FUTURESHOCK JB Related -
batmon
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my co-worker copped me a DVD of James Brown's Atlanta tv show -Shit is crazy hot.Ive only watched one episode. Anyone know how many he did?And.....Pickwick, do u hatt on this version of Disco too? 
And I never heard the JB's Version of NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE...... 
And I never heard the JB's Version of NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE......
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Wasn't there only one episode?
edit: I guess not!
Big thanks to Undertheradar for hooking me up last year.
Ive got the second ep on pause.
When I saw Trans Am Live they showed an ep w/ some Poplockers/Fred Berry and them that I hope might be on this Bootleg.
76 steez.
Mofos were dancin to Brick - Sunshine/Sunset - last track side A on Good High.......... I would play this shit all the time.
She released a 45 with James Brown as well as Martha High.
Hell, no. Disco is a lot more tolerable coming from JB, 'cause it still has that funk stank on it.
A friend of mine made me a video with two or three Future Shock eps, and they were just as surreal as they say it was. Just about every song danced to was by either JB or somebody he produced. All the guests are usually somebody he was producing who never really made it, like Leon Austin (JB was so convinced this song was a hit he had Austin lipsync to it TWICE).
Now, who's got the episode where Daryl Rhoades (a white parody-rocker in a Dr. Demento/Weird Al vein) had the balls to appear in a pimp suit, billing himself as Soul Brother #10 1/2, trying to get everybody to do a new dance called the Suicide?
Huh? There's a Martha High and a Marva High? What is Marva High, like the bizarre offspring of Marva Whitney and Martha High?
I probably just heard it wrong. She was lookin mad young where i thought Whitney was in her 30's in 75/77.
How many eps are on the bootleg? Is it around online?
...especially when he does those black history segments. Great idea, but the pacing is weird.
On the ones I've seen, they've got all this promotional material on the walls and dangling from the ceiling, just like in a record store...but one of those celing mobiles is a promo for the Atlanta Rhythm Section (a softish, Fender Rhodes-dominated rock band who we'd now call "yacht rock")! Was this JB's subtle hype for his fellow Georgia homeboys? Or was it because they both recorded for Polydor and needed to decorate the studio with anything they could get?
They're not. But you could tell he was still shooting for that audience. Even the single of the Future Shock theme (on People, by Maceo Parker and credited to "Maceo") had JB whispering the word "disco" over the track.
yeah, there are JB albums dangling from thr ceilin and every chance he gets he plugs and holds in his hand the Album w/ his silloette w/ electricity thru it.
Why Atlanta? That's my question?
And did Don move the Soul Train production to HollyWood by then? If not when?
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I assume because Macon didn't have a proper television facility?
Probably because he lived there. Or at least nearby in Augusta. JB was always namechecking Georgia every chance he got.
Long since. Soul Train went nationwide in '71, Future Shock would have debuted around '75, I think.
Said it before, I'll say it again:
James Brown is the only person I know who could record for a huge conglomerates like Polydor and CBS/Sony, yet still have his album covers looking like small-time, wacky private-press raers. Those albums he produced on his People label by the JB's and Maceo had major, big-bucks Polydor distribution, but look like something the Majestic Arrows would have put out on Bandit!
you can start from here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsdy5PeuY8M
but seriously is there an official release on dvd out there ?
theres a bootleg DVD thats has an hour or so on it...five minutes to live put it out...
It's Martha High and Marva Whitney.
And the song you are talking about ("You don't love me") is not by Marva Whitney, it's a Lyn Collins track. One of her best, IMO.
Martha High always looked mad young .. but she's just one year younger than Marva Whitney.
Yeah, often it seems like he's just rambling on instead of keeping it short and sweet.
JB (slightly disoriented) introducing Ms. Elaine Thomas, curator of the George Washington Carver Museum:
"Miss Thomas, welcome to have you here this time, I'm glad to have you here and you're welcome, welcome to have you here, glad to have you here, you're perfectly welcome and???it's your ballgame."
Hummena hummena
Chuckle chuckle. I have the two, count 'em, TWO episodes that featured Ms. Elaine Thomas. I mean, couldn't James Brown pull a more significant guest than that?
I don't think that was supposed to be a guest spot. I think that was more like a recurring segment.
yeeah the first segment was to have her speak on what she does and whay the Museum stands for. He asked if she could come back and speak more in depth about Carver's contributions.
"U see now, u had two white dudes by the name Mr. Skippy and Mr. Jif, take Mr Carver's peanut innovations!!!!"
Someday, somebody's gotta compile a book of weird James Brown nonsequiturs and surreal moments. I think I still have a tape of an old David Letterman episode from '85 where JB was REALLY spacing out - at one point, David asked James a question, then James started singing a line from "Tennessee Waltz" then turned to David and asked something like "...what did you say?"
That Living In America Era of JB was krazy.