
The House Guests Meet the Complete Strangers and Bootsy, Phelps & Gary - My Mind Set Me Free LP (signed copy), 2019
After splitting with James Brown, the core of Bootsy’s old band the Pacemakers —Bootsy, his guitarist brother Phelps “Catfish” Collins and drummer Frank “Kash” Waddy—returned to Cincinnati in 1971, where they reformed under a new name: the House Guests. With local James acolyte Rufus Allen on vocals and Clayton “Chicken” Gunnels and Robert “Chopper” McCullough on horns, the band gigged around the Midwest and cut epic funk jams “My Mind Set Me Free” and “What So Never The Dance” before George Clinton recruited the group, sans Allen, to join him in Funkadelic. This unit would, meanwhile, continue to record together independently of George, before coalescing into Bootsy’s Rubber Band in 1976.
This 2019 compilation from Shake It Records, the in-house label of the long-running Cincinnati record shop by the same name, gathers nine rare recordings from this period, recorded under three different monikers: the House Guests, the Complete Strangers, and Bootsy, Phelps & Gary.
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James Brown Productions Road Expense Slip, 1970
Hotel Receipt Signed by James Brown, 1970
Bootsy's Warwick RockBass Artist Line Bootsy Collins Space Bass (signed), 2014
Bootsy’s Farfisa Mod. C5/163 Compact FAST 5 (Needs repair)
Bootsy’s Rubber Band 40th Anniversary Poster (signed), 2016
Fresh Outta ‘P’ University promo poster (signed), 1997
Hand sketched portrait of Bootsy
Hohner Fire 32-key Melodica used by Bootsy’s Rubber Band
Live at Tipitina’s Poster (signed), 2011
Mackie 32.8.2 8-Bus Mixing Console
Painted Paper portrait Bootsy Home Alone / 1 of its kind
Signed "Rubber Band" Photo Print (Photographer: Michael Weintrob), 2010
Signed Guitar from Hard Rock Casino Cincinnati Grand Opening, 2021
TEAC World Wide Funk tie-dye turntable (signed), 2017
The Power of the One album release party poster, 2020
This Boot Was Made for Fonk-n Jam Fan, 1979
What’s Bootsy Doin’? 12” x 12” promotional poster, 1988
“Body Slam!” b/w “I’d Rather Be With You” 7-inch, 1982
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