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James Brown
Topic Started: Dec 25 2006, 07:03 AM (211 Views)
Optimistic
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HOLY CARP!!!
died today.

Only 73 yrs old.
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
- Mark Twain


We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-T. S. Eliot
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Mikhailoh
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
He packed a lot of hard living into 73 years.

But we'll miss the Godfather of Soul anyway.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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Aqua Letifer
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ZOOOOOM!
I said the feeling you got to get

give me the fever in a cold sweat.

The way I like it is the way it is.
I got mine and don't worry about his.

Bridge!


James Brown hit it and quit it for the last time. :(
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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The 89th Key
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I think he and Michael Jackson are the only two people you cant listen to without moving your body to the beat. Posted Image
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Mark
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HOLY CARP!!!
If I were ever to hear/see Michael Jackson (which doesn't ever happen really) I would move as fast as I could to turn it off.

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When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells
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Optimistic
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HOLY CARP!!!
Aw, c'mon Mark, he ain't so bad!
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PHOTOS

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
- Mark Twain


We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-T. S. Eliot
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Larry
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
Is that what he looks like to little boys just before he takes their pants off?
Of the Pokatwat Tribe

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Daniel\
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Dec 25 2006, 07:03 AM
died today.

Only 73 yrs old.

I'm sorry to hear it.

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Dave Spelvin
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Dec 25 2006, 10:09 AM
I think he and Michael Jackson are the only two people you cant listen to without moving your body to the beat. Posted Image

Add Stevie Wonder to the list, and I'm with you.

James Brown was hard core. Listen to the band he had from about Think onward. The sound was absolutely new. The bass playing foreshadowed reggae, with its completely unexpected parts, laying off where others would play. The staccato horns, the guitars hitting rhythmic figures like sledges hitting anvils. The drums grooved so far as to be indescribable, especially at the time when there was nothing - nothing - like them. This was groove music that hadn't existed before in the west. It's more like tribal music in Africa, where the song might last all night. James would call for it to go to the bridge, and it would be nothing like any bridge we'd ever heard before. It might be a "B" section, but it didn't take you anywhere but back to the "A" section. Structures so simple you couldn't lose them. Grunting and shrieking in popular music, right on the heels of Nat King Cole. Rhythm so complicated, you couldn't duplicate it. This was revolution in sound, similar to but grittier than bebop, and this sh!t sold records. Truly a miracle.
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