James Brown's Stoned To The Bone 45

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I made an interesting discovery recently when I started buuying up James Brown 45s. I knew that some 45 mixes differed from the LP mixes, besides the length. For example, the 45 mix of Papa Don't Take No Mess has overdubbed audience cheering sound effects at the beginning, and a guy doing shout outs to various cities in the outro of Pt 2.

Well, Stoned To The Bone was an even better discovery! Pt 2 is 5 minutes in length, with Pt 1 being 4 min. I figured, this is about 9 minutes, which is the LP version, but chopped in half. But no! Pt 2 actually starts about 2 minutes before the end of the LP version. i.e. There is 3 minutes MORE of Stoned To The Bone beyond the LP version. So the master recording of this track is about 13 minutes in total, if not longer.

I hope if Universal decides to put out a CD compilation of James Brown rarities or unreleased (hello, Motherlode 2 please?) I hope they put out the full version of this cut.

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[kaliffen]

Nice discovery

There has been a few unreleased testpress albums on ebay the past few years with james brown from the 67 - 75 period which indicates there must be plenty of material for a few more motherloades.

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Originally Posted by kaliffen

Nice discovery

There has been a few unreleased testpress albums on ebay the past few years with james brown from the 67 - 75 period which indicates there must be plenty of material for a few more motherloades.

Yes, I can see them making quite a few other Motherlodes. James liked to use the same backing track for different artists, like the From The Love Side by Hank Ballard backing track, which he originally used for Marva Whitney. Plus, his approach to coming up with new songs was essentially playing out a riff, like the way There Was A Time was born from the outro to Let Yourself Go.

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