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Post by tartanphantom on May 24, 2023 12:41:52 GMT -5
I think that leaves only "The Colonel" (Steve Cropper) as the last man standing from the original group. Booker T. Jones is also still with us, but he wasn't an original Mar-Key member, coming in a little later in the rotating lineup.
The relationship between The Mar-Keys, Booker T. and The MG's, and to a lesser extent, The Bar-Kays was quite an incestuous one, with members floating in and about as needed, and all of them providing house studio support not only to Stax/Volt, but also FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals (mainly the horn players), occasional Atlantic recordings, as well as the traveling Stax shows.
That was a great time to be a working musician, and they didn't know it, but they were making musical history.
Vaya con Dios, Mr. Newman.
Don Nix is still alive, though I'm not entirely sure when he started playing with the Mar-Keys and I don't have any of my references handy at my desk at work. But, yeah, that group of amazing musicians is almost gone. Oops, you're right... but I'm pretty sure that Nix was part of the early rotating lineup. According to apocryphal legend, the original horn lineup for the "Last Night" recording was Packy Axton (tenor), Wayne Shorter (trumpet, Floyd Newman (baritone) and Gilbert Caple (2nd tenor). Nix may have been present for the recording, but Cropper has never indicated as much. Nix usually played baritone sax, and frequently swapped places with Newman in the lineup until Stax started using Nix as an engineer.
If you have info to the contrary, I stand (and want) to be corrected-- I'm probably one of the biggest "whitebread" Stax fans you'll ever meet, and I definitely don't want to be spouting off erroneous information  . Word of mouth and old interviews are often as cryptic and conflicting in the music biz as they are in the comic book biz. |
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Post by majestic on May 24, 2023 14:15:18 GMT -5
Tina Turner 1939-2023.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 24, 2023 14:20:37 GMT -5
The great Tina Turner has passed away at age 83. From a rural town in Tennessee to one of the biggest recording artists of all time. She was never afraid to change it up and seek new worlds to conquer. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 24, 2023 15:18:10 GMT -5
Oh, wow. Sad news - and one of those people I always figured would live to be a hundred...
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Post by Prince Hal on May 24, 2023 16:23:51 GMT -5
The great Tina Turner has passed away at age 83. From a rural town in Tennessee to one of the biggest recording artists of all time. She was never afraid to change it up and seek new worlds to conquer. This really sucks. Was just listening to her yesterday. What a singer! |
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Post by Calidore on May 24, 2023 16:26:48 GMT -5
Oh, no. A Stax mainstay and Tina Turner--what a day.
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Post by commond on May 24, 2023 18:08:02 GMT -5
Didn't expect to wake up to the news about Tina Turner. What an icon. She'll be missed.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 24, 2023 19:33:22 GMT -5
Just saw the news. It's because she has been out of the limelight for a while, but I can't imagine Tina Turner being 83. She still seemed young and timeless, in her career revival, in the 80s and early 90s. Just one of those icons who seemed immortal, until they are gone.
She was the best part of Mad Max, Beyond Thunderdome and I kind of see her as this valkyrie choosing the valiant for a music Valhalla.
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Post by shaxper on May 24, 2023 19:38:59 GMT -5
Just saw the "Tina" musical two weeks back. Crazy.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 24, 2023 19:40:56 GMT -5
Also passing away was pioneering gay filmmaker and controversial author Kenneth Anger, whose Hollywood Babylon and its sequel wallowed in stories of Hollywood scandals, several of which were later debunked. He was 96.
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Post by Confessor on May 25, 2023 4:05:33 GMT -5
Was saddened to hear last night about Tina Turner passing away. She was amazing in her day. A total powerhouse performer. The domestic abuse she suffered at the hands of husband Ike doesn't bear thinking about, but to bounce back from that and have a second, much more commercially successful career and sell millions of records without him must've felt like such a vindication. For me though, it's the '60s and '70s stuff she recorded with Ike that I like best.
I love so many of their records, but if I had to pick an all time favourite, it'd be "Cussin' Cryin' And Carryin' On" from 1969. Tina's voice on this is just electrifying and the whole thing has such attitude and swagger. Love it!
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2023 4:40:49 GMT -5
RIP to her. I’d like to offer the opinion that during the modern Bond Era (Pierce Brosnan onwards), her song - GoldenEye - is the only decent 007 theme for me. Subjective, I know, but nothing has impressed me since.
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Post by Mormel on May 25, 2023 7:41:15 GMT -5
Her 60s and 70s stuff is amazing, but nevertheless she managed to update her sound to the sensibilities of the 80s and 90s without compromising her vocal style and making it sound forced. Songs like 'Typical Male' and 'I Don't Wanna Lose You' are solid tunes all round. In my book, Tina's not merely rock 'n roll royalty, she is a rock deity. Live forever on.
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Post by foxley on May 26, 2023 2:38:43 GMT -5
RIP to Joy McKean, Australian country singer and widow of Australian country music legend Slim Dusty, who has passed away at the age of 93. An award-winning musician in her own right, she was a talented songwriter who wrote many of Slim's biggest hits.  |
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Post by codystarbuck on May 28, 2023 11:35:39 GMT -5
RIP to singer and actor Ed Ames, best known to Baby Boomers and us young Gen X-ers as Mingo, on the tv series Daniel Boone, alongside Fess Parker....
Ames was actually of Ukrainian Jewish heritage (born Edmund Dantes Urick) and first gained fame in a singing group, with his brothers, as The Ames Brothers, with several hits through the 1950s. He did much theater work and starred in off-Broadway productions of The Crucible and The Fantasticks, then Carnival, on Broadway. He also played Chief Bromden in the Broadway production of One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, opposite Kirk Douglas.
His character Mingo was a Cherokee friend of Daniel Boone, whose father had been an Englishman. As you can see in the clip, one of the regular gimmicks of the show was the throwing of a tomahawk. This led to the famous moment on The Tonight Show, when Ed was demonstrating the technique, for Johnny Carson and the audience....
Actually, yeah, he was Jewish.....he just wasn't a mohel!
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. Word of mouth and old interviews are often as cryptic and conflicting in the music biz as they are in the comic book biz.
