One of Cincinnati's favorite sons. Digging through old music shots for a show on Cincinnati music history. Wikipedia has this to say of Mr Collins: Rising to prominence with James Brown in the late 1960s, and with Parliament-Funkadelic in the '70s, Collins's driving bass guitar and humorous vocals established him as one of the leading names in funk.[1] Collins is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic