�Who is the person you would most like to work with?� For Claude VonStroke, it�s definitely Bootsy Collins - the biggest personality in Parliament Funkadelic and funniest character the funk world has ever seen. We couldn�t be any more excited to have Bootsy on dirtybird and this crazy collaboration of styles is the lead single on Claude VonStroke�s 2nd album, �Bird Brain.� If you haven�t heard of Bootsy we couldn�t write it better than Rolling Stone� �Bootsy Collins� Rubber Band was the most entertaining and longest-running spin-off of George Clinton�s eternal P-Funk circus, and that�s because Bootsy is a true star, the clown prince of comic, psychedelic, good-times funk � if he weren�t such a genius of the bass, you�d think he was Jimmie Walker in a sequined costume, star-shaped mirrored shades included. His career is like a Horatio Alger story based in Chocolate City: Plucked from teenage obscurity in 1969 to play with James Brown, the former William Collins of Cincinnati brought a slap-happy zest to JB�s sound, then hooked up with Clinton and was reborn in his image, with a little help from LSD.� It is certain that Claude VonStroke is not nearly as accomplished as Bootsy Collins, but he takes the same tongue-in-cheek approach to his music and that�s why this collaboration really works. Both Claude and Bootsy believe you got to get up for the down stroke and there�s no way to fake the funk or your nose will grow, Pinocchio!