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Old 01-28-2010, 12:38 AM   #22 (permalink)
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Hard to get down on Marvin ***e, James Jamerson, Supremes, Stevie Wonder, etc. Motown was definitely more prolific, but, as James Brown himself said, they turned down the bass and adjusted the sound more for mass consumption.

I'm a Stax guy. Love that raw sound. Sad to hear Duck Dunn etc say in the Stax movie that the black people drove out the white people, but still, it started out with a mix and thats partly what made it special.

How do you choose, really?

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