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(YouTube) Cool All you young whippersnappers and hippity hoppers get off the lawn and see how a real soul legend does it - Marvin Gaye, "What's Going On / What's Happening Brother" live in 1973   (youtube.com) divider line 28
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robmilmel [TotalFark] 2009-04-04 05:22:30 PM  
Love me some Marvin!
Thanks, subby!

 
HappyHarryHardOn [TotalFark] 2009-04-04 05:26:58 PM  
a king amongst men.... this was so good, makes me want to holler

 
NewHairGrowth 2009-04-04 05:50:14 PM  
I remember listening to that album on the radio in my bedroom every night back in 1971 and being amazed at how great it was. The pinnacle of his career without a doubt. It's kind of sad that it was a one-off thing and he was never able to achieve that kind of music relevance again. He was always an awesome singer with a killer voice but he seemed more suited to things like "Let's Get It On" and "Sexual Healing". Too bad about the cocaine.

 
beerrun [TotalFark] 2009-04-04 05:53:43 PM  
Right on.

 
gimmeafuckinname 2009-04-04 06:02:41 PM  
Try some new soul (new window)

 
RobertBruce [TotalFark] 2009-04-04 06:08:29 PM  
LOVE THIS.

 
boogerwolf 2009-04-04 06:21:47 PM  
This is my favorite Marvin Gaye performance. Just the imagery of a bleak Chicago in the late 60's-early 70's is incredible.
Regular folks just getting on with life.

The segue between "What's Going On" and "What's Happening Brother" was flawless. BTW, James Jamerson is WOEFULLY underated. He never got the recognition he should have. Have a listen to his bassline on The Jackson's "Darling Dear".

 
Maddogjew [TotalFark] 2009-04-04 06:47:33 PM  
Thank you subby. I've never seen this performance and this particular song is one of my favorites. Kudos to you good sir. I will be actually buying this DVD set. (I am a pirating fool but greatness deserves money.) Thank you once again, you have made my day.

 
torquestripe 2009-04-04 07:14:12 PM  
Marvin Gaye was a damn good singer, but his dad was a damn good shot!

 
toutons 2009-04-04 07:17:52 PM  
Jamerson is unreal.

 
SpwimmingInNY 2009-04-04 08:10:33 PM  
Motown.

Humankind's musical peak.

/excluding The Jackson Five

 
TeddyBallGame [TotalFark] 2009-04-04 08:14:40 PM  
SpwimmingInNY: Motown.

Humankind's musical peak.

/excluding The Jackson Five


Eh, the J5 brought in enough bread to support the rest of the stable so they were good for that at least. I remember crying the day he was shot. It was either because the world lost the most soulful singer of a generation of Jennifer Bonavart broke up with me (5th grade).

 
FireBreathingLiberal [TotalFark] 2009-04-04 08:15:50 PM  
Right on, subby. You are one groovin' cat!

 
FirstNationalBastard 2009-04-04 09:17:26 PM  
SpwimmingInNY: Motown.

Humankind's musical peak.

/excluding The Jackson Five


The Jackson 5 weren't real Motown, IMO.

They were discovered and rose to fame after Gordy had moved Motown from Detroit to LA... Motown was already a walking corpse by that point. Sure, the old stand-bys like the Temptations and Marvin Gaye were still putting out good stuff at that time, and the Commodores and Rick James still lay ahead, but the heart and soul of Motown went when the company left Detroit.

And that's why I don't consider the Jackson 5 to be "real Motown".

 
The_Philosopher_King 2009-04-04 09:45:32 PM  
FirstNationalBastard: They were discovered and rose to fame after Gordy had moved Motown from Detroit to LA... Motown was already a walking corpse by that point.

The reason they went downhill I think is because he ditched the Funk Brothers. How can you drop the greatest back up band in the world? But he didn't think much about them I guess. He was dumb. How can a person who owns a record company let James Jamerson out of your stable of musicians?

Time to plug:
Standing in the Shadows of Motown (new window)

 
FirstNationalBastard 2009-04-04 10:57:18 PM  
The_Philosopher_King: FirstNationalBastard: They were discovered and rose to fame after Gordy had moved Motown from Detroit to LA... Motown was already a walking corpse by that point.

The reason they went downhill I think is because he ditched the Funk Brothers. How can you drop the greatest back up band in the world? But he didn't think much about them I guess. He was dumb. How can a person who owns a record company let James Jamerson out of your stable of musicians?

Time to plug:
Standing in the Shadows of Motown (new window)


That was part of the move to LA... The Funk Brothers weren't part of it. They were left in Detroit while Gordy and the vocal acts went west.

That's why I don't think of LA-Era Motown as real Motown. As you said, How can you drop the greatest back up band in the world (besides Booker T and the MGs, of course)?

 
NecoConeco [TotalFark] 2009-04-05 12:08:09 AM  
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mrchowwow 2009-04-05 12:18:57 AM  
This is transcendent. +121

 
Dwight_Yeast 2009-04-05 01:10:14 AM  
Subby: the song's called "What's Goin' On".

"What's happenin', brother" is the tag to the chorus.

TMYK

 
SpwimmingInNY 2009-04-05 02:20:45 AM  
FirstNationalBastard: SpwimmingInNY: Motown.

Humankind's musical peak.

/excluding The Jackson Five

The Jackson 5 weren't real Motown, IMO.

They were discovered and rose to fame after Gordy had moved Motown from Detroit to LA... Motown was already a walking corpse by that point. Sure, the old stand-bys like the Temptations and Marvin Gaye were still putting out good stuff at that time, and the Commodores and Rick James still lay ahead, but the heart and soul of Motown went when the company left Detroit.

And that's why I don't consider the Jackson 5 to be "real Motown".


I only wish all Motown compilation producers agreed with that.

 
2xhelix [TotalFark] 2009-04-05 02:41:04 AM  
What was the last record Marvin Gayle listened to?
A 45.

/aisle seat, smoking section please

 
YonderScott 2009-04-05 07:02:04 AM  
/getting off my own lawn
//greatest bass in a song evar Link (new window)
///thanks for the Ben Harper links

 
ZeroCorpse [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-04-05 11:56:12 AM  
How I wish hip hop culture had never been invented. I could listen to my upstairs neighbors playing good soul and R&B like this without much issue, but instead, they're listening to gangsta rap and crap like Kanye West and Lil Kim.

Compare that Marvin Gaye performance with Kanye West's live performance here. (Pops)

Seriously-- How can anyone defend this new music? It's terrible. The lyrics are terrible. The performers need AutoTune to sing. The producers steal their music from other people (don't get me started on Timbaland, that plagiarist asshole).

Listen to that Kanye performance. He can't even stay in tune. His words are TERRIBLE. It's simply awful. After that, you'll be begging to listen to some Marvin Gaye, just for the aural bleach.

 
coffee fiend 2009-04-05 02:25:44 PM  
The_Philosopher_King: Time to plug:
Standing in the Shadows of Motown (new window)


Amen, brother. That was an excellent documentary.

 
NewHairGrowth 2009-04-05 03:15:28 PM  
ZeroCorpse, you are dead on right. It is so pathetic that instead of the great soul music we had to grow up on in the 60s and 70s, kids these days have that vapid garbage. I also wish hip hop had never been invented - it's not music, it's a fashion statement. And a very irritating one at that. I truly believe that most young people don't really like that stuff, they just play it to bug the people around them.

 
sozelle 2009-04-05 10:37:50 PM  
Sweet.

 
spookybee 2009-04-06 03:37:57 AM  
*screams* throws panties

 
Ruffian 2009-04-06 02:08:15 PM  
Take a listen to Raphael Saadiq: "The Way I See It"
A fantastic album.

 
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