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Recieved: 2002/08/02 11:34
Subject: Re: [K-list] surrender--Otis Redding
From: Bestpoet

On 2002/08/02 11:34, Bestpoet posted thus to the K-list:

<<He laughed at me and said Remember Ottis Redding. I asked him what was so funny about Ottis Redding. He only laughed.
I do not know an Ottis. But I thought I had heard the name before. I asked my neighbor if she knew. She says she isn't sure, but she thinks he sang Sitting on the dock of the bay.
Awwwwh. Surrender. It isn't the mind shattering all enlightened blast of knowingness I was searching for (obsessing for) but I think I got the joke.

Oh my oh my, Otis Redding was one of the greatest of the Rhythm and Blues singers from the Stax/Volt studios of the 60 (home of Sam and Dave, Rufus Thomas, Booker T and the MGs, etc.). Redding was killed in a plane crash (around 1966-67)shortly after his career took off in crossover land (crossover is when the black artists got play on mostly white radio stations). Sitting on the Dock of the Bay was written after he'd listened to the Beatles a lot and was hanging in San Francisco.

Redding was a genius singer, a real percussive singer. During his last years, the drummer Al Jackson played with him a lot. They sometimes had these amazing duos, with Redding doing percussive like riffs with grunts and syllables and words against Jackson drum solos. If you ever get a chance to hear his 4-CD set, almost everything he ever recorded, check out Can't Turn You Loose, The Huckabuck, Satisfaction (blows the Stones away), Hard to Handle, etc. Truly amazing guy, and the Memphis Horns in the back ground just sear my heart with their soulful, rhythmic harmonies.

I'm just astonished you dreamed about Otis Redding and didn't even know him. Fabulous! But maybe, instead of suggesting you passively Sit on the Dock of the Bay, the dream was suggesting you lose your obsession by doing The Huckabuck--you cannot play that song with surrendering to the rhythm.

Check out Otis on the web.

Barg

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