Simon Kirke

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863 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 19 Nov

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The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · Simon Kirke | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · 19 Nov 2025 podcast

didn't care about any of that you know he didn't he played that jazz grip like stewart like then the weird always lifting you know weird mechanical but he had this beautiful backbeat and he just those three guys laid down a rhythmic foundation and i like the distinction between the rhythm yeah and actual you know yeah um i had a question about al jackson so you know but it's fine because because um

Well, I think the difference between Motown and Stacks is that Motown had a huge roster of

of artists, and they were a little more flamboyant.

I mean, they had that wonderful rhythm section, James Jameson on bass, Benny Benjamin, but they had a much bigger roster.

They used strings, they used flutes, whereas Stax was a bit more muscular.

You know, with that wonderful Al Jackson, and they had maybe a handful

Otis, Sam and Dave, Wilson Pickett.

So they never really made the inroads, certainly into England and Europe, that Motown did.

Oh, I see.

Stacks, when I first heard Otis Redding, it was Dock of the Bay.

And it was the week when... But he'd already died, right?

He'd already died.

And Steve Cropper said the most, the toughest thing it was for him was to mix Dock of the Bay the week after Otis had passed.

But I was just finishing high school.

I was 18.

So it would be 1967, 68.

And I heard a sit in the morning sun.

I thought, oh, that's nice.

And I only heard that sort of side stick.

It didn't really... Until Al started branching out into the snare and the full thing.

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