Bernie Worrell
Bernie Worrell
George Bernard "Bernie" Worrell, Jr.was an American keyboardist and composer best known as a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic and for his work with Talking Heads. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic. Worrell was described by Jon Pareles of The New York Times as "the kind of sideman who is as influential as some bandleaders."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth19 April 1944
CountryUnited States of America
As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.
My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.
I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me.
I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.
Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.
People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me.
You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments.
Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Usually, I just do what I want, because I got it that way.
I talk by playing, not by words.
The Pigtronix Envelope Phaser pedal is a definite 'must have' for your Funk recipe cookbook......it adds definite Funkaliciousness to your WOO stew.
The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.
I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.
I was known around the college for jamming in the lounge.