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“I tried the guitar but it had two strings too many. It was just too complicated, man!

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Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players another one wasn’t needed. What was needed was a bass.”

At 16, Donald “Duck” Dunn got hold of a 1958 Fender Precision Bass.

While all his friends, like Steve Cropper (whose family had moved to Memphis in 1950), were picking up guitars, Dunn was listening to records and playing along with them on his new bass, keeping and accenting the beat, fleshing out the harmony of the chord progressions and filling in the spaces that he deemed needing filling.

Growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, he had a wealth of musical styles and genres to listen to. And when his friends put together bands, he got the call to hold the bottom steady.

In high school, Dunn and Cropper, along with guitarist Charlie Freeman and drummer Terry Jones formed a quartet called