Entertainment For Lively Minds
An antidote to the "weedy" thread
Posted by Archie Valparaiso on 3 September 2009 - 10:04am.
Matching muslin shifts notwithstanding, this clip is so non-weedy - so the complete, absolute, 180-degree opposite of weedy - that it's positively, er, ydeew.
It's also arguably the best live music performance in the whole of the last 40 years of world television. Actually, that's not quite true - there's no "arguably" about it.
Good Gawd!
May I suggest "I don't want no trash" as an eleventh-hour entry for the t-shirt slogan competition?
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The men don't know...
There be a wolf howlin at the back door
make it 45 years then
surely this is the best,Archie? Think David H will agree
Archie Ain't Wrong.
Blimey.
So many supreme musicians absoulutely nailing it. And not moving a muscle more than is needed to nail the groove. And watching the boss for cues. That is just THE funk. Cracker white boys like me ain't worthy.
But here's something else to consider.
A lovely tune by some nice homely lads.
This is Proper Frash Metaw. And it does get me terribly excited which probably isn't right. I like the bit at 2:30 when it suddenly winds up a notch to a level of absolutely inhuman intensity.. No-one else will like this at all. And I don't care.
Fantastic, yes
(hesitancy for fear of ridicule) but I don't think he was singing live...
(retreats to safe distance)
The astonishing thing about James Brown...
is how he switched from being a pure melodic soul singer - and he'd been one of the best of the best - to using his voice almost exclusively as a percussion instrument that played off the bass and drums (or, as in the last section in this clip, as a syncopated counterpoint to Maceo Parker's sax).
Huh! Whaaaat? Ha! Good Gawd!
Archie's spot-on (as ever)
Watch the clip carefully and look at the musicians.. They watch EVERY move. James Brown doesn't just use his voice; his entire body is a cue-machine. Everyone knows exactly what they're working off. Conducting at a very interesting level.