Ever meet Bootsy Collins? Are you sure it was really him? Here’s the story of the Bootsy fakes --- and all the people they scammed over decades.
The story left its mark on the real Collins, who finds it so dispiriting to recall those times that he agreed to answer only a few questions about it, by email, for. “At first I thought it was funny, until some close friends started to tell me about how the Almost Bootsy started to rip people off,” Collins wrote in one of his responses. On this topic, his wife and longtime manager, Patti, does most of the talking for her normally genial husband.
But then came a call to Ivy from the Burbank headquarters of Warner Bros., Collins’ label. The employee said that Collins was in the office, asking for an advance on his next royalty check. Ivy thought it was odd, since Collins’ payments went through Clinton’s company, not the label; also, Ivy had spoken with Collins two days before, from his home in Ohio, and Collins had a well-known aversion to flying.
In 1984, Collins took a few tentative steps back into the business. “I throwed all my drugs away and I stopped taking them,” he toldin 2017. “That’s when it started to become clear what I needed to get back to, which was the music.” By then, he had a hard-charging new manager, Bill Waller, who also worked with boxers; Collins nicknamed him “Dollar Bill” after Waller landed him a lucrative record deal.
Collins with his wife, Patti, at a 2011 tribute to Clinton at the Apollo Theater in New York. Having his identity co-opted by impersonators was “very disheartening” to the musician, according to Patti, who married Collins in 1996 and speaks on his behalf. “Bootsy doesn’t even talk about it to this day.”It should have been a time of joyful renewal for Bootsy, but that moment would have to wait.
Meanwhile, Salas showed up at the annual convention of NAMM in Anaheim, California. As he made his way around the vendors’ booths, he kept hearing people remark how he’d just missed Collins. “Everyone’s saying, ‘Bootsy’s here!’” he says. “I would say, ‘What are you talking about? He’s in Cincinnati. He was here five minutes ago?’” But Salas never saw the impostor. Waller found himself with bills from limo companies, and Ibanez Guitars sent $10,000 worth of gear to a post-office box in Louisiana.
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