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Booker T & The MGs "Time is Tight" (live)

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Uploaded by on Feb 5, 2008

Featuring rare footage of the late Al Jackson on drums.
Also, see them now-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru93r7oaZ9g&feature=channel_page

In 1992, Booker T. & The MGs were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 1995, when the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame opened its museum in Cleveland, Ohio, the MGs served as the house band for the opening all star concert.
Steve Cropper has also been inducted in The Songwriters Hall of Fame.
In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine named the group on their list of the Greatest Artists of All Time, and in 2007, the group received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

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  • Steve Cropper on Guitar and Donald "Duck" Dunn on Bass. Same guys that were in the "Blues Brothers" with Dan Akroid and John Bulushi

  • @Keyboardman88 Thanks for that.

  • Yeah man, They are just freakin' ILL--I mean, like intensive care all the way!

  • King Curtis and the Kingpins. Had Just as many top 40 hits as Booker T

  • These guys didn't keep going like I wish they would have. They rocked the sixties and early seventies! Interesting how far we've come from reel to reel to DVD now. Thanks for sharing!

  • @PalaverTwist Not true. They backed Neil Young on a world tour a few years back and were the backing band for 2 of the greatest concerts in Rock N' Roll Hhstory--The Bob Dylan Tribute Concert at MSG (known in rock legend simply as "Bobfest") and also the All star epic "Concert for the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame." They also still tour semi-regularly. In between, Booker T produced a few mega platinum albums, including Willie Nelson's "Stardust." I'll stop there--there's too much to type.

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  • not real fast, not very busy,not real loud, no big show off crap, But The GROOVE is SO Fa-KING DEEP !! such a groove ... Im leaving my body !!!, I got goosebumps !!

  • @DetroiterInAustralia ...You have it right...this is a rare example of selfless musicianship. Where band mates are united in the search for the perfect groove and each play a very defined and limited role--sacrificing any desire to demonstrate showy, attention calling displays or solos, etc.

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  • God that STAX family had so many great people who could put out unbelievable sounds. Man it is just so cool!

  • Searched for a long time for it... Remembers me on old times ...  :)

  • One word: Legend

  • Those guys look SOOOO SICK.

  • @GDuBMuSiCk Cheers mate. Thanks for the info.

  • @lewars1912 My first choice was Scott McKenzie - San Francisco (etc). My great friend, Mike Connor, told me before he died at 39 years old, that this was his favourite track- I thought he's too young I thought. Nope - he used to play it every night when he shut the HMV store Glasgow. This ritual lasted over two years. It made Mike HAPPY before he went out for the night. That's exactly what it does for me.

    Robin Topping 31st October 2011 Mauchline, Ayrshire, Scotland.

  • The Perfect Memphis sound tunes!It was is for sure an openig act - for what even the members of CCR admired in waiting!! More I listen, more I love it!!!

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