Fred Wesley & The JB's Blow Your Head

[sophboxx12]

pre dubstep

[dariodrag]

YYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[quiche07]

The Baddest Slide Player on Earth.

[latinoheat2109]

lacing up and ready to freakin break!!!!!

[zenzombie72]

r.e. Public Enemy B-side "Son of Public Enemy"

Clearly the synth sample is from Fred Wesley & The JB's - Blow Your Head, but from 1.19 there is an Egyptian-sounding section that I can't find on the original. Can someone confirm this was just some brilliant programming by the PE producers and not a sample from the Fred Wesley record?

[zenzombie72]

Very good, but where is the Son Of Public Enemy break?

[arlichar11]

my head is blown

[Imakebeats65]

No diss but i cant beieve some of yall thought this came out in the 80s man thats mind blowing ie blow your head!! 73 Damn right im somebody on the EXCORCIST LP..

[kotep777]

guys this song is not from the 80s

damn im old

[sanjuz]

James Brown totally turned the following musical instruments upside-down - and in some cases inside-out as well synthesizer - you listening to it electric guitar - There Was A Time (I Got To Move) blues guitar - Make It Funky Pt. 4 flute - Spittin' Image drums - Funky Drummer trumpet - The Grunt bass - Ain't It Funky Now trombone - Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself And You Be Yours voice - take your pick sax - Superbad organ - Body Heat

[chronicavengers]

now this is how you start your morning!!!!

[EatinCactus]

Thanks tanktheking for posting the funkier version! 

[6t4eldo]

F.Y.I.  james brown himself on the synthesizer!!!!!

[PaulDA2000]

I don't like the synthesizer here at all! Sounds like someone farting! Go here: /watch?v=OvLqbcD3MXo to hear it without the synthesizer, much better imo.

[hoodmistress]

@PaulDA2000 Don't hate on the Moog, brotha. :) Soul music wouldn't be where it is without it.

[PaulDA2000]

@hoodmistress - 'Where it is' now sucks, and James Brown never used it much.

[rocklogic67]

the record was release in the 1970s bambaataa used to play it in bronx river

[ThatSmoothOperator]

Now that's what I'm talking about

[PaulDA2000]

Not a fan of this original mix with the synthesizer. Look for the mix without the synthesizer, it's much better.

[BruvaBob]

My all time fav tune. It was written AND recorded in '73 and was only issued on a B side of a James Brown release of 'Think' as far as I know!! Its something I have been looking for since I first heard this on the best ever compilation album 'Rare grooves vol 1' on urban records which I got 1988ish.

This was the tune that really changed my life musically and as far as I know is the 1st tune to use electronic syn's long before kraftwerk

[PaulDA2000]

@BruvaBob - We completely disagree here. I hate the synthesizer here. The version without it is much better, you can find it on Youtube.

[BruvaBob]

@PaulDA2000 - We do disagree, I do appreciate the non-synth version but (and I am cringing as I type this, as this is my all time fav track) it sounds like just another jazz funk tune from the 70's. JB, Fred Wesley, Lyn Collins etc have been real big influance in my musical taste since the mid 80's, but when I first hear this version with the synth it real did blow my head, no other tune ever had effect on my like this tune. Yeah the synth is very basic or another way to look is ahead of it time

[BruvaBob]

@PaulDA2000 lol. I think we just made youtube history, having the 1st disagreement with using 4 letter words!

[funkyhorn1985]

God how many epic samples is James Brown responsible for

[noodlam]

epic

[belisariusorb]

Didn't know that Public Enemy sampled this one for Public Enemy No 1 - it rocks. How did they get it to sample if it came out after they made Bum Rush?

[tanktheking]

@belisariusorb : the first release of this single was in 1989 - urban record ( discogs ) - Public Enemy used the sample in "yo bum rush the show " released in 1987 - i think they got a bootleg or a promo version .....

[yakont]

@tanktheking This is actually a 1974 release. from album 'Damn Right I Am Somebody'... Public Enemy ripped loads of the James Brown crew stuff... e.g. The grunt is on rebel without a pause, so is the funky drummer which got ripped by everyone in the 80s!

[yakont]

@yakont ps .. forgot to mention I have the original album...:oD

[anthillmob]

@tanktheking song is from the early 70's

[6ONE6DEFREC]

@tanktheking

Recorded during the same session as James Brown solo album 'The Payback'

ⓟ 1973 Polydor Incorporated (B1 & B2)

ⓟ 1974 Polydor Incorporated (A1 to A3, B3 to B5)

[ChunkieTehMaster]

this song is 4:48 of pure sonic win. No artist of today's world can even come close to the pure feeling and heart that this one song shows. Screw you, Justin Bieber. You will never, ever, ever ,ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, EVER be on a level even close to these guys.

[JDEGASx]

i want to have this fucking rare - Blow Your Head (Disco Mix)

[BruvaBob]

@JDEGASx Look for Urban classics vol1 its a rare groove album from around '88. many gems on it.

peace

[ericisagirl4god]

It's off the album "Damn Right I Am Somebody" which came out in 1974

[Imakebeats65]

this was way before public enemy LOL.. we were breaking off this in NY circa the late 70s and it's still dope and I never heard anyone rock that like james!!! guaranteed to rock any party if you put it on..

[EatinCactus]

THIS IS GENIOUS MUSIC! Don't you feel smarter for listening to it...moving to it?  You listen to this, and no you feel like you can accomplish anything! Thank you Fred Wesley!!!!!!!

[tostihawai]

sounds like an old skool song and some guy going crazy with his acid synth! freakin funky as hell!

[lesterroberts1]

Total raregroove tune!!!!!!!!

[funkee10]

who knows what synth is used for the acid line??

[ChunkieTehMaster]

@funkee10 MOOG

[funkee10]

@ChunkieTehMaster yes but what model of moog is?

[ChunkieTehMaster]

@funkee10 Minimoog model D

[amman320]

james brown on ARP...awsome

[DISCORICKY44]

i'm not sure of the actual release date .... but it was b4 1988...Public Enemy sampled it on their Yo' bum rush the show album released in 1987...on the song public enemy no.1....and i believe they released that single in 1986

[paulsiriwatchana]

this sound is so cool, i think like the present song -

[he1z]

uncut raw pure soul/funk

[EssentialAx]

this is the funkiest, nastiest, dirtiest, jam! ya heard!?

[chidowon]

the shit dat cant be fucked with!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dogstarman1]

What a tweeker synth solo! Totally cartoony! Love it. Was his face smiling or totally serious and concentrated when he tracked that synth part? Love this!

[BruvaBob]

it was released on a compilation album called Urban classic's vol 1 1988 -89. before that it was apparently only available on a dub plate or certain album release very hard to get hold of.

This tune changed my life!!!! nice one for postin

[antekhk]

genialne

[MrMLD72MLD]

♥

[mattratt512]

help, i'm drowning in funk and i can't get out. LOL

[EatinCactus]

Oh, I've got to get up now!!! I'm doing the "butterfly" real fast...Ow! Ow! I've Fallen and I can't get up!!! Damn...broke my laptop too!!

[ElcocoSiete]

One time very rare super-funk, way ahead of its time... this was originally released on the 1974 album Dam Right I am Somebody and through the eighties and nineties could have put you back £200, the CD these days is circa £60 to £100.. anyway to me and I'm sure to all those that live for this stuff, it's priceless

[BruvaBob]

@ElcocoSiete True, I have it on a the 'dam right I am somebody' album but only on CD.....I looked for the vinyl around the early 90's and was around the £150 mark big regret I never got it!! there is a hole in my collection for that one still

I also (And where I hear it 1st) have it on 'Urban Classic's vol1' which I got around 1988 if you dont have that compilation try and get (along with vol2), it has almost every great rare groove you could ask for without every other tune being a JB track!

[ElcocoSiete]

One time very rare super-funk, way ahead of its time... this was originally released on the 1974 album Dam Right I am Somebody and through the eighties and nineties could have put you back £200, the CD these days is circa £60 to £100.. anyway to me and I'm sure to all those that live for this stuff, it's priceless

[Hjernded]

Is this track on the "Fred Wesly and the Horny Horns, ft. Maceo Parker"?

[woodfordfunkhunter]

Funk

Unites the

Countrys

Kids

LOVE IT!!!!!!

[grijsje]

I dig it, props for putting up this awesome track.

[rondroyd]

ithink its defenatly an arp more wild sounding filter probably a oddysee orso

listen to cmaeleon h hancock

[Gunnercv]

funky as mustard!

[MrMLD72MLD]

♥

[chillraph]

wow, imagine if they realeased it in 73, it woulda been a nuclear bomb!

[rexferal]

if it moves, funk it!

[swetroniusz]

we want THE FONK ! yeaah!

[timeofthemumph]

Go FUNK Yourselves !!!

[SuperHawk1973]

This is the dogs bollocks Fucking love it !!

[danthedonHBB]

public enemy- public enemy no 1, as u probably know, samples this and so does hijacks "style wars".

[Hedsta]

This is THE shit :D

[Funkonaut]

Great!

What is that synth/electronic device we hear throughout the song?

[megagavelli]

its a moog minimoog played by james brown himself

[hoodmistress]

Sounds like a Moog synth device to me. I could be wrong, though.

[amman320]

think it mabe an ARP synthesiser...

[eziosportivo]

auhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!! wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[1679peter]

What a tune , it's so good i don't know what to do with me self

[alistermbouvart]

dance mothafucka!

[Huntkillberry]

Excellent!

[KwakeDesign]

OUTER SPACE

[tanktheking]

Unbelievable they do this in the 70's.....

[tolstoyleo]

The release date was: Original Release Date: September 6, 1988

although I read somewhere it was recorded in 1972. But I'm not actually sure when it was recorded. It'd be nice to have like an official answer on this.

[tanktheking]

u're right . Written and recorded in 1973 , released in 1989 .

[GOFUCKYOURSELFORFREE]

no shit? so the bomb squad sampled it for public enemy before it was "officially" released? that a cool trinket to know!

[hoodmistress]

I used to have the actual track before the official version was released. I taped it off the radio and played it so much that my cassette busted.

[cen1276]

I feel ya there fam!!!! This track is tha BANGA!!! It's also featured on the video game B-Boy on PSP. From the moment the first synthesizer buzz dropped, I instantly started flowin' the Public Enemy No. 1 track, word-for-word. Now that I'm hearin' the actual song in its entirety, I love it even more than before!!!

[DISCORICKY44]

@tanktheking

i'm not sure of the actual release date .... but it was b4 1988...Public Enemy sampled it on their Yo' bum rush the show album released in 1987...on the song public enemy no.1....and i believe they released that single in 1986

[Rib5]

@tanktheking There is no way something this awesome would have been recorded in 1989 ;)

[DISCORICKY44]

@tolstoyleo

i'm not sure of the actual release date .... but it was b4 1988...Public Enemy sampled it on their Yo' bum rush the show album released in 1987...on the song public enemy no.1....and i believe they released that single in 1986

[DISCORICKY44]

@tolstoyleo

i'm not sure of the actual release date .... but it was b4 1988...Public Enemy sampled it on their Yo' bum rush the show album released in 1987...on the song public enemy no.1....and i believe they released that single in 1986

[DISCORICKY44]

@tolstoyleo i'm not sure of the actual release date .... but it was b4 1988...Public Enemy sampled it on their Yo' bum rush the show album released in 1987...on the song public enemy no.1....and i believe they released that single in 1986

[Borst79]

@tanktheking  Other Dimension !!!

[OscarInOrlando]

@tanktheking This is exactly why some of the best funk ever is still only available on vinyl!!!

[rsswd]

@tanktheking Someone has some studying to do!

[reni991]

Man , that is a tuneeeee

[assault70]

awesome tune PE IN THE HOUSE!!!!!!

[vuctorjungus]

What a tune! One of my all tume favourites!