PLAINFIELD -- Billy "Bass" Nelson, front right, is pictured with fellow Parliament-Funkadelic members (clockqise from left, with hat) guitarist Eddie Hazel, drummer Tiki Fulwood, guitarist Tal ...

Today's birthdays include the clarinet-playing bandleader Artie Shaw in 1910 (age 92); singer Rosemary Clooney in 1928 (age 74); Robert Moog (rhymes with "vogue"), inventor of the Moog Synthesizer ...

Funkadelic’s stellar musicianship is most evident on such tracks, the group’s golden era lineup—including the likes of Eddie Hazel, Garry Shider, Clarence “Fuzzy” Haskins, Bernie Worrell, and Tiki ...

Eddie Hazel, Billy Nelson, Tiki Fulwood and Tawl Ross. All worn down because of the drug. Clinton started working on Funkadelic’s fourth album American Eats Its Young, replacing his old bandmates with ...