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