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Their instrumental music is different from their vocal music.
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Posted: 26 Jul 2011 at 5:35pm |
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I'll check it out. I have their album "Fire On The Bayou" and it's pretty good.
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Posted: 26 Jul 2011 at 3:15pm |
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Some day you should check out The Meters "Look-Ka Py Py", not the same feel as the JBs, The Meters are a little more syncopated, but its the other band that I would rate similar in talent. "Look -Ka Py Py" is probably one of their best albums.
I have a review up for it.
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Posted: 26 Jul 2011 at 2:38pm |
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Yea they really tear the sheet off of 'em.
 The only other funk band I can listen to this much (not counting JB himself), is Lettuce, and they only have 2 albums, plus one live album. Looking back on my funk collection without the JB album, it feels incomplete. But now I have it so everything is right! |
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Posted: 26 Jul 2011 at 2:30pm |
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Sounds good, The JBs had something that most bands will never have no matter how much they practice, that was just the right bunch of guys at the right time.
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Posted: 26 Jul 2011 at 2:24pm |
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I got the JB's anthology album, and it's exactly what i was looking for. 2 1/2 hours of constant FUNK, never letting up, and it never gets old. And James Brown himself is on quite a few of the tracks. I can't stop listening to it.
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Posted: 15 Jul 2011 at 7:38pm |
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My flatmate is called James Brown, and he is cooler than cool
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Posted: 15 Jul 2011 at 5:06pm |
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I have been collecting his Singles series that Hipo Select have been issuing for a few years now. Love him. "Mr James Brown".
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Posted: 15 Jul 2011 at 5:04pm |
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The idea of having the bass become a strong and separate melodic voice comes a lot from him and his bassist Bootsie, that idea has changed almost any genre of music you can think of.
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Posted: 15 Jul 2011 at 3:56pm |
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JB was one of the most original musical artists ever and the man stuck to his guns when it came to being exactly who he was. I'm still not sure he ever got the recognition that he deserves.
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Make a joyful noise unto the Lord...
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Posted: 15 Jul 2011 at 12:37am |
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That Eddie Murphy skit was hilarious, I don't think Ive ever seen that. Everything he said was so true. I checked out some J.B.s and I already ordered the Funky Good Time album, it's exactly what Ive been looking for. |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2011 at 11:39pm |
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Re thread title, yeah James used to say "Can I get a witness" its a popular expression with pentacostal preachers.
Public Enemy just had fun with it and made it clumsy on purpose: "can't I get any witness"
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Posted: 14 Jul 2011 at 10:08pm |
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Eddie Murphy about James
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Posted: 14 Jul 2011 at 9:46pm |
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Have you ever seen the Edde Murphy skit where he is imitating the horn players discussion .. "can you understand what he is sayin man .. no way, but whatever he says, your supposed to shout out 'Yeah!' ha ha
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Posted: 14 Jul 2011 at 9:43pm |
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OK, the other two were nice, but here is the motherlode:
"Give it up or turn it Loose"
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Posted: 14 Jul 2011 at 9:37pm |
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I have a lot of respect for J.B., although not necessarily a fan of his raw, hard funk, and man I've tried.
Still, he's the man.  |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2011 at 9:31pm |
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J.B. says it during "It's A New Day". Is he saying Can or Can't? |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2011 at 8:43pm |
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Wonderful video. No one can certainly mimic this atmosphere.
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Posted: 14 Jul 2011 at 8:40pm |
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Re something Mike said earlier, when James invented his hard funk sound, he left his previous music behind as if it was from an earlier century. The shift in what he was doing with rhythm and his entire approach to music was as different as night and day.
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Posted: 14 Jul 2011 at 8:36pm |
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Re the thread title, Public Enemy said "Can't I get any witness", ha ha.
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