Hold On I'm Coming....oh yeah, baby!
Posted by tonyboydell on 25 July 2008 - 10:41pm.
Good grief - now THIS is why I paid 40 quid for my freeview. Bored of a Friday and channel hopping, we've just run into the STAX evening on BBC FOUR!
The Norway VOLT concert is a thing of joy and beauty indeed! Did you see SAM AND DAVE go for it? And what about those bored soldiers shoving the peaceful, soulful hippy folk back into their plastic chairs? And there's a fat roadie doing some shoving too!
Booker T, Mr Collins, that dippy bloke on bass, the Markays and Mr Otis Redding himself. I hope this is on the iplayer tomorrow so we can educate the kids.
Hold on I'm coming?
Bugger that - I've just come!
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Otis...
...loved watching Steve Cropper while Otis did his thing; how happy did he look?
You beat me to it my friend!!
My licence fee has just been paid and the rest of the year is just extras!!
It's on my Tivo and will never leave!!!!!
Thought I'd just add
Now chilling out to the Dinah Washington Story. What a voice!!
Just switched over...
and it's The Avengers! Damn!
There's nowt wrong
with The Avengers
Where can you buy
a suit like Rufus Thomas was wearing for Wattstax?
By a long way, this pair of programmes was the best thing I have seen on TV for ages, as much for the sense of period as for the music. I got goose pimples seeing Jesse Jackson doing that "I am somebody" speech.
Loved the Norwegian compere as well. Echoes of Rush on the Colbert Report when he kept coming on at the end to wrap up, but Otis Redding hadn't finished.
Fabulous documentary...
hearing about the extent to which the death of Martin Luther King affected everyone at Stax was very sad and deeply moving.
Steve Cropper is the maaaaaan.
Patrick
Just wanted to make sure you've seen "Standing in the Shadows of Motown". If not get it on DVD. You will not be disappointed. Moving isn't the word.