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Sep 2011 01

by Daniel Robert Epstein

“Aww yeah!”
– Bootsy Collins

I’’ve done about 800 original interviews for SuicideGirls and probably a couple thousand more for other venues, so I think it’s fair to say that I’’ve gotten pretty good at working around people’’s tertiary expressions like, ““oh man”” and ““yeah.”” But when you’’ve got a legend like Bootsy Collins saying “yeah mama, baby and man,” it would be sacrilegious to delete it.

Collins is best known as one of the co-founders of the seminal 1970’s funk group Parliament Funkadelic, but I really got into his work in the early ’90’s when he teamed up with Bill Laswell and Buckethead. As Collins and I discuss in this interview, that was a golden era — and it’s still going on today. Bootsy’’s latest album, Christmas is 4 Ever, features many new songs by Bootsy and his crew.

Read our exclusive interview with Bootsy Collins on SuicideGirls.com.