JB's Food For Thought Sealed Shrink Mint Stereo 1972 Rare Funk James Brown
$
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Description
The Mad Platter presents:
A minty fresh collection recently purchased, and listed for your buying pleasure.
Check my other listings for more stone cold rarities.
Vinyl: Mint, never been played!
Cover: Mint, Sealed
just 1 small piece of shrink missing from the front to avoid warping,
and the smallest lower right corner cut that is barely noticeable!
Labels: Mint
Rare! Still Sealed! What an incredible find!!!
1st US Pressing on People Records.
No splits and completely legible spine.
A true collectors piece! This LP rips, and has been sampled by everyone!
They just never go for sale on Ebay sealed!
Still has the original 3/$1.00 price sticker attached, bet you wish you were at that sale!
Record will be shipped in a brand new quality outer sleeve.
As always, it will be shipped media mail; but I will upgrade at buyers expense.
USA buyers only.
A little history on it's release:
The classic first album by The JBs – James Brown's Fred Wesley-led backing band, and the force behind most of his greatest records of the early 70s! The band are incredible at this point – sharper, harder, and funkier than just about any other combo around – and that includes all the thousands of groups in the funky 45 underground who were always trying to copy their sound, but never got things this right! Not only are the rhythms the stuff of legend – but the use of the instruments is far far above the norm – as can be heard on the mindblowing "The Grunt", which was sampled heavily by Public Enemy to great fame – and which features a saxophone solo that sounds more like a whistling tea kettle! The set collects some of the group's best early singles, and includes all of the short little funky cuts that made them a legend right out of the box – "Pass the Peas", "The Grunt", "These Are The JBs", "Hot Pants Road", "Wine Spot", "To My Brother", "Blessed Blackness", "Theme From King Heroin", "Escapism (parts 1 & 2), and "Gimme Some More" – all together here in one tight little album of massive funky hard beats and breaks!
There are funk bands, and then there are The JB's. In the early 1970s, James Brown's production stable was quite simply overflowing with soul. Beyond his own genre-bursting music – which brought funk and R&B to new stratospheres with each platter he released – he began to curate his own label, People Records, to explore and expose the lesser-known talent in his own groups and musical universe.
After a mysterious, psychedelic album by a group calling themselves The Grodeck Whipperjenny in 1970, The Godfather Of Soul released a slew of 7-inch singles for the next several years on People. In doing so, he firmly established the label as the world's premier outlet for super-funk, with artists including James Brown himself, Lyn Collins, Hank Ballard and Fred Wesley.
In 1972, the next album on People was an easy choice: The JB's and their ridiculously funky full-length debut, Food For Thought. Made up of JB sidemen including bandleader Fred Wesley, Maceo Parker, John "Jabo" Starks, St. Clair Pinckney, Fred Thomas and Bobby Byrd, the group was the definition of a powerhouse. As proof, look no further than the fact that the ten songs on this platter have been sampled by an almost uncountable list of producers over the past 40-plus years, and grooved to by hundreds of thousands.
From "Pass The Peas" and "Gimme Some More" to the sonic attack of "The Grunt" (which also contained work from William "Bootsy" Collins and his brother Catfish, who had recently defected to join Parliament Funkadelic. Food For Thought remains one of the funkiest albums ever made!
