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Sunday, May 13, 2012

On a Mission from God
Posted by Jill | 6:41 AM
Not that they ever could really get the band back together after Belushi died, but the Blues Brothers Band (and long before that, Booker T. and the MGs) has lost its bass player, Donald "Duck" Dunn.

Is there a better bass line in the world than the one in "Green Onions"? I'm pretty sure I've posted this video of Duck and Steve Cropper in Australia in 2008 before, but it deserves to be posted again, in a context that doesn't involve continence pants:



Except maybe the one in "Time is Tight", here performed in Amsterdam, 2010:


Thanks for the riffs.
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