Fulwood was born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1944. In the late 1960s, Fulwood was the house drummer for the
Uptown Theater in
Philadelphia when he met guitarist
Eddie Hazel. Hazel and bassist
Billy Bass Nelson were on tour as musical support for the
doo wop vocal group
The Parliaments. Hazel and Nelson convinced group leader
George Clinton to add Fulwood to the group, where he replaced drummer Harvey McGee. Fulwood, Hazel, and Nelson formed the core of
The Parliaments musical backing group, which later became known as
Funkadelic. but played with
Parliament-Funkadelic sporadically thereafter. between stints with P-Funk, and later was briefly employed by
Miles Davis. In 2016,
Rolling Stone ranked Fulwood at no. 39 in its 100 greatest drummers of all time, and in 2013
Spin named ranked him at no. 76 in its 100 greatest drummers of alternative music. ==References==