I was listening to a live James Brown recording last week, I believe it was Revolution of the Mind a/k/a Live at the Apollo Volume 3, and to my astonishment JB covered Soul Man & Tighten Up. Never really took note of these tracks before but I wonder if P is trying to tell us something. James was pretty much on his way out during the time of this recording and it plays like a going away / it's been real celebration... kinda like Prince's concerts are playing out for this tour. Is the park really up for sale? Doesn't seem too far out there... abandoning past works and abandoning the place that they were created in. With the internet he could operate NPGMC from Egypt if he wanted to so I wonder if our old boy will be going into seclusion after this tour... perhaps fatherhood.

think any deeper and you'll fall through straight to china, man.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Hey whaddaya expect... it's Sunday. I need to take it to Church

marcdeondotcom said:

From what I experienced at the show last night, it felt like Prince was saying HELLO.

Prince isn't going anywhere.

Even if Prince had every intent in the world to stop recording and playing, do you reckon he'd be able to stop? The man said himself 'I'm so funky I can't sleep with myself'.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

roflmao

OMG, Dansa...you've GOT to let me put that in my sig, puhleeeeze???
[This message was edited Sun Apr 11 12:04:29 2004 by SquarePeg]

SquarePeg said:

sure.

I just hope he's around in Summer of 2007. & still in da music biz.

Somebody better tap James Brown on the shoulder and tell him this news cos he was playing in Melbourne last week.

Stop making music and do what, work at the grocery store? Over the loud speaker " Attention shoppers we have a sale on Boca burger this week 2 for $5. In the frozen food dept. aisle 12". (BTW he's still dressed like Prince...from Purple Rain.)
Nah, man Prince is musician for life.

bkw said:

There's James Brown and then there is James BrOWn

James Brown is still Wife Beating and doing Sex Machine. Prince is Not On his Way Out or getting Old or going into seclusion. The man is working like a Dog. Ya Crazy??? The Man is Totally Getting it On ...BIg TIME >>>FUNKY!

Zelaira said:

Aight, aight. Ya'll are missing me here. No doubt Prince will be writing music twenty, thirty, perhaps even forty years from now. All I'm saying is that he has been hitting it hard with ONA and now Musicology

It just feels a bit odd.. ya know.. like this really will be the last time that we hear the hits.

marcdeondotcom said:

What are you talking about? Some of James` greatest stuff was still to come - "Payback", "Hell" as well as most of the amazing JB`s material like "Doin' it to death", "Damn right I am somebody"... that`s some of his funkiest shit! He was far from being "on his way out" at that time ...

marcdeondotcom said:

If it's the last go-round for the hits, I think that's healthy. Maybe it will leave lots of room for all sorts of new things. Perhaps it will force him to really reach deep and drop something that will just destroy everybody. Who knows, he might have it already planned. For all we know, the entire Musicology project could have been thought of years ago.

Ubiquity said:

yes, yes but the standard james material. it's like revolution of the mind was his musicology.
i totally agree and some of my all time favorite jb cuts are from the people era. Fred Wesley, Hank Ballard, Lynn Collins. Vicki Anderson. The JB's Monorail has to be the illest groove to ever hit wax.
I guess the word is not so much goodbye but transition. And if I'm right, the best is yet to come from Prince.

marcdeondotcom said:

You're so dramatic, you should be a chick. No offense ladies....

chookalana said:

get him ladies

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

thank you

check the new sig

marcdeondotcom said:

I still don't get you. "Payback" for instance was one of JB's most commercial and successful hits. Besides, he didn't even have success internationally until the early 70s. The peak of James Brown's global fame was 1974 -- three years AFTER your estimated "transition".

Ubiquity said:

okay you win...
i didn't brush up on my facts and it doesn't help that i have nearly 3 dozen jb discs. i turned 3 in '74 so no, i don't know.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

well said.

marcdeondotcom said:

I didn't set you straight to make you look like a fool. I just thought that the point of your original post was weak in the first place, and using an example that was simply not correct didn't help.

I DO not believe this for one second, he said in IVs its to make room for new music.
U should notice that a similar thing was said in 1993 and look how much he's done since!

PurpleKnight said:

And then some!

It's all cyclical in my opinion. For a few years he wasn't playing any older "Prince" material except for a couple of things -- remember 1994/5 shows when "7" or "Letitgo" was all you got for "old" material. Then, the "hits" were back, and haven't really gone anywhere. After Musicology, he'll play less and slightly more obscure old stuff for a while. Then a couple years later, he'll play "Purple Rain" for the first time since 2004!

What's up with the Summer of 2007?

Handclapsfingasnapz said: