Bernie Worrell

A BERNIE WORRELL KAWAI KEYBOARD A Kawai PH50 Pop Keyboard, black, serial #18830, with a pedal and various cables, two bandannas, and 2 handwritten notes on Moog stationery; also with a folder labeled "Kawai / Manual" to cover, containing: a handwritten set list, 5 pp of instructions, a 2 pp article on the Kawaii PH50 keyboard, and a packing list; housed in a black gig bag with a "Late Show / Stephen Colbert" decal, dated April 4, 2016. Worrell performed at the "All the Woo in the World" fundraiser in April, 2016, and on Stephen Colbert's Late Show around that time.?

A BERNIE WORRELL VINTAGE MOOG SYNTHESIZER Minimoog synthesizer keyboard, Model D, 1970s, with wooden frame, with a black Moog pedal, housed in a foam-padded anvil travel case with many travel decals and other stickers attached.?

A BERNIE WORRELL CUSTOM CLAVINET c.1969. A Hohner Clavinet D6 electric keyboard, with custom keyboard featuring a "Popeye" comic strip lacquered to keys, with several decals to frame, housed in a hard latched carrying case with three handles. Worrell played this Hohner Clavinet D6 at the Brighton Bar in Long Branch, NJ, with Steve Kimock in Washington DC in August of 2013, and also likely at the 2014 Moogfest.?

A BERNIE WORRELL HAMMOND KEYBOARD Hammond SK2 keyboard with a Hammond EXP-50 pedal, AC adapter, and user's manual, housed in a black carrying bag.?

A BERNIE WORRELL KURZWEIL KEYBOARD A Kurzweil PC3 keyboard/synthesizer, black, with a music-related autograph note in pencil attached to keyboard, with AC adapter, housed in a foam-padded "anvil" case with many travel and shipping decals and labels, with three pedals, as follows: a Kurzweil KP1 pedal labeled "sustain" in permanent marker, a Kurzweil pedal with masking tape labeled "Volume," and a Kurzweil pedal labeled with masking tape "Wah" and "Wah Pedal."?

A BERNIE WORRELL CUSTOM KEYBOARD A black Lync Systems LN4 MIDI keyboard with psychedelic multi-colored keys, with label reading "Custom Made For / Bernie Worrell / by / Alztron," housed in a foam-lined purple metal case, case stenciled "Bernie / Worrell" with many shipping labels, freight label dated January 29, 1991, also labeled "B.W." and "Lync N739 Controller / Mobile."?

A BERNIE WORRELL MOOG "LITTLE PHATTY" ANALOG SYNTHESIZER A Moog Little Phatty Stage 2 keyboard, purple, serial #SE09897, housed in a vinyl and cloth carrying case with Moog logo. Worrell likely played this "Little Phatty" at Moogfest 2014.?

Mentioned in the official product description.

The BR-2 is already standard equipment for Bass luminaries like Bootsy Collins, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, and TM Stevens as well as Funk Keyboard pioneer Bernie Worrell.

A BERNIE WORRELL MOOG SYNTHESIZER A Voyager Minimoog synthesizer, custom purple casing, housed in a foam-padded carrying case with airline baggage tags, with AC adapter.?

A BERNIE WORRELL WURLITZER ELECTRONIC PIANO Tan, with a "Zigaboo" decal to body, housed in a wheeled carrying case with handles.?

A BERNIE WORRELL HOHNER MELODICA, GIFTED TO BERNIE BY BOOTSY COLLINS Hohner Airboard with red, yellow,and green tiger-stripe designs, yellow plastic mouthpiece, housed in a green carrying case with yellow piping. Accompanied by an email from Bootsy Collins, Worrell's fellow member of Parliament-Funkadelic, stating that he "gave Bernie a New Melodica the night of the tribute show in NY. I forget the Date but yes it was a Hohner Melodica."

He plays here on Sub Phatty.

Bernie Worrell confirmed he used a Yamaha CS-80 with Parliament-Funkadelic when asked by interviewer Torsten Schmidt.

Bernie Worrell describes his rig on Parliament-Funkadelic’s Mothership Tour-

Yeah, well, the Mothership Tour, we had three tour buses, three semis, and […] Yamaha electric baby grand, Minimoog, Hammond organ, ARP Pro Soloist. Pedal board.

Bernie Worrell is credited with using the Vox organ on early Funkadelic records.

In this interview, Bernie Worrell mentions using an ARP Pro Soloist as part of his rig.

While speaking at Red Bull Music Academy, Bernie Worrell mentioned using an ARP String Ensemble to record Parliament’s “Flashlight” among other tracks.

Bernie Worrell describes his rig on Parliament-Funkadelic’s Mothership Tour-

Yeah, well, the Mothership Tour, we had three tour buses, three semis, and […] Yamaha electric baby grand, Minimoog, Hammond organ, ARP Pro Soloist. Pedal board.

Used with Funkadelic, according to the following sources:

Rock's Backpages audio, June 1978, "AUDIO: Bootsy Collins (1978)", interview with Cliff White

Bootsy Collins: And Bernie is goin', you know, Bernie is goin' solo.

Cliff White: I heard he's got an album planned for— on Eris.

Collins: Yeah, we just finished his album.

White: Oh, that's great.

Collins: Yeah, so uh, he's next. And, let's see, uh... [unintelligible]

White: He's always struck me, of all the other guys, that you and George and Bernie are the three sort of kingpins, sort of...

Collins: Oh yeah, oh yeah... I mean, Bernie is def—, he's uh...

[...]

White: I don't normally like synthesizer. On a lot of records, I think it's, uh... it's just an excuse for somebody who can't really handle keyboards, so they just fiddle about, but Bernie [unintelligible]

Collins: Yeah, yeah. See he, he was doin' that type of stuff with the RMI, you know, it's a different sound [, back in the days of the Funkadelic, you know, [unintelligible]... he was gettin' some [????] sounds then, I mean, he was... you know, so when the synthesizer came out, it was, it was, you know, that was Bernie, you know what I mean?

*White: Right.

Red Bull Music Academy, 2013 Red Bull Music Academy lecture

TORSTEN SCHMIDT

Speaking of the Clavinet, who was first playing that through phasers and stuff, you or Stevie [Wonder]?

BERNIE WORRELL

I don’t know. On the track that you played with the strings, my first string, everybody thinks it’s Clavinet, but it’s the RMI piano. And Stevie had gone to, it’s called Wonderlove Music, music store in Detroit. I had gone the next day, but they told us at the store: “Stevie was at the store yesterday and got one,” and I was the second person that got one. So I don’t know. Who did what first, and “blah blah blah blah.” Who cares? We’re doing it.