Posted on 01/13/2017 9:52:37 PM PST by nickcarraway
Nothing but a shithead who lucked out with a few hit tunes.
Mustang Sally is one the most overplayed songs for any classic rock cover band. It’s one that makes you say, “I can’t believe this band is going to pull out that crappy tune, again”.
Thanks much for the post, grew up with his music in high school.
Somewhat related:
If you haven’t seen the doc “Muscle Shoals,” it’s worth it:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2492916/
available on Netflix.
Wilson Pickett sings lead. The instrumentalists backing the Falcons are the Ohio Untouchables, who would later gain fame as the Ohio Players.
In the early Seventies, in Milwaukee, I played in a band called Methyl Ethyl and The Ketones. During the summers, when the band members who were Marquette students went home, we locals formed an R and B band called Hot Potate and The Abdomen. We played a lot of Sam and Dave and Wilson’s music. Wonderful stuff! I played way pre Robert Randolf music on pedal steel. I loved playing WP’s music! Kicked butt!
As someone who spent a lot of time in recording studios during the analog age, I’m trying to figure out how a magnetic recording tape “shatters”.
Ping
“Is it live or is it Memorex?”
Proof positive that I'm 'of a certain age': I not only remember that ad, I also bought the stuff!
That makes us contemporaries.
Lotta grey hair around this place, but we’ve got a young crop, too, which is a good thing. Us grey hairs can’t hold the fort forever.
I've tried to get my kids interested in FR, but not any luck. They get their dose of conservative news from the younger - “hipper” (Oh man - do they even use that term anymore?) people. Tammi somebody, Milo, Breitbart and some others that I've forgotten now.
It's too bad as I think FR really provides a more knowledgeable discussion about things.
As they say, “youth must be served”.
My kids are still too young to warm up to a place like FR, but they do talk politics with their millennial peers on social media platforms.
It's tough being a conservative kid, though. The majority of their peers are indoctrinated liberal sheep who get their news from comedians and Yahoo.
Fortunately, my kids have basic principles down cold, and are immune to the idiocy being pushed by other kids their age.
“Shatters”
Yeah, that’s a challenge. I’ve been around tapes that powdered, though. When 3M’s 400 videotape had been around for a couple of years, those of us using it discovered trying to play back older shows resulted in a white powder clogging the video heads. It had something to do with the glue that held the oxide on the tape. At CBS, the tech crew created a jig that had a group of cloth rollers on it. You threaded the tape through it, then turned the roller slowly by hand as the tape dragged against the cloth. We ended up spending most of one summer dubbing two years worth of show masters to save them. The “baking” solution was discovered some time later.
Kudos to you. My one daughter in college said it is easier there where maybe it’s 30% conservative kids. Highschool was maybe 1%.
But the profs are still liberal. After Trump was elected the one prof ranted about Trump and thought it would be a good day for all the kids to say what makes them happy on such a sad day.
My daughter said “Well, what makes me happy is that Mr. Trump will be our next president.” The prof and several girls gasped. My daughter got a kick out of that!
“Shatters”
In the early days of reel to reel tape handlers we had quite a few “stretch tape” commands that somehow crept into the programs.
Never saw a shattered tape. Some looked like fermicelli, but never shattered. No way to splice that garbage together to get anything out of it.
A friend of mine is a highly acclaimed mastering engineer who once remastered Jethro Tull’s “Aqualung”.
The first problem was trying to find the real original studio master tapes - not copies - to have the best sound quality. The tapes could not be found...until my friend received a call from Ian Anderson who said he finally found them in his garage!
The tapes were sent to LA and my friend began the remastering process. During the playback of the title track, the original master tape had stretched so much in one section he had to splice that portion with a copy of the studio tapes before completing the remastering project.
Before splicing, he copied the original section so you can hear the squealing...and I was gifted with that copy. Always interesting to hear that tape stretching....
We’ve got some older cars that we drive while listening to tapes.
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