we need to appreciate this performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09qbhwcpA6A

as was recently said in that MJ is the 80s GOAT post, this performance is often cited as the greatest music performance in the history of TV. i'm not sure if i agree...

actually, yeah i am. i agree. i have the 'Please Please Please' performance running right now and DAMN, man. DAMN!!!

a bit of history about this performance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.A.M.I._Show) - it was part of a 2 day concert featuring some of the hottest acts of 1964 - the Supremes, Rolling Stones, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Chuck Berry, the Beach Boys among others. James was set to go on last but the Stones balked at that and insisted on closing the show. James said 'cool'. and so...well, he went on right before the Stones and absolutely destroyed the entire show. Keith Richards later said that was the biggest mistake in the Stones career b/c they couldn't top James Brown on stage. i've seen James' performance and the Stones' - Richards was right. the Stones' set was a let down after what James and the Flames did. i don't think any act could've followed that performance successfully. maybe Jesus and the Apostles walking on water? i dunno.

anyway, the performance is the bomb. of course, we can discuss other performances - maybe we'll agree James on TAMI ain't the best ever. i'm open to being convinced.

fuck you.

It's the stuff of legend. The type of things people talked about but have never seen or experienced. It's awesome.

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by a music performance. and they were mostly WHITE KIDS.

fuck you.

I had that on video tape for YEARS.

I'm in the crowd that says this is the greatest tv performance ever

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The whole thing is just frigging awesome.




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fuck you.

Seriously, how the fuck did he do that? Balancing all his weight on his right leg/foot, and still move across the stage? My brain has difficultly processing that.

The sheer stamina that had to be involved in that performance is mind-boggling in general. It is an extremely aerobic show, for everyone involved, and its executed flawlessly. These days some performer can't pace back and forth without getting winded, and James and the Flames are starting high energy, continue high energy, and still have energy to go buckwild to cap it off with "Night Train." They don't make artists like that anymore.

Yes, the performance was incredible. I'll go ahead and say it was the best I've ever seen.

Okay, now, regarding the Rolling Stones/who finishes up thing. That's kind of achieved urban legend status, and is apparently not completely true. They addressed it in the James HBO documentary that dropped a couple years ago. Yes, Rolling Stones went last. Yes, James was pissed that he wasn't the final act. But those T.A.M.I. performances weren't the type of concerts that we have these days. They'd bring an audience in, the group would perform, and then the group and the audience would leave. It was a whole new audience of screaming white kids for every group. So the idea that audience wasn't impressed with the Stones because they'd just seen James bring the house down isn't really true. Jagger does acknowledge that James did give a better performance though.

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different audiences for each act. that makes sense.

watching the Stones perform w/o doing 'Satisfaction' (it was released the year after) i understood why their audience had such a tepid response to them but i also assumed they'd just had their minds blown by James and the Flames. LOL

fuck you.

and this was even before he was Soul Brother #1/Godfather of Soul James.


>The sheer stamina that had to be involved in that performance
>is mind-boggling in general. It is an extremely aerobic show,
>for everyone involved, and its executed flawlessly. These days
>some performer can't pace back and forth without getting
>winded, and James and the Flames are starting high energy,
>continue high energy, and still have energy to go buckwild to
>cap it off with "Night Train." They don't make artists like
>that anymore.
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>Yes, the performance was incredible. I'll go ahead and say it
>was the best I've ever seen.

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Days like this I miss Sha Mecca

she comes in my office and says... "Daddy....James Brown?? James Brown??" During Please Please Please...she always cheers and claps when James gets up off the ground......

but yeah ... one of the most awesome recorded performances ever... it never gets old...

during Priosner of Love....when the Drums come in and James is lerching on the ground ..... just awesome stuff.

and it's cute that your daughter appreciates this performance. LOL

she's probably the way i was about MJ's 'Billie Jean' performance on Motown 25. if i'd had access to a copy of that i'd have watched it over and over when i was a kid.

fuck you.

James Brown and Fela Kuti....

I'm going to wait a few more months to introduce her to P-funk....lol

fuck you.

....tired of this performance......James was a man possessed......Somewhere Mick Jagger was crying...

GOAT of his era......long live Prince.....God is alive....

...that it was a film, and that the crowd for the Brown set was ushered out after his performance and a new crowd was brought in. But on the film you don't see that, so it looks like Brown killed. Either way, it still was an amazing performance.

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But the Stones had a different audience that allegedly wasn't exposed to the JB performance.

fuck you.

And doesn't miss a beat is pretty damn unbelievable. You couldn't tell me shit after seeing this on PBS back in the day.

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First saw this (specifically, the "Please, Please, Please" performance) on a JB TV special when I was 10. I had never seen ANYTHING like it; the energy, the footwork, the soulful voice conjured up from the depths of his soul. A few years later, when I was 13, I copped the Star Time box set and my wig was further split. Back to the T.A.M.I. Show, JB's appearance on there was the greatest performance committed to film, hands down (for all the reasons listed above). I love MJ and Prince to death but, um, yeah, The Godfather was kicking ass and taking names here. And to think that today's dance artists rely on pre-recorded vocal tracks to cover up for being winded...please! King James shut it down.

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