Steve Cropper Professions : Guitarist Born : October 21, 1941 Browse All Authors Top 12 quotes by Steve Cropper If you took a little of Sam Cooke and a little of Little Richard, and poured it in a jar and shook it up and poured it out you would get Otis Redding. Steve Cropper sam-cooke jars littles I lived in a hotel across the street from Disneyland for a month. Steve Cropper hotel hospitality months I'm a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don't remember the flops. Something in my brain blocks them out. Steve Cropper block guy brain Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once. Steve Cropper years-ago cartoon years I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand for my playing. But the love of working the board never leaves you. Steve Cropper demand boards gone Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years. Steve Cropper maps lucky years Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks. Steve Cropper memphis sticks house I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great. Steve Cropper missouri raised country My ears won't fool me. Even when I do a session on digital, we still warm it up somewhere in the process, in mastering or mixing, running the signal through some tubes somewhere. Steve Cropper mixing digital running I'm one of those guys who likes to piddle around in the garage and fix stuff. Steve Cropper likes guy stuff Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts. Steve Cropper blues amazing said people My favorite moment of the whole thing was when John Belushi suggested that I get a hold of all the blues records I could so I could research the music. Steve Cropper blues moment music research Similar Authors Al Di Meola guitarist Albert Collins guitarist Bill Kirchen guitarist Bukka White guitarist Buddy Guy guitarist Buckethead guitarist All Authors
