Awesome find!

I love that song... makes me want to go watch The Sandlot.

+1

Donald just doesn't look right without a pipe in his mouth...

Regardless, +2

Bob_Laublaw: Donald just doesn't look right without a pipe in his mouth...

Regardless, +2

Funny. I thoight the same thing.
He and Cropper are the shiat.

I loved this song, but for a long time I didn't know what it was called. Hard to google without lyrics.

Still awesome.

Simple yet powerful. Just awesome.

Now I have to get out my Stax anniversary collection CD.

Who's playing drums?

I can't hear Booker T & The MG's without thinking of this. The record of that set was my favorite thing to try playing along with when I was learning how to play bass years ago.

Your humbling fact of the day is right here: Booker T was in high school when he hit the studio and first recorded Green Onions. High school! On summer vacation between 10th and 11th grades. He had a paper route, for chrissakes, and laid down what may be the most famous organ riff in all of R&B history.

Somehow I think he got a laid quite a bit on that summer break.

Did some sucka say Booker T?





/seriously, awesome find subby

i love that drummers cannot resist playing fills in this song - even tiny ones. and the original has zero fills - just kick, ride and snare. all you need baby.

/r.i.p. al jackson
//okay, maybe there's a hi-hat in the intro...

Excellent!

With Steve and Duck, too!

Thanks, subby!

hotlinked.

Whatthefark: Did some sucka say Booker T?

/seriously, awesome find subby

FIVE TIME!

/stole what I was gonna say

If you ever get the chance to see them live DO IT!!!!! I've never seen 3 guys (Booker, Steve and Duck) barely move, but still have so much presence. The entire crowd was bobbing their heads and tapping their toes by 1/2 through the first song.

peachpicker 2008-06-08 08:37:52 PM
Your humbling fact of the day is right here: Booker T was in high school when he hit the studio and first recorded Green Onions.

Im not sayin youre wrong, but Ive been a fan since that song was first released and have the STAX/VOLTS collections and Booker T.'s stuff and NOT ONCE have I read or heard in an interview with those guys that Booker was all of 16 or 17 years old when he started his career...

So post a source or stfu.

I'm not a keyboard player, but I've toyed around with the Hammond B3. Damn. Everything I do sounds like a funeral. Tons of respect for anybody who can crank out stuff like this! Booker T's hands are barely moving, and he's just rollin'. Amazing. Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn are the masters of playing EXACTLY what the song needs.

mfaby: peachpicker 2008-06-08 08:37:52 PM
Your humbling fact of the day is right here: Booker T was in high school when he hit the studio and first recorded Green Onions.

Im not sayin youre wrong, but Ive been a fan since that song was first released and have the STAX/VOLTS collections and Booker T.'s stuff and NOT ONCE have I read or heard in an interview with those guys that Booker was all of 16 or 17 years old when he started his career...

So post a source or stfu.

well, it's on wiki... it must be true!

/hah

woooo IU!

they still got it.

+1 (or more) if I could.

mfaby: peachpicker 2008-06-08 08:37:52 PM
Your humbling fact of the day is right here: Booker T was in high school when he hit the studio and first recorded Green Onions.

Im not sayin youre wrong, but Ive been a fan since that song was first released and have the STAX/VOLTS collections and Booker T.'s stuff and NOT ONCE have I read or heard in an interview with those guys that Booker was all of 16 or 17 years old when he started his career...


Let's see...Wiki has him born in November 1944. The sessions for the Green Onions album took place during June and August 1962. So...yeah, he was 17 when he cut the Stax released version of the record. Sources allmusic.com:
http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:hjfoxql5ldke

BTW, it took me all of five minutes to do that. In the future, YOU STFU and do a little research before calling someone out.
So post a source or stfu.

That right there is about 183 pounds of awesome in a 100 pound bag. Thanks!

Duck Dunn is my bass hero! No flash, just get in the pocket and make it rock!

/Blues Brothers soundtrack FTW!

mfaby: peachpicker 2008-06-08 08:37:52 PM
Your humbling fact of the day is right here: Booker T was in high school when he hit the studio and first recorded Green Onions.

Im not sayin youre wrong, but Ive been a fan since that song was first released and have the STAX/VOLTS collections and Booker T.'s stuff and NOT ONCE have I read or heard in an interview with those guys that Booker was all of 16 or 17 years old when he started his career...

So post a source or stfu.

You have the Stax/Volt collections, huh? Maybe someday, when you log off the intartubes, you'll get around to reading the handy and informative books that accompany them. Here, for your clicky reading pleasure, is page 9 of the book that accompanies the 9-CD set of complete Stax and Volt singles, 1959-1968. Check the bottom of the first column. Jackass.



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peachpicker:

Your humbling fact of the day is right here: Booker T was in high school when he hit the studio and first recorded Green Onions.

mfaby:

Im not sayin youre wrong, but Ive been a fan since that song was first released and have the STAX/VOLTS collections and Booker T.'s stuff and NOT ONCE have I read or heard in an interview with those guys that Booker was all of 16 or 17 years old when he started his career...

So post a source or stfu.

peachpicker:

You have the Stax/Volt collections, huh? Maybe someday, when you log off the intartubes, you'll get around to reading the handy and informative books that accompany them. Here, for your clicky reading pleasure, is page 9 of the book that accompanies the 9-CD set of complete Stax and Volt singles, 1959-1968. Check the bottom of the first column. Jackass.


As beautiful Fark moments go, I must say this is one of the beautifulest.

I remember playing this in HS was a great song, hard as hell too but so fun.