James Brown guested with Dave Matthews Band at Madison Square Garden, 12/21/2001, Terissa

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Who: Terissa
What: James Brown made a surprise guest appearance at a Dave Matthews Band Show at Madison Square Garden
When: December 21, 2002
Where: Madison Square Garden, New York, NY

At the end of "Too Much," a crew guy starts running all over the place in the front of the stage as if a piece of equipment had broken. Then, he put out some extra microphones. “Ladies and Gentlemen, the Godfather of Soul, James Brown!” The crowd erupted into a frenzy. He was amazing and the crowd was amazing. There were 14 people onstage in total. They performed Sex Machine and James Brown completely controlled the audience: he had everyone chanting “Dave,” had them waving their arms like they were at a Naughty By Nature concert in 1994, and even got Dave to do the running man along with him and his backup singer, who looked strangely like Al Sharpton. Just when it couldn’t get any better, confetti cannons exploded with red, white, and blue confetti all over the floor and the bottom sections.