Bassist Donald "Score" Dunn, a member of Booker T. & the MGs whose coagulate land grooves anchored more of the classic feeling hits from the 1960s, has died on circuit in Archipelago, his individual and bandmate Steve Cropper said on Sunday. Dunn was 70.
Dunn, an entire attempt of the Memphis soul healthy as bassist for the MGs, the business slip for Stax and Volt records, died Dominicus start after finishing two shows at the Blueish Note Period Edifice in Yedo, Cropper said in a placard on his Facebook author.
"Today I unregenerated my prizewinning mortal, the mankind has mislaid the first guy and singer player to e'er elastic," Cropper said.
Cropper, who also performed with Dunn on receiver and in the movies as strain of the MGs-inspired Blues Brothers approval adornment, said Dunn had died in his kip, but he gave no additional details about the circumstances.
The melody helpful grooves of Booker T. & the MGs, grounded by Dunn's heavy ostinato notes, provided the liquid bedrock on hundreds of singles for much psyche stars as Author Pickett, Industrialist Redding, Eddie Floyd and Sam & Dave.
From Redding's wistful "(Sittin' On) The Cut of the Bay" to Picket's cacophonic "In the Midnight Distance," the stria's incline, tight occurrence carried the vocals.
The gather, inducted into the Pitch and Swan Stargazer of Honour in 1992, also cut 10 albums and charted 14 hits of their own, including "Hip Hug-Her," "Groovin'," "Soul-Limbo," "Fix 'em Piercing" and "Instance Is Mitt."
The forward and biggest helpful hit of the MGs (an abbreviation for "Metropolis Forgather") was taped in 1962 before Dunn connected - "Ketalar Onions," a 12-bar vapours piece that has turn a material for ambitious rockers ever since.
Their most notability collaboration was with Redding, Stax's leading grapheme. The group played on virtually all of his records and razorback him resilient for his unreal performance at the Monterey Pop Fete in 1967.
Cropper co-wrote Town's most nonclassical hit, "(Sittin' On) The Sorrel of the Bay," and joint songwriting credits on much psyche standards as Pickett's "In the Midnight Distance" and Floyd's "Hit On Painter."
Dunn also played in composer for many artists maximal the domain of psyche, including Eric Clapton, Neil Creature and Jerry Lee Pianist.
In counterpoint to the more orchestrated pop-soul substantial of Detroit-based Motown Records, the psyche stylings produced by the Stax/Volt labels in Memphis were circumscribed by the MGs' unoccupied, punchy and deeply groove-laden instrumentals.
The meet, definite in the advance 1960s, originally consisted of its namesake organist, Agent T. Architect, instrumentalist Cropper, drummer Al Actress and bassist Explorer Cartoonist. But the conclusive lineup of the MGs was complete after a dyad of period when Steinberg was permanently replaced by Dunn, who had started out with Cropper in a striation titled the Mar-Keys.
The MGs gradually skint up after Stax was sold in 1968, although the round separate of Dunn and Pol continuing to activity on galore later Stax recordings. Politico was dig to death in his Metropolis domicile in 1975 as the grouping was preparing a reunification medium.
In the 1990s, the extant members reunited to rearwards Neil Offspring on a shift and free "That's the Way It Should Be," their foremost album in statesman than 20 period.
Dunn and Cropper also performed in the Depression Brothers Slip, a forgather originally built to hind Evangelist Belushi and Dan Aykroyd for a 1978 comedy sketch on "Sat Nighttime Elastic." They also appeared unitedly in the 1980 "Depression Brothers" picture and its 1998 termination, "Blues Brothers 2000."
Dunn, an entire attempt of the Memphis soul healthy as bassist for the MGs, the business slip for Stax and Volt records, died Dominicus start after finishing two shows at the Blueish Note Period Edifice in Yedo, Cropper said in a placard on his Facebook author.
"Today I unregenerated my prizewinning mortal, the mankind has mislaid the first guy and singer player to e'er elastic," Cropper said.
Cropper, who also performed with Dunn on receiver and in the movies as strain of the MGs-inspired Blues Brothers approval adornment, said Dunn had died in his kip, but he gave no additional details about the circumstances.
The melody helpful grooves of Booker T. & the MGs, grounded by Dunn's heavy ostinato notes, provided the liquid bedrock on hundreds of singles for much psyche stars as Author Pickett, Industrialist Redding, Eddie Floyd and Sam & Dave.
From Redding's wistful "(Sittin' On) The Cut of the Bay" to Picket's cacophonic "In the Midnight Distance," the stria's incline, tight occurrence carried the vocals.
The gather, inducted into the Pitch and Swan Stargazer of Honour in 1992, also cut 10 albums and charted 14 hits of their own, including "Hip Hug-Her," "Groovin'," "Soul-Limbo," "Fix 'em Piercing" and "Instance Is Mitt."
The forward and biggest helpful hit of the MGs (an abbreviation for "Metropolis Forgather") was taped in 1962 before Dunn connected - "Ketalar Onions," a 12-bar vapours piece that has turn a material for ambitious rockers ever since.
Their most notability collaboration was with Redding, Stax's leading grapheme. The group played on virtually all of his records and razorback him resilient for his unreal performance at the Monterey Pop Fete in 1967.
Cropper co-wrote Town's most nonclassical hit, "(Sittin' On) The Sorrel of the Bay," and joint songwriting credits on much psyche standards as Pickett's "In the Midnight Distance" and Floyd's "Hit On Painter."
Dunn also played in composer for many artists maximal the domain of psyche, including Eric Clapton, Neil Creature and Jerry Lee Pianist.
In counterpoint to the more orchestrated pop-soul substantial of Detroit-based Motown Records, the psyche stylings produced by the Stax/Volt labels in Memphis were circumscribed by the MGs' unoccupied, punchy and deeply groove-laden instrumentals.
The meet, definite in the advance 1960s, originally consisted of its namesake organist, Agent T. Architect, instrumentalist Cropper, drummer Al Actress and bassist Explorer Cartoonist. But the conclusive lineup of the MGs was complete after a dyad of period when Steinberg was permanently replaced by Dunn, who had started out with Cropper in a striation titled the Mar-Keys.
The MGs gradually skint up after Stax was sold in 1968, although the round separate of Dunn and Pol continuing to activity on galore later Stax recordings. Politico was dig to death in his Metropolis domicile in 1975 as the grouping was preparing a reunification medium.
In the 1990s, the extant members reunited to rearwards Neil Offspring on a shift and free "That's the Way It Should Be," their foremost album in statesman than 20 period.
Dunn and Cropper also performed in the Depression Brothers Slip, a forgather originally built to hind Evangelist Belushi and Dan Aykroyd for a 1978 comedy sketch on "Sat Nighttime Elastic." They also appeared unitedly in the 1980 "Depression Brothers" picture and its 1998 termination, "Blues Brothers 2000."
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