# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2006, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/41 "2006-12-26T08:48:15Z")
Unfortunately he died due to hospital negligence, the nurses and doctors all just standing around clapping and cheering as he clutched his chest and kept saying “I cain’t go on… I cain’t go on…”. Great artist, great loss. ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Incognito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guy_incognito/32/3920_2.png) [@Guy\_Incognito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2006, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/42 "2006-12-26T13:38:35Z")
Papa’s got a brand new (body) bag. I guess I’m among the people that find it hard to disconnect the “entertainer James Brown” from the “wifebeater, drug abuser James Brown”. It’s a bitch that there’s two sides to that coin. It’s a big loss to the music world, I’ll grant you that. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2006, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/43 "2006-12-26T13:59:43Z")
[QUOTE=Yookeroo] > [@pulykamell](#): > > [Well, this gives me an excuse to whip out this old chestnut.](http://youtube.com/watch?v=6bssF0rGS-Q&mode=related&search=) First thing I did when I heard was to play this song. 🙂 But ☹ :mad: [/QUOTE] Thank god it wasn’t just me who had that come to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2006, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/44 "2006-12-26T16:22:39Z")
[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] [Actually, this is the one that came to mind for me.](http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ly_CGin6QS8) ---
**Author:** ![Southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@Southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southpaw)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2006, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/45 "2006-12-26T16:36:45Z")
[QUOTE=Baker] Over in the Deathpool 2007 thread one poster, **Southpaw** , had Augusto Pinochet on his/her 2007 list. Pinochet died, so the first alternate, James Brown, moved up. Now Brown has died. It’s not looking good for Nichelle(Lt. Uhura) Nichols! 😃 [/QUOTE] Honestly! I had nothing to do with this! I wish nothing but good health and a long life for Ms. Nichols! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/46 "2006-12-26T18:51:02Z")
In the fall of 1966, I saw James Brown and the Famous Flames at the Atlanta Municipal Auditorium. It was the first time I had ever been to a show without my parents. My parents didn’t even know I had gone - I was supposed to be “working” on the school newpaper! [Here](http://youtube.com/watch?v=USTilaOqNHM) is a sample of what this 15 year-old white kid saw that night. No wonder they called him “The Hardest Working Man in Show Business.” So sorry to see another of the greats go. ---
**Author:** ![Shecky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@Shecky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shecky)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2006, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/47 "2006-12-26T18:54:51Z")
I almost felt bad about making the joke to my brother that they kept trying to wheel him out of the room, but he’d keep throwing the sheet off to go back for one last encore! ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2006, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/48 "2006-12-26T22:45:35Z")
[This](http://youtube.com/watch?v=3ANojwdkDcY) was the first thing I thought of, although [this](http://www.loosemoose.net/movie.php?MovieID=5&IsBehind=0) is pretty enjoyable as well. (Two video links- first unauthorized, second on ad agency’s website). I couldn’t help but think of them putting James’s cape on as he walks his way up to Heaven. So long, and hopefully God’s bandstand is double-bolted. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2006, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/49 "2006-12-26T23:44:39Z")
Meaning no disrespect whatever, I find it incredible that with his substance abuse problems, prison, fast paced life style, busy schedule (he had five dates planned between Christmas and New Years), etc., that James Brown made it to 73. He must have had good genes. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2006, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/50 "2006-12-27T18:41:31Z")
What a bummer. I just figured he was too mean to die. Or too funky. We listened to _Live from the Apollo Vol. II_ driving home from the **vibrotronica** ancestral homeland yesterday. The most amazing part–and there were many amazing parts–was the three-track sequence “There Was a Time”/“I Feel Allright”/“Cold Sweat”. Just amazingly intense music. I have listened to that album for years, but I never realized that the first two songs are just a slight variation on the third song, “Cold Sweat.” Structurally, the songs presage hip hop and loop music, which is just amazing to me since that performance took place 20 years before the technology to do loop based music was widely available. Sometimes, genius is in the subtle things. The Godfather died on Christmas day. From now on, I will celebrate Funkmas! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/51 "2006-12-28T15:13:12Z")
I’m holding a copy of the December 25th edition of the Bergen County, New Jersey Record newspaper, featuring an advertisement for the Thursday December 28th show of–you guessed it–James Brown at the local Performing Arts Center. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/52 "2006-12-29T00:33:39Z")
However he had some messes up later in life, James Brown broke down every hip-shaking barrier in Western culture, via long-run group trance style music, and gave strength when so needed. I’m listening now to “Make It Funky–The Big Payback” All very precise and excellent; Brown knew how to hone a band to excellence. Without JB, don’t know if there’d be a George Clinton or, on and on. And, looking at the photos, he kept his own self pretty damn honed, too. He really was on par with Elvis for changing the absolute HipShake of the world, and lasted longer, in better shape, throughout all. Head on out, JB, make it funky… If y’all only know the Hits, go ahead and get the box sets… JB sustained it all way beyond the best known songs. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515/53 "2006-12-29T00:54:54Z")
I really should change that to: he’s since left Elvis in the Dust; not many people sampling Elvis, really. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-brown-dead-rip/385515.md?page=2)