When I first watched it I was astonished to see that some of the segues between songs which I was sure were edited for the CD were actually played live.) This can be heard right from the opening medley of Brother Rapp and Ain't It Funky Now, as the band adjusts the tempo seamlessly while amping the energy level ever upward. (Indeed, there is video of this show on Youtube. This band is so tight it's almost difficult to believe - they can switch tempos or stop on a dime based on JB's cues.
The band includes the aforementioned Collins brothers, along with funky drummer Jabo Starks (sometimes spelled by second drummer Tiger Martin), backup singer Bobby Byrd, and Fred Wesley on trombone getting most of the horn solos. (This review is for the CD mix.) I can't help but wonder if this would have supplanted Live at the Apollo as the essential James Brown live album if it had been released in 1971, because it is an amazing performance.
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It was finally issued on CD in 1992, with the full show following on a 3-LP set in 2014. But the original JBs parted ways with Brown soon after, and the album was shelved. The JBs were also incendiary in concert, and the show that became Love Power Peace was captured live in Paris in 1971. Powered by the Collins brothers, Bootsy on bass and Catfish on guitar, the new group recorded a string of funk classics in the studio, including Sex Machine, Talking Loud and Saying Nothing, Soul Power, Greedy Man, and Super Bad. The Pacemakers were rechristened as The JBs, and their work with Brown set a new standard of funkiness.
The story of their arrival on the scene is the stuff of legend: when James Brown's band quit on him en masse in the middle of a tour, he flew in a young band from Cincinnati called the Pacemakers to replace them. Love Power Peace is the only official live release from the Godfather of Soul with his most powerful band, the original JBs.
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