He played himself in the 1980 hit movie “The Blues Brothers”. Dunn was given his nickname by his father as the two watched a Donald Duck cartoon on TV. “It was just one of those things that stuck.. Donald “Duck” Dunn, the bass guitarist whose bouncy rhythms helped define the Memphis soul sound of Stax Records and graced recordings by Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, the Blues Brothers.

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As if that isn’t enough, he’s the uber-cool bass player in the Blues Brothers Band and can be seen in both the original movie and the sequel, Blues Brothers 2000. Unfortunately, Dunn passed away in May of 2012 at the age of 70 after a series of performances in Tokyo. Let’s talk style. An afro, a pipe, and a Precision… the definition of.. DONALD ‘DUCK’ DUNN. Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn played bass for everybody from Muddy Waters to Elvis by way of Otis Redding, Albert King, Ray Charles and Bob Dylan. As part of the Stax house-band he contributed some memorable bass-lines to hundreds of hit records and of course he is remembered for playing himself in both the Blues Brothers films.