Bootsy Collins

The following albums were released under the name Bootsy Collins or William "Bootsy" Collins. The couple have a son, Kevin. Bootsy recently provided "vocal spice" on the TobyMac album, Welcome to Diversity. Dees is married to Julie Dees, a voice actress. Collins has collaborated extensively with Bill Laswell and made bright appearances on two Fatboy Slim records. Dees served as host of two television shows, Solid Gold and Into The Night With Rick Dees. Most of Bootsy's albums in the post-Parliament and Funkadelic days were released under the name Bootsy's Rubber Band. Dees has appeared in several movies and has made many guest appearances on television shows such as Married With Children, The Love Boat, and Diagnosis Murder.

Bootsy's Rubber Band is a part of the P Funk umbrella of bands. Though he currently does not have host a morning show, Dees is under contract with Clear Channel until January 1, 2005. When Bootsy, Catfish, Waddy, Joel Johnson, Mudbone Cooper, Robert Johnson and The Horny Horns formed Bootsy's Rubber Band in 1976, the character of Bootsy evolved into Bootzilla, a rhinestone-bedecked, flashy rock god. Seacrest also serves as host of American Idol and replaced Casey Kasem on American Top 40. He also took the name "Bootsy" during this time, adopting it as part of an ever-evolving character, an alien rock star who grew gradually more alien, bizarre and flashy as time went on (see P Funk mythology). Rick Dees in the Morning was replaced by Clear Channel Communications in 2004 with Ryan Seacrest's On Air with Ryan Seacrest. His bass playing was hard, driving and rhythmic, and has been very influential in the development of Funk, Heavy Metal and Soul music. Dees was inducted into the Radio Hall Of Fame in 1999 and has also received the People's Choice Award and has a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.

Bootsy played on most of their early albums, garnering several songwriting credits as well. Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 is currently heard on over 350 radio stations in the United States, as well as in 125 other countries. Franklin introduced both Collins brothers to George Clinton, and 1972 saw both of the Collins brothers, along with Waddy and Wynne, join Funkadelic. Dees began his weekly Top 40 show, still currently in syndication, in 1983. Regardless of his reasons for leaving Brown's band, Collins then moved to Detroit, following the advice of singer and future Parliament member Mallia Franklin. In 1982, Rick Dees moved to KIIS, a radio station in Los Angeles, where he served as host of Rick Dees in the Morning until 2004. A possibly apocryphal story states than Brown fired Collins after the latter suffered LSD hallucinations on-stage. The single sold over six million copies and reached number 1 on Billboard Magazine's Hot 100 chart on October 16, 1976.

Until 1971, the Pacesetters were the backing band for James Brown, and were known in that context as The JB's. Dees recorded "'Disco Duck'" in 1976 while working at WMPS, a station in Memphis, Tennesse. With his brother, Catfish Collins, and Kash Waddy and Philippe Wynne, Collins formed a group called The Pacesetters in 1968. Dees worked in various radio stations through out the southeastern US. William Collins (born October 26, 1951, Cincinnati, Ohio), best known as Bootsy Collins, is a pioneering funk bassist, singer and songwriter. Dees graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1972. Dees began his radio career in 1966 at the age of 17 at WGBG, a Greensboro radio station.

Dees was born Rigdon Osmond Dees on March 14, 1950 in Jacksonville, Florida and was raised in Greensboro, North Carolina. Dees is best known for his syndicated radio show Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 and for the song "Disco Duck". Rick Dees is a radio disc jockey who currently lives in the San Fernando Valley area, near Los Angeles, California, USA.