Soul Series: Gamblin’ Man - Chips Moman Part III
- by Joe Nolan, Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Aretha Franklin
“Chips scratched and clawed for everything he got. Thirty years later, I asked Estelle Axton how long it took for the hard feelings between them to fade away. ‘I don’t think they ever did,’ she says. ‘I think Chips was going to prove that he could do it – and he did. There’s no doubt that he was talented.’” - Goin’ Back to Memphis, by Jim Dickerson
Although Chips was able to get his American Studios off the ground almost immediately, the grinding schedule that was required to keep it airborne was taking its toll. The crazy-making effects of it all began to reveal themselves in Moman’s increasingly erratic behavior.