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Tom Stoppard, 88

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Stoppard an absolute genius, full stop. His last play was among his best.

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This morning, on TUBI, I’m watching, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. The 1990 Gary Oldman and Tim Roth version directed by Tom Stoppard himself. “Heads.”

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One of my absolutely favorites. Stoppard’s genius will live long past any of us.

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It’s kind of been forgotten but I think HBO’s 2012 adaptation of Parade’s End, for which Stoppard wrote the screenplay, is one of the best TV productions of all time.

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Steve Cropper

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Aw man…this sucks. The Colonel was THE man in 60s soul. He played with everyone…Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Roy Orbison, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Stevie Wonder, Rod Stewart, Jimmy Buffet, Peter Frampton, Etta James, Wayne Newton, Dolly Parton, John Prine…good lord, the list is endless. He was a musician’s musician and wrote or co-wrote some of the greatest tunes of his day. Well done. He will be missed.

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Scroll through his “collaborations with” section, it just keeps going and about every other name that pops up is a “holy crap, he played on that?”

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Yeah, as the article says, Booker T and the M Gs were the Stax house band, and they played with everybody. But, as Hudson points out, and this is largely overlooked for some reason, Cropper wrote a ton of songs with a lot of those artists.

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As many may or may not know, I’m a huge Otis Redding fan. Cropper’s and his collaborations are the top of the soul heap, as far as I’m concerned, and I can only imagine what they could have accomplished had Redding lived longer (he was barely 26 at the time of his death). Redding’s most popular hit (Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay was recorded just days before his death, and it was Cropper who finalized Redding’s vision of the song, mixing and adding the distinct background sounds like the waves crashing and seagulls.

And no…women do NOT get wooly.

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Tell the Truth is my go-to Otis record. It’s still in a box somewhere. I might have to dig it out.

Yeah, there’s no way to imagine where his career might have gone, just a massive talent.

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I love everything Otis Redding but my absolute fav is, Cigarettes And Coffee.

ETA: From this excellent album

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One more, just to keep the focus on Cropper…

Steve Cropper is one of the best to ever do it! Happy International Guitar Month!

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I still remember the first time my brother (he would have been 7-8) heard the Bolton version of “Sittin on the Dock of the Bay”…we’re in the back seat of the car going some trip somewhere, song comes on the radio, and I remember him asking my folks in the front seat “why doesn’t this song sound right?”

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I did have the good fortune to see Dave Mason with Steve Cropper back in 2019 on the Austin stop of their Rock & Soul Revue tour. It was most excellent. I’m also a big Dave Mason fan.

The show included songs such as “The Dock of the Bay,” “Dear Mr. Fantasy,” “All Along the Watchtower,” “Try a Little Tenderness,” “Only You Know and I Know,” “In the Midnight Hour,” “We Just Disagree,” “Feelin’ Alright,” “Green Onions,” and “Knock on Wood”

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Wow.

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No talent assclown.

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Dammit chuck, why should I change my name? He’s the one that sucks.

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I saw Booker T and the MGs at Bill Clinton’s inauguration party. There were tons of acts everywhere, all over the Mall (I saw Al Green that same day, too, for example). They opened with Green Onions, and as Booker T leaned into his B3 for the intro, he got this mean scowl on his face and then began nodding very slowly, as if to say, Yes, I am well aware of what this sound is doing to all of you fools.

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I brought a couple of Booker T. and the MGs records with me to Midland. I may have to listen to one tonight. I still like listening to McLemore Avenue, which is covers of the Beatles’ Abbey Road songs, in that distinctive Memphis way.

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