JAMES BROWN - Sunny (2/3) - Live Palasport, Bologna Italy April 1971

[ragingfury911]

SOME PEOPLE JUST SIT AND WATCH IT DOES NOT MEAN THEY DON'T LIKE IT! JAMES AND THE BAND IS IN ANOTHER WORLD THEY GET DOWN NO MATTER WHAT THE CROWD IS DOING!

[muzikman183]

the whole band is a freakin funky MACHINE!!! Bootsy, Jabo, and Catfish are raping the hell outta that pocket! its not even funny!.. chillz for dayz man... such a great show, wish i could've exerienced such a spectacle..

[BiggWill1988]

Classic performance, love it. R.I.P

[brideshead1921]

Where can I find this on a audio recording? I've looked in iTunes... Is it on any concert DVD? I'll have to jack it from YouTube. This is the most amazing performance I've ever seen!!

[Kaktusreggae]

BOOOOOOOOOOTSEEEEEEEEEEEEY!!!!­

[AKO86Street]

" Sunny" I really love this song!!

[ssaalloocciinn]

2:58 Who's TF that?

[malaperdas30]

How can they be sitting down!!!???!!!

[allexcosta]

Damn it... This is some good stuff. Thanks a lot for uploading this. Truly priceless...

[SD7268]

Unfortunately at that time in Italy the soul music was not very popular (only for the lovers) ... I am Italian and i loooooveeee Soul Music ... especially the sound of JB! .... but I was born in 1978 ... Instead the audience of this concert of 1971 has not fully appreciated .... perhaps for the Italian public the music of James Brown in the 70's was too modern for the Italian musical culture.

[kalimaganeshshivan]

He should have went to Sicily, he would have had a blacker audience.

[erowley462]

@kalimaganeshshivan  :-)

[carlosmoon]

once upon a time in Italy!!!

[d1thundergod]

at .58, bootsy looks just like paul pierce from the celtics

[WestTownRecording]

bass dude is killing it!!!

[greentigers]

@WestTownRecording Young Bootsy Collins; aka Bootzilla

-Later of Parliament (P-Funk, et. al.)

[OrgenaII]

@WestTownRecording

"ah, the name is BOOTZY BABE"

[hendrixfreek]

bootsy!!!!!

[HarryHachet666]

I said got damn! bootsy between 1.15 - 1.20 make me go berzerk! this is an 18 year old bootsy we see here people... such genuine talent!

[honeybeeman]

AGGGGuuuuuuuuuuuHHHHHHHH ITS SO FUCKING GOOD

[kgeefunk733]

Super !!!!!!!!!

[sanQ]

Up until the 80's, most audiences did not stand up ever. They all sat. Can you imagine seated audiences for some of the greatest artists in rock?

[soulgriot]

@sanQ That's actually true . . . but only in Europe. I saw the Rolling Stones in Munich in the early 70s. Only the American G.I.s were partying, and the Germans were absolutely appalled that we weren't sitting quietly and clapping politely.

On the other hand, I went to my first James Brown show in the late 60s in Buffalo. The audience was almost exclusively black, and we danced like crazy and had a great time! People were trying to jump onto the stage!!!

[OrgenaII]

@soulgriot & sanQ

wht about JB in Paris 71? there was a riot, where the ppl stormed the stage several times and the army r somebody had to be brought in to hold the crowd back.

[WhenToWatch]

James Brown was so beyond any ignorance around him, he was on his own planet...! A human cyclone of raw energy....

[fstop77]

James is too funky for those Italians!!!!!!!!

[AgentKidSociety]

Honestly! I'm never one to hate, but that so-called 'audience' did NOT warrant that performance.... what I would've given to have been there!

[EastAveBand1]

Easily the greatest performer to ever live.

[BOUTHALAZIZ1]

James was the master of conveying thought through motion and sound.

[MrAnthonyVance]

None like the incredible James Brown. Fuck that dead audience. He had me kicking over here ... and shouting! WOW!!!

[MatsPT]

Is Bootsy Collins human?

[boogalooping]

the italians in than period didn't understand anything about THE SOUND. .

they were only thinking about an improbable revolution . shame on them . this performance was a 9.9 quake!!!

[muzikman183]

MAN!!!! the band... the band.... THE band.... THE BAND!!!! Bootsy's fingerz! lord lord lord!.. makin that bass sing!!! everybody's jammin like crazy!!.. geez!! and then James is takin it ta church the whole way thru!!.. man i miss funk.. lol and im only 27.. what a trip

[jhg123456]

I would've expected the Italians to be livelier than this; i mean they are on Jersey Shore

[edmame]

the prototype!!

[thuey65]

Proof Italians are SOULless people....

[bassbymichele]

@thuey65 I'm the exeption brother!

[thuey65]

By far the best rendition of "Sunny" ever....

[jack60r]

This tune is an absolut masterpiece, the performance of Mr JB is a God gift. Thank You, God. And thank you, Mr JB...

Ps: i wonder the peoples in this concert are deads (please, look at they...) or not hearing peoples, if i were between they i thik i gone crazy, dancing over the chair!!!!!!!

[jody808]

the Collins boys were still in the group during this time..not tor long

[derwinlowery]

fred wesley is king of the trombone

[stratosphere78]

Bootsy on Jazz bass!!! OH yeeeeeeeeeeah!

[xylaphonemaster]

Is that a young Bootsy I see there? Amazing bass work!

[OrgenaII]

@xylaphonemaster

yep, 18 or 19 yrs old, along with his brotha Catfish on lead.

[juli87]

puto

[tamfunk]

Yaasss! This is f***ing magic.

[zapwatt]

Forget Bootsy for five minutes and give it up to Fred Wesley who KILLS on this performance. That man is a giant.

[DONNIMETROPOLIS313]

@zapwatt hell yeah

[Vuduman]

@zapwatt and Catfish on the Vox guitar!

[stevevalyi]

Greatest Sunny performance ever.

Oh, and don't forget to listen the marvellous Bootsy Collins bass in the back.

What a jam

[shadiepawn]

So True !!! Killa great stuff

[frankgarrettdowhat]

watch the paris performance

[tutaberi100]

Yes, Paris performance is just fantastic !

[stevevalyi]

I checked it, this was the biggest time in the history of soul music I think... JB s gonna be always here

[jack60r]

@frankgarrettdowhat I'm agree, Paris was better, also because the public was "alive", not "dead" like this...

[dixxjamm]

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THE AUDIENCE ?????? Poor James, he must have thought he wasn't kicking ass enough....and what a performance....his rendition of Sunny makes my eyes water in the beginning and then takes me on a wild trip....this guy had energy and groove for 10 people.

[frankgarrettdowhat]

i was thinking the same thing, dixxjamm....watch the paris performance..it's much, much better

[Rocky777]

@dixxjamm maybe because majority of the audience is white.

[Davoravo86]

@dixxjamm

Italy in 1971? Haha, explains a few things.

[Passolini3]

@dixxjamm I think they are being quiet as a courtesy to the other people so they can all hear.

At the end they clap.

They don't shoot at the screen either.

[dixxjamm]

@Passolini3 1. You're kidding, right ? Watch almost any other James Brown concert and tell me that it's the same audience reaction. And for your info, I've been to a James Brown concert in 1991 and I danced my ass off,I danced so hard that I had muscle cramps for 2 days and I shouted so much that my voice was practically gone for 6 hours. I was out of breath for an hour. And I was 18 and in good physical condition.And completely elated and happy for 2 months.And yes there were people....

[dixxjamm]

@Passolini3 2.....sitting down around me and I couldn't care less. James Brown's music is no opera, who the hell listens to it motionless ? Polite is one thing, DEAD another. Now, I can understand that maybe most of the audience may have not been familiar with JB's music or how to FEEL funk or soul, but my comment was about the absurdity of THAT audience with THAT music.

[letsbeone]

@dixxjamm You forgot to put billion after the 10.

[mwhite36]

@dixxjamm This was in Italy.

I'm not italian, but i guess soul music isn't really that popular in that country.

[note415]

he was the worlds greatest entertainer hands down he is what they mean when they say raw soul r.i.p. godfather!!

[Ibzlafamilia]

yes, one of my favourite! thanks