Zitat des Tages von Steve Cropper:
Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.
I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand for my playing. But the love of working the board never leaves you.
Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once.
I lived in a hotel across the street from Disneyland for a month.
Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.
My ears won't fool me. Even when I do a session on digital, we still warm it up somewhere in the process, in mastering or mixing, running the signal through some tubes somewhere.
I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great.
Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.
I'm one of those guys who likes to piddle around in the garage and fix stuff.