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December 31, 2006

James Brown Resurrects Himself To Do One More Encore, But Pallbearer/Roadie Forces Him Off Stage
— Ace

Damn, I was looking for this clip for days.

I don't know how often James Brown did this. I know it's often-parodied (Paul Schaffer spoofed it on Letterman), but maybe he just did it once.

Still, it's the stuff of show-business legend.

I liked his claim of being "The Hardest-Workin' Man In Show-Business." Putting the emphasis on hard work, not natural talent. Nice. Although, of course, he had an awful lot of talent, too.

He helped that claim along with this stunt, which is so cheesy it's perfect. The silliness starts at 4:30.

The clip shows helpful bandmates trying desperately to lead James Brown off the stage -- apparently concerned for his health, as he was giving "too much show" for one man's constitution to handle -- and the indefatigable Brown refusing their medical intervention, determined to give just a little more, no matter what effect it might have upon his very life.

Legendary.

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Posted by: Ace at 03:35 PM | Comments (31)
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1 That was awsome.

Posted by: Good Lt at December 31, 2006 04:05 PM (D0TMh)

2 I had the pleasure of doing the Lighting during James Brown's performance in the <i>Rocky IV</i> movie. He sang Living in America. It took about 10 takes to get the Cape thing right. A couple of times his 'assistant' threw the cape over his head. I can't remember how it finally played out in the movie but it was pretty funny during the filming.

I also got to do the Lighting for Weird Al's parody of the song, Living with a Hernia.
Same hotel, same stage.

Posted by: Retired Geezer at December 31, 2006 04:19 PM (/zHrd)

3 As Ricky Vincent (author of "The History of Funk" and host of the one listenable show on Berkeley's KPFA radio) might put it, that was preposterous.

Also recently re-uploaded to YouTube (after having been removed a while back) is JB's performance of Night Train from that same 1964 show.

I can't watch that one without (a) grinning and cackling like a retard out of sheer joy and amazement, and (b) recalling Howard Stern's (or was it Stuttering John's) question to JB many years back, about whether he ever worried about slamming his testicles against the floor when he did the splits.

Posted by: Alex at December 31, 2006 04:23 PM (fgyj8)

4 Here is hot clip from Soul Train:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlINnOsm_LY

Classic funk from the master. He will be missed.

Posted by: Shtetl G at December 31, 2006 04:50 PM (P3Bso)

5 I personally witnessed him do that in '65. Hot shit.

Posted by: CraigC at December 31, 2006 06:31 PM (Q5zkN)

6 I saw James Brown in the Augusta airport. He was wearing a purple suit. And he looked damned good.

Posted by: blaster at December 31, 2006 06:40 PM (b/ENZ)

7 Dude, it's OLD.

Posted by: lauraw at December 31, 2006 07:00 PM (DbybK)

8 Lauraw has the 1st comment of 2007 !

By Ace's broken clock anyway.

(She's also in Sixth place on the combined TailgatePools board.)

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Posted by: USCitizen at December 31, 2006 07:07 PM (1MjPi)

9 When I was in high school and part of a local legend garage band, we did that same act at a New Years Party for some doctors from a local hospital. Our lead singer went through the whole bit and finally, when we took him off the stage, a doctor came over and asked if we needed any drugs. :>)

James Brown was a genius - one song, eight words and showmanship.

Don't make 'em like that any more.

Posted by: Teafran at January 01, 2007 03:20 AM (PMXZd)

10 Thanks USCitizen!

You're nice.

Posted by: lauraw at January 01, 2007 05:12 AM (DbybK)

11 That same splendid schtick was parodied briefly in Eddie Murphy's immortal Hot Tub performance on SNL gosh knows when. (Thank you thank you, You Tube!) This, along with the old advert for the James Brown Car Alarm (from Blind Date?), has been stuck in my head since the sad news at Christmas.

Posted by: Linda Morgan at January 01, 2007 09:17 AM (xcywG)

12 Blast! Links don't work when http: is in there twice. Here's that Hot Tub thing. I hope.

Posted by: Linda Morgan at January 01, 2007 09:24 AM (xcywG)

13 Night Train: Glad to see that link's back up on YouTube. I posted that here in an open thread a couple months ago - the things amazing. Raw, unyielding Entertainment. It's hard to imagine how some 16 year old schoolgirl sitting in that audience would have interpreted James Brown, if she could even compare it to another act.

Both "Night Train" and "Please" come from the TAMI show. Story surrounding is that Brown was extremely pissed that he wsn't the closer, that the Rolling Stones would come on after him. Supposedly he vowed "No one follows James Brown!" and went out and gave that performance.

Many years later one of the Stones was interviewed about their biggest mistakes/regrets. He said it was following James Brows on the TAMI show.

Posted by: Ray Midge at January 01, 2007 09:50 AM (rH3Ei)

14 He did it every time he appeared on the Tonight Show way back in the mid-60s. I remember, I was watching. It was great. All the black kids at my HS would talk about him the next day. White kids too. In the huddles at football practice we would all do imitations of him and laugh. Even the coaches would laugh.

Posted by: Ed Snate at January 01, 2007 09:52 AM (S0Fpr)

15 Yeah, this used to be a regular part of his act. Watching that clip brings back memories.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 01, 2007 11:15 AM (dA8LR)

I know I'm late to the party, but this schtick was parodied by "Weird Al" Yankovic in the video for "Living with a Hernia."

It was great. I mean, Yankovic was dressed like Brown during the whole thing. During parts, he's struggling with bowling and other everyday activities On stage, he collapses, when his bandmates tried to usher him off.

It worked so beautifully.

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