...and Lonnie Mack, too

[lowend1]

 
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[Dave W]

No! 

[Basvarken]

Ouch.
Can't we install a new Grim Reaper? This one seems to be a bit out of control...

[rahock]

I'm a big fan of this guy. Very sad
Rick

[uwe]

The final Flying V, safe journey!

[Dave W]

I just about wore out the grooves of The Wham Of That Memphis Man when I was in high school.

[Highlander]

This is getting like a sweepstake... who's going to draw the next (un)lucky winner to peg out...?

rip...

[drbassman]

I just about wore out the grooves of The Wham Of That Memphis Man when I was in high school.

One of my teenage music heroes.  Ditto Dave.  This evokes such great memories.  RIP Memphis man. I loved the Leslie sound.

[Dave W]

I never thought of it as a Leslie sound, although I know what you mean. He used a Magnatone amp, which had a true vibrato circuit (pitch change, not volume change), and the Bigsby to get that sound.

[drbassman]

Yeah, but it still had a Leslie quality to it in my 16 year old brain.  Fun facts.   

[Dave W]

I just wondered how on earth he managed to sound so fluid. Turns out it was something called talent.

[patman]

Odd thing was...there was no mention of it on local news in Cincinnati...for being a legit local guitar hero.

Maybe it was the song "Cincinnati Jail"?

Everything was all about Prince on the news.  Prince had absolutely zero influence on my life...

I too wore out a copy of "The Wham of the Memphis Man"

Bands still play Wham and Memphis around town, using those same arrangements.

[gweimer]

A number of people I know from there were disappointed that Lonnie wasn't remembered as a local celebrity.  I used to go to Sonny Moorman's jams there when I lived down there.  The irony was that nobody local did any of his songs, but a Russian-born guitarist came in, and the first song he pulled up to play was "Cincinnati Jail".

[Aussie Mark]

Lonnie also played bass on Roadhouse Blues

[Pilgrim]

Lonnie also played bass on Roadhouse Blues

Interesting!  The piece on Wikipedia says that adding him made the piece "take off."  Whatever, he really nailed it.  One of my favorite bass lines ever!