Me too! Or at least audio. Would love to hear Wagoner's band tackle "Brand New Bag."
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
i kind of love james' forays into the country music songbook -- his "your cheating heart" is killer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPspFzyb_dE
― tylerw, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
http://moviepilot.com/stories/1097384-james-brown-the-godfather-of-soul-gets-his-own-biopic?stamp=39036&subscribe_to=697742&utm_campaign=james-brown-the-godfather-of-soul-gets-his-own-biopic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=fb-stream-post
― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Sunday, 1 September 2013 19:18 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vptGSENcXeI
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 14:24 (nine years ago) link
I'm not wowed by this trailer. I don't feel like he captures James Brown's forceful personality.
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 14:25 (nine years ago) link
It looks like a typical, by-the-numbers biopic, but I'm a total sucker for that kind of thing, and I can't wait to see it.
I don't think the trailer gives enough of a sense of how much Boseman inhabits James (or doesn't); he seems ok based on the clips, but not overwhelming.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 14:34 (nine years ago) link
I'm really tired of that hazy look that always gets used for films about Respectable Black Folk In The 40s/50s
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 15:58 (nine years ago) link
One thing I think they missed by using Boseman is that James Brown is grizzled and a little bit ugly. He's way too pretty and clean looking.
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 16:00 (nine years ago) link
biopics are uniformly horrible
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 16:02 (nine years ago) link
I heard this recently. First few seconds is basically drum'n'bass. Damn, the drummers he had.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6l5_FxjlaQ
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 16:10 (nine years ago) link
only thing missing from that biopic trailer is the memory of a dead brother haunting him from the past
― marcos, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link
I would be okay if every copy of every musical biopic ever was erased and replaced with Walk Hard
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
is that Craig Robinson as St. Clair lol
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 18:13 (nine years ago) link
He's Maceo!
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 18:16 (nine years ago) link
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yea seems hollywood refuses to make films w/ primarily african-american casts that are both 1) in a contemporary setting and 2) marketed not just to black folk
― marcos, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 18:20 (nine years ago) link
haha sorry I couldn't tell what era that particular bit was supposed to be from
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
I've never understood why "I've Got Money" never makes into the "James Brown invents funk" mythos
― The Reverend, Thursday, 26 June 2014 09:38 (nine years ago) link
That track might be the single rawest thing he did. Not just the supercharged drums, but those ugly blues chords just hanging there.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 26 June 2014 09:39 (nine years ago) link
It is noted as such in "The One" iirc
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 26 June 2014 15:53 (nine years ago) link
everyone should read The One, it is a great bio.
― tylerw, Thursday, 26 June 2014 15:55 (nine years ago) link
^ this.
Love the part where he's on a plane making a shaky emergency landing. An associate next to him is shaking, sweating, praying, crying, and James says to them, "Hey, don't worry; as long as I'm on this plane, it can't crash."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 26 June 2014 16:01 (nine years ago) link
everything post-80s is such a major bummer
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 26 June 2014 16:07 (nine years ago) link
James Brown in Frankie Avalaon movie Ski Partyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_xBT_xavzM
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 27 July 2014 14:19 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/movies/james-brown-is-celebrated-in-get-on-up.html?hpw&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpHedThumbWell&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well
Nelson George re new James Brown movie, upcoming James Brown doc, and James himself
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 27 July 2014 14:21 (nine years ago) link
x-post--That's James in 1965...Awesome
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 July 2014 13:29 (nine years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 28 July 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
"Too Funky in Here" was great though
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 2 August 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
Search and Destroy: James Brown
If you wanna jump back and forth between most recently updated James Brown threads
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 2 August 2014 16:50 (nine years ago) link
Let Robert Christgau come in and do the popcorn.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
Wait, curmudgeon is Syd Nathan?
― The Wu-Tang Declan (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
Ha, Christgau thinks so but I am not acknowledging it
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 20:34 (nine years ago) link
Mick Jagger is responsible for a lot of horrible shit but I gotta hand it to him, he really did this HBO JB doc right
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
+1
That thing is a treasure trove of footage and insights.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 21:54 (nine years ago) link
yeah I am so so so glad to see something like this where the emphasis is all on actual footage/interviews w the musicians and people involved plus detailed breakdowns of the music itself (as opposed to generic "I remember the first time I heard Sex Machine, I fell out of my chair" reminiscences)
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 22:03 (nine years ago) link
was a little bummed that it basically stopped in 1970, but so many great stories - Melvin pulling a gun on JB, Clyde talking about how he hates Funky Drummer
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link
i didn't even know this was a thing! looking forward to seeing it.
interesting that he helped bankroll both the biopic (which was balls) and a documentary
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:27 (nine years ago) link
also, surely mick jagger is responsible for at least as much awesome shit as horrible shit
i mean, when he gets to the pearly gates who knows how it'll all tally up but...
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:28 (nine years ago) link
he was always the worst thing about the Rolling Stones and has been incomprehensibly awful for 30 years
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:29 (nine years ago) link
but, y'know, take it to the Mick Jagger thread
i'll agree to disagree about the 1st part
re the 2nd part: "incomprehensibly"?
fwiw there's that documentary about their early 80s era and jagger has some actually insightful observations about the stones's music--like, thoughts on how they wrote songs vs. how they arranged them in different eras--but about 60 seconds into it you can see this look flash across his face, it's a combination of "i'm sure this is boring to everyone else" and "i'm using too many brain cells explaining this when i could just smile and say stupid shit" and then sure enough he smiles and says stupid shit.
in other words there is a really intelligent person somewhere in there that just doesn't have to show himself very often.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link
xpost
ok, sry
I really want to see this, and I was hoping it was available through an avenue other than HBO at the moment, but it doesn't appear to be.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:33 (nine years ago) link
what is the title?
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:35 (nine years ago) link
"incomprehensibly"?
as in "I cannot even wrap my brain around how bad it is, it is so bad"
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
it's called MR. DYNAMITE
oh, they got alex gibney to direct. i wish i could see this. :(
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
that "night james brown saved boston" doc is incredible, i recommend that to everybody
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:43 (nine years ago) link
^^^ that one is tremendous.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:46 (nine years ago) link
one of the clips from that night that shows up in the doc is so perfect - JB talking about how he used to shine shoes outside a radio station, first for a nickel, then for 6 cents, then for a dime, and then "now I own that radio station. THAT'S black power". It's like you can trace all of hip hop's aspirational wealth obsession to that one moment.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link