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12-22-2009, 04:09 PM
|  | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | | Booker T's "Time is Tight" - the REAL version
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As a youngster, I remember listening to this on a soundtrack album my Dad bought of the film "Up Tight". I've loved it for nearly 40 years. The version you normally hear on the radio is cut quite severely (and even has a different main riff).
Anyway, today I managed to find the version that I remember so well and really love. If you're only familiar with the most well-known version of this, you're in for a revelation, especially the intro and the conclusion. Enjoy this one! http://www.billygreen.pwp.blueyonder...Is%20Tight.mp3
Apologies for the hissy intro, it's what it is. 
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12-22-2009, 04:46 PM
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12-22-2009, 04:47 PM
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As soon as I heard the guitar riff I recognized it as that Blues Brothers intro, only down a few BPM's. 
I only have one Booker T album and that tune is not on it. Although, that last band I was in, the keyboardist was a big Booker T/Hammond organ fan and he may have played it for me. We did a few tunes that the Blues Brothers covered, and IIRC he wanted to do "the real version" too. 
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12-22-2009, 04:59 PM
|  | Johnny and Joe | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Chicago | | That's the stuff right there, Bill.
Don't know if you're familiar with what the man's been up to lately, but he recorded an (instrumental) album with one of my favorite current bands, the Drive-By Truckers--there's also some lead guitar from Neil Young! They are essentially a Southern rock outfit with punk influences and thoughtful lyrics. And the lead singer's father is bassist David Hood, who was part of the Muscle Shoals rhythm section--that may have greased the wheels here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8OKk...eature=related
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12-22-2009, 05:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Chunk-O-Funk As soon as I heard the guitar riff I recognized it as that Blues Brothers intro, only down a few BPM's. | The "Blues Brothers intro" is Can't Cut You Loose, and it's more similar to the guitar/bass riff that Booker T used in the more familiar version.
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12-22-2009, 05:32 PM
| | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | I just love the concluding section on this track that's completely missing from the regular version. It makes it a totally different record, imo.
Greg, thanks for the info, I'm checking it out now.
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12-22-2009, 05:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Pacman Man, that is sweet.... | Oh yes, indeed.
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12-22-2009, 05:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Kenny Allyn | Thanks Kenny! Will check it out when I'm back on my regular PC with decent sound tomorrow.
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12-22-2009, 05:54 PM
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Originally Posted by lowendfriend Very nice track.....Booker T IS the Hammond to me. | Oh yes, absolutely! Gotta love some B3 when it sounds like that. Beautiful.
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12-22-2009, 06:05 PM
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Originally Posted by bassybill I just love the concluding section on this track that's completely missing from the regular version. It makes it a totally different record, imo. | +1.
I love the chords he plays at the end. The contrast to the opening chords is very interesting.
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12-22-2009, 06:07 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Houston, Tx. | | If anybody wants it, I transcribed the bass line a while back. You can get it off of Dodgy_Ian's web site. Look toward the bottom. http://www.dodgebass.co.uk/?page_id=36
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12-22-2009, 07:08 PM
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12-22-2009, 08:34 PM
| | | | My 3 piece band (guitar, bass, drums) plays Time Is Tight and it sure does get the dance floor full and people bopping their heads. |
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12-22-2009, 08:44 PM
|  | Musical Anarchist | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Sutton, MA | | | I've got the complete Stax recordings and I love Booker T.
Great tune, nice groove. |
12-22-2009, 10:14 PM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | | Jeeze! I didn't realize how much that was actually cut. Sounds incredible. |
12-22-2009, 10:36 PM
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12-22-2009, 10:57 PM
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