R.I.P. Bernie Worrell

[BeardotheWeirdo]

http://exclaim.ca/music/article/r_i_p_parliament-funkadelic_keyboard_great_bernie_worrell

Sadly, funk greats Parliament-Funkadelic have lost another one of their beloved. Today (June 24), keyboard legend Bernie Worrell died following a battle with lung cancer. He was 72.

Throughout his career, Worrell also worked with such musicians as Mos Def, Les Claypool, Ginger Baker, Bill Laswell, Gov' Mule, Mike Watt and Fela Kuti, among many others.

Here's a song he did with Les Claypool & Buckethead


Here's another song he did with Buckethead, Paradox, and Toshinori Kondo


Bernie was a legendary player... he will be missed...

 

[BeardotheWeirdo]

 

[Jackonfire]

A true legend no doubt. He played with the Talking Heads for a while

 

[chickenluver]

That's devastating. I was holding out hope he would do another tour with Praxis. Didn't even know he had cancer

 

[Bobby Boulders]

@Joe

 

[TeTe]

RIP

 

[Joe]

i thought about funkadelic and worrell randomly at work a few days ago. im surprised clinton is still going tbh.

 

[shonuf]

RIP. I'm reading Clinton's book now. He makes it pretty clear that Worrell stood out as a true musical genius, even amongst the rest of the musicians he's been around.

 

[SpiderCrawl]

A true musical genius, really sad to see him go. His work with praxis changed my view on music, working on a tribute song this weekend.