James Brown was the Godfather of Soul but he was also a good organ

player,harmonica player and a drummer.

I've seen him play these 3 instruments live and he had

an instrumental Organ solo albums.

Some of the classic riffs are played by James himself

on many of his classics (Hot Pants)

So can you postva link of James playing instruments.

What did he play?on whhich records and what do you think of him as Instrumentalist?

He played drums on Night Train, Watermelon Man, piano on Oh baby Don't You Weep

LittleBLUECorvette said:

He played drums on Night Train, Watermelon Man, piano on Oh baby Don't You Weep

A very nice in the pocket drumming

Harmonica?

rialb said:

thebanishedone said:

James Brown was the Godfather of Soul but he was also a good organ

player,harmonica player and a drummer.

I've seen him play these 3 instruments live and he had

an instrumental Organ solo albums.

Some of the classic riffs are played by James himself

on many of his classics (Hot Pants)

So can you postva link of James playing instruments.

What did he play?on whhich records and what do you think of him as Instrumentalist?

Those instrumental organ albums are great comedy records.

Mong said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

rialb said:

Harmonica?

Yep

Off the top of my head I can not think of a single James Brown song that features harmonica.

rialb said:

thebanishedone said:

rialb said:

Off the top of my head I can not think of a single James Brown song that features harmonica.

james brown played harmonica solo's on his concerts i've seen it.

I just find it odd that he played harmonica live but very rarely, if ever, in the studio.

James had a healthy ego and if he had even rudimentary skills on the harmonica I suspect that he would have wanted to show them off.

rialb said:

thebanishedone said:

Mong said:

Those instrumental organ albums are great comedy records.

why ?

Er, just listen to his playing.

In small doses I quite like his organ playing but over the course of an album I can see how it could get a bit tiring.

Nothing wrong to his playing here:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...VeN0LWYv70

http://www.youtube.com/wa..._MBY344x8Y

here's the instrumental organ solo by James.

he ain't no Jimmy Smith but his playing is very fluid

This song right here, "THE KING" is bad ass!!!

All these JB is either on Organ or Piano or Drums

Come on, his organ playing is atrocious. Don't know why some of you are trying to lick his dead ass. He was the world's funkiest man ever, but he was a poor instrumentalist.