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Muscle Shoals, Alabama (1977)
I was playing guitar and singing at a club called "The Silver Dollar Saloon", owned by a good friend of mine by the name of Albert Lowe Jr. 'Junior' as we all called him, was a legend around the Muscle Shoals recording industry. He had played on most of the big hit records that we all grew up listening to. He played upright bass on songs like "Mustang Sally", "Dock of the Bay", "When a Man Loves a Woman". His first session on guitar was "Funky Broadway "with Wilson Pickett. He did many sessions at the world famous "Fame Recording Studios".
Junior could tell you some wild and always interesting stories about legendary recording sessions. He told me about one session he was on with legendary Wilson Pickett, where the old carpet in the Fame studios had collected so much dirt, that when Pickett sat in a chair playing guitar and stomping his foot to the beat of the music, there was such a big cloud of dust that surrounded him, nobody could even see him.
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FAME STUDIOS, EARLY 1970'S
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Or, how about the story where the master tape on "Funky Broadway" was chewed up by the recording machine on play back. Back then everybody played at the same time, if one person messed up, they all had to do it again. They did not have the pleasure of multi-track recording back then. They all knew that was the magic cut, so the engineer carefully spliced all the pieces of the tape back together, and it is actually the one we have heard all of these years. Junior could always point out the exact spot in the song where the tape was spliced back together. Read on...
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JUNIOR LOWE, JIMMY JOHNSON, OTIS REDDING
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