― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 6 January 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)
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― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:16 (twenty years ago)
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― jake b. (cerybut), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:23 (twenty years ago)
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)
Dave Bargeron!
Howard Johnson!
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)
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― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)
Hiram Bullock!
Johnny Pate!
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:50 (twenty years ago)
Doug Wimbish!
Skip McDonald!
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:51 (twenty years ago)
Toots Thielemans!
Hugh McCracken!
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:58 (twenty years ago)
Barry Manilow!
Delaney Bramlett!
Leon Russell!
― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:59 (twenty years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 6 January 2005 04:02 (twenty years ago)
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 6 January 2005 04:03 (twenty years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 6 January 2005 04:03 (twenty years ago)
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 6 January 2005 04:03 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 6 January 2005 04:06 (twenty years ago)
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 6 January 2005 04:08 (twenty years ago)
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Thursday, 6 January 2005 04:09 (twenty years ago)
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 6 January 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)
Steve Porcaro!
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 6 January 2005 04:11 (twenty years ago)
Idk where else to put this, but I was looking at records in an antique mall the other day, and the first record was a Stanley Turrentine one with Wilton Felder on bass (Up Front), and the next was a Wilton Felder record as a leader on sax. If I hadn't already known a little bit about him, I definitely would have been intrigued.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 11 January 2021 15:01 (four years ago)
There's really something awesome about guys who are session aces on totally different instruments. Like, I just learned that Charlie McCoy, best known for being the harmonica player on tons of stuff like "The Boxer," or playing guitar on lots of Dylan stuff, also played sax on "Pretty Woman." (I also learned in the process that "Pretty Woman" apparently has sax, buried though it may be.)
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 January 2021 15:18 (four years ago)
G.E. Smith is a great guitar player, of course, but I really like the way he tells a story https://t.co/Ewl0SoGm1H— Jason Isbell (@JasonIsbell) May 21, 2021
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 May 2021 21:46 (four years ago)
RIP Roger Hawkins
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 21 May 2021 22:13 (four years ago)
:(
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 21 May 2021 22:25 (four years ago)
I mean I already knew but was already thinking about this earlier today.
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 21 May 2021 22:26 (four years ago)
omg the current episode of cocaine & rhinestones (s2 e3), about the nashville a-team, is fanfuckingtastic and absolute required listening for anyone on this thread or anyone who's a fan of
grady martin!chip young!pete drake!lloyd green!floyd cramer!charlie mccoy!the jordanaires!buddy harman!etc!
https://cocaineandrhinestones.com/nashville-a-team
(also, this appears to be the first mention of chip young on this thread!)
― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 29 May 2021 17:22 (four years ago)
Andrew “Mike” Terry!
― Rich Valley Girl, Poor Valley Girl (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 03:56 (four years ago)
RIP (never mentioned on this thread) kenny malone! :(
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 27 August 2021 02:57 (four years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/vwp9iNq.jpg
― calstars, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 00:03 (four years ago)
This is a good interview with 'cousin' Kenny Vaughn, pretty wide array of musicians referenced in the low key long talk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb4JKW4bs7M
― earlnash, Monday, 27 September 2021 04:26 (four years ago)
Hah, came here to mention the cocaine & rhinestones episode about the Nashville A-Team and see FCC gave ‘‘em all a shout out last year. Seconded.
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 02:35 (three years ago)
Yeah, that's a good one. He's so tendentious and cranky sometimes, yet deeply knowledgeable. Fun.
― umami dearest (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 06:25 (three years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:58 (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Scott beat me to it, 17 years ago. Still, on this side of the Atlantic we have...
Hugh Burns!
― Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 08:20 (three years ago)
Just noticed that I've been reading and/or posting in this thread for one third of my life.
Not my adult life. not my online life. My actual human life.
― umami dearest (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 08:50 (three years ago)
RIP hargus "pig" robbins :(
― fact checking cuz, Sunday, 30 January 2022 22:34 (three years ago)
RIP, person I thought was....
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 January 2022 22:36 (three years ago)
Carl Fortina!
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 January 2022 23:36 (three years ago)
Andy Stein!
― Don't Renege On (Our Dub) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 01:28 (three years ago)
Al Perkins!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 02:38 (three years ago)
Carl Lynch!
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 19:23 (three years ago)
Dennis Coffey was a member of the Funk Brothers, who were pretty tied to the studio as a whole, but even before his solo hit, "Scorpio," he would just go a little ways over from Motown to a local club, for a regular gig in an organ trio, resulting, for instance, in the amaaazing set recorded in '68, released by Omnivore in 2018 as One Night at Morey's. in 2019, Omnivore put out Live at Baker's, recorded in 2006, and the Detroit Music Factory label issued Down By The River in 2019: both solid, distinctive takes on jazz, not exciting in the same way as the 60s cosmic funk of Morey's, but very enjoyable.wiki sez:
...as a member of the Funk Brothers studio band, Coffey played on dozens of recordings for Motown Records, and introduced a hard rock guitar sound to Motown record producer Norman Whitfield's recordings, including distortion, Echoplex tape-loop delay, and wah-wah: most notably heard on "Cloud Nine", "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)", and "Psychedelic Shack" by The Temptations. He played on numerous other hit records of the era: Edwin Starr's "War", Diana Ross & The Supremes' "Someday We'll Be Together", and Freda Payne's "Band of Gold".In 1971, Coffey recorded "Scorpio" which was a million selling instrumental single that peaked in the US at number nine on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart and at number six on the Billboard Hot 100.[2] The instrumental track featured the former Motown "funk brother", Bob Babbitt on bass. On January 8, 1972 Coffey became the first white artist to perform on the television show Soul Train, playing "Scorpio".[3] "Scorpio" received a gold disc awarded by the Recording Industry Association of America on December 9, 1971.[4] ...In 2004, he published a memoir, Guitars, Bars and Motown Superstars.In 2008, he co-produced the Carl Dixon sessions at Studio A, Dearborn Heights, Michigan. Four tracks were recorded featuring some of the Funk Brothers including Uriel Jones, Bob Babbitt, Coffey and Ray Monette, plus other distinguished Detroit session musicians...,,,Along with Mike Theodore, Coffey discovered the folk-rock singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez, who is the subject of the 2012 Oscar-winning film Searching for Sugar Man in which Coffey appears. Coffey played lead guitar on Rodriguez's first album Cold Fact (1970).
In 1971, Coffey recorded "Scorpio" which was a million selling instrumental single that peaked in the US at number nine on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart and at number six on the Billboard Hot 100.[2] The instrumental track featured the former Motown "funk brother", Bob Babbitt on bass. On January 8, 1972 Coffey became the first white artist to perform on the television show Soul Train, playing "Scorpio".[3] "Scorpio" received a gold disc awarded by the Recording Industry Association of America on December 9, 1971.[4] ...In 2004, he published a memoir, Guitars, Bars and Motown Superstars.
In 2008, he co-produced the Carl Dixon sessions at Studio A, Dearborn Heights, Michigan. Four tracks were recorded featuring some of the Funk Brothers including Uriel Jones, Bob Babbitt, Coffey and Ray Monette, plus other distinguished Detroit session musicians...
,,,Along with Mike Theodore, Coffey discovered the folk-rock singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez, who is the subject of the 2012 Oscar-winning film Searching for Sugar Man in which Coffey appears. Coffey played lead guitar on Rodriguez's first album Cold Fact (1970).
Got a bunch of other albums too, incl. on Westbound (hopefully some P-Funk involvement on those).
― dow, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 20:38 (three years ago)
Harold Bradley!
― budo jeru, Saturday, 10 June 2023 01:52 (two years ago)
RIP Bobby Eli
― that's not my post, Sunday, 20 August 2023 23:25 (two years ago)
In 2011, Daryl Sanders gets the word from "all but one" of the surviving local A-listees who played on Blonde On Blonde---& made Galileo look like a Boy Scout, too much man, let it all hang out:
https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/looking-back-on-bob-dylans-i-blonde-on-blonde-i-the-record-that-changed-nashville/article_c17cc27e-b6e4-5794-901c-e2e7ce4c5cb9.html
― dow, Monday, 21 August 2023 00:59 (two years ago)
Maybe not the perfect thread for this, but today I learned about Barry Miles, who released a record as a 14 year old drum prodigy on Charlie Parker's record label (!), featuring his original bebop tunes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEqgfqTy-Mw
Then he switched to piano, and made fusion records with his *14 year old littler brother on drums* playing like Tony Williams:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIZ_mEdhBs8
Then he was Roberta Flack's music director during the '80s/'90s, with his brother on drums sometimes I think. And apparently his brother Terry Silverlight is a very successful tv composer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Silverlight
Look at them go...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzaMjBfUvec
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 16:01 (two years ago)
https://immediatefamilyfilm.com/“I had been hesitant to make a follow up to "The Wrecking Crew". But when I was approached with the idea of "The Immediate Family", I didn't think twice. The Immediate Family consists of Danny 'Kootch' Kortchmar Guitar/Vocal, Leland Sklar Bass, Russ Kunkel on Drums, Waddy Wachtel Guitar/Vocal and Steve Postell Guitar/Vocal.”
― brimstead, Friday, 19 January 2024 23:04 (one year ago)
Oh right.
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 January 2024 23:06 (one year ago)
A friend showed me this, which is pretty interesting, though the interviewer looks like a distracting cross between Paul Williams and George Lucas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zpTY20TL44
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 January 2024 23:15 (one year ago)
Kunkel is okay but not revelatory. Wachtel is a legend just for his hairdo.
But Lee Muthaflippin Sklar? That dude gives me a frisson of gratitude every time I reflect on our collective good fortune that we get to co-exist with him. This story alone solidifies his place among the GOATs, where he put a non-functioning "shimmer" switch on his bass.
― Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 19 January 2024 23:39 (one year ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6lEX0guChs
Yes, Lee Sklar seems like a great guy.
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Saturday, 20 January 2024 09:59 (one year ago)
I am not a Beato fanboi but that Tommy Tedesco anecdote is golden.
― Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 20 January 2024 11:32 (one year ago)
Bill Jennings!
― Sometimes It POLLS in April (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 4 April 2024 12:25 (one year ago)
Pete Wingfield!
His wiki page is well worth a look.
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 May 2024 09:13 (one year ago)
Dave Richmond!
― The Zing from Another URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 September 2024 19:42 (one year ago)
Waddy Wachtel performed with Stevie Nicks on SNL last weekend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwEmIxn1ME4
― bbq, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 16:47 (one year ago)
don't think he actually plays on either, but the new album by bilal and the tiny desk by maxwell compels me to shout out the one and only chris dave
― hott ogo (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 15 October 2024 17:01 (one year ago)
Cornell Dupree! was known as Mr 2500 for all the sessions he did -- mostly R&B, pop and jazz
https://www.premierguitar.com/artists/forgotten-heroes-cornell-dupree
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 18:38 (one year ago)
waddy's been playing w/stevie forever
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 22:45 (one year ago)
Was wondering
― Litso Mystic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 October 2024 22:55 (one year ago)
I’ve always wondered if Cornell Dupree wrote the main riff on Bernard Purdie’s “Aretha”
― Heez, Wednesday, 16 October 2024 00:08 (one year ago)
Dupree and Purdie played together backing King Curtis in the late 60s so maybe ?
― that's not my post, Wednesday, 16 October 2024 01:43 (one year ago)
not yet mentioned anywhere on this thread:
matt sweeney!
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 17 October 2024 05:04 (one year ago)
(the waddy wachtel of indie rock!)
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 17 October 2024 05:05 (one year ago)
then Paz Lenchantin must be the Donald Duck Dunn
― Theracane Gratifaction (bendy), Thursday, 17 October 2024 14:06 (one year ago)
fair!
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 17 October 2024 19:08 (one year ago)
Bobby Shew!
― James Carr Thief (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 21 December 2024 08:11 (one year ago)
Barry Beckett! Was looking for who did the tasty fender rhodes on “still crazy after all these years” Beckett has the credit. He got his start in Muscle Shoals and ended up with 100s of credits backing all sorts of artists
― that's not my post, Friday, 24 January 2025 04:13 (ten months ago)
Linda November!
― Nicholas Raybeat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 October 2025 02:00 (one month ago)