No pyro technics, no 20 dancers on the stage, no costume changes, no flashing lights. Just pure funk and talent! Thank u JB for showing us what a real live show should look like.
I hear you jaboogwah, Yawl can all go home now, you were full entertained, you got your monies worth, gone on home. You witnessed some shit you will remember for the rest of your life! Your money was well spent.
Bootsy Bad Ass ...the only one who solos the crowd went crazy after and he looks like a child in this clip. Bass god.. Catfish did his thang as well them Collins boys were the truth
Wayno Soze ... Bootsy said James didn't like when that happened. It must have happened more than once, because James started belittling him. In my opinion James was at his baddest when the Collins brothers were there.
Actually he was jealous of Bootsy's stage presence. He didn't love them enough to pay the wages they deserved (same for the rest of the band). James was a genius but the way he treated these guys was appalling.
@@Wally-H That's too bad. I've been watching the videos or Bootsy talking about it. Man I want to hang out with him and play some guitar lol. Seems like one of the best people.
@@Wally-H If he was jealous then why did he let him do a whole bass solo and even let him be applauded? Hell, he even wanted him to be applauded recognizing he had talent too and deserved the spotlight just as much as him, that's why he shared it to him. He did the same for all of his musicians. He wasn't selfish. Why do you people love making things up? The reason James fired him and Catfish is because they constantly did acid/LSD. They were straight up addicts and it was clearly compromising the band when Bootsy started hallucinating in the middle of a concert. Despite James telling them to not do it while they're working and telling them he doesn't wanna catch them doing it he still did it. So in reality, Bootsy and Catfish disrespected his trust he had for them. Plus I understand why James was worried about the LSD, that stuff is bad for you in general and it will fuck up a concert if you do it before you go on stage. Even Bootsy admitted in multiple interviews and a documentary that he disrespected JB's trust. It hurts because he was a father to him, a huge father figure. But fathers gotta punish their kids too. It's just like how God didn't want Adam to eat the forbidden fruit and yet he still ate it.
@@ILoveGod06 Do your homework. This is not my opinion, it is known facts. If he wasn't selfish, why did he keep all the royalties from the songs he co-wrote with Bobby Byrd, who ended up suing him? This was a man who literally rescued James life, plucking him out of the state pen and giving him the chance to let his talent shine. James repaid him by not paying him his dues. Another example, in the 80's when hip hop groups started using the break from the funky drummer, James creamed off all the royalties. The drummer who played it, Clyde Stubblefield, got nothing. When Clyde became ill a few years back, he was so poor that musicians in his local city had to have a whip round to raise the money for his medical treatment. Clyde was often asked to play the 'funky drummer' beat and he refused to do it properly because he came to resent it due to James greed. If you watch videos of him playing in his later years you will find either he doesn't play it, or he plays elements of it but deliberately, not correctly. It was his most famous work but there isn't a single video of him playing it between the time he left the band and the day he passed. It's laughable to base your whole premise of James 'not being selfish' on the fact he allowed his band members to play solos. This was James making the most of their talent and he was happy to do that but in Bootsy's case, over time the press started talking about him a little too much and James wasn't so happy with that. Bootsy is a very tall man and he had a real presence on stage that somehow seemed to eclipse James himself and people talked about it. Brown didn't mind his band members being talented, or well liked, indeed he even allowed some of them like Marva Whitney and of course Bobby Byrd to make albums with their own names on the cover but he still owned all the rights to their music as well and of course, their fame must never eclipse that of the 'Godfather'. Apart from Maceo Parker, most of his musicians left his employ at one time or another because they weren't being paid what they deserved. He would also fine them for making mistakes on stage. I know what happened to the Collins brothers - I remember Bootsy once saying he was playing live on stage and he was so out of it that he thought the neck of his bass guitar had turned into a snake - that doesn't make me wrong in what I am saying, nor does it mean I 'make stuff up.' It is a plain fact that James Brown was a greedy man who didn't pay any royalties to the people around him who made a huge contribution towards producing this wonderful music, even when it was they rather than James who had created it. I'm a huge fan of James music, but I'm not going to sugar-coat what he did through some sort of blind fandom. James was wrong in what he did and all of his former band members say the same thing in interviews.
I'm not saying there aren't good concerts/performances currently...but stuff like this on another level. It doesn't matter what genre. These guys played with such a savage passion. Incredible stuff.
I applaud James Brown for letting some of the musicians take a little bit of the shine too. If I had a backing band as tight as JB’s or The Famous Flames I certainly would.
Very hard to overstate how important any live recordings of the "Bootsy Band" on youtube are. James has to give the musicians more freedom to solo than he would under the Pee Wee bands and he was probably more dictatorial when Maceo and the Macks returned once they couldn't make it big as solo artists. Maceo's fine as a solo now, and got the last laugh.
One of the best live performances ever, hands down. Why modern musicians (especially blacks) don't seek to build on this kind of music history is a mystery.
Can you imagine being in a world of music without the creations of James Brown? It would be dreadfully incomplete and lacking. You look at all of them 'off into a thing', you look at that smile of satisfaction on Brown's face! When this came out on vinyl I ran it into the ground, so bad the black vinyl turned white.
Sometimes people dramatize their emotions and personal opinions. But it's things in life that just don't like, no matter what age,religion or national origin. Math and music and a child's smile. To me James Brown embodies all the above. He is truly the greatest ever
THE RHYTMIC GUITAR AND HORNS ( In my opinion ) GIVE THE SPECIFIC ATMOSPHERE !! In this so unique song !!!!!! Bass giving some groove to help those who want to dance !!!
@@texasviking1 yes agree no bass no funk !! And why so often on stage camera 🎥 never paid attention to bass player unless is Marcus Miller , or maybe Jaco pastorius .. so ungrateful !& misleading people… even when the baseline is essential they barely pay any attention ..,,
Catfish is a gast-flabber. It ain't lead or rhythm - it's Catfish. Mike Judge's Tales of the Tourbus is well worth a watch to see where the Collins boys were at during this era (way, way up in the clouds).
The soul of Black folks FULLY capture here, this can't be beat! Look at them they just KNOW they got a funk groove on, James is egging them on, they know this is some badd ass shit. Look at the Collins Brothers smiling with approval when James is funkin' up that organ, this shit is on like hot buttered popcorn!
I just kinda noticed on this listen though, but Phelps solo is very much "Okay there's my 16 bars. . .Oh crap he wants me to keep going!" Followed by a flurry of licks and a very obvious "Okay James I've played what I've got!"
