My Thang - James Brown | The Midnight Special

James Brown performed on The Midnight Special September 13, 1974
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[@10000jims]

JB is the GFOS. He'll even put it on his outfit so you won't forget it.

[@AdrianDeVore]

He was promoting his brand!🎉

[@rickybobby6579]

there's a scary movie called Jacob's Ladder that uses this song in a very creepy party scene, to great effect

[@michaelphillips1292]

That's how I found this song lmao

[@NicolasSchaII]

I'm here because of this too lol great film. This song is a banger ngl

[@khandmo]

That audience needs to wake up

[@mhildack]

Idk. If that’s the way the band really sounded live, they may have been awestruck

[@MissJackieM]

I see the "Female Preacher", Miss Lyn Collins singing back there.

[@RLFLOWS]

With her fine ass

[@jeffreylyons6957]

Jbs best bands 1971-74

[@bighomietron6461]

And lil before then like 65-69 they were tight too 🔥🫰🏾

[@modernretroradio993]

His most commercially successful period, too.

[@spansetelectronicmixes]

Yeah no doubt

[@GordiansKnotHere]

That bass really tied the room together man...
That crowd half asleep or what???
How can you stand still with that groove?

[@ahdaniel]

This channel is a wild thang

[@CarlDraper]

there's no way i could stand still if i was in that audience watching this!

[@curtisphilumalee1447]

That ole Peavey bass head @1:59 looks like a back breaker. Built like a tank.

[@GordiansKnotHere]

Tank is right!

[@sjung66510]

Everything about this awesome - the outfits, the tight funky band, the dancing, and of course, JB himself. Wow.

[@bytornsnowdog1347]

James Brown always kicks ass. From one to ten, he is a 15 on the jam scale.

[@hayesboy2481]

Dead on the Heavy Funk. Check your pulse if you cant move to this.

[@jkk8753]

Soul king 👑 so amazing and hot as hell

[@curtisphilumalee1447]

Pure Energy

[@AvatarKnownAsNathanielPeters]

Cocaine does that 🎉😂

[@HardBlackBoy]

Right on!

[@HardBlackBoy]

⁠@@AvatarKnownAsNathanielPeters
The point of pure energy is that it's not cocaine.

[@VinVonVoom]

​​​@@AvatarKnownAsNathanielPetersHe didn't start with drugs until the 80s and he didn't start with cocaine until the 2000s.
Even then this whole hypothesis is pretty ridiculous if you're at all familiar with JB, he had a drug problem, yes, but his performances were great in spite of it, not because of it. Any show where he's under the influence is almost always immediately noticeable by how low energy he is.

[@lastinline1958]

GFOS!

[@KittyGrizGriz]

Pretty tame performance here for Mr James Brown the human FUNK machine; love to listen to his song “Get Up Offa That Thing” it makes you move 💃

[@VinVonVoom]

I think he knew they couldn't see his feet because of how low the stage was and opted out of dancing much.

[@PaulDA2000]

@@VinVonVoom no that’s not why after 1971 he never danced that much he had cut down the dancing and was still doing splits until about 1987 he would dance in spurts during certain songs.

[@PaulDA2000]

He didn’t do as much dancing from 1971 onwards, he started doing the splits again on a regular basis in 1972 he had stopped for the most part for six years. And then he would do his dancing spurts here and there.

[@mike20127680]

I never seen that video before, but it's JB FUNKY awesome! 👍🏾👍🏾✊🏾✊🏾

[@CharlesBrown-pv1lc]

You never will see all of them just like I will never see all of them.
Over ten thousand shows so we will not see all of them

[@josephellis6697]

This is great! I’ve never seen this one!! A real good work from the Midnight special channel 👏

[@tonyjones6847]

The First Family Of Soul !

[@PERCYHARRIS-gn5yb]

Some thangs are forever special, day, night or otherwise. This is one of them special thangs. Thanks Godfather for giving your thang to us. It will always be mine and theirs too.

[@unique74muzik]

🔥💪 so there was a whole performance of this...nice one

[@modernretroradio993]

Better than the Zaire version ... better than the Soul Train version. Definitely the best liv version I've heard yet!

[@erosionhead420]

Thanks.

[@martincarlos3759]

I have to get away. It's getting too funky in Here.

[@ChuckSchickx]

🔥🔥💯

[@rumkulhacker1608]

👍💪💓

[@iREALmedia]

They always had two drums after a drummer walked out on him just before a concert.

[@VinVonVoom]

When Clyde Stubblefield joined the band there were five drummers!

[@gennarovelle6827]

Unique the king Mr. DINAMITE ❤️💥💯🔊DJ GENNARO ROSARIO VELLE 🔊💎

[@ghanasoul]

GREAT stuff! They REALLY need 2 just post the FULL episode. They post other full shows, why not JB??

[@josephellis6697]

yeah i'm thinking the same

[@uncleboyd5023]

They are posting whole shows in order of the original dates. Its probably gonna take a while before they start posting full shows from 1974.

[@josephellis6697]

@@uncleboyd5023 Oh ok i got it

[@donearl6675]

[@deathproofpony]

In the words of the great poet: cocaine is a helluva drug

[@AvatarKnownAsNathanielPeters]

To quote J Garcia “anyone who sweats like that must be alright”

[@Fakus_Namus]

@@AvatarKnownAsNathanielPetersRobert Hunter has a vigorous objection to your premise kind Sir!

[@AvatarKnownAsNathanielPeters]

@@Fakus_NamusI stand corrected. Thank you sir.

[@VinVonVoom]

As far as verifiable testimony or evidence is concerned he was strictly drug free until the 80s.