Eric Gale's guitar is the first credited mark here in 1961, with Henry Franklin's bass arriving in 1967, just before George Clinton steps in to give the whole thing its shape in 1968 — and from there the baton moves fast, through Eddie Hazel in 1969, Fuzzy Haskins and Tawl Ross in 1970, Bernie Worrell and Junie Morrison in 1972, Larry Graham in 1973, then Garry Shider and Cordell Mosson in 1974, with Glen Goins, Michael Hampton, and Jerome Brailey rounding out 1975. Threading those sessions are the figures who actually bind the names: drummer Tiki Fulwood and bassist Bootsy Collins keeping the bottom locked, with vocalists Calvin Simon, Grady Thomas, and Ray Davis recurring across the work of Worrell, Mosson, Hazel, Haskins, and Shider alike. Behind the board, mastering engineer Allen Zentz returns again and again, while Jim Callon and Jim Vitti stay constant presences across the same five players' sessions, the kind of credits that don't headline but hold a scene together. The line stretches past its home decade into 1981, where Tony Hadley appears, and finally lands on Adam Levine in 2004