording live (46")

8. His album's German executive producer Mousse T. (1'29")

9. The importance of spreading good vibes (45")

10. Getting off drugs (1'50")

11. Calming down after leaving the P.Funk road circus in 1979 (1'01")

12. U.S. artists on European labels (1'04")

13. Bobby Womack (1'12")

14. Macy Gray ... and having recorded enough songs for six albums (1'20")

15. His favorite P.Funk memory (1'35")

16. The most surprising outcome of a collaboration (2'33")

17. His favorite unreleased Bootsy track (0'43")

db etree, a "jam band" website that keeps track of setlists now has a section for George Clinton & the P-Funk All-Stars. Strangely, it can not be found on the main list of artists. I wonder what else is out there...

kOOL mUZIK bLOGZ

Here are some great blogs that offer downloads of classic funky soul, disco & garage (and some modern stuff here & there). Check them regularly because they are updated often but the trax are only available for a limited time.

20 Jazz Funk Greats

33/45

Alain Finkielkrautrock

And It Don't Stop

Another Night On Earth

Best Foot Forward

Black Man Land

BLK:MRKT

Blog Do Werner

Born Again 80’s

Bumrocks

Chantilly Bass

Comfort Music

Cosmic Disco

Diddy Wah

Digital Eargasm

Dilated Choonz

Discobelle

Disco Delivery

DJ William’s Playlist

Earbling

Electro Nights

Feijao Black Page

First Choice

Fluo Kids

Funk & Soul Heaven

Garage Hangover

Greater Los Angeles

Groove Provider

Groovin’ You

Headfone Haus

Invisible Record Archive

Lost In Tyme

Love Fingers

Moist Works

Music for Robots

Music Selections

On – Off

One Louder NYC

Original Funk Music

Play It Again Max

Skulljuice

Silence Is a Rhythm Too

Soul Sides

Soulpower

Souled On Music

Strictly Classics

Suburban Terror

Suck My Disco

Talking In Stereo

Toro 011

Totally Fuzzy

The Message Is In the Music

Under the Covers

Via Chicago

XXX Rockrula

And here's Wikipedia's list of sampled songs

Larry Levan & the Paradise Garage on YouTube

These are mostly from the excellent documentary "Maestro."

1987

Inside the Paradise Garage (part 1)

Inside the Paradise Garage (part 2)

Rooftop

Gwen Guthrie live @ the Garage

Talking Heads - Live 1980

1980 Rome Italy

Psycho Killer

Cities

Life During Wartime

The Great Curve

10-28-1980 at Northrup Auditorium in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Life During Wartime

Check out the audio of their performance at the Heatwave Festival 8/23/80 over @ my blog "What's on My Pod?"

Spiders on Drugs

Searching for A/V

Here are two cool Video search engines:

ClipBlast

Blinkx TV

and this is still a great place to search for audio:

AltaVista

1 Blogger's War against Hate Talk Radio

Check out Spocko's story. He has been battling a radio station that reguarly insites violence. In my opinion, talk radio has been out of control for a while. Spocko has had quite an effect all by himself. Too bad he's up against Di$ney...