@@dannyeddyguitar I would be honored! Thank you, Danny. I feel extremely fortunate to be included in this amazing group of musicians. In my time in the band we heavily studied the live band cats but never really knew much about the studio guys. I love all this info and respect the time you've spent looking into all this amazing music. Major props to you!
I just noticed my book back there. Thanks bud! Still being amazed by all these videos. I love your style with the humor and creative editing. Makes it very entertaining.
Can’t tell you how much I’ve enjoyed your expose’ pieces on James Brown’s guitarists! Renewed respect for all these fellas that weaved in and out of the JB lineup! Thanks for this mate!
cheese" is a high underrated rhythm guitarist. He's the only jb guitarist who played with Phelps Collins, Robert Coleman, and Jimmy Nolen,and he blended well with all three with his style of strumming. I really feel like he doesn't get the love he deserves, because he was a huge factor in the James Brown sound of the 70's!!
It's scary how TH-cam algorithms know me so well to drop this beaut little nugget on me today. As a fellow Aussie and funkophile made my day! Good onya!
@@dannyeddyguitar Mmmh I'm more an old school fan of JB, Bootsy and some Parliament, but The Bamboos, and Skunkhour come to mind in a similar vein to the RHCP... Would you include some of INXS tunes in a broader definition of Aussie funk/pop?
Informative as ever 👍 great episode, as you mention it gets more difficult covering the 80's. As a side-note the track "Your Love" on the Everybody's Doin' the Hustle on the Double Bump LP, this was recorded Sept 1973 featuring Hearlon "Cheese" Martin, it is the same track of the unreleased "I Got A Good Thing (And I Ain't Gonna Let It Go)" (Singles Vol 9), which later morphed into "Stone To The Bone". Supposed line up for "This Feelin'" Jimmy Nolen, Robert Lee Coleman - guitars Charles Sherrell - bass Russel Crimes, Hollie Farris - Trumpets Melvin Parker - drums St. Clair Pinckney, Jeff Poff or Peyton "P.J." Johnson - tenor sax probable Mike Lawler - keyboards unidentified - percussion
Thank you , thank you, thank you - as always! I was unaware of "I Got A Good Thing" - Clearly the same backing. Although, I can't hear the "Stone to the Bone" relationship? It could possibly be, that Jimmy Nolen played on This Feeling, but I can't hear Coleman peeling off either of those highly polished parts - no disrespect, he's just not that style of player. I'm still digging to get to the bottom of that one - Is there some way I can contact you to keep you posted? My email is @djangobillion@hotmail.com
@@dannyeddyguitar If you listen to the lyrics of "I Got A Good Thing", they are the same as "Stone To The Bone", I came across musician details for the Get Up Offa LP, as for the accuracy, who knows. I'll drop you a line👍
This is genius ! , there are only a few people on TH-cam that can go this deep into music- technically biographically and passionately with accuracy in every way.. so far it's Rick Beato and you and Tim Pierce and the pbass dude ! Thank you so much for this brilliant research that you have done and shared with us !
This is a text book I’ll be referring to over and over! I love seeing you break down the parts in split screen and getting the back stories. And the dubious tuning call outs give me some breathing room 😂!
Extremely well-researched and informative series of videos about a topic that few have delved into; and none with anything close to approaching this level of detail and insight. I didn’t know how much I didn’t know! Thank you for this amazing series about my main musical influences.
DUDE! I tried to tag you but TH-cam wouldn't let me. SO glad you found this. Looking forward to talking about your awesome contributions in Ep 4. I actually saw you with JB in Melbourne, back in '96. You blew my mind with your extended solo on Man's World (think it was Man's World - definitely a slow blues).
@@dannyeddyguitar Thanks for the kind words. You must have caught me on a rare good night because I usually butchered that solo!😝 So glad you have kept the series going past the peak years and that someone FINALLY gave Ron Laster the recognition he deserves for his contributions to the JB legacy and catalog. To me, Love Overdue, Mr. Brown’s comeback album after being incarcerated, is an overlooked gem that features some incredibly tight and funky guitar work by Ronald and the late Caleb Jackson. I look forward to your take on that record and I appreciate your superb entries thus far. Cheers, brother.
Thanks, Marjorie. I tried SO hard to contact members of Duncan's family via Facebook. But of course, Messenger doesn't really work very well with 'strangers'. I'd love it if you shared this with them. Cheers, Danny
WowI understand why you say forensic on this! Amazing analyzation of these guitar parts!! This shit is hard to play. Cornell was a great friend of my Dads. He and his wife were super cool. When he was endorsed by Yamaha he gave me my first guitar amp. Pocket was crazy. Stuff was the group he was with
what a labour of love this video is, brilliant, very much enjoyed it. your respect and enthusiasm for these amazing musicians shines through, and needless to say they thoroughly deserve this focus. i've been guilty of enjoying james brown for decades and only knowing the handful of biggest names attached (maceo, fred, bootsy, etc), never realised quite how broad a pool he worked with over the decades and missed out on knowing some amazing players. not anymore! thanks
Interesting. I was doing sessions in NYC in the 70s. This was probably 1979. One day I get called for a session at Sound Ideas. I walk in and there’s James Brown at the Fender Rhodes with the owner of the studio. My heart stopped. I thought I had been called in to play on a James Brown record. JB looks at me and says “ are you playing on my record?” And then George the owner said “no he’s on the session up here, you’re downstairs James”. Oh well.
@@dannyeddyguitar It was probably a Latin pop record. I did a lot of them. Usually had all the A list guys on there. Francisco Centano or Jeff Berlin on Bass, might’ve had another guitar player probably Jeff Miranov, Jimmy Young on Drums, Sammy Figueroa on Percussion, Jorge Dalto on keys, Jorge Calandrelli would be the producer / arranger and lots of horns and strings sometimes the Brecker Brothers.
Yeah. It's always amazing to me how after just a couple of listens, everything becomes great! Haha. I just went back and listened again to A Man Understands, and you're right - a gem.
Danny, this is excellent. Check out 'Too Funky in Here' from live in Chastain Park. Very Funky in the truest sense of the world. JB recorded several iterations, but IMO this one is the best.
@@ToddBrittain1963 Yes! Actually, great to hear Jimmy Lee Moore play ANYTHING - he always seems to be waiting for his part, lol! Until it's time for a bass solo, of course.
Thanks! Sorry, I don't have a link for the stems. Some were graciously sent to me by an awesome viewer. The rest I made in Logic, simply using its new Stem Splitter function.
What a great upload! It was definitely worth the wait, and I am looking forward to the finale chapter! Btw, I had a thought. If you ever do a video that mentions the Ink Spots one day, give me a heads up! Our family is related to one of the original members! His name was Jerry Daniels. I'd be happy to contribute information from my older cousins. Just a thought!
I've been waiting on this expose of JB's bands for decades. I've been a fan since JB played in Tampa back in the early 60's and I was in the audience in Columbus, Ga when the Maceo Mutiny happened. I had the pleasure of being in a band that opened for JB back in 1999 in a cold azz part of Wisconsin. It's where I met "Rock" and we had a conversation about the guitar he was playing. It was a Strat knockoff called a Fresher. I saw Prince attempt to play it in that infamous live video. The Fresher had built in effects. I mean actually built into the body of the guitar. Rock is an excellent guitar player and a very funny guy. I look forward to other episodes of the James Brown Band like the bass players. "Gimme Some More"
@@dannyeddyguitar Do you have any information on The Cavern recordings. Honkey Tonk and Think About It by Lynn Collins was recorded there. It was an actual cave somewhere in Missouri.
I’m a lifetime James Brown fan since I was 12 years old in 1968 he’s been my favorite. I have basically everything ever recorded. I’ve seen him about 100 times in concert 2005. And I met him a couple times. This is as excellent as your other videos about Mr. Brown’s guitarists! I’m not a guitar expert and I’m amazed at the things you have researched and brought up here. I have a couple of points on here though. The remake of I GOT YOU (I FEEL GOOD) was actually titled I FEEL GOOD on the album. DON’T TELL IT rehashed the SOUL POWER guitar riff. And when it was re-released on one of the compilations years later it’s the entire recording which is a lot longer and excellent. Now I have to take umbridge with you about how you dismiss FOR GOODNESS SAKES LOOK AT THOSE CAKES. I know you’re coming at it more from a technical viewpoint than I am but I think it’s an excellent track and much of the album is good also especially A MAN UNDERSTANDS, which Mr. Brown used a part of the song in his 1980’s live versions of SEX MACHINE. I also love the album SOUL SYNDROME, which features my second favorite James Brown song of all time RAPP PAYBACK. And also the album BRING IT ON had two excellent covers, TENNESSEE WALTZ and YOUR PRECIOUS LOVE. I noticed you didn’t care for those which is fine because everybody has different taste. But again I was completely memorized how are you could actually research all of this and you do it with many other artists. It has to be a labor of love because I can’t even imagine somebody being able to do that! Absolutely amazing.
What a wonderful comment, Paul - thanks so much for taking the time! Thanks also for those corrections - I completely missed the Soul Power / Don' Tell It crossover. And yes, I did write off Cakes pretty swiftly, lol! Many of my reactions are quite knee jerk - unless it's a song/album I've heard before. So, I have no doubt that they'd all grow on me after more than a cursory listen. Thanks again!
@@dannyeddyguitar oh bad about breaking with you like I was just giving my side of it there are a lot of big James Brown fans that I talk to all the time on the James Brown face page that didn’t like for good to say look at those cakes and other songs. but all that is minor compared to the work you did to research these guitarists. My head is swimming how anybody could even undertake such a task! And you do it for many other musicians also.
2:18 - I’m pretty sure that photo is of Danny Whitten (guitarist of Crazy Horse with and without Neil Young) who passed away in 1972. If flashing that photo of him was intentional, what was your reasoning ?
@andoros.7017 damn Google image search! My intention was to show Joe Beck. I thought I'd found a rare pic of him in a cool, long-haired hippy phase. Lol
OK, a correction needs to be made. The original vinyl release of this album did NOT include musicians credits. The CD reissue probably contained credits, but not the original vinyl release.
Thanks, Tim - yes, there are always many, many corrections after I put one of these out into the world. If only I could afford some sort of research team, haha!
@@dannyeddyguitar JBs had a habit of playing different big recent funk songs as the opening act for JBs show. For instance at the “Rumble in the Jungle” in Kinsasha in 1974 they played the O’Jays “For the Love of Money”, and I have a VHS from Toronto in 1979 where they’re playing “Boogie Wonderland.” It was just interesting to hear Jimmy Nolan solo over “Movin” because “Movin” was always a Mid 70s Funk song that seemed to progress the James Brown groove.
Has your investigation into timing through SPAM isolation disproved my microswing theory (you said that our mutual hero - "Cheese" Martin - was consistently late - so no microswing)? Whose SPAM isolation do you use?
@@dannyeddyguitar my little (not funny?) joke. I do know it's STEM. SPAM had added humourous value after Monty Python had done their whole SPAM thing. STEM is a bit dull, especially as it is used also as an acronym for "Science, Technology...." and whatever else which we need to force our children into because creativity, the arts etc. do not have any quantifiable financial value, and that's the only thing that's real.
Ahhhh, I see. For some tracks I was lucky enough to have the original stems sent to me by an amazing and intrepid collector. For others I simply used the new Stem Splitter function in Logic Pro.
Hey Jerry, I have no idea if these things are for sale anywhere. I have been SUPER lucky because a wonderful supporter of my channel has shared some real rarities with me.
JB always had the best R&B/funk musicians in the business. Even back in the doo wop days he had the best doo woppers and musicians behind him. He was an amazing genius entertainer, was up there at the Wizard level - he was our Elvis...but was a better one, didn't need to hold a guitar either.
This is kinda funny but sorta accurate. Then again most of today's POPleaves almost no record of the recording musicians but that seems not to be a dynamic story.
I seen a White dude in a Funkadelic brides of Funkenstein session . Bootsey's Rubber Band horn section was there too. Smoked My joint wit em..... This 1975 or 6 !!! I wouldn't be surprised if One of These cats was who I saw.
thank you for that, this is amazing job!!! just a question do you know the guitar player on this? IS THAT Bob Both? th-cam.com/video/nf3rxh2K3ww/w-d-xo.html
Thanks Clément. I can't find out who that is! It's not Bob, and Bob doesn't know who it is. Even Tony Cook - who is drumming on that session - couldn't remember who he was!
QUITE A CONFESSIONNnnn ... ="what rock u crawled (down) under from ..."(?) ...4 a funk guittaahh expert ; the dude JOE JONES has 7 lps on Ptige (67-73), the main originator of the soul jazz genre concept (along w BN J.Smith + other B3 pioneers, WBD, SCT, MB, JHS) + 1 extr obscure lp on Joka "Sweet Back". Then quit the biz = crawled under a LOG. SUGGEST try find & hook up w to ask W H Y ?? Do a special analysis on his Wes-based approach developed/delivered further to funkistan direction (esp the Joka lp). No live footage, just the lps on Yt, no I-views. One of the biggest mysteries of the genre. When the "acid jazz" -repackaging occured/hit the scene his oop albums skyrocketed to £250 and UP in british auctions such as Mole Jazz (now defunked), mid 90s. PPS. DO A VID on "Thermonuclear Sweat" by Defunkt (1980) - a very much 4gotten funk organization nowadays, Joe Bowie. Saw in downtown Helsinki, 95, autographs by all members on my copy.
But thanks for your tremendous research efforts despite James Brown's efforts to put his band in the background (or behind it). I'm glad "Cheese" kept going through the '70's, I thought he was gone by about '73, and can make no sense of why he went at all.
The FBI have a lot to answer for. If this makes no sense to you I'll say that a number of sources (including van Peebles' film "Panther" - which should be seen by everyone (not "Black Panther" which starts with a horrible racist scene)) the FBI - run by the racist J Edgar Hoover - got into bed with the mafia to flood black communities with drugs to drown the radicalism growing in those communities (including the Black Panther Party for Self Defence). They were successful in this, but the unintended consequence was the flooding of America with drugs - no matter what race. It is sure and certain that the BPP started to fade at this time, but that may also be a result of the brutal state sponsored murder of Fred Hampton (but the film about him - Judas and the Black Messiah - is an absolute travesty and a total misrepresentation) who was bringing movements from all communities together.
![[ ออกกอง ] วัยหนุ่ม 2544 โลกหลังลูกกรง..ทัวร์กองถ่ายหนังใน "คุกของจริง" | JUSTดูIT.](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/vB--aOkZCpw/mqdefault.jpg)
![[LIVE] : ONE ลุมพินี 89 | คู่เอก "ยอดไอคิว vs คิริลล์"](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Z3vYkHJ_5Ig/mqdefault.jpg)
As a guitarist with JB for 8 years, I love that you are researching all this. I find it fascinating. Thank you!
You're in the next ep, Damo! I've read Working For the Man, and I'm working on the script.
@@dannyeddyguitar I would be honored! Thank you, Danny. I feel extremely fortunate to be included in this amazing group of musicians. In my time in the band we heavily studied the live band cats but never really knew much about the studio guys. I love all this info and respect the time you've spent looking into all this amazing music. Major props to you!
Respect.
Your honor, all I can do is bow. I’ve been learning lead and listened to you guys to be inspired to learn rhythm too. I bow. I bow.
They say JB was a truly a taskmaster. If one note or beat was missed he would fine you. Is that true?
I wish more folks would break it down like this for these epic tunes, rather than just be visual tablature. Thank you!
Thanks for watching man!
I just noticed my book back there. Thanks bud! Still being amazed by all these videos. I love your style with the humor and creative editing. Makes it very entertaining.
Thank you SO very much, Damon! Really appreciate your support mate!
honestly i think this James Brown guitarist series you have produced is the best thing on the internet....amazing, well done!
Woah! High praise! Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Can’t tell you how much I’ve enjoyed your expose’ pieces on James Brown’s guitarists! Renewed respect for all these fellas that weaved in and out of the JB lineup! Thanks for this mate!
Much appreciated, Robin! Thanks.
Same here, loving it 🙏🎶💪
cheese" is a high underrated rhythm guitarist. He's the only jb guitarist who played with Phelps Collins, Robert Coleman, and Jimmy Nolen,and he blended well with all three with his style of strumming. I really feel like he doesn't get the love he deserves, because he was a huge factor in the James Brown sound of the 70's!!
Yes, totally underrated! Thanks for watching.
It's scary how TH-cam algorithms know me so well to drop this beaut little nugget on me today. As a fellow Aussie and funkophile made my day! Good onya!
Yes! Some suggestions please, El Gordo the Aussie Funkophile - I'm planning an episode on Australian Funk. Who should be in there??
@@dannyeddyguitar Mmmh I'm more an old school fan of JB, Bootsy and some Parliament, but The Bamboos, and Skunkhour come to mind in a similar vein to the RHCP... Would you include some of INXS tunes in a broader definition of Aussie funk/pop?
@ElGordo1959 Yep, that kind of where I'm at. But maybe also some Cat Empire, and some 79s stuff that we've all forgotten.
This is magnificent. Thank you. Funk is so easy to get close to and so easy to not arrive at.
Never a truer word spoken! Thanks, Mike.
Brilliant research !!! Love it … would you every consider doing the same for parliament funkadelic ?
Yeah. I have them on my list. That would be another HUGE undertaking!
@@dannyeddyguitar yeah I get that 😀
It would be awesome Gary Shider, Glenn Goins, Michael Hampton, Blackbird, and Eddie Hazel .
Informative as ever 👍 great episode, as you mention it gets more difficult covering the 80's. As a side-note the track "Your Love" on the Everybody's Doin' the Hustle on the Double Bump LP, this was recorded Sept 1973 featuring Hearlon "Cheese" Martin, it is the same track of the unreleased "I Got A Good Thing (And I Ain't Gonna Let It Go)" (Singles Vol 9), which later morphed into "Stone To The Bone".
Supposed line up for "This Feelin'"
Jimmy Nolen, Robert Lee Coleman - guitars
Charles Sherrell - bass
Russel Crimes, Hollie Farris - Trumpets
Melvin Parker - drums
St. Clair Pinckney, Jeff Poff or Peyton "P.J." Johnson - tenor sax
probable Mike Lawler - keyboards
unidentified - percussion
Thank you , thank you, thank you - as always!
I was unaware of "I Got A Good Thing" - Clearly the same backing. Although, I can't hear the "Stone to the Bone" relationship?
It could possibly be, that Jimmy Nolen played on This Feeling, but I can't hear Coleman peeling off either of those highly polished parts - no disrespect, he's just not that style of player.
I'm still digging to get to the bottom of that one - Is there some way I can contact you to keep you posted?
My email is @djangobillion@hotmail.com
@@dannyeddyguitar If you listen to the lyrics of "I Got A Good Thing", they are the same as "Stone To The Bone", I came across musician details for the Get Up Offa LP, as for the accuracy, who knows. I'll drop you a line👍
Robin Trower said he tried to emulate the horn section of James Browns group . Live At The Appolo . ✨🎸✨
Really?! That's interesting. I need to listen to more Robin Trower. Always enjoyed his playing, but have never made time to seek him out.
This is genius ! , there are only a few people on TH-cam that can go this deep into music- technically biographically and passionately with accuracy in every way.. so far it's Rick Beato and you and Tim Pierce and the pbass dude ! Thank you so much for this brilliant research that you have done and shared with us !
Wow, thank you! That's some seriously rarified air you are placing me in! Side note - how good is Tim Pierce!! Love him.
This Is simply Awesome! Thank you so much for the revelations, and the clarifications. Much Love My Brother
Cheers, Tod. Thanks again for your support, mate!
This is a text book I’ll be referring to over and over! I love seeing you break down the parts in split screen and getting the back stories. And the dubious tuning call outs give me some breathing room 😂!
Thanks so much, Jason. Glad it was helpful!
More fantastic presentation on the JB guitarists of the 70s!
You're watching the whole series!! Thanks!
Your musical research is very much appreciated thank you im from fiji in the pacific
Thanks for listening, Mapu!
Extremely well-researched and informative series of videos about a topic that few have delved into; and none with anything close to approaching this level of detail and insight. I didn’t know how much I didn’t know! Thank you for this amazing series about my main musical influences.
DUDE! I tried to tag you but TH-cam wouldn't let me. SO glad you found this. Looking forward to talking about your awesome contributions in Ep 4. I actually saw you with JB in Melbourne, back in '96. You blew my mind with your extended solo on Man's World (think it was Man's World - definitely a slow blues).
@@dannyeddyguitar Thanks for the kind words. You must have caught me on a rare good night because I usually butchered that solo!😝 So glad you have kept the series going past the peak years and that someone FINALLY gave Ron Laster the recognition he deserves for his contributions to the JB legacy and catalog. To me, Love Overdue, Mr. Brown’s comeback album after being incarcerated, is an overlooked gem that features some incredibly tight and funky guitar work by Ronald and the late Caleb Jackson. I look forward to your take on that record and I appreciate your superb entries thus far. Cheers, brother.
Yeah man! Perfect at explaining what makes this stuff sound so funky!!!
Cheers, Sean! Thanks mate!
How wonderful to see my Uncle Duncan!!
Thanks, Marjorie. I tried SO hard to contact members of Duncan's family via Facebook. But of course, Messenger doesn't really work very well with 'strangers'.
I'd love it if you shared this with them.
Cheers,
Danny
WowI understand why you say forensic on this! Amazing analyzation of these guitar parts!! This shit is hard to play. Cornell was a great friend of my Dads. He and his wife were super cool. When he was endorsed by Yamaha he gave me my first guitar amp. Pocket was crazy. Stuff was the group he was with
That's such a cool memory to have - those experiences with Cornell!
Thanks for this. I love this style of guitar playing.
Cheers, Greg - me too!
what a labour of love this video is, brilliant, very much enjoyed it. your respect and enthusiasm for these amazing musicians shines through, and needless to say they thoroughly deserve this focus. i've been guilty of enjoying james brown for decades and only knowing the handful of biggest names attached (maceo, fred, bootsy, etc), never realised quite how broad a pool he worked with over the decades and missed out on knowing some amazing players. not anymore! thanks
Thank you, Steve, I love a comment like this! It's great to think of people going back and re-enjoying some of this old gear - but with new ears!
Man, GREAT video!! Love all these guys styles ✨🔥✨
Cheers! Thank you.
Great post---I really enjoyed it.
Thanks David, glad you liked it!
Amazing job… great job yourself playing some of these parts
Thanks again, William. You are very kind.
Albert Collins is a right-hander who played a right-hand Tele strung right-handed tuned to Dm.
Yeah, I reckon he meant Albert King. Thanks, J. I didn't bloody pick that up!
John Tropea played the guitar solos on Deodato's Also Sprach Zarathustra and on Patti Austin's 1983 version of Say You Love Me.
True stories. What a legend!
Interesting. I was doing sessions in NYC in the 70s. This was probably 1979. One day I get called for a session at Sound Ideas. I walk in and there’s James Brown at the Fender Rhodes with the owner of the studio. My heart stopped. I thought I had been called in to play on a James Brown record. JB looks at me and says “ are you playing on my record?” And then George the owner said “no he’s on the session up here, you’re downstairs James”. Oh well.
Wow, that's cool! What sessions did you play on?
@@dannyeddyguitar It was probably a Latin pop record. I did a lot of them. Usually had all the A list guys on there. Francisco Centano or Jeff Berlin on Bass, might’ve had another guitar player probably Jeff Miranov, Jimmy Young on Drums, Sammy Figueroa on Percussion, Jorge Dalto on keys, Jorge Calandrelli would be the producer / arranger and lots of horns and strings sometimes the Brecker Brothers.
@producerman10030 very cool! My ignorance of Latin pop means I don't know many of those names, but Jeff Berlin and the Brecker Bros, WOW!
Excellent video man! Loved it.
Glad you enjoyed it, William!
🎶A Man Understands 🎶 from the 🎶 Take A Look At Those Cakes🎶album, is a gem. 🎧😊
Yeah. It's always amazing to me how after just a couple of listens, everything becomes great! Haha. I just went back and listened again to A Man Understands, and you're right - a gem.
@@dannyeddyguitar 😎
This is genius, great work fella!
Glad you like it, C.McB!
Danny, this is excellent. Check out 'Too Funky in Here' from live in Chastain Park. Very Funky in the truest sense of the world. JB recorded several iterations, but IMO this one is the best.
Thanks, Todd. Yeah! I checked out the Jan '85 Chastain Park show, with Ron and Tony Jones (will talk about this in Chapter 4) - great show!
@@dannyeddyguitar Yes, it's fantastic. Very 'raw' (Jimmy Lee Moore's Bass tone is outstanding too, can't beat a '57 Precision for old school funk)
@@ToddBrittain1963 Yes! Actually, great to hear Jimmy Lee Moore play ANYTHING - he always seems to be waiting for his part, lol! Until it's time for a bass solo, of course.
those guitars players deserve more credit for changing the touch of the rhythm guitar,that many studio session guitar player used for some recordings
Absolutely! Thanks, Carl.
Very good channel....Can you drop the link to the stems ?
Thanks! Sorry, I don't have a link for the stems. Some were graciously sent to me by an awesome viewer. The rest I made in Logic, simply using its new Stem Splitter function.
Amazing work Danny, I reckon there's a book in this potentially, or at least a Truefire course! Incredible amount of research gone into it already.
I like where your head's at!
The forensic analysis is as mesmerising as the guitarists themselves. 👍
Cheers, Joey. But, forget the forensics - how about them Doggies?!?!?!
@@dannyeddyguitar Yeh, keep a lid on it mate! I'm hoping to get down there for the 2nd week of the finals.
Awesome and thanks for the post!
Thanks for the visit, Lloyd!
@@dannyeddyguitar Sure thing!
thank you for this and others
Much appreciated!!
What a great upload! It was definitely worth the wait, and I am looking forward to the finale chapter!
Btw, I had a thought. If you ever do a video that mentions the Ink Spots one day, give me a heads up! Our family is related to one of the original members! His name was Jerry Daniels. I'd be happy to contribute information from my older cousins. Just a thought!
Thanks heaps, Jay. Wow, you have Ink in your blood! That's amazing.
Thank you Danny
Thank YOU, Stephen!
Cornell Dupree was on Brook Benton's "Rainy Night in Georgia."
That's him!
I've been waiting on this expose of JB's bands for decades. I've been a fan since JB played in Tampa back in the early 60's and I was in the audience in Columbus, Ga when the Maceo Mutiny happened. I had the pleasure of being in a band that opened for JB back in 1999 in a cold azz part of Wisconsin. It's where I met "Rock" and we had a conversation about the guitar he was playing. It was a Strat knockoff called a Fresher. I saw Prince attempt to play it in that infamous live video. The Fresher had built in effects. I mean actually built into the body of the guitar. Rock is an excellent guitar player and a very funny guy. I look forward to other episodes of the James Brown Band like the bass players. "Gimme Some More"
Great tales! Yes, that Fresher is what Jimmy Nolen played extensively. I spoke about it in episode 2. Thanks JJ!
@@dannyeddyguitar Do you have any information on The Cavern recordings. Honkey Tonk and Think About It by Lynn Collins was recorded there. It was an actual cave somewhere in Missouri.
Only what I've read on line, about JB recording some tunes there, including Dirty Harri from Good Foot, in 72.
I’m a lifetime James Brown fan since I was 12 years old in 1968 he’s been my favorite. I have basically everything ever recorded. I’ve seen him about 100 times in concert 2005. And I met him a couple times.
This is as excellent as your other videos about Mr. Brown’s guitarists! I’m not a guitar expert and I’m amazed at the things you have researched and brought up here.
I have a couple of points on here though. The remake of I GOT YOU (I FEEL GOOD) was actually titled I FEEL GOOD on the album. DON’T TELL IT rehashed the SOUL POWER guitar riff. And when it was re-released on one of the compilations years later it’s the entire recording which is a lot longer and excellent.
Now I have to take umbridge with you about how you dismiss FOR GOODNESS SAKES LOOK AT THOSE CAKES. I know you’re coming at it more from a technical viewpoint than I am but I think it’s an excellent track and much of the album is good also especially A MAN UNDERSTANDS, which Mr. Brown used a part of the song in his 1980’s live versions of SEX MACHINE.
I also love the album SOUL
SYNDROME, which features my second favorite James Brown song of all time RAPP PAYBACK.
And also the album BRING IT ON had two excellent covers, TENNESSEE WALTZ and YOUR PRECIOUS LOVE. I noticed you didn’t care for those which is fine because everybody has different taste.
But again I was completely memorized how are you could actually research all of this and you do it with many other artists. It has to be a labor of love because I can’t even imagine somebody being able to do that! Absolutely amazing.
What a wonderful comment, Paul - thanks so much for taking the time! Thanks also for those corrections - I completely missed the Soul Power / Don' Tell It crossover. And yes, I did write off Cakes pretty swiftly, lol! Many of my reactions are quite knee jerk - unless it's a song/album I've heard before. So, I have no doubt that they'd all grow on me after more than a cursory listen.
Thanks again!
@@dannyeddyguitar oh bad about breaking with you like I was just giving my side of it there are a lot of big James Brown fans that I talk to all the time on the James Brown face page that didn’t like for good to say look at those cakes and other songs. but all that is minor compared to the work you did to research these guitarists. My head is swimming how anybody could even undertake such a task! And you do it for many other musicians also.
the "Hustle" album (Superbad... and Turn On The Heat... are amazing) as well as "Sex Machine Today" are great hidden gems in the catalogue.
Yeah! There is SO much dotted throughout the late 70s and early 80s that warrants further listening. Thanks, Marcus.
Thank God they didn't use Autotune back then! These songs are perfectly imperfect. I wouldn't change a note on them. Great video. Thanks!
True story!
great stuff
Thanks!
Wow great job
Cheers!!
2:18 - I’m pretty sure that photo is of Danny Whitten (guitarist of Crazy Horse with and without Neil Young) who passed away in 1972. If flashing that photo of him was intentional, what was your reasoning ?
@andoros.7017 damn Google image search! My intention was to show Joe Beck. I thought I'd found a rare pic of him in a cool, long-haired hippy phase. Lol
Danny Whitten was amazing with Neil Young in his prime 🎉everybody knows this is nowhere 🎉
@@terencestephenmoss2159 I always learn SO much when I put these clips out into the world!
At 1st I was like: Not again one of this … ⇒ Major-Force, however, has painted me up and I continued watching, VERY glad, I did√√
Thank you for sticking with me!!
Awesome! Thank you!
Thank YOU, Mr. Gregory! I've been enjoying your Instagram, mate. Still out there baring your soul!
@@dannyeddyguitar lol for life!
Dwayne Allman was a session musician with Muscle Shoals also.
@matrox D U A N E
True. Thanks, Matrox.
Hey. could that other guitarist be Alfonzo Kellum from Lakeland, Fl.
Hi Charles. No, Al Country Kellum last recorded for JB in 1969 to my knowledge. He never returned after the Maceo split.
34:20 A then unknown Eddie Murphy on Drums for JB.
Yoooo!! I think we should get a funk collab sometime soon!!
Thanks Brandon!
OK, a correction needs to be made. The original vinyl release of this album did NOT include musicians credits. The CD reissue probably contained credits, but not the original vinyl release.
Thanks, Tim - yes, there are always many, many corrections after I put one of these out into the world. If only I could afford some sort of research team, haha!
Finally, the 3rd episode!!!
Thanks for your patience, Joseph!
Wait a minute…..was that the JBs playin “Movin” by Brass Construction!?!?!?!?
No, I don't believe so. Entirely different line up according to Wikipedia. I hadn't heard of Brass Construction previously.
@@dannyeddyguitar JBs had a habit of playing different big recent funk songs as the opening act for JBs show. For instance at the “Rumble in the Jungle” in Kinsasha in 1974 they played the O’Jays “For the Love of Money”, and I have a VHS from Toronto in 1979 where they’re playing “Boogie Wonderland.” It was just interesting to hear Jimmy Nolan solo over “Movin” because “Movin” was always a Mid 70s Funk song that seemed to progress the James Brown groove.
@@dannyeddyguitar fantastic work on your series man!
@DiscoHank ohhhh! Yes! I now understand, and I believe your sensationally sharp ears to be correct!
Has your investigation into timing through SPAM isolation disproved my microswing theory (you said that our mutual hero - "Cheese" Martin - was consistently late - so no microswing)? Whose SPAM isolation do you use?
"SPAM" isolation?
@@dannyeddyguitar my little (not funny?) joke. I do know it's STEM. SPAM had added humourous value after Monty Python had done their whole SPAM thing. STEM is a bit dull, especially as it is used also as an acronym for "Science, Technology...." and whatever else which we need to force our children into because creativity, the arts etc. do not have any quantifiable financial value, and that's the only thing that's real.
Ahhhh, I see. For some tracks I was lucky enough to have the original stems sent to me by an amazing and intrepid collector. For others I simply used the new Stem Splitter function in Logic Pro.
where can I buy these James Brown Stems?
Hey Jerry, I have no idea if these things are for sale anywhere. I have been SUPER lucky because a wonderful supporter of my channel has shared some real rarities with me.
JB always had the best R&B/funk musicians in the business. Even back in the doo wop days he had the best doo woppers and musicians behind him. He was an amazing genius entertainer, was up there at the Wizard level - he was our Elvis...but was a better one, didn't need to hold a guitar either.
Thanks, Mario. Appreciate your comment.
This is kinda funny but sorta accurate. Then again most of today's POPleaves almost no record of the recording musicians but that seems not to be a dynamic story.
Thanks, interesting...
Do a story on the horns!!
If only I had half a clue about horn playing/players!
I'm one of them!!!
I seen a White dude in a Funkadelic brides of Funkenstein session . Bootsey's Rubber Band horn section was there too. Smoked My joint wit em..... This 1975 or 6 !!! I wouldn't be surprised if One of These cats was who I saw.
Wow! Cool story!
This was like Sugar Frosted Flakes
So glad you liked it!
its called soul
Indeed!
DID STEVE CROPPER EVER PAKY WITH JB?
Hi Daoud, No, I don't believe Steve ever played with JB.
Can't beat Catfish!
Make sure you check out ep 2, Brad. It's all about the Catfish era.
th-cam.com/video/H-_oaZ53u0k/w-d-xo.htmlsi=NglSqWW9bpyoDzpN
Cheese is my favorite FuNky Guitarist of all James guitar players ,He has that Funky swing feel from the Southern Black Church .✝️🎸
Absolutely. His feel is soooo perfect!
Deodato!
Superstrut!
@@dannyeddyguitar2001
👍
thank you for that, this is amazing job!!! just a question do you know the guitar player on this? IS THAT Bob Both?
th-cam.com/video/nf3rxh2K3ww/w-d-xo.html
Thanks Clément. I can't find out who that is! It's not Bob, and Bob doesn't know who it is. Even Tony Cook - who is drumming on that session - couldn't remember who he was!
QUITE A CONFESSIONNnnn ... ="what rock u crawled (down) under from ..."(?) ...4 a funk guittaahh expert ; the dude JOE JONES has 7 lps on Ptige (67-73), the main originator of the soul jazz genre concept (along w BN J.Smith + other B3 pioneers, WBD, SCT, MB, JHS) + 1 extr obscure lp on Joka "Sweet Back". Then quit the biz = crawled under a LOG. SUGGEST try find & hook up w to ask W H Y ?? Do a special analysis on his Wes-based approach developed/delivered further to funkistan direction (esp the Joka lp). No live footage, just the lps on Yt, no I-views. One of the biggest mysteries of the genre.
When the "acid jazz" -repackaging occured/hit the scene his oop albums skyrocketed to £250 and UP in british auctions such as Mole Jazz (now defunked), mid 90s.
PPS. DO A VID on "Thermonuclear Sweat" by Defunkt (1980) - a very much 4gotten funk organization nowadays, Joe Bowie. Saw in downtown Helsinki, 95, autographs by all members on my copy.
Thanks, Sulevi. I'll look into that stuff.
But thanks for your tremendous research efforts despite James Brown's efforts to put his band in the background (or behind it). I'm glad "Cheese" kept going through the '70's, I thought he was gone by about '73, and can make no sense of why he went at all.
Thanks again, Andy. Cheese's nephew suggested substance abuse issues had something to do with Hearlon's eventual departure. Very sad if true.
The FBI have a lot to answer for. If this makes no sense to you I'll say that a number of sources (including van Peebles' film "Panther" - which should be seen by everyone (not "Black Panther" which starts with a horrible racist scene)) the FBI - run by the racist J Edgar Hoover - got into bed with the mafia to flood black communities with drugs to drown the radicalism growing in those communities (including the Black Panther Party for Self Defence). They were successful in this, but the unintended consequence was the flooding of America with drugs - no matter what race. It is sure and certain that the BPP started to fade at this time, but that may also be a result of the brutal state sponsored murder of Fred Hampton (but the film about him - Judas and the Black Messiah - is an absolute travesty and a total misrepresentation) who was bringing movements from all communities together.
James Brown had no respect for his musicians.
Thanks, Leon. Yes, many of his actions bore this out.
James brown is sooooooo overrated!!!! His bands are sooooooo underrated!!!!
I definitely agree with your second statement. On the fence about the first...
Stop slapping yourknee. It ruins these great videos
Check. No more knee slapping. Appreciate the feedback.
Mumbo jumbo
Thanks, Antonio. For the channel interaction ;)
Thank God ! ❌⭕️❌⭕️ 🎸
Thanks YOU!
WHAT ZZZZ NEW ?
N O WAY ...(=by Joe Jones, the master of Single Line soul jazz gt ....) BYE
🇫🇮
Woah!! Thanks for turning me on to this guy! I had never heard 'Boogaloo Joe Jones'.