00:39 It's Too Funky in Here 04:35 Doing It to Death 09:52 Prisoner of Love 11:59 I Got the Feelin' 12:40 It's A Man's World 23:08 Get on the Good Foot 25:36 Prisoner of Love 26:22 Please, Please, Please 27:49 Jam 30:21 Sex Machine
I caught him on tour over a couple of nights in 1984. You may as well have died and gone to heaven. I do not know how I could ever get across the sheer power of the performance. Every musician was red hot. Brown gave and gave and gave. I was dancing up front but was soon worn out. Butane James did this night after night for decades.
JB was Hardest working man in show business This is what happens when great musical minds come together. God knows How many 1000s of hours of practice it took to perfect this performance. Thank you for the amazing memories.
MAN THESE WERE THE DAYS . LEARN FROM THE GREATS AND BECOME GREATER ✨ 👌 I SURELY 💘 ♥ LOVEDJAMES BROWN AND MICHAEL JACKSON RIPJAME BROWN RIP MICHAEL JACKSON ♥ 😢 🙏 💔 ❤ 💖 I KNOW THEY BOTH IN HEAVEN SINGING TO GOD ..........
I really enjoy James is His prime! 1964 - 1970 when I saw him perform at the watts park - 1971 when he performed on stage in Chicago Illinois. And the Year I saw James Brown on stage 1972 and 73. Didn’t care much for shows in the 80s or 90s. Just wasn’t the same. But he will always be the greatest always the godfather.
James Lemmons That’s life man. James was in his 50’s and 60’s during the 1980’s and 1990’s, so he was bound to not perform the same way he did in the 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s, plus the drugs made something that was inevitable worse than it should’ve been.
@@ThePanther97 yep it was those drugs... because in 1981 he was only 48 still hitting splits. I mean he had been messing with drugs like coke etc but then he started using that PCP and LSD and by 86 it made his teeth fall out etc. He couldn't do splits no more because he was in pain...only 5 years later at 53. Also the quality of his voice went to crap due to the hard drug usage so he didn't sound good and couldn't do that infamous squeal in his upper whistle register...here we see him struggling to do it; takes more effort. it's sad to see his decline during this time.
@@ThePanther97 I understand where you’re coming from my good man he was older in the 80s and 90s, but I’m really referring to the 4 on the floor he had his band doing! But I still love me some James Brown never go a day without listening to soul brother #1 🤜🏾💯💯💯
@@antoniorobinson5891 He could still do the splits in the 80s. He does it in Doctor Detroit which was shot in the summer of 1982 At the Beverly Theatre show in 1983 with BB King he did five splits throughout the show. In Buonasera Raffael (Italian TV Show) shot just before this show in 1984 at Rome he did the splits while performing Sex Machine. He did three splits in the span of a minute while performing Night Train at the American Bandstand 33⅓ Anniversary Special in 1985. At the Tokyo concert in 1986 he did the splits during I Got The Feelin'. At the Welcome Home benefit concert in 1987 he does two splits back to back while performing Living In America. Allegedly he did a split during his arrest in September of 1988 according to one of the guards who took him there. It wasn't until the 90s where he stopped doing them, and this is when he cleaned up his drug use considerably. I don't think drugs affected his ability to do the splits much if at all. You'll find a lot of the shows I listed James appears to be very off chops.
James Brown is incomparable He tailored this show to fit a European audience,particularly the Italians. They are more enthralled by black music than other Europeans. The Italian women are in a trance of sexual estacy.
@@bernardjeanmarie14 Well yes I would agree for the most part except in 1987 and 1988 especially when he was going through the drugs and all the other arrests and things I saw him in concert a few times around that time and they were the worst concerts of him I’ve seen out of the hundred and so I went to from 1971 to 2005. That was a bad time in his life but when he got out of jail in 1991 he was rejuvenated and started putting on great shows all over the world until he passed away in 2006.
@@PaulDA2000 At least when it comes to the shows on RU-vid it seems like James was more on his game in 87 than earlier in 85 and 86 to me but I suppose that's not the most accurate sample size. Other than his Spanish TV appearance in 87 he doesn't seem particularly off his game tbh (at least not on this, his 85 Letterman appearance, American Bandstand 33⅓ or the Ritz show's level).
@@VinVonVoom yeah I was surprised that in this one he was as high as he was. It started around that time and got worse in 86 and 87 of course and culminated in the 88 car chase and the jail sentence. As you say a lot of the performances in 1985 he was fine.
Yes he was definitely high here, it is a shame. The way he kept saying "How ya feel" and "feel good" over and over, so fast you couldn't even understand it was a big clue".The 1983 Beverly performance is much better than this, with more dancing, a bunch of splits and he was much more coherent.
I ' ll take a James Brown performance , high or sober , over what some of these entertainers are giving their fans now . The drugs and age slowed him down , just as it did other entertainers . But from child birth to his death , it was said he had a mark on his back. And after watching the movie of his life I totally agree. The good things that he did and accomplished in his life out weigh the bad . Still there's so many that tried to copy his style but fell short . There was only one and will never ever be another entertainer like him. Mr. James Brown was the baddest and greatest entertainer that ever stepped on a stage. He was truly loved by many people and disliked by few . ( RIP )
@@tonjamcdonald7118 It’s not the point of taking any James Brown performance over anyone else. It’s noticing when he started to decline before he went to jail in 1988. When he came out he was rejuvenated in 1991 until his death in 2006. I saw him over 100 times in concert from 1971 until 2005 and 1987 and 1988 were cringeworthy to watch. Some of the concerts I went to during those two years he was booed by the audience at times, and rightfully so. Thankfully after he got out of prison, whether he still did drugs or not, he put on quality shows again. Some of my favorite concerts of his are from the year 2000 until 2006, when he was 67-73 years old.
JB will always b the Godfather of Funk but at this point of his career he was just running on his name. Prince, George Michaels, Stevie Wonder, Lionel Richie, Tina Turner, Kool&the gang, etc. were running sh-t by this time. American pop idols always perform over seas after they're played out in the US bcause other countries will pay 2see american icons. This would have been a free summer concert in central park!
