Metal Biker Dude Reacts - Parliament - Flash Light REACTION
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@jeffreyharvey9919 3 жыл бұрын
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 3 жыл бұрын
Bernie Worrell!!!!
@billyjacc 2 жыл бұрын
The Wizard changed the Game with this! 🎹 🎹 🎶 🔊
@violetgolden3380 3 жыл бұрын
When this song came on at the club, the tables emptied and the dance floor filled up. Epic !!
@mariettasmith2691 3 жыл бұрын
Always! Even now!!!
@yahudahbenisrael3774 10 ай бұрын
Funk will never die.
@skbwolverine 3 жыл бұрын
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 3 жыл бұрын
@@DaddyKoolPop just got to get up and jam!!!!
@zebertbrown1517 3 жыл бұрын
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!
@stanleysolomon9327 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@CCrawford3971 3 жыл бұрын
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
@jsump24 3 жыл бұрын
There is no west coast rap without parliament. George and bootsy are legends
@da900smoove1 Жыл бұрын
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!!
@julianisfan9596 9 ай бұрын
@ 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. 🚀
@chefpfunk1 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@leroywilliams1176 3 жыл бұрын
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)".
@MrOldman09 3 жыл бұрын
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...
@MsPhylie 3 жыл бұрын
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.....
@helgar791 3 жыл бұрын
This baseline has always seemed to me played with so much humor that the entire song is not only enjoyable, but funny.
@GINGERALERR 6 ай бұрын
I bought that when it came out in 1978. Didn't even know the song, just bought it out of curiosity. Glad I did.
@johanander7785 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@josephanderson3889 3 жыл бұрын
That’s why snoop dogg was so poppin he knew a bunch of funk songs
@terrygelinas4593 2 жыл бұрын
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.
@ImTriggerHappyCOD 3 жыл бұрын
This that get together with the family on a sunny day and light up the Grill music
@whatdoiput807 3 жыл бұрын
2:10 the look on your face when the funk set in lol that bass line is so dirty
@Gexxon 4 ай бұрын
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.
@bobblowhard8823 11 ай бұрын
The backbone of any good funk song, and funk band, is the bass. No question about it.
@paulmorris8762 Жыл бұрын
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
@jt2727 2 жыл бұрын
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
@RichardMcLamore 3 жыл бұрын
yep. it's 2 chords the entire way, but it feels like an adventure every 4 bars
@tammydaniels110 3 жыл бұрын
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
@frankticas9051 3 жыл бұрын
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!
@UNDERGROUNDskateco 3 жыл бұрын
I believe it is Bernie Worrell playing a Moog Synth for the bass on this CLASSIC funk 💣
@rolandbush8463 3 жыл бұрын
Bootsy is playing drums. This song was slated for Bootsy's album until he gifted it to Parliament. This is Bootsy's song.
@outtherebeyond Жыл бұрын
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.
@adavis0520 2 жыл бұрын
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!
@johnniewells1177 3 жыл бұрын
BTW, that's Bernie Worrell, longtime keyboadist and songwriter for Parliament , who is playing the bass line on the mini-Moog
@gregmuscovalley3791 3 жыл бұрын
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?
@VampieNotTrampy 2 жыл бұрын
You are totally right about the baseline. The handiclaps also add quite a bit.
@cornellwayne1229 3 жыл бұрын
Metal, this song is about a disco ball, you know, all the lights flashing in a disco ball! LOL, for real!
@chucku00 3 жыл бұрын
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".
@kyriesampson7781 3 жыл бұрын
Snoop most definitely sampled this on Doggystyle. “Thashiznit”
@chrisedwards3214 3 жыл бұрын
Everybody sampled this
@juliusum 3 жыл бұрын
Dr. Dre
@chefpfunk1 3 жыл бұрын
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🏊🏽 🏊 🏊🏼🏊🏾
@gregmerle9107 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@McKMo67 3 жыл бұрын
One of Bootsy's most underappreciated bass lines is "Handcuffs' by Parliament.
@chrisedwards3214 8 ай бұрын
Boogie mosson played bass on handcuffs confirmed before his death
@ronaldmillner6387 8 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
@barbaratucker825 3 жыл бұрын
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
@userz9481 3 жыл бұрын
In 1977 this was played along with Black Sabbath in my neighborhood
@bradenschecter5217 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@roberthoffhines5419 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@Mandalore18 2 жыл бұрын
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
@brettbradford3504 Жыл бұрын
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.
@karencas7174 3 жыл бұрын
many in the hip hop - rap world sampled parliament funkadelic songs. the kings of funk.
@Ezees23 2 жыл бұрын
Chorus: Most of all they need the funk, help them find the funk,... neon light,... spot light,...Flashlight!!!
@williambarnes576 3 жыл бұрын
That is Bernie on the moog for the bass line and synth leads
@tammydaniels110 3 жыл бұрын
Omg! I was a little kid and use to sing this song all the time!!! My All time favorite still to this day!!!
@PRODUCEDBYKEV 3 жыл бұрын
Bootsy is playing drums on this song
@pinkman7317 7 ай бұрын
Bernie was a genius in classical piano graduate of juliards and Boston conservatory..funked up and got with Clinton
@laurel4853 2 жыл бұрын
Bass line obsessed here too!
@sparker7837 3 жыл бұрын
Bruh, your smile just says it all about this track. You got a new subscriber.
@richardnoel643 3 жыл бұрын
The bass is bernie worrell on moog synthesizer and Dennis chambers on drums
@timdeener8987 3 жыл бұрын
Bootsy on drums actually
@yahudahbenisrael3774 3 жыл бұрын
Sir, I saw your facial expressions during some of those bass licks. I feel your pain. It hurts so good. Lol.
@mariettasmith2691 3 жыл бұрын
The bass licks 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
@gfunk1506 9 ай бұрын
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!
@maizekansas67101 3 жыл бұрын
Love it!!! Sooooo back in the day. Memories😎
@williamj6974 2 жыл бұрын
It's Bernie Worrell playing the baseline on a synthesizer
@tony.l5710 8 ай бұрын
Correction, the baseline is not bootsy Collins it's Bernie on the Mook synthesizer
@stefenjordan968 3 жыл бұрын
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
@jeffreythompson6330 Жыл бұрын
You are 100% correct! ❤
@edwardkeeter762 Жыл бұрын
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 KZfaq for the live funk jams by Prince if you like this.
@garyenglish6584 3 жыл бұрын
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
@562goodguy 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@hassafella 3 жыл бұрын
I agree with in regards to the bassline...100 percent
@stpetetennispro2012 3 жыл бұрын
That’s me, dude!!! The bass line is everything!!!
@danielblanchard793 3 жыл бұрын
thats just deep down and funky
@josephanderson3889 3 жыл бұрын
I could roll down a Miami strip with the top down on a Friday blowing big blunts of that good stuff boiiiii we would have some fun
@DaddyKoolPop 3 жыл бұрын
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!
@zinarhone7642 2 жыл бұрын
I was a kid when this came out. It's just a fun song!
@Ranchhand323 5 ай бұрын
The bass is carrying the whole song
@curtiskellam5358 3 жыл бұрын
The base line is the foundation of this song. Everything else hangs on it.
@kennythomas2516 3 жыл бұрын
True that
@PRODUCEDBYKEV 3 жыл бұрын
Maceo Parker at the end!
@afrolanticanjurisprudence8849 2 жыл бұрын
dude, there is no funk without the bass. that's the genre. dirty, funky, stank nasty bass grooves.
@donthewatcher8835 Жыл бұрын
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.
@johnniewells1177 3 жыл бұрын
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
@cityghost9058 3 жыл бұрын
Parliament Funkadelic = Timeless
@michaeljennings6647 3 жыл бұрын
Bootsy refused to play base on this song in protest. The song was intended for Bootsy.
@chrisedwards3214 8 ай бұрын
Everybody sampled this
@PRODUCEDBYKEV 10 ай бұрын
Bootsy is actually the drummer on this track.
@JonesTRUTH 3 жыл бұрын
i'm with you on the base line....that's what gives it that....nasty funky sound....no base line....no soul
@jeffmorphis5667 3 жыл бұрын
Awesome reaction. Thanks again
@arnoldsanders6878 3 жыл бұрын
This was a MUST play at the HS victory dance after football games in 1977 !!
@brianbatie6650 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@godsson2259 2 жыл бұрын
If you go to a black barbecue and this song isn't played you at the wrong barbecue
@deathscythehell7937 3 жыл бұрын
If you enjoyed that check out Brick by the Dazz Band.
@denisetinto1828 2 жыл бұрын
Bootsy's bass brings on the groove for any bassist who follows. 🇨🇦🤗🔥
@mrstep2me 3 жыл бұрын
You really need to do some Funkadelic, preferably Super Stupid, Red Hot Momma, or Good To Your Earhole.
@oscaravila2481 7 ай бұрын
How have you never heard this song Man! Where you isolated
@ErinDeNis 11 ай бұрын
You can hear a lot of Bernie Worrell’s influence in Stevie Wonder’s music. I agree. To me, the bassline IS the foundation of music, even more than percussion. It’s Bernie playing bass on a synthesizer.
@slappy09 2 жыл бұрын
That look you have on your face is the face of smelling pure funk!
@leroywilliams1176 3 жыл бұрын
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
@stanleymoss7392 2 жыл бұрын
Check out (Not Just) Knee Deep by Funkadelic, Dr. Funkenstein-Parliament Actually all their music will Free your mind🤘
@jamedraa8472 3 жыл бұрын
I cannot sit still when I hear this song. Also, I think I associate this song with cookouts.... hmmm I'm hungry all of a sudden...
@CardiacCat 2 жыл бұрын
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.
@brianphoenix1975 3 жыл бұрын
The "bass line" isn't an electric bass... it is Bernie Worrell on synthesizer!! Too Funky!
@stanleymoss7392 3 жыл бұрын
Bootsy played drums. That's Mr. Bernie Worrell on all Bass (Moog) & Keyboards respectively
@steelcastle5616 3 жыл бұрын
He sounds like me when, at 31-year old, I first really heard "Gimme Shelter" for the first time.
@danieldom100 3 жыл бұрын
The Nate Dogg song is "Keep it G.A.N.S.T.A. " I believe it's on his album "Music and Me"
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