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Bootsy Collins (& Buckethead) - Funk Can Save You (Visualizer)
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I'm guessing fans of both musicians probably know this, but for those few that might be confused: in about 1992-1996, Buckethead, Bootsy Collins, and Bernie Worrell were in the band Praxis with drummer Brain (Bryan Mantia) and producer/bassist Bill Laswell, in various configurations. I have no idea how Laswell became acquainted with Parliament-Funkadelic, but he has produced the 1995 compilation 'Funkcronomicon' with recordings from various years, which is considered pretty much a full-blown P-Funk album and includes Eddie Hazel's last stuff before his death.
Collins, Buckethead and Brain were also in the funk-metal band Science Faxtion with vocalist-guitarist Greg Hampton and DJ Tobe "Tobotius" Donohue, starting in 2007. Surprisingly, this one hasn't been on my radar so far.
P.S.:
- Looks like ‘Street People’ from this new record includes previously mentioned Tobotius.
- Nona Hendryx's 1981 Nona seems to be the earliest record where Laswell and Worrell worked together: Material (Laswell and Michael Beinhorn) produced the album. Worrell then appeared on a bunch of records like Time Zone ‘World Destruction’ (a collaboration of Afrika Bambaataa with John Lydon, introduced to each other by Laswell and produced by him with his usual posse; he was also around that time producing PIL's album 'Album'); and Fela Kuti's 'Army Arrangement', which Kuti reportedly didn't like due to electronic effects instead of the instruments' natural sound.
- Bootsy Collins' first record with Laswell seem to be Manu Dibango's 1986 'Afrijazzy', also with Worrell, Herbie Hancock and Sly & Robbie all on the same track. Then some more stuff with Sly & Robbie or Ryuichi Sakamoto, before Collins was a guest on Hancock's 'Perfect Machine', and later the same year had Laswell produce his own album 'What's Bootsy Doin'?'. Surprisingly, according to both Wikipedia and this timeline, Laswell introduced Collins to Hancock, and not the other way around, since Material already made Hancock's 'Rockit' pretty much in its entirety in 1983.