The short-lived first incarnation of the JB's, with future Parliament-arian bassist Bootsy Collins, brother Catfish Collins on guitar, Jabo Starks and/or Clyde Stubblefield on drums, this is the edgiest, meanest, leanest lineup maestro James Brown ever assembled, and the music they made in this single year is still among the freshest, most soul-stirring funk on earth decades later. Check out James's pleas for tenor saxophonist Robert McCollough to "blow me some 'Trane, brother!" Expansive, incisive. This compilation, prepared and ideally notated by Harry Weinger and one-time JB manager Alan Leeds, is so full of groove it could doubtless sub for a faulty pacemaker. --John Corbett
Funk Power 1970: A Brand New Thang,James Brown,Polygram Records,Funk,Pop,R&B,Soul,Soul/R & B,Soul/Reggae/Rhythm & Blues
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Funk Power 1970: A Brand New Thang
James Brown Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD  Classic R&B
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ASIN: B000002G81 Release Date: 1996-06-04 |
Tracks:
- Get Up I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine
- Super Bad
- Since You Been Gone
- Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose
- There Was A Time (I Got To Move)
- Talkin' Loud And Sayin' Nothing
- Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved
- Soul Power
- Get Up I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine
- Fight Against Drug Abuse (Public Service Anouncement)
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The short-lived first incarnation of the JB's, with future Parliament-arian bassist Bootsy Collins, brother Catfish Collins on guitar, Jabo Starks and/or Clyde Stubblefield on drums, this is the edgiest, meanest, leanest lineup maestro James Brown ever assembled, and the music they made in this single year is still among the freshest, most soul-stirring funk on earth decades later. Check out James's pleas for tenor saxophonist Robert McCollough to "blow me some 'Trane, brother!" Expansive, incisive. This compilation, prepared and ideally notated by Harry Weinger and one-time JB manager Alan Leeds, is so full of groove it could doubtless sub for a faulty pacemaker. --John CorbettCustomer Reviews:
BUYER BEWARE--- Faulty Versions Out There.......2007-03-21
However, BUYER BEWARE:
I have purchased this CD three times-- from more than one seller--- and each time the CD that is in the case is "The James Brown Ultimate Hits" and is NOT Funk Power 1970.
I do not blame the sellers for the CD being faulty, since the insert and even the label on the CD itself wrongly identify it as Funk Power 1970.
If there is a seller out there who can listen to the CD in the jewel case and confirm that it really is Funk Power, please email me and let me know--- since I would still very much like to purchase this album.
thanks
James Brown's best.......2007-02-03
BADDEST OF THE BAD! GET ON UP!.......2006-01-31
This guy had been around for years before, and very succesful at that. He had basically created the platform for FUNK but he hadn't quite set it off, so to speak, until he got together with BOOTSY and CATFISH COLLINS. BOOTSY was a thuderous funkateer who would later be responsible for helping George Clinton get his P-Funk off the ground. In 1970 James Brown was ready to fly.. SUPER BAD! Fresh, this album kicks it out all over the place. If you are only familiar with the stuff from the sixties (I.E 20 GREATEST HITS) you have heard some goods, but you have not heard the best. SEX MACHINE just grooves, and keeps groovin', yeah, like that, like a sex machine. TALKIN LOUD AND SAYIN NOTHIN is another solid. If you dig on Funk, like Parliament you should definately peep this album once or twice and hear it for yourself. The icing on the cake here is the last track which is a public service announcement by the Godfather of Soul himself. "Don't do drugs" he says "cuz they are Super Bad!" Just like James Brown kids, Super Bad.
Funk! Funk! Funk!.......2004-12-02
While the music alone is powerful enough, it's also moving to hear James talking about important societal issues: drugs, race, poverty, the need for harmony amongst all people & all races, and the need for people of society to come together to help make the world a better place. To hear these messages infused in his (already powerful and empowering) music is something truly moving. However, reality can sometimes be a devastating thing to accept, as evidenced on this disc: at the end of the disc, James is heard in a 1970 recording warning many of the dangers of drug abuse, and encouraging many to stay away from them. It's heartbreaking to hear this from him, only to find out that he himself would have his own battle with drug addiction in subsequent years. It's truly a tough pill to swallow in many ways.
From James' fiery, manic, impassioned vocal delivery, to Bootsy's propulsive basslines, to Bobby Byrd's commading supporting role as co-vocalist, and the rest of the band's performance, the music on here is an unrelenting assault on the soul: it's a funk-attack, guaranteed to get that old rump of yours shaking, followed by the rest of your body. If you can grab hold of this compilation, snatch it up, as if your life depended on it! It's truly worthwhile to have in your collection: funk addict, or not!
(...).......2003-12-06
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