Steve Cropper

But I think he just was being devil's advocate to just see if he could push us into something.

And we kept trying.

We cut a bunch of instrumentals and some crazy little things that never saw the light of day.

And until the time that we came up...

with with last night but what happened was Estelle I don't know Estelle Axton I don't know if she saw any talent there or what she saw but but she liked me enough to keep me around and she put me to work in her record shop and I sold records that's what I did and I kept working on on the weekends I would kinda do a little A&R'ing because people were always coming in and on Saturdays I would hold auditions because people are always bringing in songs and all that and that's sorta how I got started

you know, in the A&R thing.

And finally, Jim said, wait a minute.

He said, you know, Steve's spending more time in the studio and he is in the record shop and whatever.

And so they got together and decided that I would start getting my salary from the record company rather than the record shop.

And I started working, I guess, A&R full-time at that point.

Well, what it all stemmed from basically was there we were with all this great success doing the Dick Clark show and everything as the marquees and we had this big hit record last night and it was a lot of fun.

And then all of a sudden it wasn't fun anymore.

It became work and what you call road burdened and that sort of thing and seven of us or eight of us traveling in one car and trying to make all these shows and I found out that I wasn't too happy with the road.

And so what I really wanted to do was get back in the studio.

I mean that

I already knew that that's what I wanted to do.

Anyway, that's what I did.

I came back to Memphis.

I went to work in the studio again.

I helped put together the rhythm section I found out.