Here's yours truly playing a cover of the James Brown classic "Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine" on my electric guitar. The words and music were written by James Brown, Bobby Byrd, and Ron Lenhoff . The song was released as a two-part single for King Records and reached number fifteen on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts and number two on the U.S. Billboard R&B Singles charts in 1970. The song has been covered by many recording artists including Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Tommy Castro, The Flying Lizards, Terry Edwards, Howard & the White Boys, Gege & The Boparazzi, Q-Burns Abstract Message, Eugene Chadbourne & Zu, The Fat Boys, Woody Herman, Iggy Pop, D'Angelo & Tom Jones, Little Jimmy King & The Memphis Soul, Billy Branch & The Sons of Blues,Ex-Girl, Haruomi Hosono, Helge Schneider, Widespread Panic, Larry Coryell, and Garou, and it ranked #326 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2004. It was one of the first songs Brown recorded with his new band, The J.B.'s. The song centers on the insistent riff played by brothers Bootsy and Catfish Collins on bass and guitar and Jabo Starks on drums, along with the call and response interplay between Brown and Bobby Byrd's vocals."Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine" has appeared in a number of feature films, including City of God, Twisted, Legally Blonde, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Friday and The Tuxedo (in which it is performed by Jackie Chan). It has also been used in an episode of the television sitcom Scrubs and in commercials for the Renault Clio and Tassimo. The song was featured on the Pontiac commercial.
The song was sampled for: A Tribe Called Quest - "Money Maker" Big Daddy Kane - "Get Down" CEO - "Hit Me with the Beat" Coldcut - "Say Kids, What Time is It?" Double D & Steinski - "Lesson 2" Everlast - "Syndication" Fat Boys - "Sex Machine" Hammer - "They Put Me in the Mix" Heavy D - "Big Tyme" Kurtis Blow - "Still on the Scene" Mr. Lee - "Pump That Body" Redman - "Jam 4 U" Slum Village - "I Don't Know"
Tell me what you think about my skills on the electric guitar or the song in general by leaving me a YouTube or Facebook comment and a rating on the video. I'm very serious about my musical talent. Peace.
MACK MASTER RAY SHIZZLE [DTM Elite] the Big Boss Man
GET UP (I FEEL BEING LIKE A) SEX MACHINE (Brown/Byrd/Lenhoff)
Fellas, I'm ready to get up and do my thing (yeah go ahead!)
I wanta get into it, man, you know (go ahead!)
Like a, like a sex machine, man, (yeah go ahead!)
Movin' and doin' it, you know
Can I count it off? (Go ahead)
One, two, three, four!
Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Stay on the scene, (get on up), like a sex machine, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Stay on the scene, (get on up), like a sex machine, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Stay on the scene, (get on up), like a sex machine, (get on up)
Wait a minute!
Shake your arm, then use your form
Stay on the scene like a sex machine
You got to have the feeling sure as you're born
Get it together, right on, right on.
Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Hah!
Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
I said the feeling you got to get
Give me the fever in a cold sweat.
The way i like it is the way it is,
I got mine and don't worry 'bout his
Get up, (get on up)
Stay on the scene, (get on up), like a sex machine, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Bobby! Should I take 'em to the bridge?
(Go Ahead!)
Take 'em on to the bridge!
(Take em to the bridge!)
Should I take 'em to the bridge?
(Yeah!)
Take 'em to the bridge?
(Go Ahead!)
Hit me now!
Come on!
Stay on the scene, like a sex machine!
The way I like it is, is the way it is
I got mine, (dig it!), he got his
Stay on the scene, like a lovin' machine
Stay on the scene, like a lovin' machine
Stay on the scene
I wanna count it off one more time now
(Go ahead!)
You wanna hear it like it did on the top fellas?
(Yeah!)
Hear it like it did on the top?
(Yeah!)
Hit it now!
Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
And then, shake your money maker,
Shake your money maker,
Shake your money maker,
Shake your money maker,
Shake your money maker,
Shake your money maker,
Shake your money maker
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"Sex Machine" by the Tommy Castro Bandby 0325JAMES685 views
Sounds brilliant but gets boring after a while. It really needs the rest of the band.
jsnoad 8 months ago
Looks a little robot-ish! lol.
Tracey9926 1 year ago
Some compressor and some reverb in there?
towndrunk13569 1 year ago