ty crut. *sniffle*
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 November 2011 06:52 (twelve years ago) link
Nothing could ever ruin Otis.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, November 5, 2011 1:26 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark
Yep. So so wonderful.
I heard I've Got Dreams to Remember last night while I was out. I think that's still my favorite OR song. I knew I liked the place we were at right then and there.
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Saturday, 5 November 2011 13:10 (twelve years ago) link
Listened to his Monterey Pop set tonight. 20 mins of bliss.
This. Fucking relentless.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, 5 November 2011 13:11 (twelve years ago) link
Years ago I was watching some programme on TV (probably a soul documentary or something, can't remember) and there was footage of an absolutely amazing live version of Try A Little Tenderness, dunno where from - could it be from Monterey?
― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 5 November 2011 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
"This is a song I wanna dedicate to all the miniskirts."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fu5qMx3mpU
― shaane, Saturday, 5 November 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
That's a lol music video thing through most of that, but there's some concert footage at the end too.
― shaane, Saturday, 5 November 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
tell the truth is my favorite album of his,odd as that may be.listening to it just makes me wanna explode and fall on my knees and holler I got-ta got-ta got-ta!!!!!similar to what brown does to people,but even more powerful!
― zhalgiris, Sunday, 6 November 2011 09:30 (twelve years ago) link
Live on Sunset version of "Good to Me" starts out with him saying "Okay we got paid we're gonna goof around a little with a new song"...and of course proceeds to KILL it. This guy...
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 6 November 2011 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
There's just been a pretty great Documetary biography of Otis on BBC4 which reminded me of a question I've been wondering about for years
Does anybody know anything about the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club influenced material that Otis Redding was working on before he died. I read about this years ago and have always wondered if there was any of it somewhere taht just hadn't been released for some reason. Or maybe I just wasn't aware it had been.Sounds from the documenatry that was just on BBC4 that Otis had had to take it easy for a 6 week period sometime in '67 because of polyps on his vocal chords. This doc said he couldn't actually talk for the 1st 2 weeks of this period. but what he did do wwas sit and listen to Sgt Peppers which expanded his idea of what he could achieve with his own music. He had already recorded The Beatles Day Tripper a while earlier but this period influenced him to sketch out several tracks the best known of which was Sitting On THe Dock of The Bay. So I've always wondered what happened to the rest of this music. Was it recorded at all? Even in demo form? THe documentary said taht he didn't even get to finish recording Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay, I'm not sure to what extent taht refers to.Otherwise I'm wondering what sketched out means since I don't think he could read or write music. That doc did show him playing an acoustic guitar at one point, not been sure how he wrote songs up to now at all. Still wondering to what extent if any that music survives.So, anybody know anything?
― Stevolende, Friday, 31 May 2013 21:20 (ten years ago) link
& in case you missed it the Documentary Otis Redding Soul Ambassador is very worth trying to find. Somebody may have it up on Pirate bay if you're outside of BBC i-player territory or can't get that to work.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 1 June 2013 09:06 (ten years ago) link
The new box set of mono singles sounds tremendous. Such power.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 13:36 (ten years ago) link
been checking that out. even on songs that aren't top notch his delivery carries it
― making plans for nyquil (outdoor_miner), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 14:07 (ten years ago) link
Very true. Because of the Stax house band and his commitment to sell every vocal the lesser b-sides are still nice to hear.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 14:12 (ten years ago) link
otis could sing the phone book and it'd be an emotional rollercoaster
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 17:02 (ten years ago) link
And alphabetical!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 17:04 (ten years ago) link
I sure do like
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Wy44Vaa-ZfQ/UYuprjrNmlI/AAAAAAAAUTs/GAJQb7F9wK4/s400/Front.jpg
― only dogg forgives (Eazy), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 17:07 (ten years ago) link
the Documentary Otis Redding Soul Ambassador is very worth trying to find
it's currently on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8PzZknVbo8
― I can’t do rap music, unless it’s old stuff like Dr Dre (onimo), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 12:30 (ten years ago) link
The greatest soul man of all imo. He hit the ground running and never faded, and the thought of what he could have achieved in the late 60s/early 70s makes my heart ache.
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 11:25 (ten years ago) link
I hope that Soul Ambassador doc is still on Youtube. I need to watch it sometime
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 14:24 (ten years ago) link
I honestly don't think anyone has ever sounded as sincere and noble and calmly anguished as Otis on I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now).
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 16:12 (ten years ago) link
reading about his final days in that new Stax book is such a bummer.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 16:17 (ten years ago) link
ooh, new stax book? tell me more, is good?
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 16:22 (ten years ago) link
yeah it is great! total page-turner, full of great stories, crazy record biz shenanigans. Respect Yourself by Robert Gordon.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
thanks - will search out! gordon is a name to trust.
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
I've been wanting to check it out, but haven't read Rob Bowman's book yet; would one make the other redundant?
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 16:36 (ten years ago) link
It's been a while since I read it, but the Guralnick book Sweet Soul Music has a lot of good material on Stax
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
yeah I haven't read Bowman's book -- obviously it's gotta cover a lot of the same ground (though there are so many people involved in the story that there are probably plenty of unique perspectives in each book).
― tylerw, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 16:47 (ten years ago) link
been a long time since I read the Bowman book - I liked it OK but I don't remember it at all as a "total page-turner" shenanigans-fest so the Gordon book actually sounds great
― brio, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2015-06-09/mark-ribowsky-dreams-to-remember-otis-redding-stax-records-and-the-transformation-of-southern-soul
Mark Ribowsky author of seven books, including "Ain't Too Proud to Beg: The Troubled Lives and Enduring Soul of the Temptations" has a new one out about Otis Redding. He's gonna be on this syndicated US public radio show
― curmudgeon, Monday, 8 June 2015 23:13 (eight years ago) link
I like his Phil Spector bio
― Οὖτις, Monday, 8 June 2015 23:22 (eight years ago) link
What a weird question Did someone actually say 'dud'? I can't be bothered to read the whole thing.
Don't worry about answering.
― chromecassettes, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 03:06 (eight years ago) link
I wish somebody would compile his work from just before he died. He was supposed to have taken a large influence from Sgt Peppers which fed into him doing things like Dock of The Bay. But when he died the label just put out lps with material mixing recording eras dating back for the previous 5 years. So as far as I know the later era material has never appeared in one place and is scattered over a number of lps or unreleased. Surprised that nobody has done that over the years unless they have recently and i haven't heard about it.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 09:41 (eight years ago) link
^The third disc of the Rhino "Otis!" box may be what you're looking for.
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 18:50 (eight years ago) link
that box is straight fire
― one of the top Liam Gallaghers on the live circuit (stevie), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 09:44 (eight years ago) link
Is there a version of Pain In My Heart with stereo separation in the channels? I'm looking for a version with the vocals in one channel and the instrumentals in the other like the early Beatles stereo albums.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 23:53 (six years ago) link
Otis Redding was the best. I listened to Try a Little Tenderness with my class and felt so spirited and exuberant afterwards. Idk what it's like to get a blood infusion but that is how I imagine it. That song!!! Most classic of classic.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 18:55 (five years ago) link
truth!!! it’s such an invigorating song <3
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link
my students loled at me a little because i couldn't stop myself from clapping and stomping a littleWOO!!
the dynamic trajectory of that song is just total magic
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 21:18 (five years ago) link
He really was magic. Was thinking about him this week because it was his birthday a couple days ago. Honestly one of my favorite singers ever.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 23:24 (five years ago) link
He was so great, but that cover of Tenderness is something else, an epic - the sweetness of the first half, the unalloyed passion and desperation and gutbucket soul of the second half...
― Bênoit Balls (stevie), Thursday, 13 December 2018 10:17 (five years ago) link
ha, sounds like you're talking about the original! i like the live version here. it's so good i don't even mind the watermarkthe band straight up sizzles and i love watching the audience wig out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ9n2_5mbig
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:31 (five years ago) link
Picked up one of 2 current biographies I'm aware of of him a few weeks ago not read it yet. So hoping i get more info on the influences he was picking up in late 67.THis book is the Stax and Southern soul one Dreams TO Remember by Mark Ribowsky published in 2016.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:47 (five years ago) link
just listened to this 28-minute piece on "Sittin' On the Dock of the Bay" & really enjoyed it, great tidbits about the writing & recording from Booker T & Steve Cropper and some affecting interviews with different random civilians about their relationship to the song:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000dgxx
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Thursday, 23 January 2020 18:36 (four years ago) link
cool, checking it out now
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 23 January 2020 19:14 (four years ago) link
Otis passed away at only 26 years of age!
― calstars, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 21:05 (two years ago) link
I know! Crazy, especially given how much and what he recorded in his very last sessions. Of all the early deaths in rock history, his is probably the most incalculable in terms of age, his health, how much he was creating, and where he might've went with his work.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 23:08 (two years ago) link