Sex Machine captured the moment James Brown hired Bootsy Collins and his brother Catfish as the new JB's rhythm section. Bootsy was 18. The nearly eleven-minute Get Up I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine rides a single bass riff that Bootsy had come up with hours earlier, defining funk's relationship with the bass forever. The album was billed as live but some tracks were studio recordings with crowd mixed in afterward. Brown would later fire Bootsy for wanting too much creative control — but not before they had made the blueprint.
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