The holy grail of funk that almost vanished forever.
Live at the Olympia, Paris, 1971 is the only recording that documents one of his live performances with the original J.B.'s lineup featuring Bootsy and Catfish Collins. Love Power Peace was originally intended for a 1972 release as a vinyl triple album, but was cancelled after key members of the original J.B.'s left Brown to join Parliament-Funkadelic.
Acting
James Brown commands the stage like a preacher possessed.
Sound
The only document of the original J.B.'s at maximum power.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This sat in a vault for 22 years after Brown shelved it in anger over the J.B.'s departure; it finally surfaced in 1992.
This performance captures the precise moment funk mutated—Brown's militant precision versus the Collins brothers' psychedelic looseness that would soon define Parliament-Funkadelic.
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