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Dr.Fey [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-04-09 6:47:29 PM  
It's good he was able to keep the peace by the sheer force of his music and his personal charisma.  Had there been riots, the assassin probably never would have gone on to be voice of Darth Vader.
 
Miss_Dorothy_Kilgallen [TotalFark]  
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2020-04-09 7:58:38 PM  
Good god.
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Jesus McSordid [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-04-09 8:13:48 PM  
White couldn't save the city, but Brown could.
 
Priapetic [BareFark]  
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2020-04-09 8:17:49 PM  
Well when you work as hard as he did, you get results.

/hardest working man in show business
 
ieerto  
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2020-04-09 8:23:39 PM  
Still, it was too hot in the hot tub
 
xitnode  
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2020-04-09 8:45:51 PM  
James Brown was hated by everyone he worked with. Was a crackhead and a woman beater.

/#pos
 
Uzzah  
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2020-04-09 8:52:21 PM  
It's been such a long time since this happened...
 
CrazyCurt  
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2020-04-09 8:54:56 PM  
I had just turned two years old.

/ But I was in California thoroughly protected by wealth and privilege at the time.
// That sure as fark ain't a thing anymore.
 
fragMasterFlash [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-04-09 8:57:25 PM  
Keep Hope Alive-Crystal Method
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LewDux [OhFark]  
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2020-04-09 9:03:38 PM  

fragMasterFlash: [Youtube-video https://www.youtube.com/embed/n3N_Lkgftc4]


DJ Quicksilver - I Have A Dream
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LewDux [OhFark]  
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2020-04-09 9:10:20 PM  
And 28 years ago Kurt Cobain ruined it
 
Oreamnos  
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2020-04-09 9:38:46 PM  

Dr.Fey: It's good he was able to keep the peace by the sheer force of his music and his personal charisma.  Had there been riots, the assassin probably never would have gone on to be voice of Darth Vader.


Not sure if serious? Yes, serious:
MLK plaque mix-up causes uproar
 
LewDux [OhFark]  
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2020-04-09 9:39:58 PM  
Molecule - Suspicion
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the voice of raisin  
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2020-04-09 10:00:12 PM  

xitnode: James Brown was hated by everyone he worked with. Was a crackhead and a woman beater.

/#pos


Also created some amazing music and mentored many well-respected musicians who then influence many more well-respected musicians who are around today.  He also manged to keep the peace in 1 city and probably save some lives by doing so.

1 does not negate the other.

As a person I agree he was a pos, also because of his support for Conservative and GOP causes.

As a musician and composer, he was amazing.
 
thorpe [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-04-09 11:43:03 PM  
The hardest working man in show business.

This is that concert:

James Brown live at Boston garden 1968
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the voice of raisin  
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2020-04-09 11:49:18 PM  

BlackChickWhiteAccent: the voice of raisin: xitnode: James Brown was hated by everyone he worked with. Was a crackhead and a woman beater.

/#pos

Also created some amazing music and mentored many well-respected musicians who then influence many more well-respected musicians who are around today.  He also manged to keep the peace in 1 city and probably save some lives by doing so.

1 does not negate the other.

As a person I agree he was a pos, also because of his support for Conservative and GOP causes.

As a musician and composer, he was amazing.

Thank you for saying that.  I wrote some nasty things I had to delete, so thanks for clarifying that for that troll.

Find me a great white man who never sexually harassed or abused a woman, and I will ask you just what kinda flashlight you used, and how the hell did you get into their bedroom?


I want to believe that the majority of people that I respect for various reasons are also decent human beings.  Ryan Reynolds, John Candy, John Legend, for examples.  I never assume that people are bad or good because I don't know them.

However if Tom Hanks is ever proven to be a nasty person in his personal life, I think there will be mass suicides from people giving up on humanity.

Watching video from that '68 James Brown Boston show on Youtube.  When fans rushed the stage, he does a pretty good job getting the police to back off and telling the fans to back to their seats.
 
Oak  
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2020-04-09 11:52:22 PM  

Priapetic: Well when you work as hard as he did, you get results.

/hardest working man in show business


And he held that title until 1988, when Horace Grant became a starter for the Bulls and grabbed it away.
 
Uzzah  
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2020-04-10 12:28:50 AM  

the voice of raisin: As a person I agree he was a pos, also because of his support for Conservative and GOP causes.

As a musician and composer, he was amazing.


The Disgraceland podcast is a great way to learn to hate the artists you love.

/why are podcast web pages so invariably shiatty?
//here's a better list of episodes
 
dryknife  
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2020-04-10 6:25:40 AM  
Can I take it to the bridge?

Can I take it to the bridge?

Maceo! Maceo!
 
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