Joe Messina, Funk Brothers guitarist, has died at age 93.
During a 2005 interview with the Musicians Hall of Fame & Museum, Messina shared that because of Motown’s fast and furious recording pace, he “never knew much about our sounds… I recorded them and when we left the studio I didn’t have a chance to play them again, so I didn’t know the songs.” When the Funk Brothers came to prominence again with the 2002 documentaryand went on tour after its release, “they would say, ‘We’re gonna play such and such a song.
Motown founder Berry Gordy recruited Messina, along with other jazz musicians, from the city’s jazz clubs — in Messina’s case at the 20 Grand in 1959. Messina recalled that Gordy offered him $10 per song — $5 higher than what he was paying other musicians — and Messina countered with a $10 per hour rate.
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