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and I think we cut
"Better Move On"
maybe a month later.
There's, uh,
a love of Arthur Alexander.
You ask me
to give up the only love
I've ever had
At that time, we had
no idea where this was recorded,
but it's interesting to know
one of the first things
that we cut was
you know.
Better move on
rhythm section
opened for the Beatles in 1964,
And, of course,
a year later, in '65,
we all go to Nashville.
The guys went on to become
great pickers and producers
and learned from experience
here at FAME,
man, we can do it.
When they left,
there was nobody else.
We were the only game
in town for him to get.
They took the ball
that we started rolling,
and they rolled it
and made it bigger.
Individually, I never really
thought we were great players.
But together, we were
great players.
We had the magic together.
All funky was was that
we didn't know
how to make it smooth.
We're rock 'n' roll
players, okay?
You just didn't expect them
to be as funky
or as greasy as they were.
I know a place
Ain't nobody cryin'
The grooves that we set up
came from
rhythm and blues music.
I remember when Paul Simon
called Stax Records,
talked to Al Bell.
And said, "Hey, man,
I want those same black players"
that played on
'I'll Take You There.'"
He said, "That can happen,
but these guys"
are mighty pale."
Let me take you there
I'll take you there
You got to, got to,
gotta let me
believe
that my whole band
was white guys that played
behind me.
People have arrived
at Muscle Shoals
expecting to meet
these black dudes,
and they're a bunch
of white guys
that look like they worked
in the supermarket
around the corner.
David Hood, bass player.
Jimmy Johnson, guitar.
Roger Hawkins, drums.
Barry Beckett, keyboard player.
Later on, became known
as the Swampers.
made the difference
when you went in the studio
every day with the same pickers
and the same players,
and they became a team,
and it was hard to beat that.
songwriters and musicians,
anybody that wanted
to be in the music business.
to FAME studio.
That was like a melting pot
for songwriters, musicians.
I was, as a teenager,
really impressed with all that.
I came up here
and I'm just a kid, really.
were kids, too.
I mean, nobody knew anything.
We're just doing our best
to learn how to make records
and learn how to play music.
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