Give JIMMY NOLEN some
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Uploaded by JoseyWales93 on Jul 15, 2007
I was watching that James Brown concert live at Montreux 1981... Then the incredible happened: James called for a solo from ma main man Jimmy Nolen, one of the best guitar players ever, the guy on Johnny Otis's "Willie and the hand jive", the guy who joined James Brown in 1965 and never left (except 1970-1971), the guy on the guitar on "Papa's got a brand new bag", the guy on the guitar on "Cold sweat", the guy on the guitar on "There was a time", the guy on the guitar on "I Got The Feelin", the guy on the guitar on "Say It Loud‑I'm Black And I'm Proud", the guy on the guitar on "Give It Up Or Turn It Loose", the guy on the guitar on "Mother Popcorn", the guy on the guitar on "blind man can see it", the guy on the guitar on "get on the good foot".
JIMMY NOLEN one of the most influential guitar player of all time...
RIP
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@rayterry Lord, what you must think of Jimmy Page...
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The guy just jams with the band,straight from the heart and what he feels. if there was no Jimmy there wouldn't be funk guitar as it is today.
Beautiful,groovy funk guitar !!!
It just relaxes my mind .Always great to hear it !!!
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@oldfatherted - Another person who needs their ears flushed out!
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Sounds pretty great to me.
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Nolen's a virtuoso at what he -usually- does: crisp rhythms & short tasty fills. Longer solos are simply not his thing. I'm sure if he expected to regularly take long solos, he'd practice appropriately, & purchase & adjust his equipment to make them just as perfect, but this solo sounds like he didn't want to take it. As as far as 'rtwang32's comparison to SRV: Nolen could do things SRV never could, but here he's in SRV's territory, & Stevie tears Jimmy a new one on out-&-out lead guitar.
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This is pretty dreadful. A lot of bum notes and phrases and under-bends. Having said that, Jimmy is probably my all-time favorite guitarist. He and Al Kellum invented funk guitar, and Jimmy's the greatest for me. As far as this sort of blues picking- he was beautiful with that, too, at one time. This just isn't a good example of that. Josey, that wasn't Jimmy on "Get On The Good Foot."
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Just wonderful !!!
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No shit! Down and nasty and REAL. I would take this over five of Stevie Ray Vaughan's albums, and so probably would Stevie Ray.
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Mr. Chicken, Jimmy Nolen was the uncredited backbone of many of the best JB grooves. He was to the guitar what Maceo is to the alto and tenor sax.He started as a jazz band leader.
Buckeyecat2002 3 years ago 5
J.Nolen: INVENTOR of funk. JB gets credit, Starks & Stubblefield were ready to play funk as soon as funk arrived, but funk didn't ACTUALLY arrive til JN joined JB in '65. His setup was for funk rhythm only: No channel-switching, master volume,overdrive, fuzz, compressor, or mid-range boost: A "thin" sound to modern rock-oriented ears. JN'd get that 1 solo in a 2hr show; playing funk rhythm for an hour or more's no way to get your fingers ready to play a hot lead. Consider this before judging.
lazur1 1 year ago 3