Monday, November 29, 2004

James Brown Hands Out Turkeys, Funks Up Canada

There will be no blogging tonight, friends. The Anchovies are getting funked up, with James Brown at Massey Hall.

Posted by mister anchovy at 4:37 p.m.

2 comments:

mister anchovy said...

OK, first respect your audience....everybody dresses up....red tuxedos with black trim....JB in black with sparkle trim....add drama....need three drummers, three bass players, three guitar players....need a funky horn section....add some back-up singers....enough?.....no way, you need dancers, scantily clad dancers. enough?....no way....James plays keyboards on and off throughout the show. J.B. is 70+ and is so, so funky....show started at 9:15 and ended at about 10:45...really generous effort from the godfather of soul....how does this guy do it? Great show....full production....everyone is always doing something....if you're not playing, you're dancing, or singing, or strutting.....you might expect this guy to have become a parody of himself at this point, playing the casino circuit, but no way. This didn't feel like an oldies show. It was vital today, now.
Papa's got a brand new bag.

12:20 a.m.
Anonymous said...

I love the sound that comes out of Massey Hall. I saw Blue Rodeo a few years ago and it was absolutely incredible!

1:33 p.m.

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)