One of my favorite bass players and a major influence on my bass playing, died in his sleep today. :( Being a Tennessean, Stax was a little bit cooler to me than Motown and Duck was a Memphis native. Donald may have been a white boy, but he had a ton of soul and was king of the groove.
One of my favorite lines of his...Knock On Wood
What every bass player should aspire to. Duck laid down a slick groove and had the classicist of tones.
Its seems like we have lost a lot of great people from the formative rock era of late. It occurred to me recently that we are going to be memorializing more an more of them as time goes on. I am glad he went out after a double set, doing what he loved.
Just told TF .... he is bummin!
"Work hard, rock hard, eat hard, sleep hard,
grow big, wear glasses if you need 'em."
-- The Webb Wilder Credo --
All's my own bassist is talking about is the passing. Commiserations, fellas.
Cat
"Feel what you play...play what you feel!"
Bad and sad news again... :-(
Duck might as well have invented rock bass. Who else plays like him any more? Who else even bothers to try?
Dang it. RIP.
"You can't write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say sometimes, so you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream." - Frank Zappa
