Metal Biker Dude Reacts - Parliament - Flash Light REACTION

[@jeffreyharvey9919]

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]

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]

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]

thanks guys

[@mariettasmith2691]

Bernie Worrell!!!!

[@billyjacc]

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

[@violetgolden3380]

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

[@mariettasmith2691]

Always! Even now!!!

[@yahudahbenisrael3774]

Funk will never die.

[@skbwolverine]

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

[@linkx500]

i was 7 and still listen to it to regularly

[@williammerritt3946]

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]

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

[@mariettasmith2691]

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

[@djisfan63]

@ 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. 🚀

[@stanleysolomon9327]

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

[@Khaliqri]

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

[@PoRich19]

Nope. It’s Bernie. Bootsy on drums

[@wadeb]

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

[@Sco3000]

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

[@zebertbrown1517]

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]

Bernie Worrell is the God Of the Moog Bass!

[@CCrawford3971]

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]

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

[@kyriesampson7781]

Bootsy played drums on it

[@mantax55]

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]

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

[@sterigma555]

Yeah that’s Bootsy on the drums

[@da900smoove1]

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

[@seanswinton6242]

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!!

[@jsump24]

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

[@chefpfunk1]

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.

[@bobblowhard8823]

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

[@patriciaellis4848]

This song gets The Party started!!

[@MrOldman09]

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]

Stay healthy!!

[@sonandsanford4963]

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]

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

[@outtherebeyond]

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.

[@TOM_GINGERALE]

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

[@leroywilliams1176]

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)".

[@laurel4853]

Bass line obsessed here too!

[@johanander7785]

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.

[@paulmorris8762]

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

[@PheLaReux]

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]

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

[@terrygelinas4593]

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]

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

[@whatdoiput807]

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

[@johnniewells1177]

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

[@josephanderson3889]

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

[@tammydaniels110]

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]

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!

[@CHHSFans]

Baseline is genius

[@jt2727]

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

[@cornellwayne1229]

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

[@chefpfunk1]

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]

Aqua boogie! Yessir!

[@beverlyjames1332]

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

[@LivnNLearnin]

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

[@stpetetennispro2012]

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

[@gregmuscovalley3791]

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

[@godslayer1415]

So the bass player was the drummer?

[@sparker7837]

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

[@rolandbush8463]

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

[@RichardMcLamore]

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

[@VampieNotTrampy]

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

[@UNDERGROUNDskateco]

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

[@kyriesampson7781]

Snoop most definitely sampled this on Doggystyle. “Thashiznit”

[@chrisedwards3214]

Everybody sampled this

[@juliusum]

Dr. Dre

[@chucku00]

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".

[@williejohnson5172]

4:40 Funk is bass.

[@McKMo67]

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

[@chrisedwards3214]

Boogie mosson played bass on handcuffs confirmed before his death

[@ronaldmillner6387]

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

[@garyenglish6584]

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

[@gregmerle9107]

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.

[@tammydaniels110]

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

[@michellejackson8259]

Cook out music 😜💥💫

[@bradenschecter5217]

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]

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

[@roberthoffhines5419]

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.

[@userz9481]

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

[@yahudahbenisrael3774]

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

[@mariettasmith2691]

The bass licks 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@Gexxon]

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.

[@williambarnes576]

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

[@562goodguy]

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.

[@TheVillagesFl32162]

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

[@richardnoel643]

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

[@timdeener8987]

Bootsy on drums actually

[@adavis0520]

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!

[@jeffmorphis5667]

Awesome reaction. Thanks again

[@edwardkeeter762]

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 KZbin for the live funk jams by Prince if you like this.

[@leroywilliams1176]

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

[@chrisedwards3214]

No that waa david spradley on big bang theory

[@tony.l5710]

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

[@oscaravila2481]

How have you never heard this song Man! Where you isolated

[@curtiskellam5358]

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

[@kennythomas2516]

True that

[@brettbradford3504]

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.

[@stanleymoss7392]

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

[@barbaratucker825]

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

[@Ezees23]

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

[@jeffreythompson6330]

You are 100% correct! ❤

[@PRODUCEDBYKEV]

Bootsy is playing drums on this song

[@arnoldsanders6878]

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

[@Mandalore18]

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

[@ErinDeNis]

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.

[@denisetinto1828]

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

[@jamedraa8472]

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...

[@williamj6974]

It's Bernie Worrell playing the baseline on a synthesizer

[@dudeseriously57]

As a Parliament Funkadelic for life. I really enjoyed this review 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

[@michaeljennings6647]

Funk onnn! 😃

[@karencas7174]

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

[@josephanderson3889]

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

[@johnniewells1177]

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

[@steelcastle5616]

He sounds like me when, at 31-year old, I first really heard "Gimme Shelter" for the first time.

[@pinkman7317]

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

[@stefenjordan968]

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

[@JonesTRUTH]

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

[@gfunk1506]

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!

[@delltellapharoah2378]

Bootsy is on drums ...its Bernie Worrell doing keybord bass ...and all them minni moog anrics in between

[@CardiacCat]

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.

[@edfinite7534]

The bass carries the song.

[@rik7552]

No bass Brother.

[@edfinite7534]

@@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.

[@linkx500]

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

[@sardog7765]

I was ten years old when this came out, my older sister and her friends just used to jam out to this and the Commodores 🕺🎶🎶

[@michaeljennings6647]

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

[@Khaliqri]

Bootsy is a bad boy. He's playing everything on this one and One Nation under a Groove.

[@richardnoel643]

The track was Bernie worrell on moog synth playing bass and a young Dennis chambers on drums

[@timdeener8987]

@@richardnoel643 Bootsy on drums

[@danielblanchard793]

thats just deep down and funky

[@mariettasmith2691]

Timeless classic!!!

[@PRODUCEDBYKEV]

Maceo Parker at the end!

[@mjay2248]

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

[@danieldom100]

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

[@hassafella]

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

[@deathscythehell7937]

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

[@Syzfox]

Back in the day gang members would blast this during a drive by

[@bam19931]

Agree the bass player is amazing 🤩