{"id":1117,"date":"2012-05-14T19:22:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T19:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2012-05-15T14:29:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T14:29:25","slug":"legendary-soul-bassist-donald-duck-dunn-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/legendary-soul-bassist-donald-duck-dunn-dies.html","title":{"rendered":"Legendary soul bassist Donald &#8220;Duck&#8221; Dunn dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/legendary-soul-bassist-donald-duck-dunn-dies.html\/attachment\/3493957669_8a34c23ce1_z\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1118\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1118\" title=\"3493957669_8a34c23ce1_z\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/3493957669_8a34c23ce1_z-591x443.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"591\" height=\"443\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bass community\u00a0grieves\u00a0the loss of another one of its greats. Donald &#8220;Duck&#8221; Dunn, member of the legendary Booker T and the MCGs died Sunday night in his sleep. He was 70-years-old.<\/p>\n<p>While initially his parents did not see a future as a musician for their son, Donald, a self-taught bassist, put together a vast and impressive career. He was overseas in Tokyo, Japan, playing bass on a tour with his long-time musical companion Steve Cropper, having played a double set that night at the Blue Note Night club.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Booker T. and the MCGs Dunn helped define what came to be known as the Memphis soul sound.<\/p>\n<p>As a session bassist, Dunn worked with the best of them through his career, from Eric Clapton to Bob Dylan to Neil Young, and in 2007 he was awarded a lifetime achievement Grammy for his great contributions to music.<\/p>\n<p>He also teamed with SNL cast members John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, appearing in their 1980 film <em>The Blues Brothers<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M_mKy-a6d1I?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"591\" height=\"431\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bass community grieves the loss of another one of its greats. Donald &#8220;Duck&#8221; Dunn, member of the legendary Booker T and the MCGs died Sunday night in his sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}