For your weekend viewing pleasure: 56 minutes of the funkiest soul ever dished up, courtesy of James Brown (1933-2006), in Bologna for Italian television in 1971. This is the entire broadcast, including a long-ish intro and several subsequent short interruptions by the show's host, mostly voice-overs. (They happen at 1:35-4:00; 5:10-5:35; 15:50-16:10; 27:32-29:00; and 37:00-37:15. Skip ahead to the 5-and-a-half minute mark to miss most of them).

That's a young (~20 year-old) Bootsy Collins on bass. The video's YouTube page contains rest of the line up. Here's a set list:

• Soul Power
• Brother Rapp
• Aint It Funky Now?
• Sunny
• Bobby Byrd - I Need Help (I can't Do It Alone)
• There Was A Time
• Sex Machine
• Papa's Got A Brand New Bag
• I Got The Feeling
• Give It Up Or Turn It Loose
• It's A Man's Man's World
• Please Please Please
• Super Bad
• Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved