A mutha of a damper on Christmas morning festivities to be sure, James Brown is dead at 73. The web is probably already ablaze with tributes & commentary. I’m otherwise occupied with family & feasting, but wanted to at least send a quick shout out to a man who’s long been a cornerstone of my listening diet. Even though the past few decades haven’t been kind to JB’s creativity or standing, the cultural clout garnered by his earlier catalog is unassailable. There are certain times when nothing but a James Brown rap or hook will satisfy a hankering between the ears. Each of us has our favorites & I’ve love to get hip to them here. I’ll kick off with one of his choicest proclamations, short & sweet, from “The Payback”:
“I don’t know karate, but I know karezza.”
Posted by derek on December 25, 2006 11:36 AMThere were comments on this thread and the Traw/Rhodri Davies thread, but they seem to have disappeared.
Posted by: Bryan Merely at January 2, 2007 1:16 AMYes. I’ve been searching architecture for those comments, but they appear to be lost, the casualties of another serious glitch with our server host that immobilized the site over the holiday weekend. Everything else appears to be working now and the server issue is also solved. Sorry for the loss.
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