Butch (Charles Hunter)started to play guitar after hearing an album by Grant Green, “ Feeling the Spirit” when he was about 12 years old. It was then that the Spirit touched him to play guitar.
He performed withParliament Funkadelicas a youngster as they were originally from the same neighborhood inPlainfield, New Jersey. (They included Gary Shider, Glen Goins, Cordell "Boogie" Mosson, Eddie Hazel,Richard Boyce, Frankie Boyce, Bernie Worrell who were members of this group.)
During high school, Butch also studied guitar and recording with Master Guitarist William "Billy" Jennings of Plainfield, New Jersey, Harry Leahy and George Benson…
It was probably from the Autumn and Spring of 1965 into the summer of 1966 that he had a chance to play and perform as a guitarist with the Plainfield Admirations. They were the backing band for Parliament which also included Frankie and Richar Boyce.
AtKansas State UniversityButch majored in Cultural Anthropology. He performed as a guitarist and composer for the school’s drama club, the Purple Mask Theatre and local bands. Whilst playing sessions with Kansan guitarist, Bill Hollingsworth.
Butch entered graduate school at theUniversity of Colorado ,but the Spirit to play never left him. He would be destined to asupporting roleas a guitarist, composer, sound engineer, assistant producer and an international teacher, working in America, Korea and Japan.

In Boulder, Colorado, another “musical gold mine”, he got a chance to perform with legendary rock guitaristTommy Bolin of (Deep Purple)at the “Good Earth”. Butch alsomet "later to be" Earth Wind and Fire members Philip Baily, Larry Dunn and Andrew Wolfolk (all CU students), who were in a group called “Friends of Love”.
A year later,he and his guitarist brother Harry Watson were recruited by Parliament Funkadelic lead singer, Glenn Goins.
At the time (1978) Glenn Goins was the lead singer for Parliament Funkadelic... I had just returned from Boulder Colorado where I was going to school and working, but always playing the guitar!
Glenn and Richard Boyce decided to start their own band. Actually it was two bands! One was Quazar and the other one was Mutiny... Glenn however passed away at the age of 24 just before we completed the Quazar album... .. We were living in New Jersey, my home state but I wanted to go to Montreal. A lot of guys/ musicians from my hometown had married women from Montreal so I wanted to go up there get married and do some music. Some of the members from Glenn's Group joined me to pursue the dream....That's how I met Andre Perry!
We travelled up to Andre Perry's studio in the mountains called Le Studio, situated outside of Montreal.
At that point we had the tracks we wanted to work on but didn't have a band name.
Andre asked me "what are we calling this?" And i replied "Magique" as that was the whole vibe and atmosphere i got from those sessions and time in his studio.
The four tracks are the original songs before they were handed over to our good friend Junior Byron to record around 1981 again with Andre at the helm.
But nothing beats the rawness and aggression of these original recordings from 1978