{"id":72406,"date":"2026-09-09T21:08:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T21:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/bootsy-collins-first-memoir-is-called-funked-around-found-out\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T21:08:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T21:08:40","slug":"bootsy-collins-first-memoir-is-called-funked-around-found-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/bootsy-collins-first-memoir-is-called-funked-around-found-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Bootsy Collins\u2019 First Memoir is Called Funked Around, Found Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/16457-bootsy-collins\/\">Bootsy Collins<\/a> has announced his first memoir, arriving March 23, 2027. Written with pop culture historian Caseen Gaines, the fittingly titled <em>Funked Around, Found Out<\/em> traces the 74-year-old funk legend\u2019s storied five-decade career.<\/p>\n<p>The book will explore how the Cincinnati-born bass guitarist\u2014along with his brother, Phelps \u201cCatfish\u201d Collins started as the Pacemakers, went on to join James Brown\u2019s band as the JB\u2019s, and ultimately split off to play with George Clinton\u2019s Parliament-Funkadelic collective.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond career highlights, <em>Funked Around, Found Out<\/em> also promises some dishy tidbits, like the time Collins was targeted by a member of Florida\u2019s Black Mafia after a one-night stand, and an incident with the LAPD, when they confused Parliament-Funkadelic for escaped convicts and conducted a \u201cdetailed cavity search.\u201d The book will also include details about Collins\u2019 occasionally challenging friendship with George Clinton and his tumultuous relationship with mentor James Brown, who famously fined him and other members of the JB\u2019s when they didn\u2019t play to his standards. To top it off, <em>Funked Around<\/em> includes a \u201cfunky\u201d foreword from Collins\u2019 longtime friend and collaborator Snoop Dogg.<\/p>\n<p>The book is \u201cthe straight up, real deal,\u201d the bassist writes in a statement. \u201cIf I\u2019m lyin\u2019, I\u2019m dyin\u2019, and I ain\u2019t ready to go yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/story\/bootsy-collins-memoir-is-called-funked-around-found-out\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bootsy Collins has announced his first memoir, arriving March 23, 2027. Written with pop culture historian Caseen Gaines, the fittingly titled Funked Around, Found&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-72406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin","tag-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}