Steve Cropper - Interview Part 2 Recorded Live: 11/4/1984 - Rock Influence - , More Steve Cropper at Music Vault: www.musicvault.com Subscribe to Music Vault on KZbin: goo.gl/DUzpUF
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@Loiyaboy4 жыл бұрын
What a decent gentleman. Humble, yet so very, very talented.
@jorgecallico91774 жыл бұрын
He comes across as modest and yet he's been one of the cornerstones of modern music. A living legacy. I consider Cropper the most important living American.
@wyndhleodumegwu2534 жыл бұрын
Steve is so sweet, honest and selfLESS; so so positive is he. I adore him ever since through his music - his playing.
@larrycourtneyjr.16738 жыл бұрын
What a great interview, Cropper is one of the most important,yet way underrated,guitarists in modern popular music,he's a giant. Thanks for this...
@spurnthemuse7 жыл бұрын
Who underrated him? I need names.
@BenBigelow37 жыл бұрын
spurnthemuse I've been a musician for 20 yard and I've never heard of him. Underrated, in that unless you're really searching, his name isn't common to hear. imo
@spurnthemuse7 жыл бұрын
Ben Bigelow That's only one name.
@skoch99954 жыл бұрын
@@BenBigelow3 The first inter-racial band (The MG’s) in USA. Look up their videos. *Time Is Tide* in particular.
@jamescarter86994 жыл бұрын
Steve Cropper was a major influence on me. In 1967 I was 14 years old, in Jr. High, 8 grade and Stax Records was blowing out hits like Donuts. I would later get to play professionally behind different recording Artists. But Steve played The Telecaster and in 1972 I found out why as most R&B hits sound like that guitar. So playing one gave me an edge. From James Brown and king records to Motown I could imulate different hit songs.And though I switched to the Strat in the early 80's, I had to alter it to get the neck and bridge combination sound which was only given on the Telecaster, because the Strat just gives the middle pickup for that twang treble sound. Steve is one of my guitar heroes. I remember seeing Steve Donald Booker T and their drummer on their hit album in the late 60's. He(Steve) had that Tele and Duck(Donald) the Tele looking Bass.
@mikecrawford60104 жыл бұрын
James Burton and Steve great guitar players true Southern gentleman
@JoeLee-ej6fo9 жыл бұрын
I met Steve once in Nashville. He was one of the nicest most genuine people I've ever met. Super guy as well as amazingly talented.
@BrandonScottSellner3 жыл бұрын
I met him at a BB King show in Orlando. Great guy, super nice. One of my favorite guitarists.
@ANGELSVEN6 жыл бұрын
Tight, smooth and cool. And he seems so darn nice. Love Steve Cropper! "Green Onions" was the #1 rock song that influenced me.
@leighgilligan69084 жыл бұрын
Met Steve, Duck and the band on several occasions Down Under. Lovely, gentle, generous, friendly and super talented guy. Invited me to a pre gig private warm up in Adelaide. Awesome night I will always remember!
@danh3673 жыл бұрын
That's awesome you're fortune. I was finally able to meet Booker last year at a small concert in DC where he read from his autobiography, answered audience?s, and played in band with his son. Such a gentleman and a wonderful night.
@rickvia84354 жыл бұрын
Steve Cropper - One of my epic heroes. Great interview.
@StuartJebbitt4 жыл бұрын
Cropper is the prime example as to what makes a great guitarist - It's not about playing a million notes all over the fretboard like an angry wasp trapped in a jam jar - it's about the SONG and the FEEL. Less is more.
@suminshizzles69512 жыл бұрын
Santana said something similar. It is not about how many notes ect you can fit in or how fast you can play. I broke my pinky finger when i was in my early 20's. I was riding my bike through a safeway parking lot. It was my fault that hit a car that pulled out. But i had just enough time to slam on the brakes and slide ito the car sideways. My pinky got smashed against the car with all my weight behind it. So now my little left pinky finger is broken and slopes downward at a 45 degree angle. It makes playing frets with that finger not easy at all. I played from 18 till 24 when i broke my finger. I am 52 now and just yesterday started playing again. Throughout the years i would look at my guitar and play a little. Then put it down again frustrated by that finger. But yesterday i picke dit up and felt that love again that i initially felt. This had been missing many years. My wrists are shot from 35 years of hard core road riding on a bicycle. I cant play a million notes a sec like some people. Wish i could. But i cant. I have to make due with what i have.
@elainereith58647 жыл бұрын
It didn't get any better than Booker T and the MGs!
@mikemanne81123 жыл бұрын
very true.
@tonyhancock39125 жыл бұрын
It's times like this when I think thank f##k for KZbin!
@paulcooper57489 жыл бұрын
love steve croppers guitar playing.
@snarckysnarcky8 жыл бұрын
guy is more humble than almost anyone and also more of a badass than oh I don't know 90% of people in the industry.
@gordonm.73878 жыл бұрын
Good comment, good words! Steve has true groove and feeling. And soul! Life is getting fucked up. Politics ain't shit! Like Neil Young says, RUST NEVER SLEEPS!
@gordonm.73878 жыл бұрын
Good comment, good words! Steve has true groove and feeling. And soul! Life is getting fucked up. Politics ain't shit! Like Neil Young says, RUST NEVER SLEEPS!
@garymorgan33147 жыл бұрын
Inspired Jeff Beck, big time, as Jeff has freely acknowledged.
@melodymakermark6 жыл бұрын
Yep. They made an album together at Steve's TMI Studio in Memphis in '72 as Im sure you know.
@roseblake58034 жыл бұрын
Oh yes Steve you’re a fantastic guitar player , as the song says PLAY IT STEVE !!!!!!
@toneyisaiah4084 жыл бұрын
Steve Cropper played with Jeff Beck on the album, The Jeff Beck Group, 1972.
@Buelligan889 жыл бұрын
This is a fantastic interview.
@petervad4 жыл бұрын
Wow, so down to earth, how wonderful. He seems like a lovely person (in addition to being a legendary musician and writer).
@Marss13z4 жыл бұрын
Excellent interview. I always admired Cropper's music and I wore out Booker T & the MGs albums.
@Sticks-of-TNT-tf1tn4 жыл бұрын
@6:44 - How do you play guitar? “They liked the way I played guitar. They like this kind of half country, half funky blues kind of style of guitar playing” There you have it, straight from the man himself. 🧨🧨
@toneyisaiah4084 жыл бұрын
He's a real friend in the business.
@twoslices9 жыл бұрын
KIng of the Memphis soul guitar. When I see a blonde Telecaster I think first of Steve.
I actually brought a blonde maple neck Tele in 1972 because of his lead Tele on a BOOKER T & THE MG'S ALBUM. It was a 1960's model wish I still had it today.
@levistubbs89494 жыл бұрын
God bless Steve cropper !
@robertlloydmusic4 жыл бұрын
A great talent and important person in music history.
@garymorgan33147 жыл бұрын
Cropper, backing Jeff Beck, said "If I could play like that, I'd rule the world." Beck has said that the Stax sound was "it' for him once he heard 'Green Onions' said that was the first real band he'd heard and them and the Motown 'Wrecking Crew' inspired him. I used to listen to 'Loading Zone' and the interplay amazed me. Cropper seems like a top bloke. A great axeman and a fine man too; dignified and interesting.
@melodymakermark6 жыл бұрын
Motown had The Funk Brothers. The Wreaking Crew was in LA.
@garymorgan33146 жыл бұрын
Mea maxima culpa. I stand corrected. Thanks my man...or indeed woman. Best wishes Gary
@Kroeber389 жыл бұрын
Thank you for uploading the precious interview!
@SnowdriftBoy3 жыл бұрын
Top guy!! Personality as class as his playing!👏👏
@mitchellkarera4 жыл бұрын
Play it, Steve!
@ikkenhisatsu7170 Жыл бұрын
Steve Cropper. Freaking legend.
@barrypeterson67254 жыл бұрын
Great interview!
@adrianmartin57804 жыл бұрын
Legendary giant of a man,no gimmicks,so refreshing,so unlike the ego maniacs in the rock field,yeah I'm talkin bout you Kiss,take a lesson on humility,the big heads mask their insecurity,
@dwdavis59772 жыл бұрын
Cool interview. Thanks for this!
@pjcurtis24764 жыл бұрын
did nobody think to mic the interviewer? cant hear her Q´s.but Steve is terrific--honest and articulate...Genius.
@bholaoates15424 жыл бұрын
That bugged me too.
@johnnyneverletmedown534 жыл бұрын
@@bholaoates1542 She sounds like the same interviewer who does CCR in Sydney 1972, an interview on you tube which she so blew. JCF and Steve did some good gigging together. Wish Fogerty had his chill way of looking at things.
@bholaoates15424 жыл бұрын
@@johnnyneverletmedown53 I hear you, but Fogerty kind of has an excuse to be bitter considering how his bandmates and record company totally ripped him off big time.
@johnnyneverletmedown534 жыл бұрын
@@bholaoates1542 Well the dancer pig did, but not so much his bandmates. John just has a 'woe is me ' thing going on, and blamed everyone else, without considering his part in it, IMHO. Good musician, but the other guys put up with just as much. And much of it was from others, tight but right?
@bholaoates15424 жыл бұрын
@@johnnyneverletmedown53 I'm not so quick to blame myself when my buddies betray me. What do you mean when you say the other guys put up with just as much?
@jimmyjones2896 Жыл бұрын
Steve Cropper as Liv Schreiber
@bossfan494 жыл бұрын
The Steve Cropper Story - starring Liev Schreiber.
@bossfan494 жыл бұрын
@Dave State-61 That's who he looks like in the thumbnail.
@GuitarisGreat14 жыл бұрын
cool thanks for sharing this!
@rycooder94865 жыл бұрын
Loading Zone: Ramons Blues Duet with Roy Buchanan....2 solos each... Perfect match.
@bodinejeremiah63663 жыл бұрын
The more I see these interviews on utube the more I realise getting into music can pull you out of the shit from being on the bottom rung of life that and LUCK of course- it takes you off them that have all the say and everything put on a platter
@davidlincolnbrooks Жыл бұрын
His Natal Sun is 28 deg Libra in the 9th House, very near the Scorpio cusp. Then his Moon Conjunct Mercury in Scorp in the 10th House. Capricorn Rising... Capricorn being the sign of Rock 'n' Roll musicians (Elvis, Janis, Bowie, on and on)...
@DonDeering8 жыл бұрын
Great interview, if you're into this music, it's worth listening. Otis Redding was a driver for Johnny Jenkins when they met!
@spurnthemuse7 жыл бұрын
Yr from Scotland but yr not Scottish. Choice of language is a la intruder.
@garymorgan33147 жыл бұрын
Jeff Beck said more or less the same when HE first heard it. Brilliant.
@moss84484 жыл бұрын
he's riffs that he put into it...pretty much hung in my conscientiousness...that sound really haunts in a good way...a stinging guitar kind of thing....a driving force.
@maxpuppy967 жыл бұрын
Cropper wasn't technically a great guitar player, what made him great was his timing and knowing what to play and what not to play, he was on the money.
@MrMusicguyma6 жыл бұрын
which makes him a great guitar player ;)
@BoxerEngineSounds4 жыл бұрын
@@MrMusicguyma technically yes
@toneyisaiah4084 жыл бұрын
Remember the movie, The Blues Brothers?
@daviddoyle45164 жыл бұрын
Brother Steve,,, a stand up guy from way back,,,dont ever change Steve,,,,
@toneyisaiah4084 жыл бұрын
He was a part of the S.T.A.X. music scene.
@toneyisaiah4084 жыл бұрын
Steve went to do several albums.
@charleswinokoor60234 жыл бұрын
Notice how he dropped in Tal Farlow’s name toward the beginning? I don’t think the lady doing the interview has nary a clue about any of the musical references being laid out by Cropper.
@freddiemesquit97464 жыл бұрын
Anytime I hear Tal Farlow mentioned I think of my dad who thought he was the greatest.
@FYMASMD4 жыл бұрын
I always dislike it when the interviewer doesn't have a mike on. What the hell are they thinking? Do they even listen to it?
@blueslideguitar76054 жыл бұрын
Yeah pal, why don't you get in a time machine and go back to 1984 and really give her hell about it?
@bholaoates15424 жыл бұрын
@What Me Worry Agreed.
@dannymcrooster40892 жыл бұрын
I look at this man and I look Steven Segal
@SeattleSoulFan3 жыл бұрын
He mentions B. B. Cunningham. Would this be B. B. Cunningham who played organ with the Hombres ("Let It All Hang Out")?
@bgoc1263 Жыл бұрын
Love this guy
@johnsekul32507 жыл бұрын
the Colonel is a true pioneer and the creator of soul guitar besides being a prolific writer. When the man accepted me as a facebook friend , felt like I had walked on mars. He is under rated. if you dont know who is ..try watching a little known movie called the blues brothers or a 70s episode of SNL. He shows up routinely in the band.
@meihdi1236 жыл бұрын
Yes as you say he is a big part of the Stax sound... :-) One of my prefered guitar player too, while he isn't a solo man but he plays the good notes at the very good time, for me he thinks how to make the music sounds good, he seems to listen to others musicians...i like this way of playing: making music not showing himself...
@morrisparrish76 Жыл бұрын
Jones CROPPER Dunn & Jackson
@davidlincolnbrooks Жыл бұрын
How charismatic is this guy?
@felixmadison5736 Жыл бұрын
Racism is such a waste of someone's time. Life is too short. Steve Cropper had it down.
@MrAnders19768 жыл бұрын
he looks like liev schriber
@ralex36973 жыл бұрын
Yes he does and a bit of Matthew McConaughey
@Leeniebean Жыл бұрын
He was so darn handsome!
@velvethausfrau3 жыл бұрын
Is it Mary Gross doing the interview?
@medic28073 жыл бұрын
Memphis has its own accent in speech and music. Different from Nashville.
@jamesboykin73194 жыл бұрын
the Colonel
@Zane_Doe4 жыл бұрын
Liev Schreiber?
@bossfan494 жыл бұрын
I just said that! Haha. That's a biopic that totally needs to happen, especially before Liev gets too old to play "young Steve".
@normanmcneal36053 жыл бұрын
I love when they bring “ racial” barrier into it. Southerners are not racial. Northerners are though
@nivram593 жыл бұрын
Correction: Southern *musicians* aren't "racial". Neither is bringing up relevant history (see links below to read up). As Steve stated per describing their problems being a racially mixed band on the road in the South (problems which didn't happen to nearly the same degree to musicians above the Mason Dixon; segregated hotels, eating establishments off limits to black people, segregated gigs, the threat of violence towards blacks and so called 'N-lovers' (as whites treating blacks as equals, not subordinates, were called then), etc), Southerners at that time obviously took the cake when it came to being 'racial'... www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/the-rope-the-forgotten-history-of-segregated-rock-roll-concerts-126235/ www.billboard.com/articles/news/features/9474793/oral-history-black-artists-touring-segregated-south/
@fortunatejeremy2 жыл бұрын
Ok there bud.
@Allen2saint2 ай бұрын
Side note: that’s one uncomfortable setup. Put the guy on a stool in the middle of a soundstage with nothing around him at all? Jeesh! Give the guy a chair at least.
@dapos3045 жыл бұрын
He looks like Levon Helm
@thebreadoflife64 жыл бұрын
The bad news Steve does not know where musical inspiration comes from. The purpose of music is to glorify God. That's where it comes from. The good news is, I was a sinner going to hell but Jesus Christ loved me so much, He paid for my sins on the cross! He took the wrath of God and by His wounds, I am healed. He died in my place and rose again! He says if I just believe I will go to heaven. And I believe! Woo hoo! And you can too because He loves you the same.
@toneyisaiah4084 жыл бұрын
He's a real friend in the business.
@toneyisaiah4084 жыл бұрын
Steve Cropper played with Jeff Beck on the album, The Jeff Beck Group, 1972.