He left Brown's band in 1975 and spent several years playing with George Clinton's various Parliament-Funkadelic projects, even recording a couple of albums as the leader of a spin-off group, The Horny Horns.
V roku 1975 odišiel z Brownovej kapely a strávil niekoľko rokov hraním v niekoľkých projektoch Parliament-Funkadelic Georgea Clintona, dokonca nahral niekoľko albumov odštiepenej kapely, The Horny Horns.