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NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 28: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band perform on NBC's 'Today Show' concert series at Rockefeller Plaza Septemin New York City.
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right up until he dismissed them after 1986’s“Blood And Chocolate.” But the Attractions returned in the mid-1990s, until a long-simmering conflict between Costello and bassist Bruce Thomas resulted in the latter being booted for good, with Costello later declaring that he only works with professional musicians. Starting out as a punk-styled Booker T and the MGs, the Attractions proved themselves flexible enough to swing with Costello’s changing moods (from soul to country to lush pop), making them indispensable.
Credit the introduction of the Attractions, a crazily fierce unit with a surf-rock organ gone berserk and a rhythm section that constantly fell just on the right side of chaos. “My Aim Is True” established Elvis Costello as one of the sharpest, most important new voices in rock ’n’ roll, and it takes exactly five seconds for follow-up “This Year’s Model” to make it sound declawed. The Attractions (Elvis Costello) Elvis Costello performs during the 2008 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in New Orleans Sunday, April 27, 2008. But with Jabo Starks on drums (augmented at times by the funky drummer himself, Clyde Stubblefield), Maceo Parker on saxophone and, for a time, future P-Funkateer Bootsy Collins on bass, the J.B.’s were the tightest (and possibly most terrified) band in the world, carrying out the orders of a ruthless disciplinarian and being rewarded by acting as the machine with which he invented a brand-new genre: funk. Part of that was surely due to Brown’s notorious habit of fining his musicians for the slightest mistake on or off the stage. But with all respect to the Famous Flames, his backing group for the first 15 years, nothing could touch the razor precision with which the J.B.’s supported the Hardest Working Man In Show Business. James Brown was such a rigid taskmaster that he was legendary for being able to squeeze killer performances even from pickup bands he’d never worked with before. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini/File) Martial Trezzini / KEYSTONE
7, 2008, about whether they hid one of Brown's earlier wills. An attorney for five of James Brown's children questioned the late soul singer's ex-trustees during a court hearing Thursday Feb.
soul legend James Brown performs on stage at the Paleo Festival in Nyon, Switzerland, in this Jfile photo.
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