{"id":1681,"date":"2007-12-09T22:28:44","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T02:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2007-12-19T23:17:02","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T03:17:02","slug":"time-is-tight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1681","title":{"rendered":"Time is Tight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">E<\/span>arlier <a href='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1680' rel='attachment wp-att-1680' title='Booker T and the MGs'><img class=\"alignright\" src='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/bo_oker_t_and_m_gs.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Booker T and the MGs' \/><\/a>this weekend I was reminded of Booker T and the MGs: most people know their &#8216;Green Onions&#8217; hit-song but aren&#8217;t aware of other instrumentals they produced and created, like the catchy &#8216;Time Is Tight&#8217; <a href='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1682' rel='attachment wp-att-1682' title='Time Is Tight'>(sample 30+ seconds)<\/a>. &#8216;Time is Tight&#8217; is one of those typical &#8216;who did this song again?&#8217; songs and that mainly because of the recognizable theme\/riff (by lead guitarist Steve Cropper) and the typical (classic?) Hammond organ sound (from the hands of Booker T. Jones).\n<\/p>\n<p>Initially, Booker T and the MGs started out as backing musicians on the (famous) Stax\/Volt records, playing for and with artists like Otis Redding and Sam &#038; Dave (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/relevance\/search\/Sam+and+Dave\/video\/x3diu5_sam-dave-hold-on-im-comin-live-1966\">Watch for the band in this Sam &#038; Dave video<\/a><sup>1<\/sup>). Brilliant musicians, clearly underrated and under-appreciated.\n<\/p>\n<p>When I was working as a programmer on the Old Continent, a fellow programmer once asked me what I was listening to. When I passed on my MD-player, he listened in to this song and quickly returned the thing with a disgusted face, saying that this was &#8216;old people music&#8217; because his parents were still listening to this crap. I think that was the first time someone called me an &#8216;old fart&#8217; at age 28. On the plus side, I wouldn&#8217;t doubt that this young programmer eventually became a Stax\/Volt connoisseur.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"reference\">\n<p><strong>Update: <\/strong>Right in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/67327\/Hi-this-is-the-Big-O-Otis-Redding\">time for this<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> I should probably save Sam&#038;Dave for another &#8216;Past The Bridge&#8217; posting.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this weekend I was reminded of Booker T and the MGs: most people know their &#8216;Green Onions&#8217; hit-song but aren&#8217;t aware of other instrumentals they produced and created, like the catchy &#8216;Time Is Tight&#8217; (sample 30+ seconds). &#8216;Time is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1681\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[232,136],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}