Anyone who has played bass guitar in a dance band is familiar with songs like Parliament's Flashlight and Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker), Funkadelic's One Nation Under a Groove and Cosmic Slop, and group leader George Clinton's solo smash Atomic Dog – classic funk tunes with widely divergent bass styles.
Less commonly known are the bassists behind those styles, and how they influenced the sound and direction of the P-Funk collective over a history of nearly 40 years.
