Editing Fuzzy Haskins (section)

==Career==
By 1970, the five Parliaments singers were touring with five backing musicians known separately as [[Funkadelic]]. The highly rehearsed performances and [[suit (clothing)|suited]] look of The Parliaments gave way to the members dressing in their own outrageous styles. Haskins wore [[long underwear|long johns]] on stage. Due to the contractual issues surrounding the group name, Clinton signed the band as [[Funkadelic]] to [[Westbound Records]]. The ensemble released their first album ''[[Funkadelic (album)|Funkadelic]]'' in 1970. Clinton also renamed his group of singers [[Parliament (band)|Parliament]] (but still with the Funkadelic musicians as official members) and signed that act to the [[Holland-Dozier-Holland]]-owned record label, [[Invictus Records|Invictus]]. Parliament released their first album ''[[Osmium (album)|Osmium]]'' in 1970. Clinton now had two groups that were actually one entity. Under the name Funkadelic, the ensemble was geared towards a rock audience, and as [[Parliament (band)|Parliament]] it was aimed at a [[soul music]] audience. Collectively, they became known as [[Parliament-Funkadelic]], or [[P-Funk]]. Haskins contributed to P-Funk as a writer through 1972. He toured and appeared on P-Funk albums as a singer, and occasionally as a guitarist, throughout the 1970s. In June 1977 at the height of P-Funk's popularity, Haskins (along with other original Parliaments [[Calvin Simon]] and [[Grady Thomas]]) left the ensemble over financial and management disputes with Clinton.

Haskins released his first solo album, ''[[A Whole Nother Thang]]'', in 1976. The album featured P-Funk members: [[Tiki Fulwood]] and [[Boogie Mosson|Cordell "Boogie" Mosson]] on drums, and [[Bootsy Collins]] and Mosson on bass. [[Bernie Worrell]] makes an appearance on keyboards, contributing horn and string arrangements as well. Haskins served as producer, singer, songwriter, guitarist and even drummer on one song. Haskins released his second album, ''[[Radio Active (Fuzzy Haskins album)|Radio Active]]'', two years later. An Ace compilation from 1994 reissued both albums on one CD.

In 1981, Haskins, Simon, and Thomas formed a new funk band using the name Funkadelic, appeared on ''[[Soul Train]]'' under that name, and released the album,  ''[[Connections & Disconnections]]''. The album was later reissued on CD with the title ''[[Who's a Funkadelic?]]'' in 1992. In the 1990s, Haskins toured with [[Original P]], a group made up of four of the original five Parliaments.<ref name = Genzlinger/>