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The J.B.'s were James Brown backing group. Formed in 1970, Brown enticed back band members who'd previously split due to his autocratic nature. One of those was trombone player, Fred Wesley, who came back into the fold as bandleader of The J.B.s. In 1974, under the name Fred Wesley and the J.B.'s, they released their third album entitled, 'Damn Right I am Somebody', echoing one of Jesse Jackson's catch cries. From this album is today's track, the eternally funky instrumental, 'Blow Your Head'. Apparently Wesley had deemed it finished and ready for release when Brown decided it needed something more, so he added a wild free-jazz style moog synthesizer lead over the top of the entire track. Welsey wasn't pleased but the result is a top notch dancefloor stomper that hasn't gone unnoticed by the beat-digging hip hoppers.

Like so many James Brown tunes, this one has been sampled over and over, perhaps most recognisably by Public Enemy on the track that gave them their name, 'Public Enemy No.1'. I've included the version from their 1987 debut album 'Yo! Bum Rush The Show' for good measure.

2 mp3s from diddywah
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17 4" x 5" and smaller black and white photos of workers for the 0wens Illinois plant in Portland, Oregon. On the photo with the chalkboard the date 1-6-39 is visible.


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A good many of the reviewers of that time came from literary backgrounds, usually the New York School of poetry, which showed up in their exaggerated claims and overripe metaphors. In art school in the late '50s, we played a game, reading reviews aloud from the latest issue of Art News and trying to guess who the subject was. I can still remember one: "X dumps live chunks of landscape steaming hot into the gallery." (Give up? Helen Frankenthaler.) What changed this situation? Artists started writing. (I'll leave it to someone else to answer the question "What changed it back?") Why let the critics speak for you when you are perfectly capable of speaking for yourself?

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north dallas mid century kips bigboy demolished by southland corp


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6d1b
this here is a 1949 buick super sedanette the way it looked when it rolled out of the showroom. its a two door with a straight eight and a fastback in like new (unrestored) condition. this may be my big personal icon for the 20c.


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MJ: You've written that the concept of boredom didn’t really exist until 1760.

TH: That's the date most of us put on the Industrial Revolution, i.e. the age of the Big Machine. The idea of the machine was that we wouldn’t have to do that kind of work anymore ourselves. But you still need lots of men to work the machines, and these men become robotic because there’s no real skill involved. It’s like in Fast Food Nation where Eric Schlosser says the ultimate successful business could be operated by monkeys. They make it easier and easier to work the machines and keep the wages as low as possible. In the past we had a more varied existence, where you might do a bit of weaving, you’d be tending the garden, you were involved in a whole range of activities. You still see it now, if you go to, say, rural Mexico. Work was mixed in with leisure, and the day was more varied, so it wasn’t boring.


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under pressure (not)


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