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Post by Mr Swing Easy on Jun 12, 2012 20:37:43 GMT
.... kills me like no other. just done a comp for mate at work & went with 'it's a new day' , 'give it up turn it loose', 'talking loud saying nothing' , 'baby baby baby' and 'i can't stand myself (when you touch me)' part 1' and practically needed to call an ambulance. unbellyville as gazza would say. the king, surely T.
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Post by Rob on Jun 12, 2012 20:50:23 GMT
I'm very keen on My Thang (keep outta this Zoki) which just gets tighter and funkier. Also, Don't Tell it, which i discovered late, on some reissue b-side, then found out even later there was a long version. Mmmm.
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Post by Mr Swing Easy on Jun 12, 2012 21:48:25 GMT
yep 'don't tell it' is bad - was used for a hip-hop piece i like too. i really needed a lie down after those but went for 'soul power 74' and 'pass the peas' to close out that part of the comp and all but hospitalize myself. only saw the great man the once, birmingham NEC in 1990 or 1991 'this is a man's world' the absolute show-stopper. good friend micheal was on the spot amidst huge crowds in Harlem to see the white casket on its way to the Apollo to lie in state.
unbelieveable music, hits me harder than any other. T.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2012 11:41:19 GMT
Yes Mr Easy, when I passed the Apollo in Harlem last year I certainly thought of James Brown. I have most of the songs you and Rob mention on this box set, but many of the songs are subtitled "part 1", is this because the songs were so long that "part2" was on the b-side of the singles, or was "part 2" an instrumental version?
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Post by Mr Swing Easy on Jun 14, 2012 13:55:59 GMT
'can't stand myself' comes part 1 and 2 on the LP of the same name (A and B sides of the original 7) the amazing 'baby baby baby' comes on the same LP. You should have taken the Apollo tour sean - usually $20 or so but i went for broke diplomatic immunity-wise & asked to make an emergency loo stop in the foyer and peeked inside. memorable. the michael jackson tributes outside were moving on that visit too.
T
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Post by edwardgeorge on Jun 14, 2012 23:35:15 GMT
my james brown x4
public enemy no.1 escapism doing it to death i got to move
edward george
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Post by Mr Swing Easy on Jun 15, 2012 13:07:08 GMT
don't know one of them but may have. will get onto it soonest ed T
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2012 17:18:00 GMT
Don't have too much JB in my collection apart from the usual compilations but do have a blinding Lp called Dead On The Heavy Funk 74-76 which this thread has inspired me to dig out again,good god! Also got a great compilation of 50's black rock'n'roll that has a JB track on it,the title of the Lp & the track eludes me right now,I'll go crate digging for it asap
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Post by soulselector on Jun 16, 2012 23:18:05 GMT
James Brown of Augusta GA: the demi-God of my youth; as Conley sang, The King Of Them All, Y'all...
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Post by jayb on Jun 17, 2012 4:18:15 GMT
Suppose its time for me to come out with my james brown story again......went to see him in Sydney in the 80's - great show - seeing a legend and all that - although Mr Brown wasn't (to quote one iof his songs) really on the "good foot" - band was hot - at the end of the show the drummer threw one of his drumsticks into the crowd - i reached up to grab it - missed it, it hit me in the mouth and broke my front tooth off! much cursing swearing and annoyance ensued - did I get the drumstick? no of course I didn't! some other XXXX laughed at me as my misfortune becames his fortune!
Decided to try and sue the great man (JB that is) - or at least his promoter - got enough to cover basic dental work!
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Post by Mr Swing Easy on Jun 17, 2012 8:32:16 GMT
ha, good one JB. i had more luck catching paul weller's plectrum at a jam show on the 'all mod cons' tour of december 1978. landed straight in my mitt & went on to a nech chain next day. 'friend' oliver then borrowed chain/plectrum in the way that teenagers do & pormptly lost it or gave it away to an unamed girlfriend.
Taff 'dead on the heavy funk' - bad. 'cold sweat' based on an inversion of 'so what' by miles davis if you never new. can't recommend 'in the jungle groove' highly enough if you can find on polydor - pure bootsy collins basslines & the loosest JBs arrangements. brilliant music.
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Post by jcom on Jun 22, 2012 22:32:31 GMT
Ok, I got one. About '76 or so. Great show. Mr Brown in fine form. I had such a good time I woke up some time after the show outside the back door of the venue with my pants undone and minus my shoes.
Still had my wallet and ID but no cash. Had to walk barefoot through the mean streets of Chicago in winter to my buddy's apartment a few block away.
They were a nice pair of shoes too.
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Post by I on Jun 23, 2012 1:46:47 GMT
Most of Brown's part twos were merely continuations of part one, as in ('It's A Crazy, Crazy, Crazy World) So Let A Man Come In And Do The popcorn Parts 1 & 2. Part one was a succession of grunts growing increasingly sexual in nature until a saxophone (JB Wesley) comes in and takes the thing to its climax, at which Brown grunts some more until the end of side one. Turning the thing over you get more of the mastubatory same from James, followed by a lengthy instrumental break until the end of the tune. This was the formula for James Brown's records on King from about 1962 until 1972, when he joined Polydor. I've danced to 'Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine', Papa's Got A Brand New Bag', 'It's a Man's Man's Man's World', 'Mashed Potatoes U.S.A.', 'Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud, Pts. 1&2 and many others over the past 50 years but I've never really enjoyed him as a singer. I saw him at Hammersmith Apollo in the 1980s when the NME wanted me to interview him but I thought his act hadn't changed in 30 years. Cliff White lent me about a dozen cassettes but I got bored after about the third tune so the article was never written, though I did interview him at the Apollo after the show. I never got into him from 'Think' onwards and never really liked his exhortative style nor the funk music that he pioneered. My taste were more for mid-tempo soul ballads, so Brown, Funkadelic, Parliament, Brass Construction etc passed me by. My taste in soul music by the early 1970s was Kool And The Gang, The Meters, William de Vaughan, Al Green, Timmy Thomas and George McRae.
James Brown was always a blind spot with me.
Reel
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Post by soulselector on Jul 16, 2012 15:39:49 GMT
What a debilitating blind spot to have, Mr. Reel. My condolences.
He died early Christmas morn, and after an 18 hour day of fairly intense retail work & family preperations for the holiday, I suddenly awakened out of a deep-sea sleep, totally alert; not knowing why, I went to the internet and saw his death had been announced 8 minutes before I awoke.
The effect and influence of JB on my young life went into the marrow of my bones---by '77 I was doing mix cassettes of his music that were essentially my own 'beats & breaks' honey-head of my favorite songs....
And the very first window display(1980) I ever did for my store(when there were no new songs, and he was in momentary eclipse) had me xeroxing the cover of Super Bad into multiple images that back-dropped a lime-green two-piece double breasted silk suit, with the following sign:
WHY IS HE THE GREATEST ONE OUT THERE?
That's my story...
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Post by riddimstick on Jul 27, 2012 18:16:44 GMT
One more story: One day around 1990 me and some friends bumped into James Brown at Schiphol airport, Amsterdam. He started handing out autographs and he took his time to chat with everyone while a guy next to him was nervously pulling at his sleeve because he had to be in time for his show at the North Sea Jazz festival. For my friend's sister he wrote something like "to the most beautiful girl in Holland". I was next in line, but just then the nervous guy succeeded in pulling JB away...sniff.
It's hard to choose a favourite tune. The other day I was listening to 'People get up and drive your funky soul' which is a killer.
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