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Vocal Competition between the two late James Brown and Wilson Pickett The two soul greats are awesome.
James is more funky Wilson is more gospel funk soul | |
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neoretro7 said: The two soul greats are awesome.
James is more funky Wilson is more gospel funk soul tA  Tribal Disorder
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I read Wilson Pickett pullout a gun on James Brown back in the day on the chitlin' circuit at the Apollo Theatre. JB then pulled out a gat on him.  PRINCE: Always and Forever
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LittleBLUECorvette said: I read Wilson Pickett pullout a gun on James Brown back in the day on the chitlin' circuit at the Apollo Theatre. JB then pulled out a gat on him.
Never heard that one but it happened with Joe Tex... 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. 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. http://atlanta.creativelo...d%3A181542 ... 
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Joe Tex and James Brown hated each other, badly.
I found the gun story: I heard a story from a local DJ today who interviewed Wilson Pickett about a few years back,and the story was about when he and James Brown were on the same playbill for a show and they got into an arguement about a woman that both were trying to conquer. Wilson pulled out a gun and shot at James...James pulled out and shot at Wilson with his gun...all with people around backstage at the Apollo! Now that mustve been something to see. PRINCE: Always and Forever
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LittleBLUECorvette said: Joe Tex and James Brown hated each other, badly.
I found the gun story: I heard a story from a local DJ today who interviewed Wilson Pickett about a few years back,and the story was about when he and James Brown were on the same playbill for a show and they got into an arguement about a woman that both were trying to conquer. Wilson pulled out a gun and shot at James...James pulled out and shot at Wilson with his gun...all with people around backstage at the Apollo! Now that mustve been something to see. It's a good thing they were all such bad shots. 
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theAudience said: neoretro7 said: The two soul greats are awesome.
James is more funky Wilson is more gospel funk soul tA Tribal Disorder
http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431 Thanks for that one TA, it's nothing like seeing two legends on stage | |
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