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May 13th, 2012, 09:01 AM
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The Duck is dead! terrible news!!
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May 13th, 2012, 09:34 AM
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Thank you so very much, Mr. Dunn. Rest in peace. Play if you're feeling it.
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May 13th, 2012, 09:55 AM
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That's a shame. At least he was able to play right up to the end.
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May 13th, 2012, 10:11 AM
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Was he the bass player from the Blue Brothers band?
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May 13th, 2012, 10:14 AM
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Was he the bass player from the Blue Brothers band?
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My mistake BLUES Brothers band. |
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May 13th, 2012, 12:04 PM
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Yes, he had the pipe during the credits at the end when they showed the band members.
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May 13th, 2012, 01:03 PM
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Yes, he had the pipe during the credits at the end when they showed the band members.
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May 13th, 2012, 01:49 PM
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The BB is how most people know the Duck, but he did soooooooo much more.
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May 13th, 2012, 04:18 PM
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Great Bass player....RIP Mr Duck Dunn.
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May 13th, 2012, 04:30 PM
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The BB is how most people know the Duck, but he did soooooooo much more.
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It's my favorite movie in the world. I've never known him to do much else. I'll have to look him up. |
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May 13th, 2012, 04:37 PM
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Rest in peace Double D. He was an absolute hero of a bass player and from all accounts I've ever heard or read, a 110% total gentleman.
Will, like so many others of his ilk, be sorely missed.
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May 13th, 2012, 05:52 PM
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Booker T and the MG's
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May 13th, 2012, 06:24 PM
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Oh man - way too early!
RIP.
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May 13th, 2012, 06:45 PM
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Another one, too soon gone. Loved his character in the Blues Brothers, and his playing anchored some of the best music of the 1960s.
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May 13th, 2012, 06:48 PM
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Was he the bass player from the Blue Brothers band?
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From what I have read today, he was hand picked by John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd specifically for the Blues Brothers movie.
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May 13th, 2012, 08:55 PM
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Some of us enjoyed Duck Dunn's work long before the Bliues Brothers. He's a legend. I used to work for a hotel in Memphis and was lucky enough to see Duck and Steve Cropper play a benefit in our ballroom. I was able to go in for the sound check just to see if I could learn something. RIP Duck Dunn.
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May 13th, 2012, 09:01 PM
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From what I have read today, he was hand picked by John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd specifically for the Blues Brothers movie.
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Kind of came as a package deal with Steve Cropper I assume though.
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May 13th, 2012, 09:45 PM
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Very sad about this. I met Duck at the Bottom Line in NYC in the 70's with Booker T & The MGs. I asked him for his autograph, and he said, "Why do you want my autograph?" I said, "You're Duck Dunn, that's why!' He didn't know what to write, so he just wrote, "Thanks for coming, Duck Dunn." So humble, a nice guy and great bass player. One of the best.
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May 13th, 2012, 10:28 PM
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All the great guitarist die early or tragically, with my skills I should live to be 110.
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May 13th, 2012, 10:46 PM
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He'll be greatly missed. He played some f the fattest baselines ever heard in rock music, and his best body of work was DEFINITELY during the Stax years. He and Steve Cropper backed Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, Rufus Thomas and Johnnie Taylor just to name a few! He was also part of a legendary trailblazing group of people who played in integrated bands in Memphis, when it was still very dangerous to do so in the South during the 60's.
I HIGHLY recommend checking out the Stax/Volt box set. About 10 CDs worth of 60's Memphis soul.
/But yeah, he was in Blues Brother's too.
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