MEMPHIS APPRECIATION THREAD
soulmarcosa
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Is there anywhere else in the USA where you can get 100-300+ people dancing to funk & soul 45s until 4am or later? And then dig through 1000s of 45s the next day? Then like Joe Tex says, SHOW ME.Ever since DJing there a few months ago, I've talked up Memphis to everyone I know. Seriously, come down on October 27 and let The_Hook_Up and Shingaling show ya'll how it's done.Memphis natives, add some more talking points about your great city. NOTE: Texas natives, please no stories about gay waiters who serve you beer in a broken lip-cutting bottle no matter how true those stories may be. This is a pro-Memphis tourism thread.
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also the best Fried Chicken in the world...Uncle Lou's and Gus's holler
but back to marco approved qualities...
One of the few cities left with actual juke-joints, the real deal...
a city where you can bump into folks like Issac Hayes, Willie Mitchell and Skip Pitts, and Carla Thomas at the grocery store...
a city where you can wave at Lou Bond riding his bike down Madison Ave...
a city where Willie Hall comes through the door and asks if he can use your fax machine....
a city where you can stand outside the USA's first all-black radio station and still tune in said station and listen to a Rufus Thomas track...
a city in which you can walk into the room where raw-assed RnB and rock n roll was first recorded...
a city where you can go out at 5AM for a beer...
a city where you can go see Al Green give a sermon...
a city where integrated bands played and recorded as far back as the 40s (a big deal for a southern city)
a city that, although is hot and humid for a few months in the summer, has some pretty good weather overall...
a city that brought Soul music to the world...
I was about to say...
Not that I have any input on the matter cuz like Marco there's no pork on my fork
semi-"legal" after hours jernts
[drunk]I sure don't remember one.[/drunk]
Change a few names and I can think of some CHICAGO equivalents (y'all got Stax, we got Chess; you can wave at Lou Bond ridin' his bicycle, I've ridden public transportation with Terry Callier; you got Uncle Lou's chicken, we're kickin' ass and stompin' dick with Harold's). BUT BY THE SAME TOKEN...I was in Memphis three months ago for the Ponderosa Stomp and totally fell in love with the city. On the plane back to Chitown, I was hoping my laid-back Memphis feeling wouldn't wear off. More power to Soulsville U.S.A.!
Chicago at the Hideout, for the legendary East Of Edens Soul Express!
But I sure as hell had me some fun with the Memphis version!
One of many highpoints of my last trip to Memphis was driving past Hi Records' studio (still active) and seeing Willie Mitchell through the window...
i have never been to memphis...i'd love to go. there's this recent elvis costello dvd and as a bonus feature elvis and his drummer go on a guided tour of memphis...it's really cool.
also, check out the movie "Mystery Train"!