Your point is well made, although the Temps had, at that time, two
original vocalists and three that went back many years (that group
started dying off pretty quickly, as I recall). But the touring band
was mostly young.
The conductor for them, and for the Four Tops (the vocalists were intact
for that group for nearly forty years) would rehearse the orchestra
without the rhythm section. He would stand in the middle of the
orchestra and beat on a cowbell throughout the rehearsal. Cute. At
least we got to hear ourselves at the rehearsal.
RBH
Darcy James Argue wrote:
Of course, the Funk Bros. (who played on all the original Motown
recordings before the label relocated to LA) were some of Detroit's
finest jazz players. They would track for Motown during the day (for
which they were paid a flat rate of $10/song) and play in the jazz
clubs at night. This was before the days of isolation booths and
recordings built up one track at a time, let alone today's auto-tune
and groove quantization -- the band had to do it in one, and it it
had to sound balanced in the room. (Vocals were overdubbed later.)
Even 10-12 years ago, "The Temptations" was just a brand, bearing
little to no resemblance to the individuals that actually recorded
"Ain't Too Proud To Beg" and the rest. They're effectively a
Temptations "tribute" band, with all of the bad taste that entails.
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