GoldenStreet wrote:Mike is still active, I gather, running Maximus Music in Stockport.
Must be a very low profile business - the only Maximus Music found on Google is in the USA.
Back to the theme of this thread, there's been no mention of
Steve Cropper so far. In 1962 we were accustomed to the sound of Hank and The Shadows, and the many UK Stratocaster bands that had followed in their wake, but
Green Onions was something very different.
It wasn't just that Hammond riff that ascends and descends at the same time, but those spare, edgy, stabs from Steve Cropper's Telecaster. Before 'fuzz boxes' made distortion the 'must have' effect, Steve's guitar had that slightly distorted edge that demanded attention. No multiple tape echos (just a little studio reverb), no flying clusters of notes (although Terry Clemson turned that principle on its head when The Downliners Sect recorded
Green Onions for
At Night In Great Newport Street) and no tremolo arm, just note bending with fingers on very light guage strings.
The influence of Steve Cropper on the UK's 1960s rhythm & blues guitarists is under-appreciated.
Ray