Fred Wesley’s “Blow Your Head” should be known well enough to Hip-hop heads, but that’s no reason not to listen to it again and again.
Also, I’m a big fan of TanktheKing for this Youtube edition, always digging the album art, and so can you!
Whether you know it from the Funky original from James Brown town, or the sample from Public Enemy’s Classic jammy “Public Enemy No. 1” (see below), or even from P. Diddy’s reinterpretation back when he was still known as “Puff”, “the Daddy”, “Puff Daddy”, and “Poppa Diddy Pop” (@iamdiddy), or in Diplo’s (@diplo) “Blow Your Head” of the 21st Century.
Any which way, Fred Wesley’s dope sound has always been good enough for the JBs, so why not for you?
From an interesting user comment on Discogs:
‘Blow Your Head’ is also a different mix from the original released on the ‘Damn Right I Am Somebody’ LP. This single is the same version issued on ‘Funky People Volume 3’; from the liner notes of that CD it states that this more stripped down version is closer to Fred Wesley’s original arrangement (before the synth was added).
Just another reminder that James Brown’s Funky People like Fred Wesley, Lyn Collins, Bobby Byrd, Maceo Parker, and others expanded, reinvented, and lived on from the days they were creating the timeless JBs Funk sound.
You may want to follow Fred Wesley’s blog as well.
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