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If this movie comes to your town, don't miss it. It's about the 'Funk Brothers'--the unknown guys (until now) who did the playing on all of the Motown hits. The soundtrack is great and it's just a wonderful film overall.
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Thanks for the recommendation, Jonathan. I'll look for it. Let me suggest some other guys...they are not "unknown", but certainly under-appreciated. Booker T. And the MGs.The great "Memphis Sound" of artists like Otis Redding would not have been what it is without Booker T. Jones, Al Jackson, "Duck" Dunn, and of course, Steve Cropper. (Cropper and Dunn are also known as the main backup for the "Blues Bros.") Booker T. and the MGs were, aside from their own recordings, the "house band" for STAX records.
They did have some hits of their own ("Green Onions"), and many albums under their own name. And Booker T. went on to become a producer (the amazing sound on Willie Nelson's "Stardust" is largely due to the efforts of B.T. Jones...)
They are the standard by which "funk" is measured. Check them out.
Booker T. is good stuff. There was a story about the Funk Brothers on NPR. These guys worked day jobs and got paid $5 per session by Motown.
1/2 of the profits from the movie will go to the surviving Funk Brothers.
Oft times the artists got paid little while the record company and producers made a mint.Remember the story of Bo Diddley? How creative bookkeeping kept him from collecting royalties on the songs. How the record companies insisted that Bo owed them money? How it took Bo almost 30 years to set the record straight and start collecting the royalties owed him.
Or what Grace Slick said about the business when she retired for good? She had little good to say. It may be true that she is something of a pessimist, but she had survived decades of trying to get what was owed her from the slicksters in suits.
And why does a new release CD cost as much as a DVD? It costs less than $0.50 per CD to make and package that CD. Why do they still sell for $15 - $18? And why do they insist on putting "anti-piracy" codes on new releases so I can't make a backup CD or one to use in my car?
Hey, a real pirate just dubs an analog copy and makes CDs from that.
Music is a business, a big dirty buisiness. The Stones were screwed a lot too. At least some of the R&R folks made recordings with some of the blues greats etc. as a little payback.CD's cost what they do so wuzhisface from N'synch can ride in the space station. But, adjusted for inflation they are 'in line' I recall paying almost $10 for LP's 25+ years ago.
Hey, a real pirate just dubs an analog copy and makes CDs from that.
Met one yesterday at a flea market. Copies LP to CD and sells 'em. I
asked whether they sounded good. He grinned and hit play on a boom box.I sez, yeah, sounds great. Hee Hee.
> > > > Met one yesterday at a flea market. Copies LP to CD and sells 'em. I
asked whether they sounded good. He grinned and hit play on a boom box.I sez, yeah, sounds great. Hee Hee.
I bought some of his LP's.
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Was this in South Carolina ? I know of a person that does this AND sells at a local flea mkt.
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