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on: December 04, 2025, 12:12:20 PM
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| Started by Red Shoes (Caz+Mark) - Last post by Andy | ||
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Steve Cropper was a modest genius. A very pleasant man, with many accomplishments to be proud of.
I have endeavoured to listen to anything I have discovered him playing on, over the years. May he rest in peace. |
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on: December 04, 2025, 12:01:28 PM
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| Started by Red Shoes (Caz+Mark) - Last post by ColinB | ||
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I got to see Steve Cropper once as Dave Mason’s guest a few years ago. I felt honored to be in his presence. Some friends saw the actual Blues Brothers on their 1981ish tour. RIP I saw Steve and Duck Dunn with the Blues Brothers band in 89 at the Hammersmith Odeon and the following year with Booker T at the Town & Country Club in Kentish Town. Also saw Duck with EC back in 85. But Steve Cropper was a real inspiration and I'm sure I'm not the only amateur guitarist who has picked up a Fender Telecaster in a music shop after seeing The Blues Brothers film. And yes, I bought that guitar.  |
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on: December 04, 2025, 11:44:58 AM
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| Started by Red Shoes (Caz+Mark) - Last post by David V B | ||
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Spent the morning listening to Stax records. What a wonderful guitarist - passionate, understated, subtle. For me he has been to guitarists what Charlie Watts or Levon Helm were to drummers. Nothing flash.
Always liked the story about the Hollywood party where Jack Nicholson ignored all the big film stars and walked across to Steve Cropper:”I just wanted to shake the hand that wrote Dock of the Bay.” |
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on: December 04, 2025, 10:42:04 AM
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| Started by Red Shoes (Caz+Mark) - Last post by Shane (Skirky) | ||
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RIP veteran Stax, Booker T & The MG's, Otis Redding, Blues Brothers guitar hero Steve Cropper... https://variety.com/2025/music/news/steve-cropper-dead-guitarist-booker-t-otis-redding-blues-brothers-1236599198/ Winner of The World’s Strangest Beard four years straight. |
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on: December 04, 2025, 10:23:41 AM
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| Started by Red Shoes (Caz+Mark) - Last post by davidmjs | ||
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I only saw him live the once...with Neil and the MGs, Finsbury Park, 1993. That was a fab day. RIP, Sir. I saw him then and I think a second time, also with Neil, just after Are You Passionate came out. Man was a true musical titan. RIP indeed. Jules Wasn't that the Brixton Academy shows where Cropper was absent (ill?) and Poncho played instead (but with the MGs)? |
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on: December 04, 2025, 10:03:48 AM
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| Started by Red Shoes (Caz+Mark) - Last post by Jules Gray | ||
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I only saw him live the once...with Neil and the MGs, Finsbury Park, 1993. That was a fab day. RIP, Sir. I saw him then and I think a second time, also with Neil, just after Are You Passionate came out. Man was a true musical titan. RIP indeed. Jules |
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on: December 04, 2025, 08:18:59 AM
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| Started by PaulT - Last post by davidmjs | ||
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Where else better to see a band named Railroad Earth than in the Caverns of Grundy, Tennessee on February 21? Now they would be a superb act for Cropredy!  I saw them in Glasgow 15-20 years back, on the back of a time spent loving music by bands like String Cheese Incident, Yonder Mountain String Band etc etc. That whole bluegrass jam band scene created some pretty decent music. I have to say they've entirely dropped off my radar, and the only recorded music of theirs I've got does nothing for me but they were great live, and I strongly imagine still are.... |
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on: December 04, 2025, 08:10:52 AM
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| Started by Red Shoes (Caz+Mark) - Last post by davidmjs | ||
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I only saw him live the once...with Neil and the MGs, Finsbury Park, 1993. That was a fab day. RIP, Sir.
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on: December 04, 2025, 04:01:51 AM
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| Started by Red Shoes (Caz+Mark) - Last post by John From Austin | ||
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I got to see Steve Cropper once as Dave Mason’s guest a few years ago. I felt honored to be in his presence. Some friends saw the actual Blues Brothers on their 1981ish tour. RIP
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on: December 03, 2025, 11:02:38 PM
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| Started by Red Shoes (Caz+Mark) - Last post by Dan O. | ||
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RIP veteran Stax, Booker T & The MG's, Otis Redding, Blues Brothers guitar hero Steve Cropper...
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/steve-cropper-dead-guitarist-booker-t-otis-redding-blues-brothers-1236599198/ |
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