nice shots of Booker T. and Steve Cropper (Sam & Dave - Soul Man)

[bloke]

You can see Duck Dunn on the zoom-out.

Booker T. Jones played sousaphone, trombone, saxophone, guitar, and bass as well.

Booker actually attended Booker T. WASHINGTON High School in Memphis...and then the Jacobs School (Indiana University).

Stax Records - aka Satellite Records (previously the Capitol Movie Theater - so a slanted floor) was bulldozed years ago, but (at least copying the front) was built back as a museum. Tour buses stop there hourly. Adjacent is the Soulville Charter School. (We repair their instruments.) It's an extremely dangerous area with murders (within a couple of block or less) regularly. There are some nice shiny-new buildings directly across the street. One of them has one of those wall-climbing places in it. An employee of that business was recently murdered on site. https://www.climbing.com/news/climber-k ... on-sunday/

Comin' to you on a dusty road
Good lovin', I got a truckload
And when you get it, you got something
So don't worry, 'cause I'm coming

[iiipopes]

When I was a teenager in the '70's, Midnight Special and Don Kirschner's Rock Concert aired late night where I used to live. So I would pretend to go to bed, wait for Mom to go to sleep, then sneak back into the living room, turn the volume low, get right next to the TV, and listen to these two shows. Occasionally I was busted, but that was the only way (American Bandstand notwithstanding) you could see some of the great bands at the time. I don't recall this particular episode, although I probably did watch it at the time, because those of us who did the same thing watched as much as we could.

As an electric bass player, when I see a clip of someone going to town with technique, my first question is, "Yes, but can he support a band." Duck Dunn could support a band. I remember reading contemporary interviews, as published in Guitar Player Magazine (before it split to Bass Player Magazine) about how he would record a track, then go back and see what he could remove from his bass line to make it more clear and better rhythmically. Young bass players can learn a lot from that, as I did.

Thanks for posting.

[bloke]

Great post. The fact you guys repair the instruments for Soulville is an awesome piece of this story. Really adds a powerful, modern layer to the Stax legacy.

Many of us (not just in Memphis/Shelby County, but in the surrounding area) are hoping that the National Guard + the 12 federal law enforcement agencies currently concentrating on Memphis render neighborhoods such as Soulsville - as well as the entire city - a better place for the children and all the citizens of Memphis.

[Three Valves]

That’s a groove.

Live performances on TV.

[martyneilan]

As an electric bass player, when I see a clip of someone going to town with technique, my first question is, "Yes, but can he support a band." Duck Dunn could support a band. I remember reading contemporary interviews, as published in Guitar Player Magazine (before it split to Bass Player Magazine) about how he would record a track, then go back and see what he could remove from his bass line to make it more clear and better rhythmically. Young bass players can learn a lot from that, as I did.

Jaco had amazing technique as a bass soloist, but I think he did a generation of bass players a disservice. Duck Dunn and James Jamerson set the standard for laying down a groove to back a band.