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« Musharraf speaks | Main | Shakespeare at the video store » Thursday, December 28, 2006More on James BrownAnother decidedly cool twist on the James Brown obit parade: At Dial "M" for Musicology, a pretty awesome dissection of the music of James Brown, with special consideration for "why JB's music is so goddam funky" -- a project suggested by Scott McLemee at Crooked Timber, who does his own amateur deconstruction. But here's Phil Ford from Dial "M": Right now I'm thinking about the opening vamp of "Hot Pants," with its octave-jump bassline and its up-tilted three-note** guitar riff against a chicken-scratch rhythm guitar and a tambourine doing steady eighth-notes. (All led off by JB shouting ONE TWO ONE TWO THREE UHHNN.) Yes, there's more, including a thought on the Heisenbergian nature of hip. Posted by Evan Hughes at 07:18 PM
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