Bootsy's Rubber Band: This Boot Is Made For Fonk-n (Warners)
Pete Wingfield, Melody Maker, 7 July 1979
THE WORLD'S zaniest bass-player is back, whatever the truth of reports about a nervous breakdown; or, as he tells us himself: "I dug the concern when 'where's he at' started to play...Yea, y'all helped me make it. Bootsy is now reporting for duty!"
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