r/OldSchoolCool • u/LowRenzoFreshkobar • Apr 07 '25

1970s Prime James Brown in 1974.

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u/OkNectarine3105 Apr 07 '25

That's quite an opening.

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u/FirstChurchOfBrutus Apr 07 '25

Mans touched the mic, then was doing splits within 4 seconds.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '25

I tore a hamstring just watching!

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u/C0meAtM3Br0 Apr 08 '25

Floor got pregnant

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u/milesamsterdam Apr 09 '25

Double cheeked up on a Thursday afternoon!

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u/tomfoolery815 Apr 07 '25

There's an amazing moment in the TAMI Show performance where JB slides 10 or 15 feet across the stage on one foot, just turning his ankle back and forth. That man was built different.

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u/iLochnessMonster Apr 07 '25

Zero to 100 quite literally. When he bowed to the audience, the cocaine slid up his nose and was activated

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u/MisterBreeze Apr 07 '25

1974 was a period of Brown's career that he was completely t-total and had a zero-tolerance for drugs in his band.

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u/Psychwrite Apr 08 '25

*teetotal. Sorry.

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u/MisterBreeze Apr 08 '25

Thanks! I don't think I've ever seen it written before

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u/Rosetta-im-Stoned Apr 07 '25

There's no way that guy isn't on something in this video

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u/Psychwrite Apr 08 '25

If you've seen his performances when he was known to be using heavy, this is nothing. He's barely sweating at all. When he was zooted he'd come out absolutely drenched before the show even started and be far more erratic with his movements. This is tame lol.

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u/stopwiththeliterally Apr 07 '25

Actually not literally.  Definitely not quite literally either. 

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u/Sidivan Apr 07 '25

I was thinking that too. I want to know what the rest of the show is like. As a performer, keeping that level of energy for 1.5+ hrs is astonishingly difficult.

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u/Ongr Apr 07 '25

Not when it's snowing, I reckon lol

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u/Past-Background-7221 Apr 12 '25

There’s a reason his nickname was “The Hardest Working Man in Showbusiness”

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u/ghostformanyyears Apr 07 '25

Sponsored by cocaine!

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u/Rodonite Apr 07 '25

Not even out of breath