Bit of a Corker From One of my Favourites - Tommy Cogbill

[Mykesbass]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBu-ExfgCTo"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBu-ExfgCTo[/url]

[ivansc]

Singer in my old band in Tennessee worked for/with Chips Moman in Memphis for a long while and got to use Tommy on a bunch of her stuff. Great player.

[Mykesbass]

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Singer in my old band in Tennessee worked for/with Chips Moman in Memphis for a long while and got to use Tommy on a bunch of her stuff. Great player.
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Ooh, way too cool! Yes, great player, bit of an unsung great.

[Mickeyboro]

Thanks Mike for funking up my Friday!

[chris_b]

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Ooh, way too cool! Yes, great player, bit of an unsung great.
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Very unsung!!

He was even airbrushed out of the FAME studios documentary that they made a couple of years ago! Not even mentioned once. He was on many of the hits that came out of FAME studios in the 60's. I believe he was the band leader in the studio on many of the old soul hits.

He wrote the bass line for Memphis Soul Stew.

[Buzzy]

+1 for Tommy Cogbill, all his bass lines are like a lesson in how to get it right.
I love the bass on this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk15q5paR1k

[chris_b]

I haven't heard this one before. Fantastic Cogbill bass line.

Love the Roger Collins version.

[Mykesbass]

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Very unsung!!

He was even airbrushed out of the FAME studios documentary that they made a couple of years ago! Not even mentioned once. He was on many of the hits that came out of FAME studios in the 60's. I believe he was the band leader in the studio on many of the old soul hits.

He wrote the bass line for Memphis Soul Stew.
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Yes, was a poor representation. There is a 70's Swedish documentary on Youtube - will post when I'm on a computer.

[chris_b]

I'd be very interested to see that.

[Mykesbass]

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I'd be very interested to see that.
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Here you go - lots in Swedish, but looks like there is some cool old footage in there. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9iuOXQaKo8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9iuOXQaKo8[/url]

[Mickeyboro]

Fame studios is in the middle of a shopping plaza - seems quite surreal. And Muscle Shoals Sound Studios is in a trading estate - dunno what I expected to see, but...

[Mykesbass]

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Fame studios is in the middle of a shopping plaza - seems quite surreal. And Muscle Shoals Sound Studios is in a trading estate - dunno what I expected to see, but...
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Is the big Muscle Shoals water tank still there with the town name painted on? They say never meet your heroes. I think the same probably goes for these iconic places Michael.

[JapanAxe]

That was brilliant

[ivansc]

So many unsung heroes in Memphis and Nashville. Probably the same in other towns, but the sheer number of hugely talented players there are in that corridor between Davidson County and the Arkansas border is scary.

[scalpy]

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Here you go - lots in Swedish, but looks like there is some cool old footage in there. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9iuOXQaKo8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9iuOXQaKo8[/url]
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The most fun I've had watching a Swedish documentary with my clothes on.

(I blooming love Tommy Cogbill too)