![]() ![]() And the story that I got he was renting boathouse or stayed at a boathouse or something and that’s where he got the idea of the ships coming in the bay there. He had been in San Francisco doing The Fillmore. Otis was one of those the kind of guy who had 100 ideas. In a September 1990 interview on NPR’s Fresh Air, Cropper explained the origins of the song: & the M.G.’s (Stax’s house band), at the Stax recording studio in Memphis, Tennessee, to record the song. In November of that year, he joined Steve Cropper, producer and guitarist for Booker T. While touring he continued to scribble lines of the song on napkins and hotel paper. He had completed his famed performance at the Monterey Pop Festival just weeks earlier. ![]() While on tour with the Bar-Kays in August 1967, Redding wrote the first verse of the song, under the abbreviated title “Dock of the Bay,” on rock impresario Bill Graham’s houseboat at Waldo Point in Sausalito, California. ![]()
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