those hours in the studio, that amphetamine-hyped madness

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“Chips’s patience runs endless; he’ll do forty-three cuts. When I got to Memphis it was this cut-all-night business. When they start cuttin’, they could go for about sixty-two hours! That gang of boys right there, they wanted to make better records than Stax. They had an affinity with Chips. They fit him, he fit them. He was in with ’em real thick and he never got ’em mad. It was all a big party ... Before Memphis, there was just a whole lot of crap going on between the talkback and the musicians, I learned something at American I’d have never learned anywhere else. I call it the Memphis way, leave the band alone and have some great expectations. Stax, they were more kin to Alabama; they wouldn’t just sit and cut till the walls caved in."