{"id":269172,"date":"2026-02-05T15:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/269172\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T15:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:27:08","slug":"slipknot-to-finally-release-2008s-shelved-look-outside-your-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/269172\/","title":{"rendered":"Slipknot to (finally) release 2008’s shelved ”Look Outside Your Window”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nelson, who was born Jan. 28, 1951, was among the group of musicians Clinton befriended while working at a Plainfield, New Jersey barbershop. Eventually, they came together as a doo-wop vocal group, which included a teenaged Nelson, called the Parliaments whose goal was to get signed to Motown. The group released a handful of singles in the late Sixties, the most notable of which, \u201c(I Wanna) Testify,\u201d<\/a> came out in 1967 and reached Number 20 on the pop chart and Number Three on the R&B chart; their next single, \u201cAll Your Goodies Are Gone,\u201d<\/a> showed the group experimenting with psychedelia.<\/p>\n

It was Nelson who suggested that the Parliaments should hire a rhythm section so that they wouldn\u2019t have to rely on house bands while touring, according to Dave Thompson\u2019s Funk book. Nelson, who first played guitar in the group, also recommended hiring guitarist Eddie Hazel, whose \u201cMaggot Brain\u201d guitar solo would later become one of the band\u2019s most celebrated works. Nelson subsequently switched to bass, getting encouragement from James Jamerson, learning to play the instrument on the road. Clinton once described Nelson\u2019s playing style as bearing \u201cthe Motown flavor with the aggressive rock attitude,\u201d according to Premier Guitar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He was also a trailblazer when the band started funkifying their looks with wild costumes. Tired of being called the \u201cbaby\u201d of the band, he showed up in a diaper and combat boots to one show.<\/p>\n

In 1967, a dispute with their record label, Revilot, led the group to find a new label and a new name since Clinton said Revilot claimed to own the Parliaments. Although they\u2019d later drop the \u201cs,\u201d they first rebranded themselves as Funkadelic, a name Nelson claimed to have come up with<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Nelson played bass on Funkadelic\u2019s first three albums, Funkadelic (1970), Free Your Mind \u2026 and Your Ass Will Follow (1970), and Maggot Brain (1971). Nelson, as a Parliaments mainstay, sang lead vocals on at least one song from each album. He also played bass with the group Parliament on that group\u2019s debut album, Osmium (1970), and guitar on its Up for the Down Stroke (1974).<\/p>\n

The bassist quit the band over a financial dispute with Clinton, according to Clinton\u2019s website<\/a>, foreshadowing other musicians\u2019 exits in the future with the same claims. He played with the Temptations for a spell before re-joining P-Funk for their session for \u201cBetter by the Pound,\u201d a song that would appear on Let\u2019s Take It to the Stage (1975). He was also credited with \u201cBlackbelt Thumpasauric Bass\u201d on Tales of Kidd Funkadelic (1976). He\u2019d also get further credits on albums by Parliament and Funkadelic through the end of the Seventies.<\/p>\n

After leaving again, Nelson played with the Commodores, Fishbone, Jermaine Jackson, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, and other artists, according to Clinton\u2019s website. He also played on solo albums by P-Funk members including Hazel, Ruth Copeland, and Bernie Worrell, among others.<\/p>\n

In the Nineties, Nelson fronted a group called O.G. Funk, which put out a single, \u201cI Wanna Know,\u201d in 1991 and an album, Out of the Dark, in 1994. He re-joined P-Funk that same year. He was among the P-Funk members inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. He also toured with 420 Funk Mob and Sons of F.U.N.K.<\/p>\n

When asked to name a few songs off the top of his head for a radio program called The Soul Show<\/a> to play in 2016, Nelson chose three songs he played on with his friend Eddie Hazel, who died in 1992: Funkadelic\u2019s \u201cHit It and Quit It\u201d and \u201cSuper Stupid,\u201d both off Maggot Brain, and the Temptations\u2019 \u201cShakey Ground,\u201d<\/a> off A Song for You. When the interviewer referred to the latter as the Temptations\u2019 \u201cpsychedelic soul era,\u201d Nelson corrected him: \u201cWell, Motown called it the \u2018Funkadelic Era,’\u201d he said with pride in his voice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nelson, who was born Jan. 28, 1951, was among the group of musicians Clinton befriended while working at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[695,156,1017,9872,152799,5836,157,117,111,139,69,90497,152800,129146,65947],"class_list":{"0":"post-269172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-album","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-exclusive","11":"tag-finally","12":"tag-look-outside-your-window","13":"tag-lost","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-new","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-newzealand","18":"tag-nz","19":"tag-preorder","20":"tag-record-store-day","21":"tag-shelved","22":"tag-slipknot"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}