Charles Bradley performs “Love Bug Blues” in Studio Q.
It is our great pleasure to present you with the last of Charles Bradley’s performances in Studio Q. Here is the Screaming Eagle of Soul singing “Love Bug Blues” from his record “Victim of Love”. (Qtv on Youtube)
A fine performance!
Love Bug Blues:
– Hallgeir
“The Black Swan” of Soul is back with a fine new video for his new single, Strictly Reserved For You. It has a retro but fresh feel, great horns, fantastic fuzz guitar and a wonderful funky bass.
Enjoy!
Charles Bradley – Strictly Reserved for You:
From the upcoming album, Victim of Love, out April 2nd, 2013.
(Directed by Homer Steinweiss)
– Hallgeir
“When I’m on stage, I’m trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don’t go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.”
– James Brown
“Our whole thing was based on James Brown. We listened to Live at the Apollo endlessly on acid. We would listen to that in the van in the early days of 8-tracks on the way to the gigs to get us up for the gig. If you played in a band in Detroit in the days before The MC5, everybody did ‘Please, Please, Please’ and ‘I Go Crazy.’ These were standards. We modeled The MC5’s performance on those records. Everything we did was on a gut level about sweat and energy. It was anti-refinement. That’s what we were consciously going for.”
– Wayne Cramer, MC5
One of the best live albums in music history, James Brown – Live at the Apollo was recorded october 24 in 1962.
My favourite moment: The whole horn infused “Think” that borrows heavily from jazz legend Charlie Parker in the way Brown scats over the band with the crowd participating enthusiastically. Not remotely like the studio versions and terribly good!
Lost Someone (audio):
Before the release of the classical and hugely influential ‘Live At The Apollo’ in 1962, James Brown was something of an unknown quantity outside of the R&B charts of the US south. Staying on the pop charts for 14 months, and peaking at #2, it’s a demonstration of Brown’s self-belief that he (himself!) had financed and released the recording when his label saw no sense in releasing a live album that featured no new material. Brown went on to record several more albums at the Apollo over the course of his career, including 1968’s Live at the Apollo, Vol. II (King), 1971’s Revolution of the Mind: Recorded Live at the Apollo, Vol. III(Polydor) and Live at the Apollo 1995 (Scotti Bros.).
Night Train (not the Apollo show but a great video clip from The T.A.M.I. Tv-show!):
Continue reading 30 Best live albums countdown: 24 – Live at the Apollo by James Brown
We saw Afghan Whigs at last years Oyafestival and of the 80 concerts I saw in 2012 I rated them on third place. What struck me was not only the great live versions of their own songs, but their very clever choices of cover songs.
And it was funky as hell!
I started to dig around the interweb and found a lot of very good cover versions done by Afghan Whigs, these are my ten favourites:
1. See and don’t see – Afghan Whigs:
“Man, these words are kind of desperate and lonely, and they’re surrounded by this funky song. I might have to strip this one down someday.” – Greg Dulli
Originally by Marie Queenie Lyons:
2. Lovecrimes – Afghan Whigs (Frank Ocean cover):
“LoveCrimes came to me immediately. I had played around with that one maybe a week after I heard it. When I was looking to have something to play with the guys—we jam covers all the time…we had it down in half an hour. So that one was very, very natural.” – Greg Dulli (to AV Club)
3. True love travels on a gravel road (audio only) – Afghan Whigs (Nick Lowe):
4. Superstition (and Going to Town) – Afghan Whigs (Stevie Wonder):
5. Beast of Burden – Afghan Whigs (Rolling Stones):
“When I’m on stage, I’m trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don’t go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.”
– James Brown
“Our whole thing was based on James Brown. We listened to Live at the Apollo endlessly on acid. We would listen to that in the van in the early days of 8-tracks on the way to the gigs to get us up for the gig. If you played in a band in Detroit in the days before The MC5, everybody did ‘Please, Please, Please’ and ‘I Go Crazy.’ These were standards. We modeled The MC5’s performance on those records. Everything we did was on a gut level about sweat and energy. It was anti-refinement. That’s what we were consciously going for.”
– Wayne Cramer, MC5
| Recorded | October 24, 1962 |
|---|---|
| Genre | R&B, soul |
| Length | 31:31 (Original LP), 40:47 (CD reissue) |
| Label | King, Solid Smoke, Polydor |
| Producer | James Brown (original), Harry Weinger (Polydor reissues) |
See also the calendar post of today
One of the best live albums in music history, James Brown – Live at the Apollo was recorded on this day 50 years ago.
My favourite moment: The whole horn infused “Think” that borrows heavily from jazz legend Charlie Parker in the way Brown scats over the band with the crowd participating enthusiastically. Not remotely like the studioversions and terribly good!
Continue reading James Brown – Live at the Apollo was recorded 50 years ago today