Latest about Bootsy Collins
Bootsy Collins was tripping on LSD when he took the James Brown bass chair to its most in-your-face level
Unable to deal with Brown’s disciplinary code, Bootsy was gone within a year
Bootsy Collins' first Fender Jazz Bass has just been sold at auction – and shot past its estimate
James Brown bought the bass sometime in 1970 for his young protégé, William Earl Collins, better known as Bootsy Collins, and it would go on to be played by another one of his bassists, Fred Thomas
When a young Bootsy Collins joined James Brown’s band, the Godfather of Funk bought him a Fender Jazz Bass. Now it’s up for auction
Following Bootsy’s departure from the JBs in 1972, the bass continued its life on stage with Fred Thomas, another of Brown’s longtime bassists
How Bootsy Collins and James Brown's band ended up playing on the soundtrack of this hit Seth Rogen movie
Legendary sideman and film composer Lyle Workman recounts how he managed to reunite the legendary funkateers for 2007’s Superbad – by approaching Bootsy at NAMM
Bootsy Collins and Buckethead reflect on their first meeting – but the guitarist speaks through his Les Paul
Collins talks and Buckethead riffs in the strangest guitar interview of 2025
Bootsy Collins on the musician that totally “changed his mind” about bass playing
James Jamerson's immense contribution to Motown Records in the ’60s and ’70s went largely uncredited – but his game-changing adoption of the P-Bass, coupled with his off-kilter technique, makes him an electric bass pioneer
Bootsy Collins’ Space Bass design was turned down everywhere he went – his ‘last straw’ proved the winner
Back in 1975, the funkateer had a larger-than-life vision for his dream bass – one which would see him knock on the door of many a luthier and music store before it became a reality
Bootsy Collins reflects on James Brown and George Clinton, and what he gets out of playing today
One of the world’s greatest bassists talks switching from guitar, how LSD helped him become a songwriter and why he’s finally embracing five-string bass
