Bernie Worrell
Bernie Worrell ( born April 19, 1944 in Long Beach, New Jersey, full name George Bernard Worrell, Jr.) is an American musician, composer and producer. As keyboardist for Parliament and Funkadelic, Talking Heads and practice he gained a legendary reputation among critics and fans.
Career
Worrell grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey, began making music age of three, and wrote a first concerto at the age of eight. He attended the Juilliard School of Music Schools and the New England Conservatory of Music, where he received a classical education.
As a student, Worrell played (later known as Tavares ) with a formation called Chubby & The Turnpikes before he met George Clinton. Along with Clinton and his fellow musicians from The Parliaments and Funkadelic Worrell moved to Detroit, where Parliament was formed. Among the names Parliament and Funkadelic was the collective, which included the bassist and vocalist Bootsy Collins, and 1981 live in the studio very active in the field of P-Funk. As a key member of the group Worrell played there not only piano, organ and synthesizer, but was also (co - ) composer and arranger of many hits.
While other keyboardist of the radio used mainly Hammond organ and Fender Rhodes, Worrell was one of the first who worked reinforced with synthesizers such as the Minimoog. As examples of his pioneering work were Mothership Connection (Star Child ) and Give Up the Funk ( Tear The Roof Off The Sucker ) of Mothership Connection (1975) Flashlight by Funkentelechy Vs. The Placebo Syndrome (1977) and Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop ) Motor Booty Affair of (1978 ) called.
A first solo album All The Woo In The World appeared in 1978. At Funkadelic and Parliament he was subsequently only occasionally active.
1980 Worrell involved in the tour Remain in Light Talking Heads and was from then on until the dissolution of the group in 1992, a regular at gigs and studio recordings. Though never an official member of the band, Worrell was still present in the major publications, including in Stop Making Sense.
In the following years he intensified his solo work and went from 1996 on as Bernie Worrell & The Woo Warriors. He also began a fruitful collaboration with bassist and producer Bill Laswell and participated in practice, a project founded in 1992, Laswell, guitarist Buckethead and the experimental drummer Bryan Mantia. When Laswell was prevented in 2002 for the Bonnaroo Festival, was Colonel Claypool 's Bucket of short Bernie Brains Les Claypool on bass. The album The Big Eyeball In The Sky and a large U.S. tour followed in 2004.
In the same year Worrell was seen in Moog, a documentary on the 50th anniversary of the company founded by Robert Moog. As early as 2003 began filming Stranger: Bernie Worrell On Earth, an official biography of the musician, which was introduced in 2005 and released as a DVD in 2007.
On 11 September 2007 appeared Turn My Teeth Up! Baby Elephant, a project with Prince Paul and Don Newkirk. Guests were George Clinton, Shock G, Yellowman, Reggie Watts, Nona Hendryx, David Byrne and Gabby La La. Beginning of 2009, Bernie Worrell in the project Socialibrium with TM Stevens, guitarist Blackbyrd McKnight and Cindy Blackman on a European tour.
Trivia
Discography
Solo albums
Group albums and (selection )
Swell
- Interview with Digital interviews, May 2000
- Interview with Fonkadelica, 2004
- Entry to C2B3 on the Bonnaroo Festival page