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American bass guitarist

Musical artist

Donald "Duck" Dunn (November 24, – May 13, )^[1][2] was an American bass guitarist, session musician, record producer, and songwriter. Dunn was notable for his s recordings with Booker T.

& the M.G.'s and as a session bassist for Stax Records.

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At Stax, Dunn played on thousands of records, including hits by Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas, William Bell, Eddie Floyd, Johnnie Taylor, Albert King, Bill Withers, Elvis Presley, and many others. In , he was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Booker T. & the M.G.'s. In , he was ranked 40th on Bass Player magazine's list of "The Greatest Bass Players of All Time".^[3]

Early life

Dunn was born in Memphis, Tennessee.

His father nicknamed him "Duck" while watching Disney cartoons with him one day. Dunn grew up playing sports and riding his bike with another future professional musician, Steve Cropper.

Career

s: First bands

After Cropper began playing guitar with their friend Charlie Freeman, Dunn decided to learn the bass guitar.

Eventually, along with drummer Terry Johnson, the four became the Royal Spades. The Messick High School group added keyboardist Jerry Lee "Smoochy" Smith, singer Ronnie Angel (also known as Stoots), and a budding young horn section in baritone saxophone player Don Nix, tenor saxophone player Charles "Packy" Axton, and trumpeter (and future co-founder of the Memphis Horns) Wayne Jackson.

Cropper has noted how the self-taught Dunn started out playing along with records, filling in what he thought should be there. "That's why Duck Dunn's bass lines are very unique," Cropper said, "They're not locked into somebody's schoolbook somewhere". Axton's mother, Estelle, and her brother Jim Stewart owned Satellite Records and signed the band, who had a national hit with "Last Night" in under their new name, the "Mar-Keys".

Booker T.

and the M.G.'s was founded by Cropper and Booker T. Jones in , with the drummer Al Jackson, Jr. The original bassist, on early hits such as "Green Onions", was Lewie Steinberg; Dunn replaced him in

Late s–s: Session musician

Stax became known for Jackson's drum sound, the sound of the Memphis Horns, and Dunn's grooves.

The MG's and Dunn's bass lines on songs like Otis Redding's "Respect" and "I Can't Turn You Loose", Sam & Dave's "Hold On, I'm Comin'", and Albert King's "Born Under a Bad Sign" influenced musicians everywhere.

As an instrumental group, they continued to experiment with the album McLemore Avenue (their reworking of the Beatles' Abbey Road) and on their final album, Melting Pot (), which featured bass lines that to this day inspire hip-hop artists.

In the s, Jones and Cropper left Stax, but Dunn and Jackson stayed with the label. Dunn worked with Elvis Presley on his RCA Album Raised on Rock.

In , when the rhythm guitarist Tom Fogerty left Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR), the remaining members discussed with Dunn the possibility of his joining the group, with their current bassist, Stu Cook, moving to guitar.

Booker T. and the MG's had performed in concert and jammed in the studio with CCR in the past, and Dunn in particular had become friends with the band members. But CCR ultimately decided to remain a trio from then on.

s–s

Dunn went on to play for Muddy Waters, Freddie King, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eric Clapton, Paul Butterfield, Mike Bloomfield, and Rod Stewart.

He was the featured bass player on the single "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around", by Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty, from Nicks's debut solo album Bella Donna (), and on other tracks by Petty between and He reunited with Cropper as a member of Levon Helm's RCO All Stars and also displayed his quirky Southern humor making two movies with Cropper, former Stax drummer Willie Hall, and Dan Aykroyd as a member of the Blues Brothers band.

Dunn was the bassist in Eric Clapton's band for Clapton's appearance at Live Aid in

Dunn played himself in the feature The Blues Brothers, where he famously uttered the line, "We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline!" and was frequently shown smoking a pipe while playing. He appeared in the sequel Blues Brothers , again as himself.

Dunn & the MGs were the house band for Bob Dylan's concert celebrating Dylan's 30th anniversary in the music business at Madison Square Garden playing behind Dylan, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Stevie Wonder, Sinéad O'Connor, Eddie Vedder, and Neil Young, who recruited the MGs to tour with him and recorded with Dunn several times since.

In the s, Dunn was in semi-retirement, but still performed occasionally with Booker T. & the MG's at clubs and music festivals.

Donald duck dunn biography meaning The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The split-channel tracks separate the bass part so you can either isolate the bass to study it solo, or remove it to play lead with the backing tracks. Duck worked with some of the biggest artists, musicians, and songwriters of the day, including Booker T. But his unparalleled year career was just getting started. The Soul Fingers book is available from Amazon.

In June , Dunn, Cropper, and Jones served as the house band for Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival. The group backed such guitarists as Joe Walsh and David Hidalgo on the main stage at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas.^[7]

In , Dunn worked with the Australian soul singer Guy Sebastian touring for The Memphis Album.

Dunn and Cropper arrived in Australia on February 20, , to be Sebastian's backing band for an date concert tour, the Memphis Tour.^[8]

Dunn is credited with performing on a version of the standard "I Ain't Got Nobody" with Jones, Cropper and Michel Gondry in Gondry's film Be Kind Rewind.

Personal life

Dunn was married to his wife, June, until his death. They had two sons, Mike and Jeff,^[9] and a grandson, Michael.^[10]

Death

On the morning of May 13, , Dunn died in his sleep at age 70 after finishing his fifth double show^[11] at the Blue Note nightclub in Tokyo with Cropper the night before.

He had been in Japan as part of an ongoing tour with Cropper and Eddie Floyd.^[12]

Musical equipment

When Dunn was 16, he bought his first bass guitar, a Kay electric bass. About a year later, he acquired his first Fender Precision Bass, with sunburst body, rosewood fingerboard, and gold anodized pickguard.

He lost that bass when Otis Redding and members of the Bar-Kays were killed in a plane crash, and the bass was on loan to bassist James Alexander. Dunn's second Fender bass was a Fender Precision Bass, with sunburst body, one-piece maple neck and gold anodized pickguard; he owned it until his death.^[13] Throughout his life, Dunn believed this was a model, but after his death, his son Jeff had work done on it, and the neck was inscribed "," putting the date definitively as During the s, he used a nearly identical model, but it was outfitted with a rosewood fretboard.

He was an avid user of thick La Bella flatwound strings, as was James Jamerson.^[14]

While filming The Blues Brothers, Dunn used a sunburst early '70s Fender Precision bass with a rosewood fretboard and a "tortoiseshell" pickguard. He also used a red Precision in some of the scenes, a bass stamped "Demo" on the back, which was later fitted with a late '60s Jazz Bass neck.

It was a combination that was popular with other top-level players, including Carl Radle, and Billy Cox. This "Jazzision" became the basis for a Skyline Series signature bass made by the Chicago bass company Lakland nearly 20 years later.^[15] Dunn also used a white lates Precision Bass when performing Minnie the Moocher with Cab Calloway.

In , with the popular Blues Brothers Band touring regularly, Fender gave Dunn a new bass to try, the company's first active electronics equipped model, the Precision Bass Special. His bass (serial number E0xx) was finished in his favorite color, Candy Apple Red, with a matching headstock, and featured a one-piece maple neck, and gold hardware.

He played this bass briefly, before gifting it to a friend.

Donald duck dunn It was just too complicated, man! Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. What was needed was a bass. While all his friends, like Steve Cropper whose family had moved to Memphis in , were picking up guitars, Dunn was listening to records and playing along with them on his new bass, keeping and accenting the beat, fleshing out the harmony of the chord progressions and filling in the spaces that he deemed needing filling. Growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, he had a wealth of musical styles and genres to listen to.

In the mids, after nearly three decades, Dunn switched from Fender instruments, and became an endorser for Mississippi-based Peavey. He played their "Dyna Bass" model &#; finished in his favorite red &#; on stage and in the studio for a number of years. Over the decades, he was given various basses by friends and admirers, which included models by Travis Bean, Rickenbacker, Gibson, custom builders, and others, but his everyday instrument was always his Precision.

In , Dunn collaborated with Fender to produce a signature Precision Bass: a candy apple red model based on the late s style, with a gold anodized pickguard, split coil humbucking pickup, maple neck, and vintage hardware for a limited production of instruments.

Steve cropper biography: Donald "Duck" Dunn (November 24, – May 13, ) [1] [2] was an American bass guitarist, session musician, record producer, and songwriter. Dunn was notable for his s recordings with Booker T. & the M.G.'s and as a session bassist for Stax Records.

The Bass was offered only for a limited time. The Dunn family has serial numbers XXX, XXX, and XXX in their collection. # is currently on display at the Hard Rock Cafe in Orlando, Florida.

Fellow studio legend Bob Glaub introduced Dunn to the people at Lakland, and based on his "Jazzision" bass from the Blues Brothers movie, the company's Duck Dunn signature model was released (later available as the model Custom).

Dunn played his final shows on one of these basses, and that bass remains with his son Jeff, complete with sweat streaks from his final moments of playing.

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He had just finished playing two shows at the Blue Note in Tokyo, according to Steve Cropper, his best friend and band mate. In other words, Dunn was doing the same thing he had done nearly a half-century earlier, when he and other members of the absurdly talented Stax family set off for a tour of Europe in the late s. As of this past weekend, he was still flying around the world, personally delivering deep-fried Southern soul. Trim, clean-shaven, and looking like he was plucked out of high school Chemistry class, Dunn, nevertheless, had a booming sound that filled the room. As a bassist, Dunn was not known for the mind-bursting virtuosity of a Jaco Pastorius or a Victor Wooten.

Some of Dunn's basses are displayed at Hard Rock Cafe locations, some are in museums (like the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland), and others are in the hands of private collectors.

Over the years, Dunn played through an Ampeg Portaflex, or "Fliptop", B combo (so named for its head that flipped over to store in the cabinet), as well as a Kustom stack, and a Fender rig.

He is best known for his use of an Ampeg SVT head and the company's matching 8×10" cabinet through his endorsement deal with Ampeg.^[15][16]

Discography

Main article: Donald "Duck" Dunn discography

Collaborations

Awards

In , Dunn was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Booker T. & the MG's.^[17]

In Dunn^[18] and members of Booker T. & the MG's (Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper and Lewie Steinberg), along with Barbara Jackson, the widow of Al Jackson, Jr., were given a Lifetime Achievement Grammy award for their contributions to popular music.

In Dunn was posthumously awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by Bass Player Magazine for his contributions to "the art, craft, and profession of bass playing."^[19]

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