Nikka? really? i don't see that, i see alot of Janis Joplin in Nikka when she's playing live. But Nikka is a grab-bag of influences, so maybe.
Prince to an extent with the splits, but MJ had JB down more. Even JB acknowledged that in his autobiography. Mike was hitting the splits in his Motown audition and the Jacksons variety show, covering him as a kid in concert, plus lot of other JB inspired shit that folks conveniantly forget about.
I agree, I was referring specifically to the microphone pole. Michael definitely did a lot of the leg work, not the microphone pole though. Prince did a lot of splits and microphone handling and tossing.
Nikka's singing style is like Janis - true - but ff you see her Like a Feather performance, you'll see James influence.
See 2:35
Im going to hunt down that Documentary PDogz posted too. Passed me by til now.
Sad we can only imagine what he must've been like when he was in his 20's. LIke Sugar ray robinson
I know right? I mean he was bad enough in his 30s but the years between 1956 and 1962 we hardly know about and 1962 in particular because that's when he held that legendary Apollo concert and there's little footage of James in the very early '60s.
Definitely a sad thing. I wish there was some way we could have reversed technology evolution/devolution so that it could be we'd know everything about artists/entertainers from the 1920's/1960's & know less and less about artists starting around 2000 lol.
He was chubby in later years but he was a skinny thing when he started out. We don't have a lot of photos of that. He got muscular around the '70s though if you meant that lol
Before watching this documentary, I had no idea that Phillipe Wynn from The Spinners was The Drill Sergent from Funkadelic's "Uncle Jams Army". .
I know right? I mean he was bad enough in his 30s but the years between 1956 and 1962 we hardly know about and 1962 in particular because that's when he held that legendary Apollo concert and there's little footage of James in the very early '60s.
Definitely a sad thing. I wish there was some way we could have reversed technology evolution/devolution so that it could be we'd know everything about artists/entertainers from the 1920's/1960's & know less and less about artists starting around 2000 lol.
James Brown was the greatest....there's all this talk about Elvis and the Beatles, but for me JB was at least equaly as important!
Had the great pleasure to witness him when he toured Germany in 2004...he made a lot of shout-outs to Ray Charles during the show who passed away a few weeks earlier...would have never thought that James himself would follow him so soon....he was still oozin' with energy!
James Brown was the greatest....there's all this talk about Elvis and the Beatles, but for me JB was at least equaly as important!
Had the great pleasure to witness him when he toured Germany in 2004...he made a lot of shout-outs to Ray Charles during the show who passed away a few weeks earlier...would have never thought that James himself would follow him so soon....he was still oozin' with energy!
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Indeed. IMO he's the most influential American composer of the 20th century. Like all the things the musical material that make-up the funk genre have always been there in some form or fashion but He was undoubtedly the one who consolidated these ideas and popularized it...ideas mind you that have had a incredible impact on most all subsequent western art music; pop or otherwise.
Definitely a sad thing. I wish there was some way we could have reversed technology evolution/devolution so that it could be we'd know everything about artists/entertainers from the 1920's/1960's & know less and less about artists starting around 2000 lol.
I'd pay 4 that........
lol.
His first televised performance was in October of 1964.
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That's what I figured lol