James Brown-Ain't It Funky Now

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[@superjojo99]

Phelps "Catfish"Collins play here probably the most funky guitar solo of the story of the funk ! Extraordinary !

[@chrisedwards3214]

When James says play you play you tots to give up the funk

[@MrRed-yj3my]

Yes! Beautiful!!

[@sheilawells100]

I've heard the expression shredding applied to guitar players. Now I know what it means.

[@gaffle-411]

What’s the time stamp?

[@organisespace9347]

and Mr. Brown is REALLY into it!

[@ghanasoul]

No pyro technics, no 20 dancers on the stage, no costume changes, no flashing lights. Just pure funk and talent! Thank u JB for showing us what a real live show should look like.

[@lenini056]

Um P Funk had all that and still had pure funk and talent.

[@ghanasoul]

@@lenini056 VERY true. Ha. They were sellin theatrics as well as funk though.

[@WillieDuitt1]

@@lenini056 The powder keg of the Collins brothers honed their skills with Mr. Brown then took it to P Funk

[@lenini056]

@@WillieDuitt1 What's the point since I love them both. :)

[@heintmeyer2296]

That young gentleman playing the bass guitar is certainly quite talented.

[@calik026]

Bootsy Collins on Bass guitar

[@jessejordache1869]

And rather charismatic too. What IS that young man's name?

[@wendymitchell968]

Bootsy collins​@@jessejordache1869

[@JoseyWales93]

Fred Wesley made that trombone talk. Funkiest stuff you'll ever see in your life.

[@Galidi1969]

This makes me cry it's so beautiful. James really loved Catfish and Bootsy.

[@Wally-H]

Actually he was jealous of Bootsy's stage presence. He didn't love them enough to pay the wages they deserved (same for the rest of the band). James was a genius but the way he treated these guys was appalling.

[@Galidi1969]

@@Wally-H That's too bad. I've been watching the videos or Bootsy talking about it. Man I want to hang out with him and play some guitar lol. Seems like one of the best people.

[@HardBlackBoy]

@@Wally-H If he was jealous then why did he let him do a whole bass solo and even let him be applauded? Hell, he even wanted him to be applauded recognizing he had talent too and deserved the spotlight just as much as him, that's why he shared it to him. He did the same for all of his musicians. He wasn't selfish. Why do you people love making things up? The reason James fired him and Catfish is because they constantly did acid/LSD. They were straight up addicts and it was clearly compromising the band when Bootsy started hallucinating in the middle of a concert. Despite James telling them to not do it while they're working and telling them he doesn't wanna catch them doing it he still did it. So in reality, Bootsy and Catfish disrespected his trust he had for them. Plus I understand why James was worried about the LSD, that stuff is bad for you in general and it will fuck up a concert if you do it before you go on stage. Even Bootsy admitted in multiple interviews and a documentary that he disrespected JB's trust. It hurts because he was a father to him, a huge father figure. But fathers gotta punish their kids too. It's just like how God didn't want Adam to eat the forbidden fruit and yet he still ate it.

[@Wally-H]

@@HardBlackBoy Do your homework. This is not my opinion, it is known facts. If he wasn't selfish, why did he keep all the royalties from the songs he co-wrote with Bobby Byrd, who ended up suing him? This was a man who literally rescued James life, plucking him out of the state pen and giving him the chance to let his talent shine. James repaid him by not paying him his dues. Another example, in the 80's when hip hop groups started using the break from the funky drummer, James creamed off all the royalties. The drummer who played it, Clyde Stubblefield, got nothing. When Clyde became ill a few years back, he was so poor that musicians in his local city had to have a whip round to raise the money for his medical treatment. Clyde was often asked to play the 'funky drummer' beat and he refused to do it properly because he came to resent it due to James greed. If you watch videos of him playing in his later years you will find either he doesn't play it, or he plays elements of it but deliberately, not correctly. It was his most famous work but there isn't a single video of him playing it between the time he left the band and the day he passed. It's laughable to base your whole premise of James 'not being selfish' on the fact he allowed his band members to play solos. This was James making the most of their talent and he was happy to do that but in Bootsy's case, over time the press started talking about him a little too much and James wasn't so happy with that. Bootsy is a very tall man and he had a real presence on stage that somehow seemed to eclipse James himself and people talked about it. Brown didn't mind his band members being talented, or well liked, indeed he even allowed some of them like Marva Whitney and of course Bobby Byrd to make albums with their own names on the cover but he still owned all the rights to their music as well and of course, their fame must never eclipse that of the 'Godfather'. Apart from Maceo Parker, most of his musicians left his employ at one time or another because they weren't being paid what they deserved. He would also fine them for making mistakes on stage. I know what happened to the Collins brothers - I remember Bootsy once saying he was playing live on stage and he was so out of it that he thought the neck of his bass guitar had turned into a snake - that doesn't make me wrong in what I am saying, nor does it mean I 'make stuff up.' It is a plain fact that James Brown was a greedy man who didn't pay any royalties to the people around him who made a huge contribution towards producing this wonderful music, even when it was they rather than James who had created it. I'm a huge fan of James music, but I'm not going to sugar-coat what he did through some sort of blind fandom. James was wrong in what he did and all of his former band members say the same thing in interviews.

[@LonnellRich]

​@@HardBlackBoybut he ended up doing pcp 😅

[@205breed]

Catfish KILLED IT!

[@jaboogwah]

This is the funkiest song in the history of mankind. You can all go home now

[@lionofjudah2999]

If only I can find where I parked my Merkaba!

[@Kassiusday]

jaboogwah they might have lost their home key as song was too funky too groovy PUT THEM IN KO mode !!

[@robertv9448]

no shit! That bass groove just powers through the whole time! And those horns, in the pocket!

[@TheShabazzProduction]

I hear you jaboogwah, Yawl can all go home now, you were full entertained, you got your monies worth, gone on home. You witnessed some shit you will remember for the rest of your life! Your money was well spent.

[@01Waller]

Yes. Yes it is.

[@nickfanzo]

Every time I see James Brown footage it is simply amazing .

[@charlotte87x]

❤ same

[@ДмитрийДунаев-е1л]

And legs becomes uncontorable.

[@iratucker1632]

Catfish! killed it!

[@ikeben400]

Damn straight...

[@blacktastic1]

Ira Tucker He straight caught a body on this shit...

[@RJNumber45]

word

[@stanleydavis2549]

The whole band was terrific

[@jessejordache1869]

I LOVE Catfish Collins. So underrated.

[@kermitwilliams3970]

GOOD GAWD... The entire band is tight AF!!!

[@kermitwilliams3970]

Fred (Trombone) Phelps "Catfish" (Lead/Rhythm🎸) William "Bootsy" (Bass 🎸) James (Organ)

[@highstimulation2497]

practice makes perfect.

[@PookieQDB]

I applaud James Brown for letting some of the musicians take a little bit of the shine too. If I had a backing band as tight as JB’s or The Famous Flames I certainly would.

[@YogsenForfoth]

Too bad he treated them like crap.

[@PookieQDB]

@@YogsenForfoth true

[@KerkinWayno]

Bootsy Bad Ass ...the only one who solos the crowd went crazy after and he looks like a child in this clip. Bass god.. Catfish did his thang as well them Collins boys were the truth

[@davidferrara1105]

+Wayno Soze Catfish was my friend. Sad that he died.

[@dailyflash]

They both only stayed a couple years with James.

[@gotham61]

Less than a year

[@Charles-tt3dr]

Wayno Soze ... Bootsy said James didn't like when that happened. It must have happened more than once, because James started belittling him. In my opinion James was at his baddest when the Collins brothers were there.

[@sofbensi6581]

BOOTSY 18 years old

[@leoneadyjr2556]

For those of you who didn't know, Before the Brothers Johnson There was Bootsy and his Brother "Catfish" Collins

[@FrankRuebcke]

I was there. thank you father. I was 16 then

[@jessejordache1869]

Looking at Bootsy, all I can think of is "damn, it must have been really humid in there."

[@MorningView4]

I'm not saying there aren't good concerts/performances currently...but stuff like this on another level. It doesn't matter what genre. These guys played with such a savage passion. Incredible stuff.

[@TomHuckACAB]

Nobody playing today can touch this stuff.

[@TheShabazzProduction]

Can you imagine being in a world of music without the creations of James Brown? It would be dreadfully incomplete and lacking. You look at all of them 'off into a thing', you look at that smile of satisfaction on Brown's face! When this came out on vinyl I ran it into the ground, so bad the black vinyl turned white.

[@jessejordache1869]

I discovered James Brown the way a lot of people my generation did -- through rap. I found a website that was a database of beats used in every hip hop song they had, and this was the mid-90s, so it went like: James Brown: Pass the peas James Brown: Greedy Man James Brown: Funky President And so on.

[@lordnasty8160]

Those JB's laying down some dirty mop funk!!!

[@anthony11893]

What a proformince ,,,, look how James goes into that musical trance smiling just digging it catfish destroyed it and you see it in James face

[@fernandoschuindt1665]

Bootsy's bass solo is from another world! Didn't knew that James play organ hahaha, awesome.

[@francislloyd9459]

Outta this world!!!!!!

[@d820m]

the hardest ONE ever hit

[@reagan-s-parrot]

Best funkband james ever had! Sensational!

[@Tidy-2000]

Them boys jamming!

[@mikechecka292]

Bootsy killin it! Catfish killin it! Fred Wesley killin it! James Brown on the organ...killin it....

[@SeerTrulth]

For you young folks, that's Catfish Collins on guitar -- Bootzilla's brother!

[@smcathe8754]

Yelp....RIP CATFISH COLLINS

[@larrycreature7292]

Absolutely killing it, best version of the JB band in my opinion, cosmic stuff.

[@OldRunt]

Thanks.

[@swampdaddy]

I have that same Vox Ultrasonic Catfish uses. He was better with his.

[@christopherreed2694]

For a time bootsy's idol

[@PhilipJames69]

Good to see James throwing down on that B3. Thank you for posting this iconic performance!!

[@TheShabazzProduction]

Putting on a damn clinic of blackness in soul. Some of the baddest shit you'll ever experience.

[@sabinuki33]

This feed worth something...in the live album we don't have Bootsy's solo and here it is. Thank you so much for posting !

[@chrisbowman1791]

good gracious! thankful for cameras!!

[@televinv8062]

Off the charts, powerhouse funk...thank you Godfather et al

[@johannbachmann4532]

Brother Brown R.I.P, tore that organ up❤

[@slimgoody8577]

YOUNG BOOTSY COLLINS !!!!

[@youssefantoine348]

James Brown a toujours fait des super concert a Paris Olympia

[@crlaw75]

I bet James is thinking during Bootsy's bass solo, "that's funky."

[@taku319able]

+crlaw75 definitely

[@micahb2627]

Greatest thing of all time.

[@deloresshephard463]

So Funky !!! 8 - 14 - 22 ❤❤❤❤❤

[@AngelEyes_55]

One of the best live performances ever, hands down. Why modern musicians (especially blacks) don't seek to build on this kind of music history is a mystery.

[@iconoclastic12007]

I work with dozens of young African Americans and they are less likely to know about this music than white kids

[@AngelEyes_55]

@@iconoclastic12007 wow that is a surprise, genuinely I am surprised. Are they not interested in musical history and culture? And incredibly important figures in black history?

[@rook3065]

Y'all listening to the wrong radio station IF YOU DONT THINK THAT THERE ARE NOT BLACK YOUTH JAMMIN WITH INSTRUMENTS.

[@AngelEyes_55]

@@rook3065 Point me in the right direction, I'm intrigued to listen.

[@chee-chee9916]

Still listening, the best of the best.

[@mariolicitri1763]

Hey fellas, it’s too funky here!

[@sirorblegasse-payne2944]

Mister James Brown!

[@danc4320]

An entertainer at his best In the bath at the moment, getting my funk on!!!!!

[@mynameisrobbie2702]

Never knew james played the piano.

[@josemariadasilva5411]

todos eram obrigado a saber dominar os istrumentos por isso os musicos antigos sao os melhores

[@01Waller]

Bootsy is flying high here, in more ways than one, as well as his brother.

[@jasoneducator]

Very hard to overstate how important any live recordings of the "Bootsy Band" on youtube are. James has to give the musicians more freedom to solo than he would under the Pee Wee bands and he was probably more dictatorial when Maceo and the Macks returned once they couldn't make it big as solo artists. Maceo's fine as a solo now, and got the last laugh.

[@arceniaallen6360]

Thanks for posting. I love James Brown.

[@jasondawson8938]

Sometimes people dramatize their emotions and personal opinions. But it's things in life that just don't like, no matter what age,religion or national origin. Math and music and a child's smile. To me James Brown embodies all the above. He is truly the greatest ever

[@freein2339]

Coldblooded horn line....

[@taku319able]

damn funky!

[@deloresshephard463]

Still Listening ❤❤❤ 8 - 9 - 23

[@falanajerido875]

Love when he allowed his band to take over

[@fbahena9316]

Would of loved to be there they went ham!

[@UNDFTDGordon]

The man had more hits to his name than Ali.

[@taku319able]

+UNDFTDGordon definitely

[@spke532]

3:15 that dude is jammin in the back!!!!!!

[@eleventy9x330]

spke532 YAAAASSSSSSS

[@WillieDuitt1]

They were all JAMMIN'

[@TheShabazzProduction]

They all know they are kicking ass and turning the house out!!!!!!!

[@nyterpfan]

I think Bootsy was only 19 at the time of this performance--holy smokes was he something!! (Laying down those HEAVY grooves!!)

[@robertv9448]

His bands! Lawd, his bands were tight!

[@cburns3256]

Been playing guitar for 50 years. However my all time dream gig starts at 0:49

[@Warp75]

Ain't don't get any better

[@taku319able]

WARP 75 oh yeah

[@KyOte13]

Those Collins Boys R Sumptin Else

[@scotthanson3459]

Solo starting at :43 one of my faves.

[@TheRecordLibrary]

Collins power!

[@tagacale1733]

Kids these days needs to get schooled in the real soul music.

[@douglasjones2570]

Thank you!

[@pdddddp1]

STANK !!!

[@magovenor]

+pdddddp1 sho' 'nuff funkeeeeeeeeeeee

[@manouchkas.4922]

1:46 Just sick

[@blacktastic1]

CATFISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@mrimpressive1356]

Your committing blasphemy

[@sofbensi6581]

THE BRST OF THE BEST ... No JAMES no PRINCE ,no MJ,No Rap... CATFISH guitar killaaar

[@stevenobrien595]

Fckn Jabo just killing it on that groove.

[@Kassiusday]

THE RHYTMIC GUITAR AND HORNS ( In my opinion ) GIVE THE SPECIFIC ATMOSPHERE !! In this so unique song !!!!!! Bass giving some groove to help those who want to dance !!!

[@texasviking1]

Without the bass there’s no funk

[@Kassiusday]

@@texasviking1 yes agree no bass no funk !! And why so often on stage camera 🎥 never paid attention to bass player unless is Marcus Miller , or maybe Jaco pastorius .. so ungrateful !& misleading people… even when the baseline is essential they barely pay any attention ..,,

[@texasviking1]

@@Kassiusday as a bass player myself I’ve just learned to accept it lol 😂

[@soniasouzasilva530]

Só acredito que esse gênio existiu porque foi da minha época.ESSE FOI TOP.

[@TheShabazzProduction]

They funked the damn place up.

[@davidjohnmcguigan7848]

Fucking killer guitar from, Phelps , and the band just smoking it. and Bootsy , just nailing the bass.

[@jghhh8556]

Catfish was sick in this !!!!! Good God!!!!!

[@JonieOnBass]

Some organ...over there. Some organ....over there...

[@95Everan]

Jonie Spivey what are you trying to say ?? Is he good to you or naw

[@juniorinthehouse8835]

@@95Everanthat’s what James brown was saying. It’s just a quote from him

[@sratw]

Hard working performer

[@joemartinez9295]

Lord have mercy ain't it funky now the one and only the king the god father soul brother number 1 good god heyyyyyyyyyyy

[@acarouselofantics]

I wish or hope that there is a "Live" cd version of this performance or this band somewhere. Good gracious!

[@taku319able]

maybe this one is what you are looking for www.amazon.com/Love-Power-Peace-Olympia-Paris/dp/B000001DWX

[@acarouselofantics]

山田太朗 Thank you very much

[@GerardtHoofd]

C’mon now, alright, get it to it, C’mon now, do it n’ do it now, C’mon do it, do it, C’mon di it!

[@selwynpierce4462]

Bootsy....Bootsy.....Bootsy. C'mon now HIT IT!

[@deloresshephard463]

Love it !!!

[@tishpish4939]

Catfish is a gast-flabber. It ain't lead or rhythm - it's Catfish. Mike Judge's Tales of the Tourbus is well worth a watch to see where the Collins boys were at during this era (way, way up in the clouds).

[@bradlacy6449]

True funk !!!!

[@いち-v1j]

ギターソロめちゃ好き

[@TheBaumann88]

hey, es war ein Sound den es noch gar nicht gab, James hatte was ganz neues erfunden , Top

[@MegaToneProductions]

Ninja hit that organ tho.

[@blaqmarc]

This the Love Power Peace live album

[@slimgoody8577]

AND YOUNG SLY !!

[@mmccormick1065]

Him & Bootsy instantly Grooving in time & smooth & effortless...cool as FU#$

[@stanleydavis2549]

James was feeling that shit kattfish was jamming. He couldn't do nothing but smile. Bat fish got a bonus for that one. Jam on brothers

[@rickhope2825]

I play this in my suv

[@donatellapitton7377]

My king

[@rdolle990]

EPIC!

[@TheShabazzProduction]

The soul of Black folks FULLY capture here, this can't be beat! Look at them they just KNOW they got a funk groove on, James is egging them on, they know this is some badd ass shit. Look at the Collins Brothers smiling with approval when James is funkin' up that organ, this shit is on like hot buttered popcorn!

[@iratucker1632]

sumogan!

[@alessandrosouzzasouzza7881]

JEMES BRONW MUITO OBRIGADO ALESSANDRO DE SOUZA AXÉ BOM DIA

[@Kissmylipsification261]

JB was the Business I'm getting MY Funk on right now!!!!

[@ezrac704]

Someone needs to transcribe that Phelps solo, I gotta know what he's doing to get that sound

[@darrylwilliams5140]

2:22 what is that on stage?

[@calvinsmith2803]

That Catfish Is A Bad Mother Fucker On The Guitar!

[@merritt0]

The audio on the album of this concert is one of the Best Ever Recorded--Audiophile quality. Too bad the sound track of this clip isn't up to that.

[@tomaswhittaker]

Fred Wesley❤