British guitarist analyses Otis Redding's soulful live performance in 1967! 

TIME STAMPS - 0:36 Performance 4:00 Analysis Start 7:33 Vibrato 8:07 Range 11:15 Guitar 13:19 Key Change 13:58 Career Background

We are hard pressed to find soul singers like Otis these days. Such heart, such feeling and the voice!

The legend.So sad he only had six months left after Monterey 😢😢 Much respect to you Fil for including all ranges of music.One of my favorite singers of all times.Big ups/Peace

I've got and heard a lot of Otis Redding doing "I've been Loving You Too Long" but his Monterey Pop version was the best I know of. Thanks Fil for making an old man cry. Seriously, thanks it's a great preformance.

I loved all the times this song shifted gears! Then he just threw in that little bitty "Have Mercy"! Your guitar sounded wonderful, and you handled his complicated career and this performance in such a comprehensible way! Rest in Peace, Otis Redding.

Watching Otis have fun with this version of the song and get the audience excited was great. Way too many great singers have been lost on small plane disasters. Gone much too soon! He didn't even get to enjoy his first #1 hit. RIP Otis

“These Arms of Mine” live at the Whisky one of my favorite vocal performances of all time. This one too. What an incredible singer.

Hi Fil! That was the year my hubby came home from Vietnam! The music was astounding that year! We had everything from rock n roll to protest music, and of course songs like this one by Otis Redding! We lost him way too soon! I still can hear Dock of the Bay playing softly in the dark....still moves me, as does this one of his! Otis had it all! I was so lucky to be young in the sixties! ✌️

Yes! You're finally doing Otis Redding, my absolute favourite male singer. His sweet soul music touches my soul. You can't beat his expression and the authenticity he brings to each song. I LOVE his music!!!! Thanks so much for this analysis Fil. I'd love to see you do "Try a little tenderness," or "These arms of mine."

Otis could do no wrong. He's always had my respect!😎

Don't ever forget him!!

One of the greatest blues voices and performers of all time 💜 thank you Fil for this analysis!

From my home of Georgia..simply the best male singer EVER...gone way to soon but his music lives on forever

I could listen to him all day.

Bless Fil.....you've given us a wonderful history.....we can share this with others. Your analysis is stellar....Otis says you did him justice.....,.

Powerful Memphis horns sound. We need Three Dog Night. Eli's Coming or Try Some Tenderness

Truly one of the greatest. The soul, the passion, the connection with his audience, Mr. Redding was an artist of the highest calibre. Really appreciate your insightful analysis.

Otis, man do I still miss you...Thank you for this analysis, Fil.

Fil- sixteen year old me was standing right below Otis at this performance. It was beyond thrilling and I remember the soft rain and fog that evening in Monterey. I live there now!

What a jaw-dropping, emotional performance! Sadly, this kind of raw, visceral music has been replaced by click-tracked, Auto-Tuned, formulaic bull dung. Thank you, Fil, for keeping music like this alive.

Otis! He loves us!

So emotional and so raw. That's the problem with most music now. They overproduce and autotune all the human emotion out of it.

Otis along with the Stax horns were unbeatable. They could make you cry, dance, everything Fil.

HI FIL THANKYOU FOR WHAT YOU DO. YOU DO A GREAT JOB ON YOU VIDEOS. LOVE THEM. OTIIS IS A GREAT GREAT SINGER. THANKS FIL PEACE AND LOVE

Otis Redding is such a great singer. I like Dock of the Bay..a lot.

OMG - a legend!!! this is a 'baby-maker' slow dance song!! If you don't get chill bumps with this - you are soul-less!!!!! Otis, Sam Moore, Brooks Benton, Wilson Pickett, Marvin Gaye - the 60's were the GOAT of soul singers!!! Otis's "Sitting On the Dock of the Bay" is still on my playlist & I am 73!!!

Great performance. Thanks!

I was about 12yo. Still tingle. Thanks Fil

I'm am always warmed by your infectious smile when you are obviously truly enjoying the performance. Keep it up. So right about live music.

Superb analysis Fil 👍 Otis Blue is one of my favourite LP's .

What a great performer.. It is very sad that he passed away before he knew that he was as famous as he was. He didn't know that this song was so loved. He died to soon. He is missed.

dreams to remember is one of the best 10 songs of all time. If i could sing like otis, the whole world could just kiss my ass

GREAT soulful strong voice! EXCELLENT performance! Thanks Fil for Spot on analysis as always. 🎼🎶🎵🇨🇦

I remember being in school and they announced over the PA that Otis Redding had died. They let everyone go home for the rest of the day. That's how important he was at the time.

One of the greatest performers of the 20th century, and WHAT A SONG! I strongly encourage everyone to seek out his entire Monterey Pop set. Absolutely miraculous.

I've been loving you too long is one of my ultimate favorite Otis's songs❤️ I love your reaction videos, so much great music❤️🎵

What an amazing artist! Thanks Fil!

Loved this performance and analysis......more soul please Fil.

He laid it all on the stage. Amazing performance. Thank you for reminding us. Great review❤️

I was about 12, my brother 16, we just started buying lps . Danny, being older ,seamed to make good choices. “Otis Redding Live at the whisky a go go” was one of his choices. Hearing Otis belting, pouring those songs out and the audience loving every bit of it, expressing their approval, made quite an impression on a 12 year old , white boy, in Selma, Alabama. Not only did it affect my musical preferences, but my adittude toward people of different races.

A performance I can watch time and again. An endless joy. Quite simply one of the best ever caught on film. The funny thing about it is that there is almost no song there, it's all in the performance and the way he sells it.

Wow! What an amazing performer!👍😎🎸🎶

How does he bring me to tears at the first phrase

I love this man😎😎😍😍And I've played my favorite(Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay) well I've lost count.😂Thanks again to my parents love of music.😎😎

Greatest musician of modern times.

I could listen to your videos all day❣️They stand alone. Another of my favourites here in Otis, although I don’t know much about him. It always strikes me that Otis looks and sounds much older than he is... he looks and sounds like he’s been on the earth many times before.... This is my favourite of his songs. It’s another one which gives me goosebumps. For such a gorgeous song and everything that goes with it, I’m always disappointed with the fade out ending.

LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE.....

Love your video's and love listening to Otis great song

Otis was known as Mr 100 % since he always gave everything he had regardless if it was in the studio or on stage. Otis was from the country side in the south of U.S. and his buddy was supposed to record at Stax Records in Memphis. Otis just followed along as company maybe a chance to visit the city. Anyway between the sessions Otis stepped forward to the microphone and began singing "These arms of mine". The crew got super excited and asked the engineer if he got that on tape?! Fortunately the tapes did in fact record Otis' song. They signed him to the label and he became if not their biggest star but at least one of their biggest. He had a short but very intensive career.

Hey Fil! Love Otis. Thanks

Stellar performance, stellar analysis. I saw the Stax/Volt review show at the Uppercut Club, Forest Gate, East London in early 1967. Otis headlined and the show included Sam & Dave, Arthur Conely, Booker T & The MG's, Wilson Pickett and Carla - the original Queen Of Soul - Thomas. Otis performance and the review itself was transcendent and I'd seen Hendrix at the same club a few months earlier where his performance appeared to have been beamed in from the cosmos. The reception for Otis was wild and affectionate; the audience was mainly made up of old style modernists who had loved Otis since '65 and bohemian jazz/soul/blues freaks and people like me making the the transition from mod to hippie on the verge of psychedelia. I think he was genuinely surprised by how many people in the UK adored Southern Soul music. The audience was ecstatic and wouldn't let him leave the stage. By the end of the year as Jim Morrison later opined on Runnin' Blue from the Doors Soft Parade " Poor Otis dead and gone, Left me here to sing this song, Pretty little girl with the red dress on, Poor Otis dead and gone." It was sad loss and all those who loved Black American soul/blues and r'n' b felt that loss. By the way thank you for the best, most informed, intelligent, erudite, entertaining music analysis site on the net, an oasis of music pleasure and sanity in these troubled times. Also forgive my bias but you also share a love for the music of the 60's across all genres - your detailed research is outstanding and I know I came of age in the 60's. You look and sound very much like many of my friends at the time some who played in groups, as though you'd time traveled from '68. Long hair always looked better on young men than the bank clerk/football supporter look of so many contemporary bands. Where are the beautiful androgynous musicians today like Syd Barrett and Kevin Ayers? Sorry just an old hipster gal having a rant. Thanks once again Mr Pegasus and "Wave that freak flag high."

My favourite singer! Taken too early, like so many. Hoping someone would react to this. Thank you!

King of soul king of everything man hes a legend

Great point! Live is lovely! Isn't it?

Please react to the Ravi Shankar performance at Monterey Pop Festival. This was my first introduction to world music. Your description of live performance is right on the money. I am 69 and have been to hundreds of shows if not more. Any band I saw more than one time was different every time. Love the improv.

of the many artists that have left us before their time was up, I dearly wish Otis Redding was still with us

Intense performance. That band is great too.

This one's for my friends who were at Monterey Pop '67. Eternal thanks to you, Otis. Sing it sweetly and soulfully as you walk the streets of Glory. Otis Redding (RIP)

Otis! My man!! ❤️

Class act!

Fil, The Big O arranged His Songs and wrote many of them,including This One and Dock of The Bay. Thanks for fulfilling My request for an Otis Analysis. Rock.

Your Always spot on !!!!!!!

I love this particular song and performance of Otis Redding! Thanks for the guitar tips. I have a short video where an interveiwer talks to Steve Cropper about writing Dock of the Bay together and the sad timing of Otis' death.

Thank you so much, Fil, for analysing this performance by Otis Redding. He has been my favourite singer for 55 years and I still miss him! As you say, he influenced so many artists including the great Steve Marriott (another artist gone too soon). I saw Otis at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1967, and feel so privileged to have seen him live, together with Sam & Dave, Arthur Conley, Booker T & the MGs and many more. They were so surprised that there was no segregation in the U.K. and that they could eat in restaurants etc without discrimination! Makes me cry to think about how soon he left us!

You had me at Otis.

cool, kid of 11 in '68 and given the Hendrix/Redding album for Christmas. Wish I still had it. Been on an airplane once .At 63, that was enough ;(

One of the reasons why I enjoy listening to you Fil is that I always learn something. Well besides learning about Mr Redding's musical history, I finally understand what you mean by a 'hammer on'. (don't laugh!) Excellent analysis for us musically challenged folks. Thanks!🙂

A better video of Otis Redding live on film was never caught than this one! Left us way too soon!

Legendary Fil! Otis would have to be my all time favourite soul singer! Amazing vocals packed with so much emotional value.....just incredible! Sensational Fil! Cheers Mario! 😀👌👍

OTIS! Yes! I love him so much, I was listening to him in high school when my classmates were listening to rock and roll. They way he starts flat sometimes just kills me. Thanks for this!

great analysis Fil!! ROCK

Hi, Fil! It's been a minute, I know. C-vid has had my work schedule all over the place, and I recently lost my mother (not covid). OTIS!!! My mom turned me onto Otis when I was very young. He had such honesty in his work. So much talent. You made a great point about why live with bands is better than backing tracks. I would like to add, the emotional feedback loop between performers and audience is so important to a great performance. Cheers, mate! Peace and love to ya.

Such a distinct and wonderful voice. Never saw this performance before. Thanks Fil.

Thanks for the history Phil. I enjoyed it, but so sad the world lost such a great talent. I think he had unlimited potential.

Don't get no better than this. 🤘

Seriously, the BEST music review channel on RU-vid! You should have over a million subscribers.

Otis " MY MAN "

I regret never seeing him in concert. I just love this song. I love his voice also❤

I'm going to give you a thumbs up even before watching because I love Otis Redding. (I'm sure you do a great analysis as always.)

Steve Cropper said he finished mixing the song after he learned of Otis' death. Eddie Floyd said he wrote Big Bird while waiting at Heathrow to fly home for Otis' funeral. Ben Cauley, the sole survivor, played at his bar/restaurant Da' Blues in the Memphis Int'l Airport terminal for years.

I loved Otis Redding's sound.Always did.

Hi Fil, I always enjoy.your discussions of the intricacies of musical performances. You add another layer of understanding for someone like me, who enjoys these performances but otherwise has no insight into what techniques I am reacting to. Sort of, "I don't know about art, I just know what I like" . Your analysis offers that " don't know about art" part. I'm still waiting for you to do these videos shirtless. Love you smile too. Keep safe and well.

Hi fil, charlena here. Can you please do a show on stevie wright solo career music. He did this song in concert at the Bridge way Hotel in the year 1987. He put so much feeling into his perfoance. I think that you will like it also❤❤❤❤

Such a good analysis. You are so right about live performances. The musicians, singers and audience are working together to create an atmosphere where energy feels like it’s being exchanged. That’s a fanciful description I guess, but anyone who has been to a good live concert feels that relationship.

So soulful........always a great singer...............I watched a Bruno Mars video yesterday and recognized that he is a better singer live, than recorded.....he also plays the drums and can actually sing while doing it, he is someone I would like u to look at sometime......❤️🧡💛💚💙💜💖

Otis is the king of romance music. hands down.

"These Arms of Mine" by Otis is one of the best songs out there (in my opinion)..... :) Great reaction!!

Like so many other young artist's the world has lost do to plane crash Otis Redding left behind great body of works in his short life. Monterey Pop was one of them. nice to have live concerts footages from the 1960's on back that capture great performances.

Great analysis Fil. As usual, I learned a lot. Thank you

It's a powerful performance! Thanks for the analysis, Fil! 🖤🤘🏽

Hi Fil, very nicely done analysis on Otis. The doc. on Otis from Monterrey 1967 was on TCM Sunday night. Afterwards, I checked if you had done an analysis on him but nothing. Then, you pop up with it last night! Coincidences are the quilt of life! Someone in the comments below asked if Booker T & MG's were the backup. Yes, I noticed they were listed in the credits. (who knew? not me). When I hear Booker T. I think 'Green Onions.' Love that one. As always, thanks for your hard work.

The backing band is Booker T and the MG'S which includes Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn

(Fa fa fa Sad Song) Otis was one of my favorite soul singers. His unique style and energy would light up the darkest night. Where your feelings were as dry as a desert he could make it rain or bring me to an oasis. I collected as many 45s of Otis records as I could get my hands on. I always tear at the thought of his premature passing. A true Legend. Thanks Mr Fil for honouring him.🎶🔥♥️🔥🎶

Always loved the music of Otis Redding. It is the soulfulness that pulls me in. Otis actually owned the Beech 18 that he died in. Otis also had his own steady pilot. I found this to be odd for such a young man (Otis was only 26) The Beech 18 was a very popular twin engine small airplane. I have read the accident report and the cause has never been determined. The Beech 18 did have some known issues with its wing spar design but it has not been proven that the wing failed. We are all at a loss. Thanks Fil.

Oh, yes, Otis. Up there with Marvin and Bill Withers. I was totally born in the wrong generation. Great stuff, Fil.

Stax/Volt 67' live in Norway - Music documentary. Booker T & The MG's backing band. Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Arthur Connelly, Mar- Keys

Smooth!

Thanks for keeping his music alive, he was great!

I love this performance. Simple message yet such powerful emotion in that song. He is missed.❤️

Great video as always.