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Gosh, I wonder if he even got to open his presents before, well, you know...

Posted by David E. | December 25, 2006 9:55 AM
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The consummate artist. Bigger and better than a thousand Elvises. I got to see James Brown at the Showbox in the early eighties, and it changed my life. The man invented rhythm, I swear to God.

Posted by Fnarf | December 25, 2006 2:05 PM
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That's fuckin' sad news...

Way to upstage the Good Lord on his birthday!

Posted by Dang! | December 25, 2006 7:14 PM
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I was listening to the BBC World Service the other day and the overly prissy English announcer came on and announced Brown's death by saying "James Brown, the self-proclaimed 'Godfather of Soul' has died at the age of 73". I wanted to jump through the radio and bitch slap the Jesus out of this prissy English queer; 'self-proclaimed Godfather of Soul', no you limey dogfucker, he was the Godfather of Soul and there was no self-proclaimed about it. The thing I love about James Brown, well one of the things I love is that he sounded like he was having fun on all of his albums, it wasn't just that he had to go into the studio and crank something out so he could afford his cocaine habit. No, coke habit or no he was always into it, he loved the music and he was the Godfather of Soul.

Posted by Jamie Jamison | December 26, 2006 3:50 PM
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In other news, cheesy early-90's "rave/tekno" artists "L.A. Style" suddenly find their royalty checks increase.

Posted by pgreyy | December 26, 2006 5:27 PM
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Everyone conveniently forgets he was a wife beater, too, and that's why he was in prison in the 1980's.

Posted by godfather of techno | December 27, 2006 10:38 AM
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Who's 'everyone'? I alluded to it in this very post.

Posted by David Schmader | December 27, 2006 3:07 PM
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From the movie Black Ceaser: Lyrics by James Brown (may he rest in funky peace)and this playing as his theme on the way to the hereafter.

THE BOSS

1-2-get down

Pay the cause to be the boss
Pay the cause to be the boss
Pay the cause to be the boss

Look at me
you know what you see,
you see a bad mutha
Look at me
you know what you see,
you see a bad mutha

Pay the cause to be the boss
Pay the cause to be the boss
Heh!
heh!told you so!
told you so!

Havin fun, fooling around
Havin fun, got money to boot

Cause pay the cause to be the boss X3
Caught,tracked
turned my back uhh!

Pay the cause to be the boss
Im a bad mutha
Im a bad mutha

Head for the turn around
Head for the turn around
told you so

Pay the cause to be the boss...

Posted by sputnik | December 29, 2006 9:12 AM
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So very sad i don't now what
to say I just hope that he lived a good live and no matter were he is write now I hope he understands that people who love him miss him

Posted by manuela | January 4, 2007 11:20 AM
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So very sad i don't now what
to say I just hope that he lived a good live and no matter were he is write now I hope he understands that people who love him miss him

Posted by manuela | January 4, 2007 11:20 AM
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So very sad i don't now what
to say I just hope that he lived a good live and no matter were he is write now I hope he understands that people who love him miss him

Posted by manuela | January 4, 2007 11:20 AM
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So very sad i don't now what
to say I just hope that he lived a good live and no matter were he is write now I hope he understands that people who love him miss him

Posted by manuela | January 4, 2007 11:20 AM

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