'Soul Finger' the Bar-Kays

[jlw]

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[JonasEggeater]

One of my favorite songs off of the “What It Is!” album. Wicked good.

[vonbobo]

Every minute you dont tell us why you’re here, I cut off a finger!
Mine or yours?

[noahdjango]

awesome! Ｏ(≧∇≦)Ｏ
here’s a later tune of theirs that I love, it’s more of a funk bomb

[Engineer]

Forever associated in my mind with ‘Spies Like Us’.

[cronopio]

I second that emotion for the “What It Is!” collection and this song - hands-down, one of the funkiest guitar solos you will ever hear. Dasm!

[bluecat]

I forgot about them! Thanks for the great clip.

[mcrummett]

A BDSM funk band. Very progressive for its time.

[Boundegar]

That intro was totally stolen for Ghostbusters!

[Rojo]

Both great bands, but essentially different bands. Most of the guys in the Soul Finger video were killed in the same plane crash that killed Otis Redding.

[billstewart]

Why don’t you boys have yourselves a Pepsi?

[Gyrofrog]

@Rojo

Most of the guys in the Soul Finger video were killed in the same plane crash that killed Otis Redding.

I think this video is much newer, i.e. it’s the newer (post-Redding) band pantomiming to the '67 recording; at the end you can hear vinyl noise.

A couple of members survived, but I don’t know how many different line-ups there have been. Isaac Haye’s backing group circa ‘Hot Buttered Soul’ was The Bar-Kays, which would’ve been between “Soul Finger” and “Holy Ghost”. In 1996 in Austin, I saw one incarnation of the Bar-Kays (with a surviving member from the original group) with The Gap Band, SOS Band, and Lakeside. (This was in the arena where the Ice Bats played hockey – they put some flooring over the ice, but it was still dang cold in there.)

[Rojo]

Ah yes, that makes sense. I realized that they were pantomiming to the recording, but it didn’t occur to me that it would be a different group of guys.