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06-26-2006, 10:21 PM
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Green Onions
The Benz marketing guys could not have picked a Funkier tune for the new TV ad..
Booker T and the MG's.. Excellent !!! 
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06-26-2006, 11:31 PM
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Roy plays a great guitar. but I am sure the ad guys were looking for the '60s Stax Studio sound, which the MG's { Memphis Group] were the originators of.
Cropper, Dunn, Jones , and Jackson were definately the top studio cats of that day...... Very fitting.
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06-27-2006, 04:05 PM
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When I heard it on the Mercedes commercial it made me think of summer, cruising on the strip and hot cars and the like. I wonder if that was the thought of the marketers when they picked that tune...
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06-27-2006, 04:55 PM
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I wonder if that was the thought of the marketers when they picked that tune...>> For sure .. Drive In Restaurants w/Car Hops , Hot Cars ,Spinning Tires .. Now Baby Bommers who are now able to Purchase a high $$$$ set of Wheels.... On the music scene, we were still listening to AM radio and it was quite common to have a top tune be an INSTRUMENTAL, of all things.. thus the Green Onions .. and guess what you were doing when you heard that tune ?? .. yup, driving your car ... your COOL car that you were in Love with. Other instumentals from that era that are now Classics : Take Five by Brubeck , Rumble by Link Ray , Wipe Out - Safaries , Venture stuff, etc... there were Tons of them... a different world, for sure, Again , a good choice.. Last edited by Arthur Dalton; 06-27-2006 at 05:09 PM.
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06-27-2006, 05:15 PM
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It's been played and played, but 'Onions' still sounds great today. I think Booker T. was 17 when it was recorded. Stax got him right out of high school. "Melting Pot" is still a real favorite, all 8+ minutes of it. "McLemore Avenue", their album of Beatles covers is a great one as well.
Saw some online footage the other day of Booker T & the MG's opening for CCR in the early 70's. They played a killer version of 'Time is Tight' with Fogerty watching from the sidelines and loving it.
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06-27-2006, 05:30 PM
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Know the tune so well.. I worked in a Road Band for years back then and we opened up with Onions and closed with Time is Tight. We had a Hammond B-3 and the keyboard guy was killer. [ also did a lot of Jimmy Smith stuff] Booker T gets the award for getting the Hammond sound out of the small southern churches and into mainstream Rock/Soul music. The guy was magic. Billy Preston was another , along with Dave Baby Cortez. and then the Rascals really hit the charts.. but B T was the Man.................. I worked one Summer Resort room in Western Mass. [ Lakeview Inn] where the owner made us keep playing "Time is Tight' until we got sick of it, but he never did and kept on hiring us just for that tune.... it was a gas...........
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06-27-2006, 05:33 PM
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I'm not that familiar with the group,heard them a few times but I swear the lead guitar's a Telecaster.
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06-27-2006, 05:47 PM
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Sure was .. think a Maple neck, too. Used to buy them new for $100.. Now a Classic , high $$$$ ax. The common instruments back then on a group like that was a Fender Tele, Fender Bassman, Hammond B-3 with Leslie speaker [ or sometimes a C-3, which was the same organ with a closed front , C standing for Church] and Ludwig drums... and Fender amps with Jenson speakers. The British Invasion came along and they did away with the Hammonds , replacing it with the Farfisa ...no comparison. [ Hated that Question Mark and the Mysterians sound "Too Many Teardrops" ..ouch...
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06-28-2006, 03:19 PM
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Hey Arthur,,, ever hear of Acker Bilk,,, Stranger on the Shore ?
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06-28-2006, 03:24 PM
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06-28-2006, 03:28 PM
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06-28-2006, 03:40 PM
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Red River Valley from about that time was another one.
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06-28-2006, 03:53 PM
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Seeing this thread is getting some response [ I usually Tech over in the Tech Forums] , a few more that might ring some bells are Bill Dogett-Honkey Tonk, [ great tenor Sax solo]..Bill Black Combo, and any of the Beat Generation Peter Gun stuff [ Mancini]. Cozy Coles Topsy made the Rock charts back then also... Instumentals were HOT !!!!
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06-28-2006, 04:08 PM
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