I shared some YouTube clips. http://denniscoffeysite.com/motown-artists-worked/
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I shared some YouTube clips. http://denniscoffeysite.com/motown-artists-worked/
Wilson and me back in the day. I played on "Don't Knock My Love" with Wilson. http://denniscoffeysite.com/wilson-pickett/
Dennis,
I assume you played on both these versions, given your history on Wilson's album and the Hot Wax label??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw1ZHMqfiiE
Hi Mike. It sounds like me on those records. I can't remember every song I did because I played on 18 sessions a week at three or four songs on each session in Detroit and in LA. That is at least 54 songs each week. One year I was on three records in the Billboard top ten and ten records in the top 100 every week. Those were the days. I enjoyed every minute of it which is why I still play all the time. I got the chance to work with with great musicians, artists, and producers and was trained at Motown to make great records. It doesn't get any better than that.
I shared some videos on the records I played on at Golden World. http://denniscoffeysite.com/golden-w...c-tic-records/
Here are some YouTube videos relating to this post. http://denniscoffeysite.com/twirl-impact-records/
I added some videos to this post on The Dramatics. I added some videos to my blog on The Dramatics. http://denniscoffeysite.com/dramatics/
Here are some videos of songs I played on produced by Norman Whitfield. http://denniscoffeysite.com/norman-whitfield/
I have added a video of a song by the Royaltones that I co-wrote back in the day. http://denniscoffeysite.com/bay-shor...nt-new-jersey/
I added some videos on my second session blog. http://denniscoffeysite.com/my-secon...rding-session/
I found some videos of me with The Royaltones and The Volumes. http://denniscoffeysite.com/lots-of-...made-part-one/
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Hi Dennis,
We've got a thread on The Motown Forum talking about this very subject: The difference between the sound of Motown's and the other Detroit Soul labels' instrumental sound of recordings even when The Funk Brothers and other Motown or ex-Motown session players were most of the players on the non-Motown recordings. I hope you and Ralph will contribute to that thread.
I was always a big fan of Chuck Berry. http://denniscoffeysite.com/my-guita...s-chuck-berry/
Dennis,
I wouldn't let Lawrence touch any of the equipment. The engineers for HDH were Milan Bogdan and Russ Terrana.
Hi Ralph. That is good info. I had Milan master one of my albums last year. Many years ago, when I spent a few days in Nashville, Milan offered me some office space and a telephone at his mastering lab and said he would introduce me to his contacts in Nashville. I decided to go back to Detroit instead. He was a great sound engineer and nice guy. Milan also asked me to produce a session on a group he had recorded at Tera Shirma. I had to ask him what a producer does. He explained to me what he wanted me to do and I did it.
I was a big fan of Jimmy Reed.http://denniscoffeysite.com/my-guita...es-jimmy-reed/
I was a big fan of Billy Butler and Bill Doggett. http://denniscoffeysite.com/my-guita...-billy-butler/
Hi Mike. "Peanut" was the bass player on most of the HDH sessions. I was the only Funk Brother. I think HDH couldn't get the Funks except for me. Harry Balk at Motown called me into his office one day and told me to stop doing sessions for HDH. I told him he had me mixed up with the other Funks who were under contract with Motown. He told me if I continued to work for HDH, Motown wouldn't call me. I told him I was a free agent and worked for anyone who paid me. Motown didn't call me for two weeks and then I was back doing sessions every day and no one said anything about me working for HDH again. HDH had the money to record records they wanted to record. They had Capital and Buddah Records paying for it. The musicians were not Motown guys and the studio was not Motown. HDH were also still growing as producers and writers. This might have made the difference between the sound of HDH and Motown.
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Yes. The Musicians being mostly non-Motown musicians was a small factor in the sound being different. But H-D-H still evolving their sound at that time, AND, most importantly, HDH using a different studio from Motown A or B, and the different equipment and sound engineering methods used were the biggest factors.
Back when Ed Wingate was using MOSTLY current moonlighting Motown musicians, together with a few ex-Motown musicians, the sound of Golden World/Ric Tic recordings was still very noticeably different from the sound of Motown recordings. Even Motown recordings made at Golden World Studio before the transfer to Motown, sounded different from Golden World and Ric Tic recordings just before the sale to Motown. Motown used different equalizers and other equipment in different ways from those of The Golden World engineers [[and the same held true for HDH's engineers).
Mike Theodore and I found and produced Jim Gold and The Gallery. http://denniscoffeysite.com/jim-gold-and-the-gallery/
Mike Theodore and I produced this album and Tom Moulton did the mix on CJ & Company. http://denniscoffeysite.com/c-j-company/
Mike Theodore and I discovered Rodriguez and recorded his first album. His story is told in the movie "Searching for Sugar Man". http://denniscoffeysite.com/rodriguez-2/
This is a Cambodian group I co-produced at Rust Belt Studios. http://denniscoffeysite.com/the-camb...space-project/
My first Gibson guitar was a Brydland. http://denniscoffeysite.com/my-first...ar-a-byrdland/
My Gibson 355 is one of my favorite guitars. http://denniscoffeysite.com/%EF%BB%B...on-355-guitar/
Dennis,
My brother, Russ, played a 335. One he glommed onto that guitar he never looked again for a replacement. Today it hangs on his wall. Probably still has the strings he had on it when we were all playing Somers Point, New Jersey.
I still use my Gibson Firebird guitar http://denniscoffeysite.com/me-and-m...rebird-guitar/
I used my Gibson ES-345 in LA. http://denniscoffeysite.com/me-and-m...es-345-guitar/
My Gibson L4 is great for a warm jazz sound. http://denniscoffeysite.com/me-and-my-gibson-l4-guitar/