I met him at a BB King show in Orlando. Great guy, super nice. One of my favorite guitarists.

Who underrated him? I need names.

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

Ben Bigelow That's only one name.

@@BenBigelow3 The first inter-racial band (The MG’s) in USA. Look up their videos. *Time Is Tide* in particular.

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.

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.

very true.

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!

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!

Inspired Jeff Beck, big time, as Jeff has freely acknowledged.

Yep. They made an album together at Steve's TMI Studio in Memphis in '72 as Im sure you know.

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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.

Motown had The Funk Brothers. The Wreaking Crew was in LA.

Mea maxima culpa. I stand corrected. Thanks my man...or indeed woman. Best wishes Gary

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.

@Dave State-61 That's who he looks like in the thumbnail.

That bugged me too.

@@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.

@@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.

@@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?

@@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?

Yr from Scotland but yr not Scottish. Choice of language is a la intruder.

Jeff Beck said more or less the same when HE first heard it. Brilliant.

Anytime I hear Tal Farlow mentioned I think of my dad who thought he was the greatest.

which makes him a great guitar player ;)

@@MrMusicguyma technically yes

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...

Yeah pal, why don't you get in a time machine and go back to 1984 and really give her hell about it?

@What Me Worry Agreed.

Yes he does and a bit of Matthew McConaughey

I just said that! Haha. That's a biopic that totally needs to happen, especially before Liev gets too old to play "young Steve".

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/

Ok there bud.