We lost another giant in music today - Donald "Duck" Dunn

[bluesbassman]

From Booker T and the MGs to the Blues Brothers and hundreds of Stax recording artists, Duck's bass lines were clean, powerful and interesting. Greatly influenced my playing and music is better because of him.

RIP Duck.

[nolabear]

1. So sad. Brilliant bass player and all around cool guy. RIP

[Eyerish]

2. Damn...one of my favorites

RIP

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. He played with Neil in 2002...

...I was hoping that the resulting album would be so much better than it was, and that was primarily all on Neil. It just wasn't his strongest batch of songs and is largely considered to be an "uninspired" effort (even though it included his response to 9/11, "Let's Roll&quot .



A lot of people refer to the album as the one Neil made with "Booker T & The MGs," but it was just Booker T. and Duck. Crazy Horse guitarist Frank Sampedro was along for the ride, and Steve Potts played drums...the cousin of original MGs drummer Al Jackson Jr.

R.I.P., Mr Dunn.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

4. What a loss.

He contributed his fine groove to so many classic hits, and most people will never know it.

[abq e streeter]

5. Very saddened to hear this news. RIP, Duck Dunn.

[bluesbassman]

6. Hey, I was just thinking about you. How ya doing Brother?

Bummer to connect on such sad news.

Hope everything is going well. Gonna make it out this way sometime?

[abq e streeter]

8. Actually sent you an email a few days ago

Wondered if you'd gotten it. If not, I'll look in my sent file and copy it and send you a PM here. In fact what the hell, I'll just do that now (and maybe add a little bit to it too).
And yeah, sad news indeed about Duck Dunn. One of the all time great groovers, and by all accounts a real good guy too.

[bluesbassman]

9. Just found it and replied.

Yeah, I never had the opportunity to see either Dunn or Cropper play. And I have heard Dunn was a good guy too. He'll be missed.

[BarbaRosa]

7. A sad day, great bass player.

RIP "Duck"

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