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William "Billy Bass" Nelson's Birth Card: The Queen of Clubs

1997 Performers with Parliament-Funkadelic

Born January 28, 1951

Died January 31, 2026

The Nurturing Leader

A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.

In the record

William "Billy Bass" Nelson Jr. (January 28, 1951 – January 31, 2026) was an American musician who was the original bassist for Funkadelic. The birth-card coordinate for January 28 is the Queen of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1997 Performers with Parliament-Funkadelic induction.

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The Queen of Clubs coordinate

William "Billy Bass" Nelson's birthday maps to the Queen of Clubs (The Nurturing Leader). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame vote and not a verdict on William "Billy Bass" Nelson. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You teach from what you actually know, without making people earn the right to hear it.

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William "Billy Bass" Nelson in the public record

He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic. William Nelson Jr. was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, on January 28, 1951. As a teenager he worked at George Clinton's barbershop, sweeping the floor and singing and dancing for the customers. Clinton was a member of the doo wop vocal group the Parliaments, who scored a nationwide hit in 1967 with the song "(I Wanna) Testify". Clinton put together a backing band as musical support for a tour and recruited Nelson, who in turn recommended his friend Eddie Hazel. Nelson and Hazel eventually took on bass and lead guitar roles respectively. The backing band was originally unnamed, but Nelson later coined the name "Funkadelic" to reflect the style (funk) and connect it with the then-burgeoning psychedelic music scene. By 1970, Funkadelic was a full band consisting of Nelson, Hazel, drummer Tiki Fulwood, guitarist Tawl Ross, and keyboardist Mickey Atkins (later replaced by Bernie Worrell).

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Billy Bass Nelson (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the cards

Cards in William "Billy Bass" Nelson's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)

Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread

Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.

No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for Q♣, 10♦, 3♥, 7♦, 9♥, 10♠, 5♣, 3♦, A♠, 7♥, 5♠, J♥, 9♣, 9♠, 2♥, K♥, K♦, 6♥, 4♣. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast induction.

Also on the record

  1. Since 1967 the band had been billed as the musical backing for The Parliaments.
  2. Due to legal problems, in the early 1970s Clinton had temporarily lost the rights to the name "The Parliaments" and instead signed the entire ensemble to Westbound Records under the name Funkadelic.
  3. Nelson was a prominent contributor to the first three Funkadelic albums, Funkadelic (1970), Free Your Mind... and Your Ass Will Follow (1970), and Maggot Brain (1971).
  4. Nelson left the group in late 1971 after a financial dispute with George Clinton (making Nelson the first Parliament-Funkadelic member to defect over such concerns, foreshadowing a major problem that would haunt Clinton in the late 1970s).

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FAQ

What is William "Billy Bass" Nelson's birth card?
The Queen of Clubs. January 28 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
Does a birth card predict a Rock Hall induction?
No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
Where do William "Billy Bass" Nelson's dates come from?
Birth date 1951-01-28 is the day-precision date on William "Billy Bass" Nelson's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Inductee identity comes from the Wikipedia Performers list, which cites RockHall.com. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Sources: RockHall.com (induction record) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Performers list, Billy Bass Nelson) + Wikidata CC0 (Q3364302). Birth date 1951-01-28 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).