Something 4 The Weekend # 98

Bootsy Collins: Christmas Is 4 Ever: "Happy Holidaze" [mp3]

The only thing keeping this album from being a bonafide Parliament and/or Funkadelic recording, I suppose, is the fact that George Clinton only shows up to wish Bootsy Collins a Merry Christmas on an answering machine introduction, one of many which litter this golden holiday longplayer...

Otherwise, there are tons of former and current P-Funk players all over these jams. Most are appropriately funky renditions of holiday classics, plus a few originals, like this song, "Happy Holidaze" which features Snoop Dogg in an appropriately festive purple haze, bong-gurgling sound effects and Bootsy, of course, bringing the original sticky icky thump...And speaking of answering machine introductions, this one features the Bishop Don Magic Juan, offering his pimpin' blessings to Bootsy...Don't ask me about the shaving cream coda...

It's all "totes redonk", as the kids apparently say, if my niece Tina is to be trusted...She's not doing so well in freshman English.

Merry Christmas to her, and my other niece Shorty, and sister Starsky, natch...Big ups to my pops, roasting a whole hog with uncle Phil and a bunch of other friends and family somewhere on the outskirts of Sheboygan...Word to my cousin Chico, wherever the hell he is this year...

"Happy Holidaze" to all of you in these most wintery of times...And "remember to remember somebody" as Bootzilla sez...

Hotcha! Hank