Billy Bass, the founding bassist for Parliament – Funkadelic whose real name was William Nelson, Jr., died on Saturday. The Facebook account for that group’s frontman, George Clinton, announced the ...

Billy Bass Nelson, founding bassist of Parliament-Funkadelic and a key architect of funk rock, has died at 75 following recent health issues.

George Clinton, while working as a barber, recruited him. Mr. Nelson went on to name the group and, with his bandmates, to be ...

William “Billy Bass” Nelson, the prolific bassist and founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic, has died. Nelson died on ...