How anyone can deliver a simplified, yet beautiful explanation of syncopation AND provide not one, but TWO different demonstrations of it AND sprinkle in a little guitar technique with it AND make it understandable to non-musicians while STILL making it engaging to experienced musicians ALL in about 8 minutes is beyond me! Just as James Brown kept his audience engaged, you did too, from start to finish with this analysis, Fil. Really nice job!
@@wingsofpegasus Yes, Fil, you are superb teacher and musician yourself. I hope that you are making some kinda bread doing all these free videos, because I/we want you to keep going. Don`t stop. What you are doing is soooo good and so important!!! Thank you!!!
I remember first hearing JB as a young child in the mid 60’s. He had so many showmanship tricks I guess you’d say. One I especially like was how he would leave the stage exhausted and his assistant would place a cape around him and lead him off the stage while wiping his brow. Then a few minutes later JB would somehow find the strength to come back on stage. Everyone was very deferential toward JB because he was The Godfather of Soul.
Thank you Fil! Thanks for part two. You don't give biased opinions, you give true educated analysis. Information we can genuinely relate to or learn from. Somehow people manage to keep themselves pretty well behaved on your channel. I don't see that on other channels much, no matter the subject. It's vicious out there. That says a lot about you and your subscribers. I hope you get some kind of special award sometime. 😉
Fil is my Lord and I shall worship him - and JB's music is always an outburst of the soul, and yes, "...there are 106 miles to Chicago, full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses."
Thank you VEDDY much for doing this. A genuine original, James Brown is hard to characterize. But, to address your notion that he preferred smaller crowds let me share this. I went to a performance at the Oakland (Calif) Auditorium in 1968, 3000 people, only a few dozen of that crowd were white like I am. The ENTIRE crowd was dancing screaming, singing along, laughing, and carrying on, happy, excited and on fire from James Brown and the Famous Flames! He did indeed love an intimate or smaller crowd, but he could get a big crowd fired up. And everyone who knew of him knew of him on vinyl! No tapes, no radio play except on the Black radio in '68. "Baby PLEASE DON' GO!"
@Omnipresent Spirit I knew who he is, but hardly much more. "The one", pretty groovy stuff right there. I'm a blues man, I know a little; play the harp.
You are just magnificent in your critique......the mathematics of music is just magical and "funky" in Jame's case. His band just had that appreciation of what the audience wanted to hear and feel. Your explanation is just spot on. Thank you. As a young consumer I never knew or understood the mystique of soul music. This is why music is such a personal language to each and every one of us. So...good music has no color or gender...Music is ethereal and inclusive by human nature. Thanks for your vids!!!So appreciated......
How much he enjoyed performing is reflected in the performance itself. I never seen him NOT have a blast performing. He couldn't be still if his life depended on it. Love to watch him.
James Brown, The Godfather Of Soul, a mesmerizing performer! Always so much fun to watch, even tho i never saw him live, i caught every performance on T.V., Soul Train, Midnight Special, and a few other shows on a Saturday night, that we would all gather @ one another's houses, each weekend and try and pick up Jame's dance moves, i never succeeded, but my brother was a natural, and my cousin Ronnie, he was a true inspiration....
Jammin' with Jambo "Hey Boss!What'chu gonna play now ? J.B. "Bobby...Wassn'ever I play it's got 2B FUNKY ! Make it FUNKY!"-from "Make it Funky"-✨🎼🙏🏼🎼✨🌚🌝
JAMES Brown was absolutely the most influential person of my life, growing up as a kid in the 60's. He showed me that first of all i could do anything i wanted in life and be proud of who I am. He is a legend among Legends. The hardest working and without a doubt the most entertaining performer I've ever known, other than perhaps Sammy Davis Jr. who was multi-talented. But without James Brown, a lot of the popular styles of music we have today and the entertainers after him would not exist. He has the funkiest music ever created that is still mimicked, borrowed, sampled and stolen from to this very day. There will never be anyone like him. Thee premier innovator of Funk music indeed.
I do enjoy your channel. You are truly a knowledgeable and talented narrator, as well as a genuine gentleman... Rare these days. Thank you for your work.
HI FIL JAMES HAD RHYTHM AND SOUL. HE HAD SOME GOOD MOVES. MAN HE MOVED FAST.GOOD DANCER. VERY GOOD VIDEO. THANKS FIL YOU DO A. FANTASTIC JOB. LOVED IT. THATS SO COOL. STAY SAFE OUT THERE. PEACE AND LOVE
Another amazing analysis video ! Specially liked the demonstration and explanation of the 16th notes. So much packed into this video will have to be rewatched to take it all in! Thanks !
RIP. He deserves it. He was known as the Hardest Working singer at one time(shuffling furiously) yah I can believe it. Interesting man for so many decades!
James Brown could NOT sing a bad note, or be out of time. It was impossible. Unbridled water flows perfectly. So goes James Brown. I teach this exact lesson (pretty much) BTW.
I was lucky to see him in a theatre in Oakland, California in his later years. Still a powerful performance.. ending with the cape of course. The audience was really into it. However, it was the first time I saw an audience boo an opening act. They wanted James and just kept booing the woman singing in the opening. But he was great and the entire experience was quite memorable!
This was 20 years ago and I just found this concert at the Paramount Theatre on the Internet which was fun. The woman I referred to was not the opening act... that was Tower of Power who were good. She was "Tomi Rae" and came out after the opening of his set... when the crowd was expecting James...and they were impatient. It was very bad timing. Love your analysis, as usual, of James performances.
Hey there Phil Hinley is excellent seeing another analyses video of James Brown is very interesting I can not believe that He perform in David letterman talk show is fantastic news that was wonderful actually his talented singer and dancer pretty cool at least is incredible absolutely wonderful
@@kyriesampson7781 wrong with what? The most exciting performer ever. Did you ever see Elvis live if not then you do not know what your talking about. I seen both performers live, James Brown in a place called Dunstable Bedfordshire England and Elvis in Las Vegas and yes Elvis the most exciting performer ever no question.
@@kyriesampson7781 wrong you prove I am wrong. James Brown and the Beatles worshiped Elvis, wacko jacko tried to be the next Elvis but failed. Elvis is the king of music. Will always be the king of music, James Brown the Godfather of soul, BB King the king of the blues but ELVIS is and always be the king of Rock'N'Roll and the king of music a fucking fact!!!!
Every time you watch James Brown perform you know you’re in for a real treat! Even if he didn’t sing his dance moves on stage would be enough! The guy had it all! Great stuff Fil! Cheers Mario!😎🤘👌
Love dancing to James Brown. It's a back-kick on the off-beat followed by a wriggle. The bass tells you what to do with your body, The drums tell your feet what to do.
If you think listening to James Brown sing that on the Letterman show, you should have been around when There Was a Time broke out in 1968. I mean that song exploded all over the city of Detroit; and my guess is that it broke the same way all over the country. You couldn't go to a talent show anywhere be it in a school or recreation center's auditorium without someone doing the James Brown to There Was a Time. I remember James Brown saying in an interview that Michael Jackson came to see him perform once and when he broke into There Was a Time he said Michael nearly lost his mind. I'm not talking about the TH-cam clips where James and Michael were on stage together. This happened sometime in the 80s. 2 of the most dynamic performers ever. There'll never be anyone like them again.
Great music info. This has to be the tension in the music that leads to the tension in your body that makes you want to - have to - move and dance. To find that that groove with the instruments and your body. And that leads to why the audience cannot help but move. Love it love it love. James was one of the best. I challenge you to not get down with it (yep, I’m old but still can get down!)
For me he will always be the Blues Brothers' Right Reverend Cleophus James performing "The Old Landmark". I can see the light! :) PS [edited] I wrote this comment before finishing the video, but JOSS STONE is definitely a candidate for this channel, in my humble opinion.
Cold Sweat, Too Funky in Here, The Big Payback, Night Train, Licking Stick, and many, many other James Brown hits was what I was listening to back when I was like 10 years old on my $5 Japanese transistor radio in Los Angeles.
Ok Fil you really do good work! Hats off my friend. Mr. Excitement then Mr Dynamite, the Godfather of Funk. Oh yeah! Jackie Wilson reminds me of those who used the human voice as the lead musical instrument while James Brown has me considering those who use the whole being as the lead of the band. Luv the way Brown approaches the mike while making some moves as if to say "this is where I am, can you get with me!". Then you explain how the music works out and give the history of the star. Great stuff all round, thank you.
Yeah Jaques Taulard, I think my wife and I were the only whiteys in the Tucson Community Ctr. in the late '60's at an INCREDIBLE James Brown performance. He even integrated the house lights into it, plunging the whole place into darkness on the beat. Thanks Fil for yet another great analysis.
Because he was the GodFather of SOUL BABY oh yes danced at many after hour clubs to this music ...Mr Brown was just so full of energy and the consummate entertainer!!!! Ithanks again!
EXCELLENT!!! I enjoyed your analysis, Fil. It got me wondering about the reggae beat as well. I was learning to play Bobby McFerrin's Don't Worry, Be Happy and Bob Marley's Three Little Birds on ukulele. It certainly takes some practice!!!
Very cool to see this version of JB having fun and camaraderie with this host band. Rather than earlier JB with his regular band who he seemed hell bent on catching making small mistakes. Good time for all.
Hi Fil, I saw James at Del Mar Fairgrounds summer of 1982, California, he did a song where he stayed on the one for 15 minutes before he went to the Bridge! Can you do that Fil?
Very interesting cheers Fil..ive always loved a groove..i would be intersted to hear how that fits in with reggae music and particulary Ska and maybe northern soul..
You can't help bit fall in love with that smile-pure gold...and his constant body moving...the beat...his voice. I am 65 and my mom turned me on to him (and Little Richard-mom is in love with him). Dave Letterman Show so it was about 2-300. Wish I was there. 🤙😎
The version of this tune on Live at the Apollo II is among the great all-time live recordings, IMO. Both the performsnce itself and the recorded sound (especially for the time) are astonishing.
Around 1967 here in Auckland, NZ there was a band I recall called The Zarks. At the time the convention was that a band would have a "signature" riff they played to signal the end of a set, and the following break for the band and the audience dancing. The Zarks played "I Got You". I liked the riff, but as a rock fan I had no idea what it was. Took me about a decade to find out it was James Brown. p.s. They must have been a pretty cool band, I also recall the first time I saw a Jimi Hendrix album cover was Axis: Bold As Love lying around at one of their gigs in a local church hall.
Ok then! Look at that smile on your face, Fil! You can't help it, can you? LOL Yeah, watching and listening to that force of nature will do that to you! You remarked about how the audience was so expressively into it. Actually, I found it very odd that they were still sitting at all! Usually people just stand at their seats and move!! LOL That particular song was one of the favorites to my friends and me - white teen girls growing up in the deep south, U.S. and we ate it up! Practicing our dance moves packed into my bedroom or if the parents weren't home - out in the living room on the parents' bigger, better stereo! Oh yeah ... those were the days, my friend. He has too many hits to name but our faves were Cold Sweat, Try Me, It's a Man's World, Please Please Please, and Give It Up Or Turn It A Loose* one of our faves to dance to! Please listen to those, Fil! You will not be disappointed. P.S. Love hearing you talk about what syncopation is - I've always called it the beat against the beat ... (I'm not a musician, LOL). Anyhow, thanks for another awesome review! One more quick comment: We were deeply entreanched into what was "soul" music at the time, before Motown hit. Ok, one more comment: Yesterday I watched your reaction to Bobbie Gentry's live performance of Ode to Billy Joe. If you watch a live video of her song, Fancy, you will see her lightly moving around, doing a sort of slide move we all did then, and at one point she actual lifted up one of her feet in her slide, a la James Brown. Find it Fil! Check it out. And, BTW, her story telling of Fancy is super!
Purchasing my wings of Pegasus tee as we speak! Teespring great company choice for mech fil! I’ve ordered from this company before. Always satisfied with the quality.
The best example of how the Funk groove was born was Maceo Parkers story of how he went to play the Jazz standard 'So What' but abbreviated it and it became 'Cold Sweat', watch Miles Davis play 'So What' then listen to JB's 'Cold Sweat' and you'll hear the essence of Funk (btw after that watch James Brown on TV performing 'Mother Popcorn' and feel the full effect
PS Another important James Brown innovation (or rather his drummer Clyde Stubblefield) was an accidental moment during a song on the Live At The Apollo LP where Clyde misses a cue and hangs there suspended waiting to know where to go next, he was playing a fast groove then after he hit the kick and crash on the 1 he looked up - waited then not knowing what to do hit the snare on the 3 to at least keep it moving on beat thus effectively taking it from double time to a half time rhythm, the stark change was so effective it stunned the crowd who thought it was part of the act and they went crazy, he thought he was getting fined for sure but James was elated, I thought I'd throw that in there Fil, hope that's ok
Good video, so I just noticed the up beat on (its all about the base--M Taylor) simple d7 cord change to G its groovy. I like it. so that's where it comes from. feeling to dance.
The performance of The Payback in 74 at the Concert in Zaire is explosive. Everything goes back to the one.... a lesson Bootsy taught George Clinton and the rest is history.
FIL, JAMES WAS FAMOUS FOR TELLING HIS BAND, GIVE ME THE ONE, GIVE ME THE ONE, AS A GREAT MUSICIAN YOURSELF, YOU KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT, BEING IN MR. BROWNS BAND, YOU HAD TO KEEP YOUR EYES ON HIM, IF HE LOOKED AT YOU AND WANTED YOU TO DO A CERTAIN THING, AND YOU WERE NOT WATCHING HIM, AND YOU DID NOT COMPLY, HE WAS KNOWN TO FIRE THE MUSICIAN AFTER THE SHOW, HE WAS A MASTER, COUSIN FIGEL
James Brown was a One-Man musical genre! NOBODY else could do it like JB. He was a Musical Mathematician. The only numbers he had to work with were 1-2-3-4 yet he found a way to use the entire beat.
Hey hey! God Father of Soul...such a massive influence...he’s not buried far from here. I live in the southern states and he is king...well so is Elvis...hope u r well Fil... u can tell his influence is from the southern churches...
You can really see the influence on Prince from that video. I remember hearing a story (possibly apocryphal) about a guitarist trying out for the band and being asked to play the same groove for 20 minutes without going out of time. James Brown was a taskmaster, another thing Prince got from him, a really strong work ethic. They really are so rock solid that I can believe that story!
He seems to me to be ground zero for ‘funky’....oh, there’s a little sweet documentary on HBO called Them Apollo’ that includes James Brown over so many decades, and it’s just fantastic to see!! 💕 I love your videos, as a dancer.💕 all i know is that i danced with black people and it was because i danced to soul train as a kid. ohmigod, this was fantastic.i just equate my hip bones with your foot, and it was slower than white people danced...but i think it’s because i ‘learned’ to hold that foot. in any event, i did this to all sorts of ‘white rock and roll as well.💕 it’s a very inverted way of understanding you, but i love it!💕
Another good analysis. Wish you would do an analysis on Home Free. Do you have company? There is a chair sitting behind you. I start my day feeling good with that sweet sweet smile.😍😚💕👏🤗
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You are an excellent teacher, Fil. Enjoy listening. Patty from Central Illinois, God’s Heartland.🇺🇸
Fil is the Godfather of analysis videos. Love James and your appreciation.
James Brown had Swag. Great analysis Fil...it really helped me understand what the rythm section was doing to get that groove.
How anyone can deliver a simplified, yet beautiful explanation of syncopation AND provide not one, but TWO different demonstrations of it AND sprinkle in a little guitar technique with it AND make it understandable to non-musicians while STILL making it engaging to experienced musicians ALL in about 8 minutes is beyond me! Just as James Brown kept his audience engaged, you did too, from start to finish with this analysis, Fil. Really nice job!
Thanks!
@@wingsofpegasus Yes, Fil, you are superb teacher and musician yourself. I hope that you are making some kinda bread doing all these free videos, because I/we want you to keep going. Don`t stop. What you are doing is soooo good and so important!!! Thank you!!!
@@ProfessorSwing Thanks! Yes Patreon helps me a lot with people's support ☺
Never can get enough of James Brown! thanks for the follow up analysis and demonstrations.
James Brown definitely always knows how to work the audience. No matter the size. The energy is an art form in itself.
Godfather of Soul. James had it all. Even his Dancing was over the Top. Great Artist.
Just alot of fun James brings,,,you just smile,,,what a performer,,,big time entertainment👍👍🇺🇸
I remember first hearing JB as a young child in the mid 60’s. He had so many showmanship tricks I guess you’d say. One I especially like was how he would leave the stage exhausted and his assistant would place a cape around him and lead him off the stage while wiping his brow. Then a few minutes later JB would somehow find the strength to come back on stage. Everyone was very deferential toward JB because he was The Godfather of Soul.
Thank you Fil! Thanks for part two. You don't give biased opinions, you give true educated analysis. Information we can genuinely relate to or learn from. Somehow people manage to keep themselves pretty well behaved on your channel. I don't see that on other channels much, no matter the subject. It's vicious out there. That says a lot about you and your subscribers.
I hope you get some kind of special award sometime. 😉
Thanks!
@@wingsofpegasus
You're so very welcome!😊
Fil is my Lord and I shall worship him - and JB's music is always an outburst of the soul, and yes, "...there are 106 miles to Chicago, full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses."
The hardest working man in show business. I first heard Cold Sweat on the radio in ‘67. I was 12. Been a JB fan ever since.
Good God! Watch me now!
Wow! James Brown! One of the truly greats. I got to see him at the Glastonbury Festival UK. Amazing show! I have the photos I took for memories.
Thank you VEDDY much for doing this. A genuine original, James Brown is hard to characterize. But, to address your notion that he preferred smaller crowds let me share this. I went to a performance at the Oakland (Calif) Auditorium in 1968, 3000 people, only a few dozen of that crowd were white like I am. The ENTIRE crowd was dancing screaming, singing along, laughing, and carrying on, happy, excited and on fire from James Brown and the Famous Flames! He did indeed love an intimate or smaller crowd, but he could get a big crowd fired up. And everyone who knew of him knew of him on vinyl! No tapes, no radio play except on the Black radio in '68. "Baby PLEASE DON' GO!"
@Omnipresent Spirit
That was cool as hell, thank you for sharing!
@Omnipresent Spirit
I knew who he is, but hardly much more. "The one", pretty groovy stuff right there. I'm a blues man, I know a little; play the harp.
@Omnipresent Spirit
Cool Beans, I'll check that out; thank you! ✌️
Please don't go down to New Orleans!
@Omnipresent Spirit
No sir, I was unfamiliar with Buckethead; thank you again, very cool!
You are just magnificent in your critique......the mathematics of music is just magical and "funky" in Jame's case. His band just had that appreciation of what the audience wanted to hear and feel. Your explanation is just spot on. Thank you. As a young consumer I never knew or understood the mystique of soul music. This is why music is such a personal language to each and every one of us. So...good music has no color or gender...Music is ethereal and inclusive by human nature. Thanks for your vids!!!So appreciated......
Thanks!
James Brown....Super Star, no more words...🎸🎸🎷🎷👏👏👏👏👏
How much he enjoyed performing is reflected in the performance itself. I never seen him NOT have a blast performing. He couldn't be still if his life depended on it. Love to watch him.
James Brown, The Godfather Of Soul, a mesmerizing performer! Always so much fun to watch, even tho i never saw him live, i caught every performance on T.V., Soul Train, Midnight Special, and a few other shows on a Saturday night, that we would all gather @ one another's houses, each weekend and try and pick up Jame's dance moves, i never succeeded, but my brother was a natural, and my cousin Ronnie, he was a true inspiration....
"Hey James!!!! What we gonna play now???"
J B: "I don't care, but whatever it is...
It's Got To Be FuNkY."
EeeeeeeeeeeeeOW!!!!
😎👍🏽🎶🔥♥️🔥🎶
Jammin' with Jambo "Hey Boss!What'chu gonna play now ?
J.B. "Bobby...Wassn'ever I play it's got 2B FUNKY ! Make it
FUNKY!"-from "Make it Funky"-✨🎼🙏🏼🎼✨🌚🌝
Lookie hear-yah! Hit me!
JAMES Brown was absolutely the most influential person of my life, growing up as a kid in the 60's. He showed me that first of all i could do anything i wanted in life and be proud of who I am. He is a legend among Legends. The hardest working and without a doubt the most entertaining performer I've ever known, other than perhaps Sammy Davis Jr. who was multi-talented. But without James Brown, a lot of the popular styles of music we have today and the entertainers after him would not exist. He has the funkiest music ever created that is still mimicked, borrowed, sampled and stolen from to this very day. There will never be anyone like him. Thee premier innovator of Funk music indeed.
I do enjoy your channel. You are truly a knowledgeable and talented narrator, as well as a genuine gentleman... Rare these days. Thank you for your work.
Hear-hear!
Thanks!
The Band had great musicians, they played as a unit, very tight. James Brown was a great performer, and Bsnd leader.
The Godfsther of Soul.❤👑
Early James Brown blew my mind! Was a tremendous dancer, had all the moves. Thanks great Vlog.
HI FIL JAMES HAD RHYTHM AND SOUL. HE HAD SOME GOOD MOVES. MAN HE MOVED FAST.GOOD DANCER. VERY GOOD VIDEO. THANKS FIL YOU DO A. FANTASTIC JOB. LOVED IT. THATS SO COOL. STAY SAFE OUT THERE. PEACE AND LOVE
Funk is what James did best, great one Fil, Jeff in LA USA
Another amazing analysis video ! Specially liked the demonstration and explanation of the 16th notes. So much packed into this video will have to be rewatched to take it all in! Thanks !
On the "one," as James used to say. Lol. Always great to listen to JB.
RIP. He deserves it. He was known as the Hardest Working singer at one time(shuffling furiously) yah I can believe it. Interesting man for so many decades!
This music education provided here by you is fantastic...!
Thanks!
I've always loved "Night Train"
James Brown was so black.
He was beautiful.
Miami Florida, Atlanta Georgia, Richmond Virginia too!
James Brown could NOT sing a bad note, or be out of time. It was impossible. Unbridled water flows perfectly. So goes James Brown.
I teach this exact lesson (pretty much) BTW.
Someone get this guy a award‼️‼️
He was quite the performer.
Also great analysis! I'm a music dunce but really enjoyed this.
Legend. Icon.
Guy had more talent in his little finger than all these modern 21st century "stars" & "celebrities" have in their complete bodies.
Right on brother
Excellent job. Explaining "funk" is no small feat.
All right...got my dancin' shoes on!
I still to this day cannot stay seated while James Brown is performing. I'm always on my feet and dancing around. Thx for another great analysis.
I was lucky to see him in a theatre in Oakland, California in his later years. Still a powerful performance.. ending with the cape of course. The audience was really into it. However, it was the first time I saw an audience boo an opening act. They wanted James and just kept booing the woman singing in the opening. But he was great and the entire experience was quite memorable!
This was 20 years ago and I just found this concert at the Paramount Theatre on the Internet which was fun. The woman I referred to was not the opening act... that was Tower of Power who were good. She was "Tomi Rae" and came out after the opening of his set... when the crowd was expecting James...and they were impatient. It was very bad timing. Love your analysis, as usual, of James performances.
Hey there Phil Hinley is excellent seeing another analyses video of James Brown is very interesting I can not believe that He perform in David letterman talk show is fantastic news that was wonderful actually his talented singer and dancer pretty cool at least is incredible absolutely wonderful
I'm glad you mentioned the bass guitar. I was really struck how good this guy was in his playing. it seems he was driving the song along.
James Brown was quite possibly the most exciting performer in the history of entertainment.
Harris: No sorry you are wrong Elvis was the most exciting performer ever. Elvis's close friend James, comes in a close second
Seamus Lannon wrong!
@@kyriesampson7781 wrong with what? The most exciting performer ever. Did you ever see Elvis live if not then you do not know what your talking about. I seen both performers live, James Brown in a place called Dunstable Bedfordshire England and Elvis in Las Vegas and yes Elvis the most exciting performer ever no question.
He was a trail blazer. For me the most exciting is Michael Jackson. But there would not have been an MJ without James Brown.
@@kyriesampson7781 wrong you prove I am wrong. James Brown and the Beatles worshiped Elvis, wacko jacko tried to be the next Elvis but failed. Elvis is the king of music. Will always be the king of music, James Brown the Godfather of soul, BB King the king of the blues but ELVIS is and always be the king of Rock'N'Roll and the king of music a fucking fact!!!!
SOUL and ENERGY.
I just love this analyzer. I can just look him up for the smile alone.
Every time you watch James Brown perform you know you’re in for a real treat! Even if he didn’t sing his dance moves on stage would be enough! The guy had it all! Great stuff Fil! Cheers Mario!😎🤘👌
You should check out James Brown live in Monterey Bay 1979 its classic. Great channel 👍
Thank you Fil for explaining about emphasis between the beats. Great analysis of James Brown.
Love dancing to James Brown. It's a back-kick on the off-beat followed by a wriggle.
The bass tells you what to do with your body, The drums tell your feet what to do.
A great vid. James also got Bootsie and his brother on the jet and flew funk into low orbit
One Nation...
Drop it on the one, baby! Funk done by the masters like James and his guys and George Clinton and Parliament were some fabulous sounds!
James is the slickest m.f. on the one,Mr.Showbiz and Soul Brother #1!r.i.p.James Brown.✨🎼🙏🏼🎼✨🌚🌝
he sure brought a smile to my face fil...aint that what music is all about !..great upload
Damned Genius... Sweet fuckin' Soul Brother!
Nile Rodgers is the master of the guitar groove. Would be nice to be featured in one of your future videos.
If you think listening to James Brown sing that on the Letterman show, you should have been around when There Was a Time broke out in 1968. I mean that song exploded all over the city of Detroit; and my guess is that it broke the same way all over the country.
You couldn't go to a talent show anywhere be it in a school or recreation center's auditorium without someone doing the James Brown to There Was a Time.
I remember James Brown saying in an interview that Michael Jackson came to see him perform once and when he broke into There Was a Time he said Michael nearly lost his mind. I'm not talking about the TH-cam clips where James and Michael were on stage together.
This happened sometime in the 80s. 2 of the most dynamic performers ever. There'll never be anyone like them again.
Great music info. This has to be the tension in the music that leads to the tension in your body that makes you want to - have to - move and dance. To find that that groove with the instruments and your body. And that leads to why the audience cannot help but move. Love it love it love. James was one of the best. I challenge you to not get down with it (yep, I’m old but still can get down!)
Great analysis, again! Loved the demonstration and explanation. So helpful to a non musician, such as myself.
Only one of him was ever made! You go Jimmy!
For me he will always be the Blues Brothers' Right Reverend Cleophus James performing "The Old Landmark". I can see the light!
:)
PS [edited] I wrote this comment before finishing the video, but JOSS STONE is definitely a candidate for this channel, in my humble opinion.
Cold Sweat, Too Funky in Here, The Big Payback, Night Train, Licking Stick, and many, many other James Brown hits was what I was listening to back when I was like 10 years old on my $5 Japanese transistor radio in Los Angeles.
Ok Fil you really do good work! Hats off my friend. Mr. Excitement then Mr Dynamite, the Godfather of Funk. Oh yeah!
Jackie Wilson reminds me of those who used the human voice as the lead musical instrument while James Brown has me considering those who use the whole being as the lead of the band. Luv the way Brown approaches the mike while making some moves as if to say "this is where I am, can you get with me!".
Then you explain how the music works out and give the history of the star. Great stuff all round, thank you.
Yeah Jaques Taulard, I think my wife and I were the only whiteys in the Tucson Community Ctr. in the late '60's at an INCREDIBLE James Brown performance. He even integrated the house lights into it, plunging the whole place into darkness on the beat. Thanks Fil for yet another great analysis.
Because he was the GodFather of SOUL BABY oh yes danced at many after hour clubs to this music ...Mr Brown was just so full of energy and the consummate entertainer!!!! Ithanks again!
Thank you for more James Brown!
EXCELLENT!!! I enjoyed your analysis, Fil. It got me wondering about the reggae beat as well. I was learning to play Bobby McFerrin's Don't Worry, Be Happy and Bob Marley's Three Little Birds on ukulele. It certainly takes some practice!!!
Relax everybody and watch me work. That song is one of my favorite scenes in the movie iron eagle, where lou gossett dances to that song
Rock, pop, and country makes your head moves up and down. Blues and funk makes your head move side-to-side.
Very cool to see this version of JB having fun and camaraderie with this host band. Rather than earlier JB with his regular band who he seemed hell bent on catching making small mistakes. Good time for all.
Hi Fil,
I saw James at Del Mar Fairgrounds summer of 1982, California, he did a song where he stayed on the one for 15 minutes before he went to the Bridge! Can you do that Fil?
James Brown and Pavarotti......crazy
Awesome video!!!
So good.
Dude had that footwork..
Very interesting cheers Fil..ive always loved a groove..i would be intersted to hear how that fits in with reggae music and particulary Ska and maybe northern soul..
I can imagine when James and others like The 4 Tops played those little clubs way back then, it was out of controll.
THANK YOU FOR GETTING BACK INTO THE FUNK, FIL! (do another zappa viddy, please)
You can't help bit fall in love with that smile-pure gold...and his constant body moving...the beat...his voice. I am 65 and my mom turned me on to him (and Little Richard-mom is in love with him). Dave Letterman Show so it was about 2-300. Wish I was there. 🤙😎
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The version of this tune on Live at the Apollo II is among the great all-time live recordings, IMO. Both the performsnce itself and the recorded sound (especially for the time) are astonishing.
Love that funk!!
Around 1967 here in Auckland, NZ there was a band I recall called The Zarks. At the time the convention was that a band would have a "signature" riff they played to signal the end of a set, and the following break for the band and the audience dancing. The Zarks played "I Got You". I liked the riff, but as a rock fan I had no idea what it was. Took me about a decade to find out it was James Brown.
p.s. They must have been a pretty cool band, I also recall the first time I saw a Jimi Hendrix album cover was Axis: Bold As Love lying around at one of their gigs in a local church hall.
Ok then! Look at that smile on your face, Fil! You can't help it, can you? LOL Yeah, watching and listening to that force of nature will do that to you! You remarked about how the audience was so expressively into it. Actually, I found it very odd that they were still sitting at all! Usually people just stand at their seats and move!! LOL That particular song was one of the favorites to my friends and me - white teen girls growing up in the deep south, U.S. and we ate it up! Practicing our dance moves packed into my bedroom or if the parents weren't home - out in the living room on the parents' bigger, better stereo! Oh yeah ... those were the days, my friend. He has too many hits to name but our faves were Cold Sweat, Try Me, It's a Man's World, Please Please Please, and Give It Up Or Turn It A Loose* one of our faves to dance to! Please listen to those, Fil! You will not be disappointed. P.S. Love hearing you talk about what syncopation is - I've always called it the beat against the beat ... (I'm not a musician, LOL). Anyhow, thanks for another awesome review! One more quick comment: We were deeply entreanched into what was "soul" music at the time, before Motown hit. Ok, one more comment: Yesterday I watched your reaction to Bobbie Gentry's live performance of Ode to Billy Joe. If you watch a live video of her song, Fancy, you will see her lightly moving around, doing a sort of slide move we all did then, and at one point she actual lifted up one of her feet in her slide, a la James Brown. Find it Fil! Check it out. And, BTW, her story telling of Fancy is super!
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Thanks!
Loved it all! And thanks for the great lesson. Your're a natural teacher. \m/
Thanks!
The best example of how the Funk groove was born was Maceo Parkers story of how he went to play the Jazz standard 'So What' but abbreviated it and it became 'Cold Sweat', watch Miles Davis play 'So What' then listen to JB's 'Cold Sweat' and you'll hear the essence of Funk (btw after that watch James Brown on TV performing 'Mother Popcorn' and feel the full effect
PS Another important James Brown innovation (or rather his drummer Clyde Stubblefield) was an accidental moment during a song on the Live At The Apollo LP where Clyde misses a cue and hangs there suspended waiting to know where to go next, he was playing a fast groove then after he hit the kick and crash on the 1 he looked up - waited then not knowing what to do hit the snare on the 3 to at least keep it moving on beat thus effectively taking it from double time to a half time rhythm, the stark change was so effective it stunned the crowd who thought it was part of the act and they went crazy, he thought he was getting fined for sure but James was elated, I thought I'd throw that in there Fil, hope that's ok
That was like watching butter melt :)))
I say this with the utmost respect for all involved: James Brown has the silken hair of a Chinese man.
Good video, so I just noticed the up beat on (its all about the base--M Taylor) simple d7 cord change to G its groovy. I like it. so that's where it comes from. feeling to dance.
The performance of The Payback in 74 at the Concert in Zaire is explosive.
Everything goes back to the one.... a lesson Bootsy taught George Clinton and the rest is history.
Loving your videos!!!! Love from DC
still feels good!
FIL, JAMES WAS FAMOUS FOR TELLING HIS BAND, GIVE ME THE ONE, GIVE ME THE ONE, AS A GREAT MUSICIAN YOURSELF, YOU KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT, BEING IN MR. BROWNS BAND, YOU HAD TO KEEP YOUR EYES ON HIM, IF HE LOOKED AT YOU AND WANTED YOU TO DO A CERTAIN THING, AND YOU WERE NOT WATCHING HIM, AND YOU DID NOT COMPLY, HE WAS KNOWN TO FIRE THE MUSICIAN AFTER THE SHOW, HE WAS A MASTER, COUSIN FIGEL
That bass player is absolutely killing it!
And i can only hear it on my phone speaker
Sugestion: Earnes Tubb and his Texas Troubadours. Song drivin naiils in y coffin.
He had his own tv show in the US in the 60's and was very popular.
James Brown was a One-Man musical genre! NOBODY else could do it like JB. He was a Musical Mathematician. The only numbers he had to work with were 1-2-3-4 yet he found a way to use the entire beat.
Hey hey! God Father of Soul...such a massive influence...he’s not buried far from here. I live in the southern states and he is king...well so is Elvis...hope u r well Fil... u can tell his influence is from the southern churches...
Fil!!!
Excellent; ever increasing my appreciation of music my friend, thank you. Danged 'ol Paul Schaefer looked like a teenager almost, lol.
You can really see the influence on Prince from that video. I remember hearing a story (possibly apocryphal) about a guitarist trying out for the band and being asked to play the same groove for 20 minutes without going out of time. James Brown was a taskmaster, another thing Prince got from him, a really strong work ethic. They really are so rock solid that I can believe that story!
Love it
He seems to me to be ground zero for ‘funky’....oh, there’s a little sweet documentary on HBO called Them Apollo’ that includes James Brown over so many decades, and it’s just fantastic to see!! 💕 I love your videos, as a dancer.💕 all i know is that i danced with black people and it was because i danced to soul train as a kid. ohmigod, this was fantastic.i just equate my hip bones with your foot, and it was slower than white people danced...but i think it’s because i ‘learned’ to hold that foot. in any event, i did this to all sorts of ‘white rock and roll as well.💕 it’s a very inverted way of understanding you, but i love it!💕
Another good analysis. Wish you would do an analysis on Home Free. Do you have company? There is a chair sitting behind you. I start my day feeling good with that sweet sweet smile.😍😚💕👏🤗