Doobie Doo
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There's an interesting documentary on Netflix about James Brown's life that covers this. Basically Mick Jagger explained that for each set, they was a 1 hour wait or so, in which time they would bus in an entirely new audience, props etc so going on last didn't matter. He said he tried to explain it to James but James didn't care. James was straight alpha. Plus the folks watching TV would see the Stones closing the set.
Absolutely tore the place up. No other performance came close. Performance was better and James' band was much tighter than anything else put out there.
Maybe Mick was trying to pull a fast one on James.James was like "Ion give a fukk how this works, when I'm done with my set everybody needs to leave the building and go home."

performances..he was lip synced and wasn't the same Mike in that MSG 2001 performance for example. He may have been on pills or something around that time...
James is the GOAT for the exact reason above.

I sent you a message with 2 sentences which obviously still has you furious, you and a couple other Beyonce stans were the emotional ones in that thread and you all were so pressed with people disagreeing with you that you even made spin off threads.