Bootsy Collins

Bootsy Collins launched his solo career in the mid-1970s after playing bass with James Brown's band and Parliament-Funkadelic. His flamboyant funk style combined heavy bass lines with cosmic themes and humor on albums like "Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band" and "Ahh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby!" Collins' signature "space bass" sound and theatrical persona made him one of funk's most distinctive performers throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s.