Any Otis Redding Fans?

drumminman
drumminman Posts: 3,396
edited February 2012 in The Clubhouse
Listening to Live in Europe last night. First time I heard it on my SDA's - as usual I heard instruments I had never heard before from my tenth row back, middle seat at the venue. :cheesygrin:

He did alot of great stuff, but this is my all time favorite album of his, and gets my vote as one of the best live albums ever recorded. He was part of Stax/Volt and his back up band was Booker T. and the M.G.'s (Memphis Group): Booker T. Jones, keyboards; Steve Cropper, guitar; Donald "Duck" Dunn, Bass; and the great Al Jackson Jr., drums. Don't know who the horns were on this album.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,957
    edited February 2012
    Yep, love me some Otis...too bad you can't find any decent recorded material of his.
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,147
    edited February 2012
    I love "sittin on the dock of the bay"!!!

    It really moves me for some reason or other.
    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited February 2012
    Great stuff. Recordings?...yeah, many leave something to be desired.

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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,716
    edited February 2012
    Oh, hell yeah.
    If the MBBL time machine ever gets operational, one of my first trips would be back to the Monterey Pop Festival in '67 to mainly see 2 people:
    Jimi Hendrix (obvious) and Otis Redding (maybe not so obvious).


    Video's bad, audio's bad, but here's Otis's last performance on "Upbeat" , 6 months after Monterey Pop (he nailed this song to the wall at MPF):

    <iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xLR-a2CaaKM&quot; frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

    I had never heard of Otis Redding until "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay" came out in 68. Somewhere around 70 (?) they released an album that had his performance at MPF on it; for the life of me I can't remember what it was, and googling didn't help. It got a lot of play though; dam it was good.
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  • BeefJerky
    BeefJerky Posts: 1,320
    edited February 2012
    mrbigbluelight wrote: »
    Oh, hell yeah.
    If the MBBL time machine ever gets operational,
    I'd rather have the TARDIS...
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 1,225
    edited February 2012
    Piece of trivia - The Bee Gees wrote their 1967 hit "To Love Somebody" with the thought of having Otis record it. He died before it could happen so it became a hit for them. :cool:
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,726
    edited February 2012
    He's one of those people where you really have to wonder how much good music he would have created and what kind of impact he would have had if he'd lived longer
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  • drumminman
    drumminman Posts: 3,396
    edited February 2012
    nap wrote: »
    Piece of trivia - The Bee Gees wrote their 1967 hit "To Love Somebody" with the thought of having Otis record it. He died before it could happen so it became a hit for them. :cool:

    Where'd you dig that up? I can totally see it, given that it's a torch song and Otis totally nailed that kind of music.

    While I like "Dock of the Bay", he did so much stuff that IMHO was leagues better. Sad that it was his only #1 hit.

    Another bit of trivia: he wrote "Respect" that Aretha made famous.

    What I like about "Live in Europe" is the sheer energy of everyone onstage. Otis' singing was never better, and his phrasing sounds like another horn section. :cool:
    "Science is suppose to explain observations not dismiss them as impossible" - Norm on AA; 2.3TL's w/sonicaps/mills/jantzen inductors, Gimpod's boards, Lg Solen SDA inductors, RD-0198's, MW's dynamatted, Armaflex speaker gaskets, H-nuts, brass spikes, Cardas CCGR BP's, upgraded IC Cable, Black Hole Damping Sheet strips, interior of cabinets sealed with Loctite Power Grab, AI-1 interface with 1000VA A-L transformer
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 1,225
    edited February 2012
    drumminman wrote: »
    Where'd you dig that up? I can totally see it, given that it's a torch song and Otis totally nailed that kind of music.

    While I like "Dock of the Bay", he did so much stuff that IMHO was leagues better. Sad that it was his only #1 hit.

    Another bit of trivia: he wrote "Respect" that Aretha made famous.

    What I like about "Live in Europe" is the sheer energy of everyone onstage. Otis' singing was never better, and his phrasing sounds like another horn section. :cool:

    On the DVD of the Bee Gees Live by Request (highly recommended BTW) they tell that story. Now the person that "called in" requesting that song was none other than Billy Joel. :cool:
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  • Oldfatdogs
    Oldfatdogs Posts: 1,874
    edited February 2012
    He had a great voice,went too soon.
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  • Upstatemax
    Upstatemax Posts: 2,664
    edited February 2012
    drumminman wrote: »
    While I like "Dock of the Bay", he did so much stuff that IMHO was leagues better. Sad that it was his only #1 hit.

    Remember, that song was also unfinished...

    The #1 hit was just a demo recording to get a feeling for the song. Imagine if he had more time to nail it down...
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