Bootsy's New Rubber Band

Blasters Of The Universe Tour

Bootsy Collins Live In Berlin Germany At Metropol

1995 February 20

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portable audio-tape recording (audience)

I was at this show by myself and have only great memories .
Years later I got to know someone who taped it. I got immidiatley that smile back which I had during the whole concert in '95!
I don't know what special kind of recorder he used but he stands mostly in the middle of the audience and it was the orginal raw tape he gave to me.

He said: "See what you can do with that.... pimp it up & spread this funk around the world!"

I digitilized the tape, cut the track into single wav files and named the songs. Later I converted them into flac files.
I wasn't able to adjust the sound as I have no tools for that.
What is a damn' pity 'cause the show was real great (musicians & audience had a blast) and the sound of the recording is only likely ok.
At some points the quality gets little better, so during "P-Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up)" shortly before Ricks trumpet solo.

I can enjoy listening to it but I have clearly to say that the sound is thin.

Maybe someone is out there who is able & willing to do some sound-design with it and reseed it for us all.
As you all know there are not so many Bootsy shows out there - and this one would be worth the work for sure.

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total playtime: 2h:03m:17s

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SETLIST:

* 1 Blasters Of The Universe (Intro) - 5:05
* 2 Ahh...The Name Is Bootsy, Baby - Band Introduction - 5:22
* 3 Ahh...The Name Is Bootsy, Baby - P-Funk Medley - 5:01
* 4 Psychotic Bump School - 4:59
* 5 Hollywood Squares - 5:03
* 6 Bernie Worrell Solo - 4:33
* 7 Funkentelechy-Give Up The Funk Medley 7:00
* 8 One Nation Under A Groove - 4:08
* 9 P-Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up) starring Rick Gardner - 10:49
*10 Cosmic Slop - 4:45
*11 Flashlight - 5:29
*12 Bootzilla - 4:25
*13 I`d Rather Be With You - 14:53
*14 A Sacred Place - 9:55
*15 Stretchin' Out In A Rubber Band (Funk Gettin` Ready To Roll; Touch - Bootsy takes a bath in the audience) - 21:09
*16 Night of the Thumpasorus People - 1:27
*17 Hit Me - 0:55
*18 The crowd is in P-Heaven - Bootsy promises to bring the full P-Family back to Berlin 3:24
*19 Keep The Funk Alive - Bootsy promises again his return to Berlin (as he did in 1998) 2:29
*20 The Crowd shouts out for more 2:17

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PLAYERS:

space bass & vocals - Bootsy Collins
drums - Frankie "Kash" Waddy
rhythm guitar - Lawrence "Flip" Cornette (RIP)
lead guitar - Danny James
keyboards - Bernie Worrell
keyboards - (Jay) Greg Fitt
keyboards - "Razor" Sharp Johnson
trumpet - Rick Gardner
sax - Jarret Bidehan (?)
lead backing vocals - Gary "Mudbone" Cooper
backing vocals - Henry Benefield (from Patti LaBelle) (RIP)


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