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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 (two years ago) link
Hugh McCracken!
― 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!
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 (two years ago) link
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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).
Got a bunch of other albums too, incl. on Westbound (hopefully some P-Funk involvement on those).
― dow, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 20:38 (one year ago) link
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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 (three months ago) link
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 (three months ago) link
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