Wednesday, January 7, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
shoals musician ‘opening a new door’
pretty.
“We played in a tent. It
was so cold. I didn’t have the
right clothes,” he said. “But it
was sold out, and the crowd
was great.”
This version of the
Waterboys is an international
mix of people, both geo-
graphically and stylistically.
The guitarist, Zack Ernst, is
from Texas and is the young-
est band member. Hood is, of
course, from Alabama, while
the drummer, Ralph Salmins,
is from London. Scott and
fiddler Steve Wickham have
Scottish and Irish back-
grounds, which is sometimes
heard in their music.
Hood’s reputation was
built on his work as a ses-
sion musician, first at FAME
Recording Studios in Muscle
Shoals and Norala Studio, and
later as a co-owner with the
other rhythm section mem-
bers at Muscle Shoals Sound
Studios. Hood’s bass can be
heard on hundreds of record-
ings, including with artists
such as Etta James, Clarence
Carter, Percy Sledge, Aretha
Franklin, the Staple Singers,
Paul Simon, Rod Stewart,
Millie Jackson, Willie Nelson,
Bob Seger and Dan Penn.
His reputation hasn’t
diminished, said Dick Cooper,
curator of the Alabama Music
Hall of Fame.
“It is indicative of how rel-
evant Muscle Shoals music
still is to the world that he is
sought out by a band of this
caliber to be a part of their
world tour,” Cooper said.
By robert palmer
TimesDaily
FLORENCE, Ala. (AP)
— David Hood is not ready
to hang up his rock ‘n’ roll
shoes.
Most 71-year-old men
have retired and found cre-
ative ways to spend their
spare time.
Not Hood.
The bass guitarist with
the legendary Muscle Shoals
Rhythm Section is in the
opening stages of a world tour
with British rock band the
Waterboys.
They played a New Year’s
Eve gig at Stirling Castle in
Scotland. They played three
shows to warm up: one in
Limerick, Ireland, and two in
Amsterdam.
“We had two days of
rehearsal in Dublin,” Hood
said. “Me and the guitar
player, who’s from Austin,
Texas, had never played with
them except when we were
recording the album.”
Mike Scott, the singer
and main songwriter with the
Waterboys, contacted Hood
almost a year ago and asked
him to play bass on their new
album, which was recorded in
Nashville. It will be released
Jan. 19, titled “Modern
Blues.”
Their first show was out-
doors in Limerick earlier this
month.
“We drove from Dublin
to Limerick. Ireland is the
greenest of green,” Hood said.
“It’s horse country. It’s really
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Only once as a professional
musician has Hood embarked
on a world tour with a band.
That was in the early 1970s
when he, rhythm section
drummer Roger Hawkins,
guitarist Jimmy Johnson and
keyboardist Barry Beckett
went on the road with the
British rock band Traffic in
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That was 40 years ago.
Hood said he had to test the
waters again because he was
becoming musically restless.
“I thought, man, I need to
do something new, or I’ll con-
tinue to play ‘Mustang Sally’
in a bar somewhere,” he said.
“I’m opening a new door to
my life doing this. It is very
energizing. It’s fun playing
new music to new people.”
Acclimating to the stage
instead of the studio is an
adjustment, too.
“The hardest part from
being a studio player is being
able to hear on stage properly.
I normally wear headphones,
so I can hear what I want,”
he said. “On stage, you must
get the monitors right, and
it’s hard to see facial cues to
know when I should do cer-
tain things.”
But Hood said the travel
and adjustments have been
worth the effort.
“I even heard the first
single (“November Tale”) off
the album on Dutch radio,” he
said. “After all these years, I
still get excited hearing music
we recorded on the radio.
That’s what got me into music.
It’s a sort of validation.”
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occurred on Highway 12,
five miles east of Rimrock
Tunnel. Wind gusts to 68
mph were reported on the
Hanford Reservation and a
tree was uprooted northwest
of Pendleton.
5. Record November
cold: Arctic air became
entrenched the second week
of November. Many locations
did not reach above freez-
ing for over a week. After
the snow fell and the skies
cleared, temperatures plum-
meted even further. Several
sites had one of their coldest
all-time November morn-
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15 and 16. Meacham and
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average temperature for any
November.
4. Mid-November snow:
Early season snow was heavy
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Pendleton, Prineville, Sisters
and Redmond. The heavy
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February 6-9: Heavy snow
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An elderly couple died while
stranded in the cold and snow
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