The Dunn family has serial numbers XXX001, XXX002, and XXX003 in their collection. I think because he played with so many different people, that was part of his mojo. Well except a lead singer that likes to drink to much. Dunn & the MGs were the house band for Bob Dylan's concert celebrating Dylan's 30th anniversary in the music business at Madison Square Garden playing behind Dylan, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Stevie Wonder, Sinéad O'Connor, Eddie Vedder, and Neil Young, who recruited the MGs to tour with him and recorded with Dunn several times since. [4], Booker T. and the M.G. In June 2004, Dunn, Cropper, and Jones served as the house band for Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival. Please message /u/swim1929 with any feedback and/or hate. The Messick High School group added keyboardist Jerry Lee "Smoochy" Smith, singer Ronnie Angel (also known as Stoots), and a budding young horn section in baritone saxophone player Don Nix, tenor saxophone player Charles "Packy" Axton, and trumpeter (and future co-founder of the Memphis Horns) Wayne Jackson. Neither one can walk all over the place, without spelling disaster for a song. Booker T. and the MG's had performed in concert and jammed in the studio with CCR in the past, and Dunn in particular had become friends with the band members. In the 2000s, Dunn was in semi-retirement, although he still performed occasionally with Booker T. & the MG's at clubs and music festivals. [ ^PM | Exclude ^me | Exclude from ^subreddit | FAQ / ^Information | ^Source ] Downvote to remove | v0.24, Non-Mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_"Duck"_Dunn, HelperBot v1.1 r/HelperBot_ I am a bot. Eventually, along with drummer Terry Johnson, the four became the Royal Spades. Crazy Horse has a new album coming out soon, "Americana" that sounds pretty good (typical Crazy Horse, which, is excellent..). Dunn was the bassist in Eric Clapton's band for Clapton's appearance at Live Aid in 1985. About a year later, he acquired his first Fender Precision Bass, with sunburst body, rosewood neck, and gold anodized pickguard. Dunn is credited with performing on a version of the standard "I Ain't Got Nobody" with Jones, Cropper and Michel Gondry in Gondry's 2008 film Be Kind Rewind. As an instrumental group, they continued to experiment with the album McLemore Avenue (their reworking of the Beatles' Abbey Road) and on their final album, Melting Pot (1971), which featured basslines that to this day serve as a source of inspiration for hip-hop artists. The group backed such guitarists as Joe Walsh and David Hidalgo on the main stage at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas. In 1992, he was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Booker T. & the M.G.'s. It's like a given; I don't know why though? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_"Duck"_Dunn. Donald "Duck" Dunn Donald "Duck" Dunn (November 24, 1941 – May 13, 2012) was an American bass guitarist, session musician, record producer, and songwriter. It was on one of these basses that Duck played his final shows, and that bass remains with his son Jeff, complete with sweat streaks from his final moments of playing. After Cropper began playing guitar with their friend Charlie Freeman, Dunn decided to learn to play the bass guitar. When you play Honkytonks it seems like the lead singer always drinks too much. Dunn played himself in the 1980 feature The Blues Brothers, where he famously uttered the line, "We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline!" #002 is currently on display at the Hard Rock Cafe in Orlando, Florida. Dunn was notable for his 1960s recordings with Booker T. & the M.G. Donald "Duck" Dunn, the longtime bass player for soul legends like Booker T. and the MGs and Otis Redding, has died at age 70. Dunn and Cropper arrived in Australia on February 20, 2008, to be Sebastian's backing band for an 18-date concert tour, the Memphis Tour.[8]. [12], When Dunn was 16, Duck bought his first bass guitar, a Kay 162 electric bass. "Memphis Man" Living High, Laying Low (1997, 2015), The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads, Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul, Blues for Elvis – King Does the King's Things, "Legendary Session Bassist Donald 'Duck' Dunn Passes Away at 70", "The 100 Greatest Bass Players of All Time", "Bass Player Donald 'Duck' Dunn Dies in Tokyo", Blue Note Tokyo: Stax! Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_"Duck"_Dunn, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_"Duck"_Dunn. He played their "Dyna Bass" model – finished in his favorite red – on stage and in the studio for a number of years. "That's why Duck Dunn's bass lines are very unique," Cropper said, "They're not locked into somebody's schoolbook somewhere". He reunited with Cropper as a member of Levon Helm's RCO All Stars and also displayed his quirky Southern humor making two movies with Cropper, former Stax drummer Willie Hall, and Dan Aykroyd, as a member of the Blues Brothers band. Duck's second Fender bass was a 1959 Fender Precision Bass, with sunburst body, one-piece maple neck and gold anodized pickguard; an instrument he owned until his death. A good Bass Man lay down a foundation for the rest of the band to sync to, along with the drummer. feat. In 2007 Dunn[18] and members of Booker T. & the MG's (Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper and Lewie Steinberg), along with Barbara Jackson, the widow of Al Jackson, Jr., were given a Lifetime Achievement Grammy award for their contributions to popular music. Dunn was notable for his 1960s recordings with Booker T. & the M.G. Dunn's discography. I can say there is nothing worse than a bass player or a drummer that wanders on the beat. During the 1960s, he used a nearly identical 1959 model, but it was outfitted with a rosewood fretboard. 's and as a session bassist for Stax Records. Dunn was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He was married to June. Since I had to look up who he was, figure someone else will too. Yeah, especially since they were part of the backbone of Stax's session band. He died on May 13, 2012 in Tokyo, Japan. It would look better with a big wad of tobacco sticking out of the bowl.... Earle Scruggs passes away at 88 in Tennessee.