I am watching dreamgirls DVD and saw Eddie Murphy's character using a gun microphone.
I thought Prince or the AFKAP was the original person to use this.

Did Prince borrow this from someone else?

Didn't Wilson Pickett or one of those soul legends use a gun mic.

I didn't notice that in Dreamgirls! The 1st time I'd ever seen that was with Prince.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

was it Wilson Pickett?

prodigalfan said:

Speaking of Wicked Pickett and guns :

LittleBLUECorvette said:[quote]

prodigalfan said:

now that is when R&B music had soul.... when you could pull out your pistol (black folks called them "pistols" not "guns") and shoot at some mofo backstage at a show on the chitlin circuit.

mplsmike said:

prodigalfan said:

Chitlin Circuit owns.

You heard the about the gunfight with JB and another soulster, Joe Tex.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

no, but now I understand why Georgia state prison system retired JB's number. he was a MVP!

prodigalfan said:

yeah he stole it

prodigalfan said:

There also was the legendary night in the early '60s when Brown returned to Macon for a "homecoming show" at the City Auditorium. Joe Tex opened the concert and decided to have some fun at Brown's expense. Mimicking Brown's traditional closing bit, Tex walked out on stage wearing a ragged blanket as a cape. He did a picture-perfect imitation of a James Brown fall, except he grabbed his back as he reached his knees. He tangled himself up in the blanket and fought to get out as he sang, "Please, please, please ... get me out of this cape."
Brown was not amused. He found Tex at a Macon club later that night, where a young Otis Redding was performing. Brown walked in and gunshots erupted. Redding and the other musicians scrambled off the stage and took cover behind a piano, while Tex ran outside and hid in the woods until Brown left.


A DIFFERENT ACCOUNT OF THE GUNFIGHT

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The gunfight
Not long after his groundbreaking Live At The Apollo album was released in 1963, James Brown returned to Macon to play a "homecoming show" at the City Auditorium on a bill with Joe Tex. Two people in attendance were Newton Collier, who would go on to perform in Sam & Dave's band, and a local white singer named Wayne Cochran. Afterward, James Brown went out to Club 15 in east Macon where Johnny Jenkins and the Pinetoppers were performing. In addition to Jenkins, the band included Otis Redding.[/u]

Jessie Hancock: When a black band would play at the City Auditorium, they had a string upstairs on the balcony about middle ways down. Whites would sit on one side upstairs, and blacks would sit on the other. And no whites would come downstairs. But, man, them white people would be jumping upstairs! They'd be dancing! I didn't know white people could dance like that.

Newt Collier: Joe Tex could imitate anybody he wanted to. You know how James came out with the cape? Joe had one made up out of a raggedy blanket, with holes all in it. You know how James would break down and fall on his knees? Joe fell on his knees, and all of a sudden, he grabbed his back. He had the cape on and got all tangled up in it, and he was fighting to get out, singing, "Please, please, please, get me out of this cape." He just made a mockery of James. Here it was, James' homecoming show, and James didn't appreciate this at all. He went out to Club 15 after the show, and Joe Tex was out there. And James took a couple of shotguns, and I think six people got shot. James did most of the shooting, and Joe was running back behind the trees and bushes. So that was the end of the Joe Tex/James Brown revue.

Charles Davis: I was the last one to know what was happening. I'm playing drums with my eyes closed and getting down. The crowd was noisy, and I couldn't hear the shooting. By the time I figured out what had happened, everybody was on the floor, and I'm up there on the stage by myself.

Wayne Cochran: James and somebody else was in there, shooting across the room at each other and reloading. Didn't neither one of them hit the other. James ran outside, and I saw his tour bus pull out of the parking lot with him behind the wheel.

Johnny Jenkins: Seven people got shot. They were reloading and coming back in. Me and Otis, we were hiding behind a piano. A guy went around later, and I think he gave each one of the injured $100 apiece not to carry it no further. And that just quieted it down.

now this is how my people roll in Georgia.


I went to a funeral that broke out in gunfire just like you are describing here right outside the church, walking out following the casket and flowers.

They shut down the 4 lane street and had to dispatch the army (armed soldiers) to escort the "family" to the base cemetery.