THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Stoney Mason on May 13, 2012, 03:30:28 PM
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Great bass player for booker T and the MG's who also served as the house band for Stax Records. One of the greatest things ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W4zlYem67w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrTDJaBeqnY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Py37G9qsfY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JGJXmpKGXY
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My insta-theory: the blacks have been Massively abused. Hence the creation of the Blues. Blue also look likes bruise.
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Wasty: why are the Pakistnaisnn.
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Feel sorry for the guy, but almost had a mini-heart attack after seeing RIP and Booker T in the same sentence.
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Follow me eggman.
Your post history evinces thus:
Up to now, there've been members of your family who like to fish. One of your aunts or uncles had a seriously bad divorce/breakup.
There's also a blue or grey car.
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My uncle tag-fishes.
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I'm only a little ashamed to admit that it was the Simpson's cover of Born Under A Bad Sign that introduced me to Albert King and accordingly, Dunn.
He had a great feel for the blues. Sorry to hear he's gone.
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RIP. Truly one of the great soul pioneers who made soul sound like soul. Also Stax's story is pretty amazing. Grittier, louder soul compared to the smoother Motown stuff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bpS-cOBK6Q
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Also Stax's story is pretty amazing. Grittier, louder soul compared to the smoother Motown stuff
Yep. The Motown and the Stax stuff are both amazing in their own ways but personally I prefer Stax. The Motown sound had a great pop crossover sensibility but the Stax stuff is just funky and less concerned with appealing to mainstream (white) audiences of the time. There are some great stax complete singles boxsets of the entire history of the company that are among my favorite CD's when I was into CD's. Issac Hayes also deserves a huge amount of credit for the funky Stax sound too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3rMbKi5c9M
For those that don't follow such things, those labels operated with "house bands" who were really unsung amazing session musicians in many cases because the singers were the real stars of those labels and the ones they promoted. Motown had the "funk brothers" as their house band.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Funk_Brothers
There is a good documentary on them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--1Rbo3EWhM
Sorry to go off on a music lecture but Stax and Classic Soul and R&B are one of my few passions.
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Isaac Hayes losing control of his music/licensing has to be one of the most depressing stories of the time, jeez.
But yea, Motown was built almost solely to product hit crossover records - pop enough to appeal to mainstream whites, but funky and soulful enough for blacks. It worked perfectly, but I also prefer a lot of the Stax stuff for its ambition and emotion. Also, I often got the impression that a lot of early Motown was far more single oriented than album oriented - when you think of great r&b albums, not many Temptations albums come to mind per se, whereas Hayes has multiple amazing albums, Otis Redding's first album is great, etc.
In hip hop terms, I guess you could compare the two labels to Bad Boy (or Roc-a-Fella) and Loud. Bad Boy of course being the Motown of hip hop hits for awhile, with some of the cleanest (and best mastered) stuff, alongside very poppy/r&b hooks. Whereas Loud was the grittier NY shit, from Wu Tang to Mobb Deep.