James Brown rehearsal Letterman 1993

[pmcd]

Great upload! JB brought it all the time. BTW, this song is actually called "Doing it to Death".

[ricksuchow]

@pmcd You are correct... thank you. Correction made.

[zapwatt]

This is terrific. I would say this rendition is in the style of jump-blues.

[EDIDDY3234]

It sounded Great...but I coulda used a little more cowbell

[leftyrite]

Nobody mailed it in. Even Paul seemed more than pleased to put out.

[leeann716]

Mr. Brown has an autobiography on DVD..its called "Soul Survivor"..its awesome..a real look into the history and the life of Mr. Brown..and some great music!!

[Varlet09]

BEAUTIFUL! Great fucking set by JB and his singers kicked ass... sax solo was awesome and Paul played great keyboards on this! Thank you for putting this out on YouTube!

[BassSausage]

Awesome.

[Ffwee]

Heh... Will Lee got relegated to COWBELL? Oy... how humiliating :-)

RIP James - truly one of the greatest entertainers ever....

[Lehmann108]

@Ffwee Poor Will Lee, playing 1/4 notes on the cowbell!

[PaulDA2000]

What a pleasant surprise! 'Can't Get Any Harder' starts at 3:23 for 30 seconds! This must be around 1991-1992-1993 then. I wish he would have done 'Can't Get Any Harder' for the whole performance. That song is really one of Mr. Brown's best songs even though it wasn't a hit.

[THEMOJOMANsince1959]

@PaulDA2000 No No No THERE WAS A TIME was his very best. It's on here. The picture where you see his pinky ring,,THAT ONE.

[PaulDA2000]

What year was the show?

[tbirdwagonman]

Amazing & the bassist seems to do it all with his thumb.

Thanks for posting this.

[AstAMoore]

I'll be damned. Quite a rehearsal. Wow!