sal Posted December 27, 2006 Report Posted December 27, 2006 Disc # 04 Get up offa that thing (release the pressure) is a bad jam One of my favorite JB songs, "Funky President", is on this disc. Its probably my favorite song to listen to in the car with the windows rolled down and the volume way up. That "Star Time" set is one of the greatest box sets I've ever heard. A great intro to the man's music, and one of the richest career retrospectives ever compiled IMO. Quote
Big Al Posted December 27, 2006 Report Posted December 27, 2006 Get up offa that thing (release the pressure) is a bad jam Aw, HELL yeah!!! Listening to some of those wonderful series of collections put out in the Mercury Chronological Chronicles, like "Foundations of Funk 1964-69," "Funk Power 1970," "Make it Funky 1971-1975," and the J.B.'s compilation. Gonna be a FUNKY day today! Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted December 27, 2006 Report Posted December 27, 2006 (edited) My wife's been on the computer all day and has just gone out, so I'm starting on today's ration of JB LPs. MG Edited December 27, 2006 by The Magnificent Goldberg Quote
Soulstation1 Posted December 27, 2006 Author Report Posted December 27, 2006 james brown star time might have been my first box set i ever purchased... Quote
PHILLYQ Posted December 28, 2006 Report Posted December 28, 2006 Pank, gimme some WANG! "Pink, gimme the wink" "Sex Machine" from 'Love Power Peace'- put on the asbestos headphones Quote
JSngry Posted December 28, 2006 Report Posted December 28, 2006 Yeah, I know, St. Clair Pinkney and all that, but it was too easy to morph it into a wing joke after the comment about the wing store. Quote
PHILLYQ Posted December 28, 2006 Report Posted December 28, 2006 (edited) Yeah, I know, St. Clair Pinkney and all that, but it was too easy to morph it into a wing joke after the comment about the wing store. I was just thinking about that on a live JB disc, and then JB asks Pink to play the solo from another tune there! Of course, your pun was like a hat- it went right over my head! Edited December 28, 2006 by PHILLYQ Quote
JSngry Posted December 28, 2006 Report Posted December 28, 2006 Hey no problem. My head is constantly being gone over, so I can relate. Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted December 28, 2006 Report Posted December 28, 2006 Over 5 hours of classics MG Quote
JSngry Posted December 28, 2006 Report Posted December 28, 2006 Listen and/or ignore at your peril. Quote
erhodes Posted December 29, 2006 Report Posted December 29, 2006 I don't think I own a single James Brown lp but I've got a stack of the 45's... Saying I "grew up" on his music doesn't really convey the right vibe. There was a long period in my youth...coming out of high school up to when I got married...about 15 years...when James was a reference point for my social life. I mean...we danced our asses off to his music. He literally grounded our party thing. The dances depended as much on what was happening with the next James Brown record as anything else. My wife grew up going to the Apollo and watching him throw off his cape. Back then, I could care less. But I had my chosen dance partners for every banger he put out from "Popa's Got A Brand New Bag" through "The Big Payback". It's strange to me...nobody has mentioned "Good Foot" in either of the JB threads. I thought...still think...that GF is maybe the baddest dance record ever...with "There It Is" and a few others right in there. "Cold Sweat", "Sex Machine", "There Was A Time", "I Can't Stand Myself"... Nobody has said anything about "Lickin' Stick". People would break their legs gettin' up out of their chairs... Another one..."Hot Pants". Let me tell you somethin'... In 1971 when the club scene wasn't yet called "disco" and black folks were piling into the Martinique and the Ginza...this is NYC..."Hot Pants" had people snaking around the floor doing the Penguin in a line. The leader sometimes had those light wands that they use to wave in the planes at the airport...and you could get 100 people on those lines...and we'd do concentric circles and figure eights...folks had whistles and tamborines... Man... I was a dancin' fool back then and James was the very pulse of my body. When he said "Take it to the bridge..." I was dancin' over that water. I never go to church except for funerals and weddings but James, god rest your beautiful soul. This weekend, when my life straightens out a bit...Ha!...I'm going down into the basement and party my ass off. Quote
erhodes Posted December 29, 2006 Report Posted December 29, 2006 One night at the Martinique they played a live version of "Let Yourself Go" that morphed into a lengthy treatment of "There Was A Time". The bridge to "Let Yourself Go"...Da - Deeeeh - Da...is the refrain to "There Was A Time". I think the second time they hit that bridge they stayed on that phrase and then brought in the theme to "There Was A Time". Then Maceo takes what I remember as a long tenor solo which stays in my mind as the baddest thing I ever heard on an r&b record...almost like if John Gilmore had done it...building like Gilmore might have. Any of you album mavens know the album this came from? The segway seems obvious after they did it but I never heard this particular combination again. James was the shit. Quote
JSngry Posted December 29, 2006 Report Posted December 29, 2006 One night at the Martinique they played a live version of "Let Yourself Go" that morphed into a lengthy treatment of "There Was A Time". The bridge to "Let Yourself Go"...Da - Deeeeh - Da...is the refrain to "There Was A Time". I think the second time they hit that bridge they stayed on that phrase and then brought in the theme to "There Was A Time". Then Maceo takes what I remember as a long tenor solo which stays in my mind as the baddest thing I ever heard on an r&b record...almost like if John Gilmore had done it...building like Gilmore might have. Any of you album mavens know the album this came from? I know it well. Side Two of the second Apollo album, the 2-lp one. It then goes into the "hey hey, I feel alright" thing and then jack-knifes into the coldest "Cold Sweat" on record. Maybe the baddest LP side in R&B history. Definitely nothing badder. Quote
JSngry Posted December 29, 2006 Report Posted December 29, 2006 I don't think I own a single James Brown lp but I've got a stack of the 45's... Saying I "grew up" on his music doesn't really convey the right vibe. There was a long period in my youth...coming out of high school up to when I got married...about 15 years...when James was a reference point for my social life. I mean...we danced our asses off to his music. He literally grounded our party thing. The dances depended as much on what was happening with the next James Brown record as anything else. My wife grew up going to the Apollo and watching him throw off his cape. Back then, I could care less. But I had my chosen dance partners for every banger he put out from "Popa's Got A Brand New Bag" through "The Big Payback". It's strange to me...nobody has mentioned "Good Foot" in either of the JB threads. I thought...still think...that GF is maybe the baddest dance record ever...with "There It Is" and a few others right in there. "Cold Sweat", "Sex Machine", "There Was A Time", "I Can't Stand Myself"... Nobody has said anything about "Lickin' Stick". People would break their legs gettin' up out of their chairs... Another one..."Hot Pants". Let me tell you somethin'... In 1971 when the club scene wasn't yet called "disco" and black folks were piling into the Martinique and the Ginza...this is NYC..."Hot Pants" had people snaking around the floor doing the Penguin in a line. The leader sometimes had those light wands that they use to wave in the planes at the airport...and you could get 100 people on those lines...and we'd do concentric circles and figure eights...folks had whistles and tamborines... Man... I was a dancin' fool back then and James was the very pulse of my body. When he said "Take it to the bridge..." I was dancin' over that water. I never go to church except for funerals and weddings but James, god rest your beautiful soul. This weekend, when my life straightens out a bit...Ha!...I'm going down into the basement and party my ass off. Beautiful recollections, Ed. Thanks for sharing! Quote
Big Al Posted December 29, 2006 Report Posted December 29, 2006 It's strange to me...nobody has mentioned "Good Foot" in either of the JB threads. I thought...still think...that GF is maybe the baddest dance record ever...with "There It Is" and a few others right in there. "Cold Sweat", "Sex Machine", "There Was A Time", "I Can't Stand Myself"... Another one..."Hot Pants". Man, that 70's stuff is the BADDEST James Brown EVER!!!! Quote
Soulstation1 Posted December 29, 2006 Author Report Posted December 29, 2006 i like the drumming on "i got that feeling" Quote
Soulstation1 Posted December 29, 2006 Author Report Posted December 29, 2006 riskin' all my soul cred............ i've never heard JB at the Apollo Quote
danasgoodstuff Posted December 29, 2006 Report Posted December 29, 2006 I figured I'd only get one shot at first JB I listened to after I heard the news so I thought about it for a while and picked CD@ of the expanded Live at the Appollo vol.2...ya know where he and the band (and the dancers) go through Bring It Up, Let Yourself Go, I Feel Alright, etc., just building it up til they spring Cold Sweat on an audience who'd never heard it before. Freaking brilliant. That single must've flown off the shelves in Harlem when it was issued shortly thereafter... Both live at the Appllo vil 1 & 2 are amazing, I've never owne vol.3 (revolution of the Mind). I generally prefer the '60s band but I've come to appreciate the '70s stuff more over the years, but then it took me 20 years to get from A love Supreme to Ascension and the're less than a year apart... Quote
JSngry Posted December 30, 2006 Report Posted December 30, 2006 Both live at the Appllo vil 1 & 2 are amazing, I've never owne vol.3 (revolution of the Mind). To me, that one lags a bit in spots. But when it doesn't, yeah! Two really good live JB sets, from different eras, that nobody talks about too much these days are and The Apollo sets & Sex Machine (only partially truly live, but who knew then?) are justly revered, but these 1967 & 1980 albums more than hold their own in comparison. The earlier side is downright incendiary, and the latter shows that no matter how consistently dreary too much of the 70s studio material had gotten, that JB could still bring it live, even if "it" wasn't quite the same "it" as it used to be. Quote
danasgoodstuff Posted December 30, 2006 Report Posted December 30, 2006 Thanx muchly for the heads up, the only times I've seen Live @ the Garden used it was xpensive and usually beat with a stick to boot... Quote
JSngry Posted December 30, 2006 Report Posted December 30, 2006 Mine's beat with a stick too, but I found it at a Goodwill for 50 cents back in the early 80s, when James was considered passe and washed up. But damn it's good. If it's ever been reissued in Japan, I'd say that it's worth hunting down and paying a reasonable J-price for. In the meantime though, Hot On The One finds James in post-mountaintop HardPartyFunk mode with a great band and an enthusiastic Japanese audience playing both old faves and some of the cult classics from the mid-late 70s Polydor sides much more spiritedly than on those records. There's worse things in life. Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted January 1, 2007 Report Posted January 1, 2007 Still playing JB MG Quote
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