Cake (band)

. The following albums were released under the name Bootsy Collins or William "Bootsy" Collins. Cake's fifth album Pressure Chief, was released on October 5, 2004. Bootsy recently provided "vocal spice" on the TobyMac album, Welcome to Diversity. Cake headlined the Unlimited Sunshine Tour festival in the summer of 2002 among an eyebrow-raising ecletic mix of bands including indie rock superstars Modest Mouse, The Flaming Lips, De La Soul, Latin techno fusion band Kinky and bluegrass group The Hackensaw Boys. Collins has collaborated extensively with Bill Laswell and made bright appearances on two Fatboy Slim records. Their biggest hits include "The Distance", an alternative retake of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive", "Never There", "Sheep Go to Heaven", and "Short Skirt/Long Jacket". Most of Bootsy's albums in the post-Parliament and Funkadelic days were released under the name Bootsy's Rubber Band.

Todd Roper left the band after recording Comfort Eagle. Bootsy's Rubber Band is a part of the P Funk umbrella of bands. Greg Brown left in 1998, replaced by Xan McCurdy. 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. Damiani left the band in 1997, replaced by Gabe Nelson. 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). Their musical style is quite unique, and has been compared to They Might Be Giants and the Talking Heads, though a more accurate sound-alike would be Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass. His bass playing was hard, driving and rhythmic, and has been very influential in the development of Funk, Heavy Metal and Soul music.

Although their music is often classifed as alternative rock, Cake commonly combines multiple musical genres, such as funk, pop, jazz, rap, and country. Cake's music features droll lyrics rife with word play (laconically-voiced in a rap-like style by lead vocalist/guitarist John McCrea), catchy distorted guitar riffs (courtesy, until 1998, of guitarist Greg Brown and, until 1997, bass player Victor Damiani), and a solo trumpet (played by Vince DiFiore). Bootsy played on most of their early albums, garnering several songwriting credits as well. Cake is a Sacramento, California band, formed in 1991, who have had several hits throughout the 1990s and 2000s from their five recorded albums. Franklin introduced both Collins brothers to George Clinton, and 1972 saw both of the Collins brothers, along with Waddy and Wynne, join Funkadelic. Todd Roper - Drums, percussion (left after Comfort Eagle). 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. John McCrea - Vocals, acoustic guitar, organ, vibraslap. A possibly apocryphal story states than Brown fired Collins after the latter suffered LSD hallucinations on-stage.

originally Victor Damiani (also left before "Prolonging the Magic" was recorded). Until 1971, the Pacesetters were the backing band for James Brown, and were known in that context as The JB's. Gabe Nelson - Bass guitar