Posted on 06/11/2012 12:45:26 PM PDT by mojito
I am so glad the article gave props to Bootsy Collins, the WONDERFUL Bass Player! :-)
Get off of that thing, UH!
Bartles and James Brown Wine Coolers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrw7azxfP5M
What is more conservative than a song with the title,
“I Don’t Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door I’ll Get It Myself)”
But I say we won't quit moving until we get what we deserve We have been bucked and we have been scorned We have been treated bad, talked about as just bones But just as it takes two eyes to make a pair, ha Brother we can't quit until we get our share
James Brown didn’t allow computer monitors in his home or office. He believed there were people on the other side, watching him...
Maybe he read too much George Orwell.
“And then, at the age of 52, Brownwho had been virtually drug-abstinent his whole lifetook a bewildering swan-dive into the depths of drugged-out madness: he contracted a heavy and coarsening addiction to PCP (a.k.a. Angel Dust), a drug avoided by all but the most desperate street addicts. Even pre-PCP, Brown seems always to have been in motion, a multi-tasking blur for whom downtime was just a different form of work. This sudden and escalating intake of PCP meant his legendary testiness began to shade into genuine paranoia. He thought the trees on his estate had been co-opted by the FBI to capture his speech.”
Thanks for the information, I have always loved the music of James Brown. It made you "feel good"
I met JB and a few of his band members in Athens (early 90's ?) It was after a "small bombing" incident during the elections in Athens.
I believe that after road Manager, Bud Hobgood died, AL SHARPTON took his place!!! UGH!! I’ve met JamesBrown many times and he was a very nice person.
“black conservative: anti-drug”
Well, in theory :)
James Brown was more of a do as I say, not as I do kind of guy. I’m surprised they didn’t call him “pro-family” because he had so many of them.
What’s racist about it? The “get what we deserve” part? I don’t think he’s talking about welfare, since he says later in the song:
“Now we demand a chance to do things for ourselves
We tired of beating our heads against the wall
And working for someone else”
Sounds like he just wanted equal opportunity to me.
His full message was hard work and dedication and starting your own businesses from within the black community. He was decidedly capitalist.
It was an affirmation message, if you actually got up offa that thing and went to work, you could make it. Not a hand out.
i had no idea. always loved his music. i could never remain seated when his songs would come on the radio. this was who i learned to dance to.
From my perspective it stems from the whole double standard with regard to race. Say It Loud (I'm Black And I'm Proud) pretty much gets a pass and is praised as an affirmation of sorts. Yet imagine the outcry from liberals if a singer penned a song with the title of Say It Loud (I'm White And I'm Proud).
Alright, that’s sensible. I don’t see either as racist, but the double standard IS racist.
L O V E Bootsy Collins.
Oh Yeahhhhhhhh! :-)
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