The Pointer Sisters & Bootsy Collins

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2017

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Two Bullseye classics this week! First up: Jesse's 2014 conversation with The Pointer Sisters, one of the biggest R&B groups ever, about their rise to stardom and struggles to stay together as a family. Then, his 2011 interview with funk bass legend Bootsy Collins. Bootsy talks to Jesse about his career as one of pop music's greatest bass players. Also discussed: how'd he end up playing with James Brown? How'd he keep George Clinton down to earth? And where'd he get those dope star glasses? Twinkle twinkle, baby bubba!

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to Bullseye. More than 40 million Americans speak Spanish and millions more are learning.
0:06.0	For all of you, I'd like to recommend NPR's Ravio Ambulante.
0:10.0	It's the podcast to hear incredible stories from all over Latin America and across the U.S.
0:16.0	Hosted by novelist Daniel Alarcon, Ravio Ambulante covers the region like nobody else.
0:23.0	Reporting and storytelling in Espanol, Ravio Ambulante is on NPR1 or wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:32.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:42.0	I'm Jesse Thorn. Today, I'm talking to the pointer sisters. It's going to be great. You're going to love it.
0:47.0	You know what the best part of it all is? We get to listen to pointer sisters records with the pointer sisters.
0:55.0	This was my preschool jam.
0:59.0	Oh, get out.
1:01.0	Oh, Jesse got that.
1:03.0	I love that.
1:05.0	Hey, still gets me. Oh, my God.
1:08.0	We've been doing it so good.
1:11.0	Where is that crazy? I hear it.
1:15.0	I'll get some emotion. I'll just scream.
1:21.0	It's Bullseye.
1:33.0	Coming up, Ruth and Anita Pointer will talk about the records that inspired them.
1:38.0	Elvis, Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, Stevie Wonder, Supreme, James Brown,
1:44.0	Little Richards, Sam Cook, Eugene Church.
1:49.0	Oh, my God.
1:50.0	And the country in Western saw it. I got them a Grammy.
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