Talk:Muscle Shoals, Alabama

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Contents 1 Ship Photo Caption 2 Origin of the name? 3 This is retarded. 4 Fair use rationale for Image:Muscle Shoals sign.jpg

[edit] Ship Photo Caption

I'm not quite sure how the ship Muscle Shoals can be a Vanguard class missile tracker if she in fact was renamed to Vanguard to create the class name. Logically the Vanguard class didn't exist while this ship was named Muscle Shoals.--J Clear 12:54, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Origin of the name?

Is it an archaic spelling of mussel? Grant | Talk 07:34, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] This is retarded.

There's no reason to list every last piece of music recorded within the city limits, for Chrissakes. Just give a link to the Shoals 500 or whatever. - 12 June 07

I agree. Wikipedia is not for arbitrary lists like this. 199.209.144.15 16:32, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

NEW ADDITION TO CONVERSATION BY A LOCAL: I am not writing this to be inflammatory or reactionary, but this article is absolutely ridiculous and I feel I must also chip a little bit of my opinion in here. I am a record collector and know collectors from all over the world - and, yes, Muscle Shoals is highly esteemed the world over (particularly in Europe) for the recordings made there. However, I am also a writer, musician, and record producer FROM Muscle Shoals, and my first-hand experience leads me to have major grievances with this article. Almost everything from the sentence "It can be said that the same attraction that artists such as Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and The Rolling Stones felt to the area remains intact today" to "Among the musical celebrities with homes in the area are George Strait, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill" is either A) biased opinion that cannot be substantiated as fact B) wildly exaggerated fact (the "classic" era famed by collectors peters out in the late 60s and is all but gone by the early 70s. 1980s Muscle Shoals recordings are almost "FAME"ed for their bad production, late-period records for star artists that nearly destroyed careers(Bob Dylan's Christian period, Cher's decline in the 70s, Mink Deville's seemingly conscious avoidance of relevance), and a general loss of touch with the mainstream of pop music while simultaneously falling out of favor with musicians, hipsters, collectors, and critics. C) completely fabricated (Faith Hill and others mentioned do not live here, although George Jones did at one point)

...ALSO

Very little of the content of this article is cited from a credible resource (if at all). Most of that which is cited comes from cites owned by the city of Muscle Shoals or owned by Fame studios itself. This is more of an advertisement than an unbiased article. The "WC Handy Festival" referred to in the uncited closing section is a relatively small event and the musicians referred to are mostly aging bar band dudes who play long sets of bad covers and never quite made careers of it. The stuff about Paul Simon and the Swampers is completely true, however. What the article doesn't quite express is that the government ran off Henry Ford and Rick Hall ran off Aretha Franklin and all the soul musicians. Also not explaines is how W.C. Handy, Hellen Keller (not even mentioned in this article as a local of Tuscumbia, part of the Shoals Quad Cities referred to several times), and Drive-By Truckers all struggled here to much indifference and discrimination and did not receive recognition until after they had fled the Shoals area. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Feedkillchain (talk • contribs) 08:37, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Muscle Shoals sign.jpg

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BetacommandBot 23:38, 1 July 2007 (UTC)