What’s there to say? In 1966, Sam and Dave went overseas as part of the Stax-Volt European tour. As Ta-Nehisi Coates says in his post, these guys just killed it every time they performed. Otis Redding, who headlined the shows, apparently became enraged at his manager because he had to take the stage after Sam and Dave. I can see that. I never like teaching in a classroom that Kathy has recently used.
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14 comments
January 28, 2010 at 11:33 am
eric
God, such awesome stuff.
And do we see the youthful Duck Dunn and Steve Cropper behind them?
January 28, 2010 at 11:38 am
kevin
Check out the documentary about Stax, Respect Yourself.
January 28, 2010 at 1:19 pm
Dr J
I really need to get back to Memphis just to visit the Stax Museum. I’ve been to the Rock & Soul Museum, a Pete Daniel production. It’s outtasite, but I really feel like I’ve deprived myself by never having made it down to Stax.
Come to think of it, with the National Civil Rights Museum, the Rock & Soul, Stax, Graceland, and everything else it has going for it, Memphis is quite the museum mecca.
January 28, 2010 at 2:13 pm
Urk
“…the Mgs, and all the fellas, Steve…”
Definitely Cropper and Dunn, as well as Booker T. Jones and Al Jackson Jr. Also looks like Wayne Jackson and Andrew Love too, probably some formulation of the Memphis Horns
great stuff!
January 28, 2010 at 2:25 pm
Blume
I have to remember to watch that again right before the next time I go dancing. They’ve got some highly imitable variations on your basic step-touch move.
January 28, 2010 at 4:37 pm
dana
This was delicious.
January 28, 2010 at 5:16 pm
Sir Charles
ari.
I saw the Clash in Boston in 1979 with opening acts the Undertones followed by Sam and Dave. It was a pretty fabulous night.
January 28, 2010 at 5:30 pm
Ben Alpers
That is a great performance!
YouTube is an endless font of great live music. My favorite recent discovery is this live James Brown performance of Mother Popcorn from 1969. Unbelievable from start to finish.
January 28, 2010 at 5:35 pm
kevin
YouTube is nice, but Wolfgang’s Vault has some phenomenal stuff.
And they even have an app for Ari’s iWhatever.
January 29, 2010 at 8:49 am
mr earl
Otis had no reason to feel insecure. Proof: Just get out “Live In Europe” and drop the needle on Try A Little Tenderness.
January 29, 2010 at 1:11 pm
Sir Charles
Or his performance of the same song captured in the movie of the Monterey Pop Festival. Pretty amazing stuff.
January 29, 2010 at 9:59 pm
Urk
yeah, that Monterey Pop footage is outrageous. On the newest version of the DVD they have the whole Otis & Hendrix performances set aside on a separate disc. when i first discovered it in the library and took it home I found myself just watching the Otis performance & then found some kind of flimsy excuse to show one of the songs in class. I may have even had a decent rationale–it’s definitely an interesting socio-musical moment–but really it was all about sharing that performance.
January 31, 2010 at 1:44 pm
Nick
Also the soundtrack from one of the finest chase scenes in movie history. Sam & Dave kick ass.
January 31, 2010 at 1:59 pm
andrew
Clicking through and then following the links, there’s some footage of that mall in its current state. It was apparently open only from the mid-60s to the end of the 70s.