Actually not Bootsy. The great Bernie Worrell constructed the bass sound using multiple Moog synthesizers. One of the first times this was done, which is what makes the song so noteworthy.

@Sco3000

3 жыл бұрын

Bootsy played the drums on this track tho... and his older brother Phelps played the guitar. But yea, Bernie played the bass part on a Moog synth as well as like 5 other synth parts.

@PurpleHounding

3 жыл бұрын

He did play drums on it not bass, that is correct. However, by 1978 on the Motor Booty Affair album, the Motor Madness Musicians were as follows: Guitar: Michael Hampton, Garry Shider, J.S. Theracon, Phelps "Catfish" Collins, Bootsy Collins Bass: Cordell "Boogie" Mosson, Bootsy Collins, Rodney "Skeet" Curtis, J.S. Theracon Drums: Tyrone Lampkin, Bootsy Collins, Gary "Bone" Cooper, J.S. Theracon Percussion: Larry Fratangelo Horns: Fred Wesley, Richard "Kush" Griffith, Maceo Parker, Rick Gardner, Greg Boyer, Greg Thomas, Benny Cowan Keyboards/Synthesizers: Bernie Worrell, J.S. Theracon I think these guys all had genius chemistry no matter how you slice it, so to find out something was handled by one and not the other out of some 30 or whatever more P. Funk musicians is actually very cool. I can't say i don't like Bernie as much as I to Bootsy to begin with.

@sweetdaddy33

3 жыл бұрын

thanks guys

@mariettasmith2691

2 жыл бұрын

Bernie Worrell!!!!

@billyjacc

2 жыл бұрын

The Wizard changed the Game with this! 🎹 🎹 🎶 🔊

When this song came on at the club, the tables emptied and the dance floor filled up. Epic !!

@mariettasmith2691

2 жыл бұрын

Always! Even now!!!

@yahudahbenisrael3774

9 ай бұрын

Funk will never die.

The bass line was actually performed by master keyboardist, Bernie Worrell. However, the song Flashlight was originally meant for Bootsy (and his Rubbet Band), but was pulled and recorded by Parliament instead.

@seanswinton6242

Жыл бұрын

Bernie Worrell is the God Of the Moog Bass!

I was 7 or eight when this came out. To this day, it is still played at almost all the family functions. 😆

@linkx500

3 жыл бұрын

i was 7 and still listen to it to regularly

@williammerritt3946

3 жыл бұрын

Well of course when the party needs to be pumped up, there's no other song like Flashlight! If you don't get up and dance, then your head his definitely boppin! No way you can sit still! P-Funk!

@DaddyKoolPop

3 жыл бұрын

you just have to play this song at any family/party. I think it's a rule [jam on]

@mariettasmith2691

2 жыл бұрын

@@DaddyKoolPop just got to get up and jam!!!!

That's actually Bernie Worrell killing that bass line on a Moog keyboard

@Khaliqri

3 жыл бұрын

That's actually Bootsy playing all of the instruments on this cut. That's what he told me.

@PoRich19

3 жыл бұрын

Nope. It’s Bernie. Bootsy on drums

@wadeb

3 жыл бұрын

@@PoRich19 Bernie that played with Talking Heads on their live stuff around "Stop Making Sense"?

@Sco3000

2 жыл бұрын

@@wadeb Yup, there is only one Bernie Worrell. Stop Making Sense is a great watch regardless.

There is no west coast rap without parliament. George and bootsy are legends

Finally! I was wondering when you were going to ride on the Mothership of Parliament Funkadelic. And that's not Bootsy. That's the late, great Bernie Worrell, master of the Moog keyboard playing through the entire song. Theres no real bass being played. Bootsy went off to become a solo artist at the time.

@icekold0860

3 жыл бұрын

This song stays in my rotation! Can’t help but dance!

@kyriesampson7781

3 жыл бұрын

Bootsy played drums on it

@mantax55

3 жыл бұрын

Story goes that he heard Bernie play the bassline on the Moog (as Bootsy was supposed to play bass) and he just said to play the damn whole track!

@CCrawford3971

3 жыл бұрын

@@mantax55 And the rest is musical genius history. Thanks for the info.

@sterigma555

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah that’s Bootsy on the drums

I was 11yrs old when this Dropped..... How Anyone Over 40 Hasn't Heard This Before Is Astonishing

@seanswinton6242

Жыл бұрын

What's ironic is this gentleman is a Heavy Metal guy expanding to Funk here. I was the opposite going from Funk to Metal. Also ironic this band and KISS-the band that bridges me to Hard Rock and Heavy Metal were both on Casablanca Records. Both of their live concerts are huge and bombastic. Lots of parallels!!

@ 3:15 I love to see music lovers' reactions to something I have grown up to all my life. Genuinely heart-felt. "bassline" R.I.P. Bernie Worrell rest in space. 🚀

ahhhh my brother, you have found p-funk uncut funk the bomb. please feel free to ride on the mothership more and more. the p is here to free your funky mind so your ass will follow. we are all one nation under a groove getting down for the funk of it. this will take to the chocolate Milky Way with dr. to party with star child then under water to swim with mr. wiggles. we will do you no harm. i am chef p funk.

The backbone of any good funk song, and funk band, is the bass. No question about it.

This whole song sounds like some psychodelic space age shit!!! Although I was born in this era......this is light years ahead. Vintage funk flow.....

Parliament Funkadelic's basslines are phenomenal in such songs as: "Tear The Off The Sucker (We Want to Funk)", "Dr. Funkenstein", "Let's Play House", "Rumpofsteelskin", and "Aqua Boogie"; and I really want to put you on to the bassline which is at the end of Funkadelic's song "Cholly (Funk Getting Ready to Roll)".

This is a song we danced to in my teens. I am a few months from seventy. It is a skating song also. This is old school for seniors.

@rhettstraube2559

3 жыл бұрын

Stay healthy!!

@sonandsanford4963

3 жыл бұрын

Wait a minute Woody, I was a teen and I just turned 60. This was out in 1977 - 78. Hate to call you out... sorry.

@billyjacc

2 жыл бұрын

You mean 60? I was 10 when this first came out. I'm 55 now. Unless you were 25 in the 12th grade...

This baseline has always seemed to me played with so much humor that the entire song is not only enjoyable, but funny.

Yeah, as said by others, Bernie Worrell on minimoog bass and Bootsy on drums. I saw a documentary where Bootsy talked about how this song came about and how it turned out that Bernie played the bass on his moogs. Can't find a link to it now though. Great song. It just goes on and can go on forever.

That’s why snoop dogg was so poppin he knew a bunch of funk songs

2:10 the look on your face when the funk set in lol that bass line is so dirty

Other bands sampling this song (and bass-line) are a testament to the awesomeness of this song. Fun, quirky, and catchy - puts us all (from all walks of life) in a great mood.

This that get together with the family on a sunny day and light up the Grill music

yep. it's 2 chords the entire way, but it feels like an adventure every 4 bars

Snoop most definitely sampled this on Doggystyle. “Thashiznit”

@chrisedwards3214

3 жыл бұрын

Everybody sampled this

@juliusum

2 жыл бұрын

Dr. Dre

Man...this is gangster party music. Gangsters don't dance, we boogie! Now you're entering the zone, homie!!! Check out Fatback "On The Floor". You won't be disappointed! Blessings from El Salvador!

Bootsy is playing drums. This song was slated for Bootsy's album until he gifted it to Parliament. This is Bootsy's song.

One of Bootsy's most underappreciated bass lines is "Handcuffs' by Parliament.

@chrisedwards3214

7 ай бұрын

Boogie mosson played bass on handcuffs confirmed before his death

@ronaldmillner6387

7 ай бұрын

That's not Bootsy on bass. That's the Great Bernie Worrell on a mini moog synthesizer. Bootsy Collins played drums on this

One of the funkiest bass lines ever and it will grab you by the balls of your feet and you will not stop movin until you've sweated off 100lbs. This bass line is that good. It's just a feel good groove that makes you wannna dance all day and night.

I bought that when it came out in 1978. Didn't even know the song, just bought it out of curiosity. Glad I did.

Bootsy on drums Bernie on synth bass. One of the greatest FUNK songs of all time.

@godslayer1415

3 жыл бұрын

So the bass player was the drummer?

This was thee ultimate party jam for years . Flash light ✨️ Bernie Worrel and the synthesizer, he was the wizard on it. 1977 Funkentelecy vs the Placebo syndrome. Yes he was rippen

I believe it is Bernie Worrell playing a Moog Synth for the bass on this CLASSIC funk 💣

BTW, that's Bernie Worrell, longtime keyboadist and songwriter for Parliament , who is playing the bass line on the mini-Moog

This track and some of Stevie Wonder's basslines are, in my mind, the best keyboard basslines in history. Just the deepest pockets, no two bars are quite the same.... Amazing. Jameson level bass playing.

@voidofbeeswax

2 жыл бұрын

I wish I knew how to play that basic keyboard riff and then know how to jam on it all day.

I hope one day you get to Parliament aqua boogie. oh, and by the way the name of this lp means funk vs disco.

@alohawg

3 жыл бұрын

Aqua boogie! Yessir!

@beverlyjames1332

3 жыл бұрын

That was my jam, physoalphadiscobetabioaquadooloop 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 dont quote me on this!

@LivnNLearnin

3 жыл бұрын

@Beverly...never learned to swim🏊🏽 🏊 🏊🏼🏊🏾

The "lalaladia..." is heavily inspired by Brecht & Weill's "The Threepenny Opera". And the Moog bass and synth galore is provided by the one and only Bernie Worrell. This song was sampled by Digital Underground (RIP Shock G) for "Aqua Boogie".

and Bernie later played with Talking Heads/ Tom Tom Club for their Stop Making Sense Tour and thus you should check them out live in LA in 1983 doing Life During Wartime then Tina , Jerry and sub group of the Heads do Genius of Love which is one of the most sampled songs ever

I know why you probably remember the song. It was the theme song for the Isiah Thomas era Detroit Pistons (Bad Boys). They played it all the time.

Family summer bbq’s…. Man.. bring back so many beautiful memories with my family playing cards and watching family having a great time dancing taking crap… Good days

In 1977 this was played along with Black Sabbath in my neighborhood

You are totally right about the baseline. The handiclaps also add quite a bit.

Metal, this song is about a disco ball, you know, all the lights flashing in a disco ball! LOL, for real!

When I was 14, this tune (finally) opened my ears to P-Funk. I think the genius of it is there's like, nothing there...it's just is the spirit of jam.

Bernie Worrell was a wizard on keys.. the bass line was all keyboards. Watch the documentary on Bernie Worrell. Bernie was a great friend Meryl Streep's!

A Clinton, Worell, Collins, and Shider thang. Arguably, four of the greatest Funk minds ever to do it. Bootsy is a phenomenal drummer even though we all know him as an icon of bass. Completely solid and propulsive. Bernie's Minimoog is second to none. His bass lines changed the vocabulary of music. Gary's vocal arrangements and singing are incredible. And of course George is the arch conceptualist. Another killer synth bass is on Aqua Boogie off of the Motor Booty Affair album.

Bruh, your smile just says it all about this track. You got a new subscriber.

The bass is bernie worrell on moog synthesizer and Dennis chambers on drums

@timdeener8987

3 жыл бұрын

Bootsy on drums actually

Love it!!! Sooooo back in the day. Memories😎

That is Bernie on the moog for the bass line and synth leads

Omg! I was a little kid and use to sing this song all the time!!! My All time favorite still to this day!!!

That’s me, dude!!! The bass line is everything!!!

Correction, the baseline is not bootsy Collins it's Bernie on the Mook synthesizer

That song was awesome in the 80's stay on the dance go get a sip from your drink and get back on the floor and the songs was longer then

Bootsy played drums. That's Mr. Bernie Worrell on all Bass (Moog) & Keyboards respectively

I totally agree about the bass. Especially with funk and hip hop which is heavily influenced by the funk movement in the 70s and 80s, more so on the west coast. But hip hop and funk the music is driven by the rhythm and the bass. Guitar is amazing for different sounds and frequencies that you can bring out with a guitar, and the drums are of course for keeping the rhythm of the music, but I think the magical thing about bass it it makes you feel the music. Like when you go to a show and you feel the basic vibrate your chest. Bass is what makes you feel like you’re inside the music to put simply

Good call man. Yep, the bass line drives the song. And Parliament was ALWAYS about vocals. You know I believe those guys started out with 4 of them in a barber shop quartet and look what it evolved into. There is plenty more, but watch the stuff after 'Motor Botty Affair". A lot of the good musicians were gone after that and it was just George on a computer for the most part.

Chorus: Most of all they need the funk, help them find the funk,... neon light,... spot light,...Flashlight!!!

The base line is the foundation of this song. Everything else hangs on it.

@kennythomas2516

2 жыл бұрын

True that

This song is just pure funk through and through so damm good I could just keep listening to this if makes me remember my mom and dad playing this track as a vinyl and all of us dancing soooo dammm goood

You are 100% correct! ❤

Bass line obsessed here too!

many in the hip hop - rap world sampled parliament funkadelic songs. the kings of funk.

Awesome reaction. Thanks again

Sir, I saw your facial expressions during some of those bass licks. I feel your pain. It hurts so good. Lol.

@mariettasmith2691

2 жыл бұрын

The bass licks 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

The great Bernie Worrell played the mini moog for the baseline. The inventor of the mini moog said that the sounds that Bernie got out of his instrument, was never meant to sound like that. So Bernie invented most of the base and keyboard patches you hear in songs today. Also Bootsy was playing drums on the track.

How can you NOT just groove out to this song?!? I don't care if you're an all-country-all-the-time person, or a if-it-ain't-Beethoven-it's-crap person...this just makes you smile and bop your head to the beat. Can't be helped. Anyone who reads this: scour KZread for the live funk jams by Prince if you like this.

If you're a Metal Guy go back and listen to their albums from 70-71 They were a Black Metal band thier songs have been covered by Audio Slave, Red Hot Chili Peppers etc..... They also use to be on the same bill with early Rock Pioneers like MC5 and Iggy & The Stooges etc..... Listen to "Super Stupid" by FUNKADELIC (same group) they were the band for PARLIAMENT!

Metal Biker dude that's not the one you need to listen to what you need to listen to his Maggot Brain by Parliament Funkadelic

Bernie was a genius in classical piano graduate of juliards and Boston conservatory..funked up and got with Clinton

It's Bernie Worrell playing the baseline on a synthesizer

Bootsy is playing drums on this song

The bass is carrying the whole song

yup for all his awesomeness, this one is not Bootsie. Synthesized, but as a young teenage bass player i sure tried to cover it. and the rhythm guitar is non stop jaggily!

dude, there is no funk without the bass. that's the genre. dirty, funky, stank nasty bass grooves.

I agree with in regards to the bassline...100 percent

Bootsy refused to play base on this song in protest. The song was intended for Bootsy.

I was a kid when this came out. It's just a fun song!

Timeless classic!!!

thats just deep down and funky

funk fact Bootsy wrote song and did not want it ,so George clinton gave it to Parliament and let bernie worrell get busy on bass synth/synths, bootsy on drums, and george also represented jewish people in new york with the chant Hava da de da da da Hava da da also with the heavy clap through whole song. the sickest paliament bass line is in the song motor booty affair.

i'm with you on the base line....that's what gives it that....nasty funky sound....no base line....no soul

Bootsy is actually the drummer on this track.

Thats not even a bass! Thats the great Bernie Worrell playing bass on synthesizer. He played everything except the guitar and drums. He practically played everything on this song on synthesizer. Bootsy played the drums on this.

@ronaldmillner6387

2 жыл бұрын

Bootsy as actually the drummer on this one

Parliament Funkadelic = Timeless

The bass carries the song.

@rik7552

3 жыл бұрын

No bass Brother.

@edfinite7534

3 жыл бұрын

@@rik7552 Excuse me. Grew up on this shit, and the bass carrie's the song. And I'm not talking about a bass guitar. Please don't tell me other instruments aren't capable of bass.

Maceo Parker at the end!

The Nate Dogg song is "Keep it G.A.N.S.T.A. " I believe it's on his album "Music and Me"

Bootsy's bass brings on the groove for any bassist who follows. 🇨🇦🤗🔥

What was originally thought as a bassline was really Bernie Worrell's MOOG synthesizer which also did on Parliament's "Big Bang Theory"...

@chrisedwards3214

3 жыл бұрын

No that waa david spradley on big bang theory

If you like this, then you must do some more Parliament : eg. Children Of Production, Dr. Funkenstein, Psychoalphabetabioawaudoloop(excuse spelling, but I think I'm close) And for the one of the nastiest bass lines in a song ever !- Listen to GLIDE, by the group " Pleasure" Other candidates for nasty bass lines: the song DAZZ, by the group BRICK, and JustA Touch of Love, by the group Slave

awesome track

Everybody sampled this

This was a MUST play at the HS victory dance after football games in 1977 !!

Cage - Agent Orange..... luv the Greg Lloyd reference. Black and gold

If you enjoyed that check out Brick by the Dazz Band.

That nasty bass line is played as the lead in the whole track. And you are right, it 100% would not be the same song without it.

Bernie Herrell on the Baseline. Mini Moog master and he was in Talking Heads

If you go to a black barbecue and this song isn't played you at the wrong barbecue

The "bass line" isn't an electric bass... it is Bernie Worrell on synthesizer!! Too Funky!

That ending always got to me, too... "Everybody's got a little light under the sun... under the sun...under the sun!" It struck me as part of the inclusive nature of George Clinton and the Parliament - it didn't matter where your beat came from, be it white, black, brown, yellow, or Pangaean plaid - there was a light to it, and it needed to be seen/heard.

You want bass? Some real nasty bass? The funkiest bassline to ever use an envelope follower? Then ya gosta hear "Chocolate City", which Parliament put out some years before this. Flashlight is the "A" game, but "Chocolate City" put the P in PhD.

lovely!