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04-26-2007, 02:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Pasadena, CA | | | Donald "Duck" Dunn
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Anyone else like his stuff or find him to be a very inspiring bass player?
Check out the song "she caught the katy" by the Blues Brothers. Awesome Bassline. |
04-26-2007, 02:38 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Metro St. Louis | | | I think he is a great example of laying it down with a great feel. I have never heard him play super chops stuff, but he always sounded perfect on those old Stax records.
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04-26-2007, 03:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Earth | | | Given the choice between Duck and Jamerson, I'm a Duck man. I think that anybody's answer to that question reveals a lot about their taste and personality.
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04-26-2007, 03:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Highway 61 | | | Did he play on Albert King's "Cockroach"? |
04-26-2007, 03:10 PM
|  | Life is Tough. Laugh more. Moderator | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Warwick, Rhode Island, USA | | No point repeating what was said there, but here is
a recent TB thread on Dunn. Duck Dunn and Otis Redding
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04-26-2007, 03:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Earth | | | I think he did. As I recall reading at some time Al Jackson Jr. (The MG's) produced it and Albert worked with the MG's a lot. Duck sounds like a pretty likely candidate.
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04-26-2007, 03:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Highway 61 | | | Google to the rescue:
"and on the delightful "Cockroach", a song that finds King's woman forcing him to sleep on the floor while a big ole cockroach is lookin' up at him. It features one of the most superb bass lines you'll ever here courtesy of King's fellow pipe smoker Donald "Duck" Dunn and brilliant work by Jackson."
That's been one of my favorite bass parts since I first heard it. Maybe it's me, but I don't think the person who wrote the review understood the meaning. |
04-26-2007, 03:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Indiana | | | I love Duck Dunn. I grew up with my dad performing in a BLues Brothers Lip Sync act and I listen to those tunes over and over and when I started playing bass I wanted to play those tunes. She Caught The Katy is one of my favorite bass tunes. If you listen closely at the end of that tune (might only be on the lp version) he quotes Jamerson's line from "I Was Made To Love Her" |
04-26-2007, 04:05 PM
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A great player, and an inspiration . . .
But don't forget his (southern) contemporaries
David Hood
Mike Leech
Tommy Cogbill
James Alexander
and his predecessor in the "Memphis Group"
Lewis Steinberg (of "Green Onions" and "Soul Dressing" fame) |
04-26-2007, 04:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | He was one of the first bass players I dug. My first bass amp I bought a Standel like you see Duck using in those old Stax Live photos. All those great Stax records he was on.
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04-26-2007, 04:11 PM
|  | Dr. Jim | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Denton TX, Kailua HI, New York | | Quote:
Originally Posted by deaf pea ...
But don't forget his (southern) contemporaries
David Hood
Mike Leech
Tommy Cogbill
James Alexander
and his predecessor in the "Memphis Group"
Lewis Steinberg (of "Green Onions" and "Soul Dressing" fame) | deaf pea, thanks for that list! Those names are not heard enough around here!! 
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04-26-2007, 07:23 PM
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One of the greats.
Solid, great time, killer groove, P-tone to die for.
Duck, along with.
James Jamerson
Rocco Perstia
Chuck Rainy
Lee Sklar
Were my early hero's. |
04-27-2007, 09:23 AM
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04-27-2007, 10:01 AM
| | Life is Tough. Laugh more. Moderator | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Warwick, Rhode Island, USA | | | I have to agree with that 100%. When I think of a
pocket player, no one comes to mind before Duck.
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04-27-2007, 02:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Earth | | | I wish I was Duck.
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04-28-2007, 07:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Kent, England | | | Not much to add suffice to say that Duck Dunn was one of the reasons I first picked up a bass and 25 years later remains an inspiration and reminds me why I love being a bass player so much. When I'm feeling a bit guilty because Marcus Miller, Victor Wooten etc leave me a little cold listening to Dunn and the way he locked in with Al Jackson always comes up trumps. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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