By Wonder B (81.50.171.93) on Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 08:14 am:

The stuff that Bootsy put out just after leaving JB and before joining P-Funk came out on a single under the name Bootsey Phelps & the Complete Strangers and two singles under the name the HOUSE GUESTS
I found those tracks on a the totally out of this world ultra funk compilation called "FUNKIN ON THE 1" ...
Here is the link :

http://www.funktothemax.com/asp/shop.asp

It's pretty cheap and it's spread on 5 CD's with other great tracks by other bands a lot of which quite obscure!
You'll even get the MADHOUSE rare single not featured on the original TODAY album (not the Prince Madhouse but the Mudbone Cooper and Razorsharp Johnson Madhouse)

Check out this page for the complete track listing and WEEP!!!!! LOL Plus on all the pages with track listings you can listen to some of the tracks so indulge yourself ...

http://www.musichouse.nl/cgi-bin/mh.storefront/4073d6d1008c 94a627193ed4551706d4/Product/View/110090

Wonder B

By Rich (69.72.3.214) on Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 10:54 am:

There's a much needed compilation of early Bootsy (1970-1975) music waiting for somebody to put together, the basics of which would be:

These are the JB's - The JBs
The Grunt - The JBs
What So Never the Dance - House Guests
My Mind sets Me Free - House Guests
Philmore - Funkadelic
In the Pocket - Boots
Fun in Your Thang - Complete Strangers
Together - Complete Strangers
Say Som'n Good - Bootsy's Early Sunn
Love and Understanding - Bootsy's Early Sunn
Be My Beach - Funkadelic

By Don (68.75.62.146) on Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 11:07 am:

You Fellas are deep,
deeper than deep.

By Don (68.75.62.146) on Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 12:26 pm:

Wonder B, Rich.
I read a mag from someone that House Guest and Complete Strangers we're recorded at King and
Bootsy's Early Sun(n) we're recorded at HDH's Invictus Studio's in LA or in Detroit? Do you have any info if you don't mind me asking?

An inquiring mind.

By Rich (69.72.5.141) on Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 01:11 pm:

The House guest sides were produced by W. Whisenhunt, and I believe they were cut in Cincy, whether or not they were done at King, I don't know. Maybe the name Wisenhunt will help.

Bootsy's Early Sunn was Booty & Eddie Hazel doing their own Band of Gypsy's thing. Jeffrey Bowen of HDH was trying to sign Bootsy around '74, but I believe they were in LA at the time. Eddie was affiliated with both Bowen & HDH around that same time frame. Did HDH have a studio in LA? You've posed a good question Don.

From the end to the beginning, bobba.

By Wonder B (81.50.171.122) on Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 01:36 pm:

Don I don't have any more info on that and I have only myself to blame because I interviewed Boosty three times already so I should have asked... Nevermind I am writing down the questions in case of a future meeting... lol

Rich I have never seen or heard about that early Sunn record... Does it exist or was it a recording that was never released? I do have the two House Guests singles and the Bootsey & Complete Strangers 7" too so I thought I had it all covered! LOL

Anyway don't look to hard for those sides as they are all included on the compilation that I mentioned in my initial post... Mind you these three singles combined must be worth at least $500 if not more altogether so I think that for the price asked for this compilation it is quite a bargain LOL
Check out the unbelievable track listing...I have ordered three copies of that box myself LOL

cd 1

1. Sound Experience -S ha na na na boom boom
2. The Meters - Good old funky music
3. Maceo & All The Kings Men - Got to getcha
4. Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - The bottle
5. Bull & The Matadors - The funky judge
6. The Parliaments - Breakdown
7. Ripple - A funky song
8. Madhouse - Get some of this
9. Chairman of The Board - Finders keepers
10. The 8Th Day - Good book
11. Ruth Copeland - I got a thing for you daddy
12. Nazty - It's summertime
13. Poison - Get up and move your body
14. B.T. Express - Do it
15. Brass Construction - Movin'
16. Billy Jones - We want peace
17. Lee Dorsey - Yes we can
18. Average White Band - School boy crush

cd 2

1. House Guest Rated X - Whatsonever...pt.1
2. House Guest Rated X - Whatsonever...pt.2
3. Sir Joe Quaterman&Free Soul - (I got) So much...
4. Sound Experience - Don't fight the feeling
5. Madhouse - Vote
6. The Isley Brothers - It's your thing
7. S.O.U.L. - Burning spear
8. The Meters - Handclapping song
9. Ohio Players - Trespassin'
10. Politicians ft. McKinley Jackson - Psycha-soula-..
11. The Parliaments - The goose (that laid...)
12. Timmy Thomas - Fox with the box
13. B.T. Express - Everythings good to ya
14. Average White Band - Pick up the pieces
15. Leroy Hutson - Feel the spirit '76
16. Curtis Mayfield - Mother's son
17. Joe Tex - Give the baby anything that ...
18. Billy Jones - Funky monkey

cd 3

1. Average White Band - Same feeling, different...
2. Billy Jones - All my brothers are clean
3. Sir Joe Quaterman&Free Soul - The way they...
4. The Meters - Chicken strut
5. Eddie Mobley - Stick in your earhole
6. Ripple - I don't know what it is but it sure is...
7. Syl Johnson - Annie got hot pants power
8. Al Wilson - My song
9. Chris Harris - Dr. Funky
10. Eddie Brafford - You made your bed
11. Bobby Patterson - How do you spell love
12. The Parliaments - I wanna testify
14. Morning Noon & Night - Le joint
15. B.T. Express - Do you like it
16. Lee Dorsey - Night people
17. Dorothy Moore - Ain't that a mothers luck
18. Joe Tex - Who gave birth to the funk

cd 4

1. Bootsy, Phelps&The Compl. Strangers - Fun...pt1
2. Bootsy, Phelps&The Compl. Strangers - Fun...pt2
3. Sound Experience - Devil with the bus
4. Politicians ft. McKinley Jackson - Free your mind
5. The Parliaments - Good ole music
6. Maceo & All The Kings Men -Thank you for...
7. Ripple - Willie pass the water
8. Madhouse - Nixon's ego trip
9. Chairman of The Board - Everybody party all...
10. The Meters - Cissy strut
11. The Isley Brothers - Who's that lady
12. Curtis Mayfield - Move on up
13. Average White Band - The jugglers
14. B.T. Express - Give it what you got
15. Syl Johnson - It is because I'm black
16. The Parliaments - Funky woman
17. House Guests - My mind set me free pt.
18. House Guests - My mind set me free pt. 2

cd 5

1. Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
2. Jim Gilstrap - One more heartache
3. Lee Dorsey - Everything I do gonna be funky...
4. Sly & The Family Stone - Remember who you are
5. Willie 'Beaver' Hale - Groove on
6. Timmy Thomas - Stone to the bone
7. Donald Byrd - Change (makes you wanna hustle)
8. James Brown & The JB's - Honky tonk
9. Average White Band - Cut the cake
10. B.T. Express - If it don't turn you on
11. The Meters - Look ka py py
12. Maceo & All The Kings Men - Mag-poo
13. Swinging Soul Machine - Spooky's day off
14. Sound Experience - Boogie woogie
15. Laura Lee - If you can't beat me rockin'
16. Al Wilson - How's your love life
17. Morning Noon & Night - Bite your granny
18. Minnie Riperton - Young willing and able

Ain't that something????????? lol

WONDER B

By Luke Soulwalker (68.218.195.113) on Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 02:13 pm:

Is Philippe Wynne on these Bootsy tracks, I know he was with Bootsy for a period of time before he joined the Spinners?

By ErikT.O. (64.228.108.43) on Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 02:20 pm:

Great looking collection, WonderB, but I think I have a lot of those tracks to justify this purchase! I wish he made it a smaller set and left off stuff like 'Superfly' & 'Cut The Cake'! There're a lot of interesting looking cuts on there, though!
Hi Rich- I was wandering if you, WonderB or anyone else here had more information about "Together" by the Complete Strangers? I got a disc recently labelled 'demos' but I recognized some of the tracks as official. The first is a great, mellow take of 'Together', the Chocolate City track, with Bootsy all over it, I like it as much as the better known version. Anyhow, I'm curious as to whther the Parliament 'demo' is in fact the 'Together' single you referred to..?

By Rich (69.72.4.7) on Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 04:00 pm:

WB, I've got the FOT1 set and its great, complete versions of the Bootsy cuts alone are worth the price. The Invictus/Hot Wax recording of "The Good Book" sounds a lot like the the same ideas and players who did "Finders Keepers" (Billy Nelson, Bernie Worrell, Donald Baldwin & Tiki Fulwood), actually, I think its Pistol Allen on 'Finders Keepers'.

I don't hear Phillipe on any of these Bootsy recordings being discussed

The Bootsy's Early Sunn material is unreleased.

The "taped" version of the Complete Strangers 'Together' that I've heard, jumps right-off with the vocal (som'n like "where is you, where is me"), no intro. If I'm remembering right, it has a sickly lead-guitar up-high in the mix, that sounds more like Garry Shider than Eddie Hazel, either way that would indicate that what I've heard is probably a P-Funk demo.

By ErikT.O. Changing to (64.228.108.188) on Friday, April 09, 2004 - 06:06 pm:

Hi Rich-
That sounds like the one I just got, I put it on after reading your post. It sounds like it cuts in... then Bootsy does his vocal thang alone for a sec over the music track, something like 'You've got to be good right here on Earth'... the piano is loud, the song is 3'04 mins on my disc player, and stops (rather than fades) on a final beat . Also, most of the track is instrumental.