Booker T. & The MG's - Time Is Tight (Live, 1970)
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- Booker T. & The MG's opened this Creedence Clearwater Revival concert at the Oakland Coliseum, 1/31/70. Seen offstage are John Fogerty, Doug Clifford (w/beard), and Stu Cook (w/glasses). Good article: sites.google.com/site/theelec...
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*Booker T. & The MG's opened this Creedence Clearwater Revival concert at the Oakland Coliseum, 1/31/70.* CCR can be seen waiting off stage.
That's brave getting one of the best band's in America to open for you or it's madness ! I'm not sure wich.
Wished I'd been there!! It just gets better every 2 hours I play it.....so tight between all 4 superb musicians. Al even has a break!
Not really sure it gets any better than this. Jones & Cropper in total unison. CCR looking in and learning!! Majestic.
Pendulum is probably my favorite ccr album with willie and it has a huge booker t influence. There are some jans if them together here on TH-cam
Lucky you. That’s some early legends starting to happen.
My wife once asked me whom I would like to meet since I'm not overly impressed by celebrities. Without hesitation, I said that if I ever saw Booker T. Jones, you better get the smelling salt because I would pass out. The man is amazing. My hero.
Al wasn’t just a drummer , he was an absolute machine just churning out rhythm
Glad you used the word "machine." Steve Cropper was once asked in an interview, "Did you ever work with a drum machine?" He said "Yeah. Al Jackson."
GROWN FOLKS MUSIC....These kids don't know what REAL MUSIC IS.
This is everything! Amazing musicians just having a ball-and CCR watching on-what the actual??🤦♀️
@@holidayroad5677 It was a CCR concert. Booker T & the MGs opened for them.
Kids music these days is aweful
I’m a 95 and I know real music 🤣🔥
I come back to this often. A rare human embodiment of “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
Well said!💯😁
No pyrotechnics.
No light show.
No backup dancers.
Just Cool.
Them was the days!
Where's the color gels & overhead projector?
Cosmic!
When this came out ,originally, it was the "B" side !
I always liked it as much as Green onions.
Steve NoName When you can simply define Badasss, you need nothing more
Steve NoName These guys had the music. That's all they needed. The bums need the gimmicks.
again I grew up in the same neighborhood as al Jackson jr. Also I went to elementary,and junior high school with his four childrens,and I would talk to him often whenever he was off the road and came home back to our neighborhood,he would give me advice on what to do in order to be in the music business,it was you have to pay your dues to the business,my cousin is charley pride the only successfull black country singer in this united state,who al acknowledged and love as well little al Jackson jr. as we called him was one best drummers in the world,we love you al rest in peace as we lost you too soon.
+bobby pride Thanks for sharing!
+bobby pride Nice story Bobby. Me and my 13 month old daughter love this and nearly all the MGs back catalogue. There's a drummer on youtube who also teaches at a drum tech and he states that Al Jackson Jr was the Memphis sound; that it disappeared when died. I agree! RIP
Big tribute to Al Jackson jr in Memphis this October to benefit stax music. Oct 10th thru 12th. Steve Jordan and Jim Keltner will be here for the event, which will be held at stax and Memphis drum shop and more. Details on sept 12th.
+Turning Point Wow I never heard that but it makes sense. I think I hear him on Al Green's records. I have heard many drummers play "Time Is Tight" but none like Al Jackson, Jr.
+Michael E. Al was always right in the pocket.
I was there... My friends took me to the concert knowing Creedence was my favorite band. Booker T and the MGs were the icing on the cake. Still the best concert I've ever been to.
These guys were at the forefront of racial equality in the 60's as much as MLK and Malcolm X. They didn't care about the colour of someone's skin or where they were born or what god they worshipped. All they cared about was the making of brilliant music as a mankind and then spreading that word. All four members should be remembered forever, they're music will be.
You are soooooo right.
There exists nothing on this planet like the unmistakable sound of a Hammond B3 Organ, especially with Booker T & The MG's banging out Time is Tight.
Craig Anderson Thank you!!!!!!
Craig Anderson The Laurens Hammond/Don Leslie inventions from a long time ago,moved music to a new level.Felix Cavaliere and gene,and eddie,and dino back in 1965 just knew they were on to something.The rest is history.Electric "geetars" are way over ratted!!!! I play and own two Hammond tonewheel spinets,and a 147 from back in the day.Glorious sound!!! I am also a guitar player inspired by Gene Cornish excellence on the Kessel neck...Craig,you sir have an excellent ear for tonality!!! Hey,check out "Hang em High"....AMAZING!!!!
You got that right brother!
Jon Lord from Deep Purple explained why he never switched to synthesizers: "Why mess with perfection?"
yes yes yes grreat comment!
Booker T Jones, Donald Dunn, Steve Cropper and Al Jackson Jnr. What a band
I've been told that MG stands for Memphis Group.
Legend blues funk rock band can put them in a few genres thru the instrumentals rare talent even in the 60s.
My favourite band ever along with the Meters 💙
Throw in Jake and Elwood, and that would really be something to see.
The STAX Studio Band !!!
Black and White making the world a better place 👍
Right on!!
Then colour TV 📺came in...... Followed by remotes! Who controls the TV!? 😀
Yes, yes!
music making the world a better place
Absolutely brilliant
Two black guys and two white guys playing the coolest of music.A lot to like.
I heard this song on my parents' stereo back when I was about six. Just a white latino kid from Monterey Park, but was enraptured by that bass-line. Shoot to 2006. Was an accomplished rock/blues bass player and joined a friend's band that played only 60's songs. AND 'Time Is Tight' was on their song list. I didn't even need to practice it....I just said 'let's roll, guys'.
Gotta be in the top 10 R&B/Rock tunes of all time.
LimitedNewsCorp : And CCR members watching closely...amazing.
@@rtaf4206 Indeed!
You don't just hear this music ,you FEEL IT !
Gotta love Creedence watching from the wings!
YOU ARE SO RIGHT. IT IS GREAT TO SEE MUSICIANS ADMIRING EACH OTHERS WORK.
Simple instruments. No jazzy light. No dancing half naked.
Pure music
I thank god that I grew up through the 5's, 60's and 70's for sheer musical heaven.
I had just my future wife in 1970.We used to go to a club called Take 5 in Leeds and this was one of our favourite songs.We hot married the following year are still together 52 years later.We still listen to this song,a classic.
Duck and the vastly underrated Al gone way too soon.
Duck killing it on this tho’
AJ jr wasn't underrated by those who knew music.. Human metronome..
@@tollyt7465 incredible drummer. Four great musicians...
Donald "Duck" Dunn,excellent Bassist. RIP,Duck.
When Dan akaroyd and John Baluchi asked if they can use soul man and other songs for their lineup with blues brothers cropper wanted in and of course duck was part of the package mat guitar Murphy was a good friend of there’s so it came together in 1980
This is so tight, soulful and KILLER! The CCR guys backstage with their minds blown 😉
😂😂😂
Booker T. & The MG's showed us a very long time ago that yes, we can all get along.
Music Power yes we can.
Of COURSE we can get along. We get along just fine except for those among us who profit when we do not and who seem to move mountains to find ways to separate us. All blacks are victims, all whites are privileged, and other lies they tell in school these days.
@@jamespfitz nice commen- oh wait you’re one of those, nvm.
Systemic racism my ass, this is music the way it should be, playing together and enjoying it. I have listened to a number of mixed race bands over the years and music is where race and art truly combine.
Anyone familiar with the old STAX records will already know this is where it's at, NOT in today's race baiting BS they attempt to call "music"!
@@richardcline1337 Amen, Brother!
I just keep revisiting the live music of the late 60s and early 70s. Music was never better.
The times were too
Oooooh, the intro. Make us wait... it is worth the wait!
Love me some Booker T. and the M.G s with Creedance Clearwater Revival looking at them in Awe, the same way I am .....😮
My dad, born 1930, loved Booker T and the MG’s just as I do! I’m 68 and remain thankful for the great music from our youth and the taste my old dad had for music that wasn’t big with his generation!
Same year born as my dad (1930), Berkeley High School (1948), USMC Korean War, etc .... as detailed above, took me to this concert (first one for me!) along with my uncle, and then got the Booker T. and the MGs record .... tried to pay it back by taking him and Mom to see Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band in 1985 in Oakland Stadium, then got a bootleg tape of the show for him, which he used to play in the back yard while he burned, oops barbecued, the chicken summer after summer.... Mom said the concert was too loud ....
Year before I got married. In sophomore year I listened to the radio every night and called radio station every night to get this played. After several months the DJ brought me the record!!!!
Thank god my dad gifted me with love of this music he passed away in 2005 at 55 and I’m 45 now. He’s here with me jamming right now
its like they knew they were so good an they were man❤
LoL!
The drummer he get so overcome by the music
he just got to get up and take a walk for a minute!
Booker T Jones -- long time favorite
I remember when this came out in 1969. I was stationed at Fort Lewis, Wa. just before leaving for Vietnam. This song, and 'Love Is Blue' were top instrumentals that year. 'Time is Tight' and 'Green Onions' are American classics.
Thank you for your service.
@@davegarfinkel5251 Thank you for the kind words.
You are my hero. Thank to you where are a free country.
Thank you.@@emilioeromo2588
Just finished watching several drum covers of this. It really is Al Jackson, Jr. and then everyone else when it comes to drummers for me. No drummer I’ve ever heard holds a candle once you start digging in to the stuff he played on. Booker T. Jones is a genius which is a word I don’t toss around lightly & Steve Cropper & Duck Dunn play exactly how I would if I could play guitar & bass, but everyone looked up to Al Jackson.
I saw a video of Booker T and the MGs doing Green Onions. I didn't who Al Jackson was at the time but it was so obvious that he locked the band down--a human metronome.
I listen to them all day at work. For a long time id been wanting to see them and al in action. I came across this video a few years back man i almost cried. I dont know if theres a bigger fan of Al jackson than i am😂😂😂 i love the whole group. But al was an entirely different beast. This video is gold.
I love how Booker T puts some funk into every chord, always messing with tones, never taking the easy way through a melody. And what a backup band. Pure joy!
Steve Cropper's face: 'I'm so glad I'm in this band mate; don't let this ever stop'
exactly!
MrCopperthwaite One of those beautiful moments when band and audience are both having the BEST time.
When CCR is side stage, grinning, tappin toes, and groovin to your music....
Like myself at thirteen years old, seated behind the stage and one row up, at the Sam Houston Coliseum, July, 1970. It was quite a show: Wilbert Harrison (Work Together, Kansas City) as a one-man band; Booker T. and the M.G.'s doing this song and Green Onions; Creedence Clearwater Revival...Handsome Tom Fogerty sailing his spent guitar picks up at us girls; I caught one, and had it for years in my jewelry box. The amplifiers were mountainous and almost deafening, the Coliseum being like a cavernous echo chamber; so loud that my parents heard CCR's finale, Keep on Chooglin', playing--while standing outside on the sidewalk waiting to pick us up. If you listen to CCR's Pendulum album, you'll hear how much John Fogerty's organ playing was influenced by that of Booker T.
Been listening to this song for 48 years and I still get chills every time I hear it.
You’ve got to hand it to 60s and 70s we had the best music 🎶🎼🎶
Yep!!!!
Two white guys,and two black guys, playing the coolest of 1970's music. It doesn't get much better.
60s. And I agree with you.
Al Jackson Jr on Drums. A Human Metronome
Amen!!
CCR in the house. Love this tune all these years.
roadking - It was a CCR concert, see info under the video.
My mate said this was the music that they play in the entrance hall for heaven, so you know it’s all good from here. Hope they played it for him when he got there.
And that's the king on drums; Al Jackson Jr.
It's really cool that at the beginning of the 60's when this band was started and jim crow was still around that a couple white men and a couple black men could get together and just make great music.
Brilliant music by brilliant musicians , I am a life long fan of booker T and the MGs.
...what's cool these days?
Nothing!, and Nobody.
These brothers born to other Mother's were interplanetary Cool, and transcended racism to give the world some relief in as turbulent times as we live today. You couldn't turn on an AM rock radio dial in the 60's and 70's without getting a fix of Booker!
The music has lasted
when all else crumbles beneath humanity's feet.
Eloquent ...and true!!!
My last request is to have this blasting in the funeral during my service.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it's happened.
I'm right there with you brother
Tell'm Bill!!! We want it blasting and if your not bobbing your head or dancing we don't want you there!!!
Who are the 44 psychopaths who gave this video a thumbs down?
When I briefly lived in Memphis, I played this video on the graves of both Al Jackson and Duck. It was a memorable tribute.
eric toth class move,my man.
Oh god,my man loved this tune,so many memories.
man so great man did we have the best tunes in our life❤
I watched this concert when it was broadcast on national TV. As a 10 year old listening to am pop radio, CCR and Booker T. & the MG's had hit songs on the radio and were very popular. I watched this on a 26" black and white TV at that time. This rare video is a treasure since this concert footage was never released commercially and is only available from home video. When you watch this, you realize it is all about the music. No glitz, no glamour, just the music. This is a must listen and watch to all music fans. The CCR concert was a classic show too!!! Very up front and in your face with the cameras.
DJ Steve 59 , lucky man if you remember this, it's the Best, not many around now, but still alive in my head!
Wish I could give it a thousand more thumbs up. They are the best.
You got that right!!!!
Was 17 in '70,now 48 years later & an unexplainable feeling still comes over me when I here this.
That's cause you appreciate good music.
True that
My dearly departed younger brother bought this for me on vinyl 30 years ago. Thanks Jeff. You still the man.
"Like" is not a strong enough word to express how I feel about this video. So Exhilarating!
One of the greatest pieces of music ever.
Belongs in the "Music Hall of Fame" of the greatest songs of all time. A masterpiece.
@@TomTimeTraveler Yes, its true.
I was lucky enough to be at that concert, my first. I was 13 years old, and my dad and stepmom took me.
Good for you! As an eleven year at the time, we could hear them on local radio stations. WDIA!
I swear by the international court And a you tube counting thing. That i only owe these fellas 16.9 million dollars for the number of times I've broken copyright law in the shower , traffic, shopping, hell even the wedding night ( only down to the rather expertly timed Hammond solo).
Another 33 million in gold im probably in debt with. Thanks to Green Onions.
Thanx a bunch fellas. Its a treat!
The Hammond organ sound has withstood the test of time.
...NOTHIN" LIKE THAT HAMMOND B-3 !!!! DO YOU LISTEN TO GROOVE HOLMES ? AND HIS TRIOS ?
One of the best tracks in MUSIC!!!!!!
I was in high school when I first heard this song it’s one of those songs that you never forget
My first concert, 1970, Booker T. opening for CCR at MSG.
The Hammond B-3, the rocket engines of rock and soul!
Rest In Beats to Donald "Duck" Dunn and Al Jackson Jr.
This may be the greatest intro off all time
Introducing the fabulous Blues Brothers.
if God sat down and wrote a tune...
+james knox ......It still wouldn't be as good as this........
.. He would use me to play it out to the world
*+james knox*
... that would be "The Time Is Tight"... wouldn't it (?)
... and he would use The MG-s as his backing band Lol...
I'm with you on that one all the way bro...
HE DID! :D
You nailed it.
One of the greatest bands ever, all fantastic musicians.
Back when everyone got along...☮
Too many racists, white nationalists, neo Nazis, immigrant haters, and disbelievers of science.
Sad that we lost ace drummer so tragically, plus Donald "Duck' Dunn more recently. Booker T and Steve Cropper are still with us, still making good soul music...
sometime in 1971 i was driving in san francisco...came over a hill and there was a huge panoramic view of the city and the ocean....this tune came on at that moment and i floated through the universe in perfect beat to all the instruments....thought i would never return to earth....totally righteous
Moments like that are timeless. Sends goosebumps down your spine. I remember once. walking down the street listening to my walkman one day, and 'While my Guitar Gently Weeps' came on just as the sun was about to set. I could have cried tears of joy in that perfect moment. Cheers.
In Nov 2019 a couple of relatives traveled to California. As I don't have the financial means to make trips like this, I sometimes got into Google Street View and looked at San Francisco and its beautiful streets, avenues and port areas. I even found the place where The Filmore West was. I suggested to them to attend a show and remember The Doors, Alman Brother's, Janis Joplin, CCR, Booker T and many many other. But they made other choices, also very good ones, after all they were in California. Peace!
Where is that time capsule take me back I can still picture my father dancing in the Palor with my mother to this song
Wow. Important times in one’s life . I hear you.
The beating heart of Stax in it's heyday.
" SHEE IT ! FUGGED ABOUT IT !!!! GO STAX !!!
Fantastic....and look at Steve's Rosewood Telecaster....perfection ...and Booker's Hammond.....and the whole thing being held together by Duck and Al ...plus another thing watching this , two blacks , two whites... beautiful music...the world could take a lesson from these guys...
Timothy Flyte well said brother.
If you've never seen the Stax Records doc Respect Yourself, do yourself a favour and watch it. Very powerful.
Being cool without being politically correct or political for that matter.
Blends it all together he is Booker T love his Organ they are a supreme many categories band
Remembering the great Al Jackson Jr. today: Nov. 27, 1935 - Oct. 1, 1975. So, so wrong what happened to him.
Guys and Girls...it doesn't get better than this.
When music was music. A piece of genius music. You can tell by how happy each instrumentalist is while performing.
Damn, these guys were good!!!
Unique sound.
I saw Steve Cropper and Dave Mason recently at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley. He is a great storyteller as well as a great musician. He played in multi-racial bands in the Jim Crow South which wasn't an easy thing to do.
These guys have more music talent in their little finger than most of the "so called musicians" in today's industry.
amen
One of my favourite videos of all time. I love the look on Steve "The Man" Cropper's face - he just loves this moment!!!
Stax had so many extremely talented artists. Motown was good, but Stax gave them a good contest. Love how Stax emphasized racial cooperation at a time when that was not popular.
I'll take 1970 over 2020 in a heart beat anytime
You and me both!
Cheers
Me too
And me.
This clip takes me back 50 years ago when I was 20. It still sounds fresh and gives me a high!
I was 18 loved it and still do, those guys were just so cool
This recording , Time is Tight, was played over and over at an all night party in Lincoln in 1969, Ther party started at midnight, we all gathered in the grounds of the Usher Art Gallery, then walked to the house on Monks Road. Everyone had forgotten to bring any records, but someone brought Booker T and the MG;s "Time is Tight" and it was played all night, stayed with me ever since.
Amazing
Saw this when CCR played Cobo Hall in Detroit...except the intro was even cooler (I think):
Dunn walked on stage, plugged his bass into the amp, and started that cool bass line. After a few seconds or so of just repeating that groove...
Cropper walks on, plugs in his guitar, and plays his rhythm part of the riff, repeating over and over...
Then Jackson comes out and sits at his kit, I think he adjusted a few things, then blends into the jam of that hypnotic riff...
and everybody in the hall is really into this groove, then...
Booker T walks out, goes to the organ, sits, gets settled, then plays that first chord.
Goose bumps.
This is the way I remember it, I may or may not have embellished it over the years, I may have been high at the time. And since.
But either way, I went out and bought Greatest Hits album. the next day.
And, yeah, Creedence was good, too, but I already had all their albums. I just couldn't get over Booker T.
I miss Cobo Hall
When I saw this performance on utube 10years ago it was so cool watching CCR digging it can't beat that Peace.
I got chills reading your comment.
@@violet2048 I'm glad. I get chills every time I think about. The quality of this video doesnt even come close to capturing the thrill of the moment.
Yeah Babay yeah Soul On bro
I never get tired of this!! Probably the 30th time I have watched it!! Incredible music!
One of the coolest grooves of all time!!
And there is a little John Lord in it!
i wish we could go back to these times
Only Booker T & Steve Cropper still with us. I'd do or give anything to be able to go back in time, & see all the legends performing, before they became legends!❤
Robert M Trolinder can you imagine when some of these guys from various groups got together and played together on stage? George Harrison put together some of those times. Those guys must have been really stoked about that.
I was a 60s kid. Thought this was the coolest song ever. It's still right up there!
Right? Born in 1957.. DJ "Cousin Brucie" played this on his NY City station....constantly...awesome stuff!
@@valerietomsic8454 1959 here.
Always makes me smile, you can see the love between them, the world needs more of this today
steve schofield Amen brother
1970....???? Can’t be."..am still alive...so grateful to be able to enjoy this perfection...
In the mid 1960s, I was at Woodberry Forest School in Virginia, and we had Booker T. and the MGs play for one of our big dances. That was a real experience. Watching them play and hearing their music was so much fun. Those were the days. Amen to that!
Great interaction between lead guitarist and the keyboard player.
Good observation. How ‘bout looking up “the guitarist and keyboardist”, Steve Cropper and Booker T. Jones, along with Duck Dunn (bass) and Al Jackson (drums) who are all all legends
There’s no such thing as perfection, but this is pretty close.
That's a brilliant intro. Without exaggeration, it's brilliant.
The best part about this song is the huge smiles on their faces as they played. They truly enjoyed playing and it showed.
I was thinking the same thing. They were having a blast. And belting out a great tune on top of it.
I play drums and the three of us always smile, laugh and have fun while we're performing. If you're not, you're doing it wrong, or with the wrong people. 🎸👍🎶🎹🇺🇸🌠
Yes!!!!👍👍👍👍👍
Not just Booker, Steve, Donald and Al. The delight on the faces of the members of CCR was also evident. They were musicians, they were the headliners, but for those few minutes, they were just fans.
For those of us who remember what music used to be!
Making a Hammond B3 growl like that is what it is all about.
can't get enough
I hear you talkin'. Absolutely nobody I've heard these days produces anything that sounds like that. Music to my ears.
fish4bugs don’t forget that Leslie speaker.
You cannot possibly hear anything better than this! It’s better than the studio hit version, and that was superb!