# @bootsy_collins on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DHLy4_hAxlc
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/27399543-bootsy-collins-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-03-14T15:10:47.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** William "Bootsy" Collins (@bootsy_collins) — https://gondola.cc/bootsy_collins

## Caption

On this date, March 9, 1970, shortly before a show in Columbus, Georgia, the self-styled godfather of soul, James Brown, replaces most of his band (including veterans Fred Wesley and Maceo Parker), which had complained about working conditions and pay, with a young group from Cincinnati, The Pacemakers led by the brothers Bootsy and Catfish Collins. 
Bootsy Collins stated: "He treated me like a son. I mean, Good Lord. Every night after we played a show, he called us back to give us a lecture about how horrible we sounded. [Affects James Brown voice] “Nah son, not on it. U didn’t Play the One. He told me this every show. One night, we knew we wasn’t On the One – and he said, “Now that’s what I’m talkin’ about.🤯 Y’all was on the One tonight.🥸 My brother and I looked at each other like, “This mother is crazy.”🤣🤪 We knew in our heart's we wasn’t on the One. So I figured His Reverse psychology Stopped Working .🤥 By telling us we wasn’t on it, made me practice harder with the Band, so we All benefited.🤗 So I just absorbed what he said and used it for Our Benefit" to become Better. That is what we have to do Now!🥳(As The Band Played On)🎺🎸🥁🪗🎷🎹Bootsy baby!!!🤩 #ThePowerofTheOne #TheOriginalOne #FakingtheFunk🤥 #Never2Youg2Play #TheBandMustPlayOn #TheONE #2BeFunky #ThatsRight #JBTight grainger ella_rae_feingold darujones fantaazma.official blu_is_you fredwreck funkyfredwesley alissia manougalloofficial

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thepoweroftheone, fakingthefunk, never2youg2play, theoriginalone, 2befunky, theone, thatsright, jbtight, thebandmustplayon

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