The greens of Augusta,I remember when we started fight over the place.

The greens of Augusta,I remember when we started fight over the place.

Originally shared by Paul Gettle (radwolf76)

Me & The Godfather of Soul, Broad St. Augusta, GA,  #IngressNYE  
http://www.ingress.com/intel?ll=33.475279,-81.967103&z=19&pll=33.4756,-81.966505

     "This time-traveler theory would best explain what is hardest to explain about James Brown, especially to younger listeners who live so entirely in a sonic world of James Brown's creation: that he made it all sound this way. That it sounded different before him. This time-traveler theory would explain, too, how in 1973, right at the moment when it might have seemed that the times had caught up, at last, with James Brown's sonic idea, that the torch of funk had been taken up and his precognitive capacities therefore exhausted, James Brown recorded a song, called "The Payback," that abruptly predicts the aural and social ambiance of late-1980s gangsta rap.
     My theory also explains the opposite phenomenon, the one I so frequently witnessed in Augusta. If the man was able to see today from the distance of 1958, he's also prone to reliving 1958 -- and 1967, and 1971, and 1985 -- now that 2006 has finally come around. We all dwell in the world James Brown saw so completely before we came along into it; James Brown, in turn, hasn't totally joined us here in the future he made. That's why it all remains so startlingly new to him; why during one playback session, he turned to Mr. Bobbit and said, "Can I scream and moan? I sound so good, I want to kiss myself!" He spoke the phrase as if for the first time, and that may be because for him it was essentially occurring to him for the first time, or, rather, that there is no first time; All his moments are one. James Brown, in this view, is always conceiving the idea of being James Brown, as if nobody, including himself, had thought of it until just now. At any given moment James Brown is presently reinventing funk."

     -- "Being James Brown", Jonathan Lethern, Rolling Stone, June 29th, 2006


(Shaper-Influenced? Or maybe an actual Shaper who chose to walk among us?)