I really love James Brown.  Can he get into like a sex machine?  Yes. Yes. His music is wonderful – his performances were entrancing.  I own several albums of his, some of them are performance recordings.  He’s often introduced to the crowd as “Soul Brother #1″ a distinction which is irrefutable.  It just got me to thinking – if he’s soul brother number 1, who’s soul brother number 2 and 3 and 4?  Then I wondered where I fall in all of this – if I were introduced at the Apollo Theater in 1970 by the J.B.s “Here he is! SOUL BROTHER NUMBER….. “  3,000,000?  How many people in this world would come ahead of me?  It really makes you think – right? Am I doing enough to get higher in that list?  What could we all be doing to achieve that Buddha-like state of soul-brother-number-one-ness with our universe?