The unreleased album by James Brown's backing band: The Bootsy Collins-led JB's. This album is the Rosetta Stone of funk's dominant idioms, yet its existence is barely a rumor. In 1970, James Brown perfectly captured a definitive moment in modern music when he ordered Bootsy Collins into the studio to record the tracks that would be test-pressed on King Records as These Are The JB's. And if there is any funk ensemble as influential as Brown's, in the post-"Cold Sweat" musical landscape, it's the Parliament Funkadelic contingent. Those two streams, as Grammy-winning James Brown historian Alan Leeds details in this album's liner notes, converged for the first time here. There are only two extant copies of the original King Records test press LP of These Are The JB's. This, the first commercial issue of this album, was overseen by Now-Again's Egon alongside Leeds and Universal Music Group's James Brown expert Harry Weinger. It was mastered specifically for vinyl by Elysian Master's Dave Cooley from the original two-track stereo master that James Brown and his engineer Ron Lenhoff delivered to production forty-four years ago and is packaged in a thick, tip-on Stoughton jacket. it comes with a 12 page book of liner notes by Leeds and Egon and many unpublished photographs and ephemera.
J**T
Bizarre Mono Pressing Error?
I just received a LP copy of These Are the JB's and it is not right. It seems to me that either the right or left channel is doubled up for a mono mix with no stereo separation and 50% of the mix not included. I've checked my gear and I've listened to streams of the recording and my I'm left to the conclusion that this pressing is the problem! For example, guitar on A1 is only heard off mic, so to speak. Definitely as if one channel was mixed down to both channels. The youtube clips above and streaming versions reflect a stereo mix that is NOT on my pressing. I've checked my gear and I've listened to streams of the recording and my I'm left to the conclusion that this pressing is the problem!I can find no mention of this problem anywhere, but it seems to me that I can't be the only one who has had it.
F**X
Five Stars
The unreleased album of the jb's with bootsy collins and his brother catfish,a masterpiece of the funk history.
A**R
Sounds awful.
Just received, and on first playing, not impressed. A waste of money in my opinion.
M**D
Peu de titres
4 titres !!! C est tout
M**S
top funk ...
this is not a first edition ...
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