# James Brown dead .. .RIP **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 25, 2006, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515 "2006-12-25T08:16:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/21 "2006-12-25T16:58:46Z")
Crap. 73 is pretty decent. For someone who lived as hard as he did, it’s actually pretty impressive. But still… ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/22 "2006-12-25T17:13:45Z")
No more celebrity hot tub parties? ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/23 "2006-12-25T17:20:48Z")
[QUOTE=pool] I live in Augusta and my mom said at Christmas everyone used to go to his house to look at the lights. [/QUOTE] Well, my mom said that he used to get pulled over all the time in Aiken, SC for drunk driving. I must say that she wasn’t as sad as some people are about his death. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/24 "2006-12-25T17:24:09Z")
RIP, you wifebeating asshole. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/25 "2006-12-25T17:32:09Z")
[Well, this gives me an excuse to whip out this old chestnut.](http://youtube.com/watch?v=6bssF0rGS-Q&mode=related&search=) ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/26 "2006-12-25T17:41:32Z")
I didn’t know he’d beaten his wife. That sucks. Life is like that a lot of times — the good, the bad, the ugly and the great are often rolled into one package. Fuck you for beating your wife, James Brown. But thank you for the music. ---
**Author:** ![Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Metal_Lotus)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/27 "2006-12-25T18:27:03Z")
I will miss James Brown! He did it all bigger than life, even in death, he upstaged the birth of that other guy… “Jesus Whatshisname”… Rock in Peace, James FML ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/28 "2006-12-25T18:42:03Z")
[QUOTE=pulykamell] [Well, this gives me an excuse to whip out this old chestnut.](http://youtube.com/watch?v=6bssF0rGS-Q&mode=related&search=) [/QUOTE] First thing I did when I heard was to play this song. 🙂 But ☹ :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/29 "2006-12-25T22:10:44Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] I didn’t know he’d beaten his wife. That sucks. Life is like that a lot of times — the good, the bad, the ugly and the great are often rolled into one package. Fuck you for beating your wife, James Brown. But thank you for the music. [/QUOTE] He did, along with a bunch of other criminal shit, and went to prison for a couple years, etc. He seemed pretty much like an asshole to me when he was alive, his dying shouldn’t sanctify him. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/30 "2006-12-25T22:27:22Z")
He doesn’t need to be sanctified or villified, I think. He was a tremendous entertainer with a dark side. Neither of those aspects should be all he is remembered by; if so, it’s a false picture. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/31 "2006-12-25T22:58:56Z")
[QUOTE=Operation Ripper] He seemed pretty much like an asshole to me when he was alive, his dying shouldn’t sanctify him. [/QUOTE] I never heard him sanctified when he was alive. He’s just being recognized for his enormous impact on music. ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2006, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/32 "2006-12-26T01:26:38Z")
MLK, Rosa Parks and James Brown, [link](http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyid=2006-12-25T214055Z_01_N25301835_RTRUKOC_0_US-BROWN-DEATH-RIGHTS.xml&src=rss&rpc=22), what one does not belong with the others? (Channeling Sesame Street) What a POS media world we live in. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2006, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/33 "2006-12-26T02:38:29Z")
As a person, he lacked a lot. One of his mug shots is far less than flattering. As a performer, he was on a level with the likes of Elvis, Frank Sinatra, and others who could put on a powerful show. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2006, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/34 "2006-12-26T03:41:16Z")
One of the Christmas CD’s we’ve been playing at work has a song of his on there, and we were all talking about him yesterday while we listened, not knowing he was ill. So strange to hear the news today, since talking in depth about entertainers is not something we normally do at work. What I mean is, it seemed odd, while we were discussing him, to be discussing him at all. And then hearing the news just made it seem odder still. ---
**Author:** ![Gregor\_Samsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2006, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/35 "2006-12-26T03:46:00Z")
I was so saddened to hear this. A real loss to the music world. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2006, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/36 "2006-12-26T03:52:57Z")
Phew. I had seriously considered putting him on my CDP2007 list, then didn’t. I have already missed out on Peter Boyle. Do I know how to pick 'em? The man was a Genius, with that capital G. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2006, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/37 "2006-12-26T06:44:36Z")
[QUOTE=Operation Ripper] He did, along with a bunch of other criminal shit, and went to prison for a couple years, etc. He seemed pretty much like an asshole to me when he was alive, his dying shouldn’t sanctify him. [/QUOTE] His dying doesn’t sanctify him. What sanctifies him is the fact that he was a Music God. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2006, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/38 "2006-12-26T07:28:42Z")
I guess you have to take the bad with the good. He did a lot of good things, he did some really bad things. There was the whole PCP car chase incident and the beating his wife, but there was also the 1970 race riot in Augusta when he came back to town pleading for peace and giving toys to less fortunate kids at Christmas. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2006, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/39 "2006-12-26T07:48:58Z")
Agreed. I don’t think there is any one of us who is 100 percent good, or 100 percent bad. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2006, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/40 "2006-12-26T08:24:02Z")
Plus, he’s muthafuckin’ Soul Brother No. 1. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515.md?page=3)