Booker T. & the M.G.'s to give each other three months to finish up all of their individual projects. They would then devote three years to what would be renamed "Booker T. Jones & the Memphis Group". Nine days later (October 1), Al Jackson, the man Cropper would remember as "the greatest drummer to ever walk the earth", was murdered in his home. The remaining three members and drummer Willie Hall (a session musician who had played on many Stax hits, such as Isaac Hayes's "Theme from "Shaft"") regrouped under their old name, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, and recorded the album "Universal Language" for
MG 45 firearm than the MG 42, as the operating mechanisms of these two machine guns are different. Compared to the MG 42 the MG 45 used steel of lesser quality, the weight was reduced to , while retaining the horizontal cocking handle. The MG 45 bolt weighed . First tests were undertaken in June 1944, but development dragged on and eventually only ten were built. During tests a MG 45/42V fired 120,000 rounds in succession at a cyclic rate of fire around 1,350 rounds per minute. The MG 45/MG 42V had some influence in the post-war development of the roller-delayed blowback