Let's kick it off with this slow groove:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcgcEEY_XJU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54GNI2K3-ec
I was looking for "Fred's Worried Life Blues" on video, but 'ol John Henry will do.
This is actually two different arrangements slapped together, but it's still cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k43JnBxyZyE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6afWI1FZTU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ny5ajCn0xw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f70Z6bHIQ2g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ripCw4pXf84
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT2XLcGlars
my favorite version of this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgaxYEsEVVY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsbNxl814TQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdgrQoZHnNY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKp9RwqsJPY&feature=related
Holland's finest in the 70's .......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFHlQPekQQ
And one of my all time faves.........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZZwELray8k
THANK YOU ALL :). I am loving this thread.
Rick
Chicken Heads, one of my favorites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2C1nA4gbyc
And not classic, but surely in the classic style, The Kevin Mark Band's Big Blue Cadillac and not to be found on youtube: http://www.kevinmark.com/cadillac.mp3
http://www.kevinmark.com/music.html
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dkftesK2dck&feature=related
B.B. King's cousin, the late great Bukka White
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0jRX69mxcE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsMpHHSLSlc
the original 'ice cream man'. later covered by modern day blues legend van halen. :mrgreen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aACFbC5dF7w
Scrapper Blackwell's original Kokomo Blues, which later evolved into Sweet Home Chicago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CZEGJfes1c
Just one mans' opinion here, but this is the best freakin' thread ever :) 8) :) :o :) 8).
Rick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byZXD-AHg3g@feature=related
you probably heard rory gallagher cover this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7up2b4keW_k
anybody remember this nonsense.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ng1ONwlzL4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW1SRJrNZZw&feature=related
here is the man holding a Firebird and his bassman is using a Gibby:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ou-6A3MKow
and the other guy that played the blues:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpxNJcNRwFA
led zep didn't even try to disguise that one. :rolleyes:
Here is a good one. http://www.youtube.com/v/SB4fIhbRCA8?fs=1&hl=en_US
now this is odd.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBTIcozExHk@feature=related
somebody stop me, this is too much fun!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX3mxjtpyBc
Ex-Uriah Heepster David Byron and his shortlived outfit with ex-Humble Piester Dave Clempson seem like an odd choice here, but I always thought this to be a credible take at a blues which mostly follows 12 bar tradition plus two additional chords.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCGKCrlgXao
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnWxZtI3ONY
a different version of the same tune.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQMU1S8FhKg=NR1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YTAR8VHEpo@feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33Jaodra7AY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-N9P_flA4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0if87pp8m8
it may not be that old but it is my friend Christina in NSW bluseying it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilF1AizIryQ
she has two old strats that both were on Noah's maiden voyage and an AC30 with a growl like my second wife had
Quote from: Dave W on December 17, 2010, 04:45:11 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6afWI1FZTU
Got to see Willie D. at a club called LUPO'S in Providence in 1980.
Wow~ That was 30 years ago! :o Time sure flies.
Quote from: gweimer on December 17, 2010, 05:51:57 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f70Z6bHIQ2g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ripCw4pXf84
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT2XLcGlars
The TYA girls are smokin' esp. the 2nd from the right. Yowzah
Love the LIVE Winter version too!!
You can't have a blues thread without Buddy Guy.
http://www.youtube.com/v/5XUAg1_A7IE?fs=1&hl=en_US
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBvG0uuoiQo&feature=related
The audio on this YT upload isn't the best, but if you hear the album or CD, Tommy Shannon just smokes on bass on this track.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30mpfUlYO0A
Some Aussie blues from Chain. Terrible lip synching but classic song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLkU-FjWx7U&feature=fvsr
Slow to start but once it gets going its pure blues to me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0oJv_ArrrU&feature=fvw
Does this qualify or is almost forty years too recent?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_Iq9CWuqMM
can we lock this thread before whitesnake and slade get wind of it. : ;) :P
Quote from: nofi on December 21, 2010, 04:01:15 PM
can we lock this thread before whitesnake and slade get wind of it. : ;) :P
Too late, Uwe already sent it over the cliff with DP.
Arena rock is not classic blues.
Uwe's quick rebuttal:
May I disagree? Some black blues giant once said about Blackmore: "I've never heard any white cat play the blues like the guy from Deep Purple does." And When a Blind Man Cries (for anybody caring to give it a listen) is NOT arena rock, not even a power ballad. It is firmly entrenched in the blues and very sparsely arranged. And for all the sins of Whitesnake and David Coverdale, the man sure could sing the blues too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBQbysY3jTU
You guys' concept of what is allowed to be blues or not is about as flexible as the Indian caste system.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBYZkBLVFPQ@feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qo9R5kDZWY&feature=BF&list=PL92571AD102F05D9B&index=14
Henry Thomas-Bull Doze Blues, 1928
Quote from: nofi on December 21, 2010, 05:36:37 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBYZkBLVFPQ@feature=related
Nice!! One of The Best Blues Songs Ever!
This made me dig up my CREAM cds & I listened to them last night & this morning do this song from Wheels of Fire & Goodbye!!
Speaking of...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ig4IJgRjGU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV6IiV-MM9Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xem111DGaUo
Quote from: nofi on December 27, 2010, 12:49:39 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqGULGiad8&feature=related
"The URL contained a malformed video ID."
When you find the correct URL, leave off the "&feature=related" and the video should post instead of just a link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0Bb6vYS3J8
where is mayall?
Quote from: nofi on December 27, 2010, 03:14:21 PM
where is mayall?
Couldn't find a version of this with Mayall on YouTube, so I settled for his band on their own.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9lxHeqPkeE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQQ4YTL1P1A&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVxVa3D11n4&feature=related
a billy holiday song. it took a lot of guts to sing this song back then and she paid a price.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ko2VXpW7_g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55w0DwZROjY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfDriUyKkro
Just caught up with this thread - Lucille Bogan had an interesting history...
... and when it comes to shock value, forget Johnson squeezing his lemon... :o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhDNi6uRr6U&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuHyRyM97d4
i posted this because larry taylor gives a master's tutorial on walking bass. the whole affair swings pretty hard as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWfx1hSeM-c
Quote from: nofi on December 29, 2010, 06:45:35 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuHyRyM97d4
+1 on RL and definitely wish I was in heaven sittin down is a great tune. One of my favorite blues players without a doubt.
Kenny Brown and Cedric Burnside deserve some cred in this clip too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhb7_NvpBwE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOyj4ciJk34
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIvka3SSv9Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHzCx76H7UE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9dt88-BlIM
SMOKIN' Blues!
;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=dIVF3Dh6QYI
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jeB3VlK-wSk
think what you will, i like these versions.
Nofi, you have been the king of this thread ;D. I love all the old school stuff and I had completely forgotten about Blue Cheer.
All I could remember about them was the ear bleeding volume that they played at. They actually did some pretty good stuff.
They were without a doubt the loudest band I ever heard. They made the Who sound like a coffee house gig.
Rick
Okay, you asked for it. Well, no, you didn't. ;D
This came out when I was in high school. I remember thinking, this is Dion?
It showed that he could do more than pop and doo wop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoZ--aAuA78
i guess we will have to call him "mudcat dimucci " from now on. ;D
Dion was a surprise...
Something I found on a CD I got for Jackie for this Xmas past...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kETbYPRJ9EU
and something we cover...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF36qarU-k0
hey rick. i want to keep this thread going. i think it's important and fun. since i don't have a gibson to chat about i'll do this. ;)
Yeah~ I don't have a Gibson anymore either. :cryingsmiley
I started this thread cuz it was a BLUE Christmas for me this year.
I'd like to see more White Man's Blues on this thread but whatever...
As Bonzo Dog Band said:
"Can Blue Men Sing The Whites?"
While this isn't a straight blues song, it's a very bluesy number from an unlikely band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYvht1yDvE0
Quote from: Dave W on January 02, 2011, 08:38:56 AM
Okay, you asked for it. Well, no, you didn't. ;D
This came out when I was in high school. I remember thinking, this is Dion?
It showed that he could do more than pop and doo wop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoZ--aAuA78
Thanks for this piece. I was not familiar with this period of Dion at all.
Bobby Darin did a thing in the late 60s too. He traded in his tuxedo for a Levi jacket and got down and dirty for an album. I remember there was a cut or two that were pretty good.
Rick
Here's another guy you don't associate with blues. Short but sweet. I remember hearing that Jones was the surprise of the PBS Blues series.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj-daBkCZYs
And...I could learn to tolerate John Lee Hooker this way...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hYEULESOg8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXPh7EbB1Tw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxCa16-nxtM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MczxHEVIJLc&feature=related
I used to see this pair on State St. when I worked in Chicago. He played guitar, drums and harp. She covered the bass and sang. Sad ending to this story. I learned that they moved to San Francisco in the '90s, and he ended up murdering her. I got to jam with him once, when she was away from him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIo_au2QQfM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czQB6tPeLQg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbCJtxEFlSA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckPfk3Lu8PU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYrK464nIeY
not old or classic but still a nice blues workout from an unlikly source.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVZpOSdWGEM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwfLR_f3ZtQ
Ah~ Forgot all about Frigid Pink til now. KILLER version of House o' the Risin' Sun!!!
Not really about a snake. ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3yd-c91ww8
Not really about a pencil. ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byn0zBabBKA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOXXh24HnmY
A little blues/comedy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD4Dh0ihoI8
Nofi,
Thanks for the Frigid Pink stuff. That's my old buddies ;D. I caught the new Frigid Pink last winter. I bumped in to the drummer when I was at the doctors office and found out they were reformed with Rick the drummer as the only original member. When that album was cut, both he and the bass player were still in high school.
Rick
Quote from: nofi on January 04, 2011, 09:54:27 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czQB6tPeLQg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbCJtxEFlSA
Leadbelly is playing and singing it in a major key, you can hardly recognize it! :o :o :o
can anyone say led zep...twice. :rolleyes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWb4XcVwIeI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW1SRJrNZZw&featur=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlgALQRg78I
Quote from: nofi on January 07, 2011, 07:27:26 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlgALQRg78I
Very nice voice, the man.
Robert Junior Lockwood was the last link to Robert Johnson. He passed away about 4 years ago. Johnson was his mother's boyfriend for a while and allegedly taught him to play guitar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpHcoODltDQ
Blues comedy = Blind Melon Chitlin!
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/836afec120/blind-melon-chitlin-from-cheechandchong
lockwood died only 4 years ago? wow. i have a record from the mid eighties and he looks like he could go any second. good for him that he managed to hang around awhile.
Quote from: nofi on January 08, 2011, 12:05:35 PM
lockwood died only 4 years ago? wow. i have a record from the mid eighties and he looks like he could go any second. good for him that he managed to hang around awhile.
Not only did he hang around that long, he was still touring fairly regularly.
His NYT obit (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/25/arts/music/25lockwood.html?_r=1&oref=slogin) says he was still doing a weekly gig in Cleveland until about 3 weeks before he died. He was 91.
a little list of some of led zep's 'stolen originals'.
babe i'm gonna leave you- written by anne bredon in late 50's.
since i've been loving you- lyrics taken from moby grape song "never".
moby dick- main guitar riff taken from 1961 bobby parker tune "watch your step".
you shook me- willie dixon.
dazed and confused- folk tune written by jake holmes.
in my time of dyin'- trad folk tune, blind willie johnson.
lemon song- based heavily on howlin wolf's "killing floor".
bring it on home- willie dixon.
whole lotta love- willie dixon lyrics from "you need love".
nobodys fault but mine- blind willie johnson.
when the levee breaks- memphis minnie.
you can argue inspiration or plagerism. to their credit zep did give cedit to the original authors of dyer maker. not much in the grand scheme of things, though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyvLsutfI5M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zThdTAWQFAQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5uMQDlKn8g
this all is pretty amazing. way more than i suspected. page said in an interview it was his job to write a new guitar part and plant to change lyrics when they 'stole' a song. they didn't try very hard, though.
the world's richest cover band...
THE THIEVING MAGPIES (http://www.furious.com/perfect/jimmypage.html)
May I come up to the artistic defense of my beloved Led Zep? :mrgreen:
The fact that Zep stole blues riffs without proper credit is well-established and proof galore. But I never saw them as the second coming of The Beatles. Zep's importance as an influence is not in their songwritng, it's in their sound and the folk- and world music influences they added to American blues. They took those American old bluesers' songs and turned them into a new art form with their esoteric, yet larger than life presentation of them. The sound they forged was lightyears away from the originals, much farther away from the originals than say Bluesbreakers, Yardbirds, Cream, Fleetwood Mac, Ten Years After, Canned Heat, Savoy Brown, Foghat etc. Zep were hugely influenced by the blues, but not overawed by it. The bluesiest non-blues band on earth. They took the blues somewhere else, sonically and culturally. For that they deserve credit and it is their lasting legacy.
The sour note is that - probably at the instigation of their prince of darkness svengali Peter Grant -they attempted to withhold deserved royalties from people who had a fraction of the wealth (and fortune in life) of these four young white multi-millionaires. That was a real cheap shot.
But they didn't just steal from black guys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJUdnTKlP1E
interesting thoughts but the facts, if not the songs remain the same. all they had to do is give credit where credit is due. i don't think they would really miss the loss of royalties. on the otherhand they did 'customize' sixteen or so songs...
I came to their artistic defense, not their morals which might have been indeed questionable! There is of course that lingering bad taste that in the late sixties/early seventies swiping a song from a black blueser from the South with no huge record company in his back was not quite as risky as if you had done the same to, say, Bob Dylan or Elvis Presley (the Colonel would have set you right!). I can't exclude that that might have played a role in the decision to ignore their intellectual property along the cynical lines of "these guys will never get their act together to do something against us, look how they always have the worst contracts, and if they do we can feed them a morsel then". Black blues artists just didn't have the commercial (and therefore also legal) clout of their soul contemporaries with Motown and Stax.
Willie Dixon sued them and won.
I know. But he only got around to doing that in 85 - almost 20 years after Whole Lotta Love had first sent the bee swarm through the stereos. Donated the settlement sum they paid him to a Blues Foundation too.
That's because he hadn't heard it until his daughter pointed it out. He also sued and won over Bring It On Home.
He established that foundation and his survivors run it. Willie Dixon's Blues Heaven Foundation (http://www.bluesheaven.com/)
in spite of any alleged artistic merit i think moral and ethical concerns trump that everytime. hell, i like zeppelin but i don't think i can listen to them quite the same way anymore.
I posted the reference to Spirit and that zep tune and also this bit they borrowed for the rest of the melody...
It's actually not credited on the tune but it's the second part that comes in around 3:10 - the song is called "Promises" and was released in this form on a live album in 1970...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LnAux3WEc4
"That's because he hadn't heard it until his daughter pointed it out."
That to me sounds like a legal argument construed to avoid having to answer why he sued so late. Frankly, I rule out that you could have lived in America from 1968 to 1985 and not have heard Whole Lotta Love. That is unfathomable unless you were deaf. I'm happy for Herr Dixon to have his royalties - a fellow bass player after all! -, but here he was conveniently making things up. Of course "I never heard that song before" is almost impossible to disprove so it lends itself easily as an argument.
Almost 20 years go by and neither he nor one of his many musicans (that must have recorded or played that song live with him) nor his wife nor any relative nor blues enthusisasts that adore him and write him letters catch that Whole Lotta Love (the biggest hit of the most consitently successful rock band in the US all through the seventies) is his song retitled and with a different rhythm (lifted from Hendrix' "Hey Joe" version btw), yet with the same lyrics and harmonies? :o Come on. He wasn't a Japanese soldier stranded on a Pacific island who didn't know WW II had ended with the Emperor's surrender.
over here i would guess most black folks did not and do not listen to classic (white) rock. i can see how dixon and company missed this until many years later. not to make this a racial issue but that's the way it is.
I'm aware that radio was still segregated then (and possibly is to this day), but even in Africa where I lived Whole Lotta Love was known. It's like Ted Nugent saying he never heard James Brown's Sex Machine (though living in Detroit!) because he never listened to black radio (not that he ever said that), I wouldn't believe that either.
"From 7 to 11" was lifted from a very obscure album by a band called Raven. I'm not even sure where they came from, but a friend of mine had it, and played the original for me.
Led Zeppelin isn't the only band to borrow/steal liberally. As much as I love Cheap Trick, they know how to borrow when needed. I've always heard "Cry, Baby, Cry" in the middle of "I Want You To Want Me". This one just astounded me. It's REALLY obvious...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa0GFjOUHRo
raven was a nwobhm band back in the 80's. they made several records but didn't get very far.
There is a Blackmore quote somewhere where he says that he never wrote a song that the idea wasn't stolen from another song.
Quote from: nofi on January 12, 2011, 07:12:25 PM
raven was a nwobhm band back in the 80's. they made several records but didn't get very far.
Wrong band. This was from the early/mid '70s.
I think the Raven from the 80's had a drummer that wore a hockey helmet and would use his head to play the drums. I don't remember much else about them.
Found this POS example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh8XGJsHZC4
Quote from: Freuds_Cat on January 12, 2011, 07:13:45 PM
There is a Blackmore quote somewhere where he says that he never wrote a song that the idea wasn't stolen from another song.
He's credited Burn to Glenn Miller's Fascinating Rhythm, Black Night to Ricky Nelson, Perfect Stangers to Zep's Kashmir, the Highwaystar solo to classical composers, Space Trucking to the Batman theme, Lazy to Eric Clapton's Stepping Out, Smoke on the Water to Oscar Peterson and Pictures of Home to the intro of some Bulgarian shortwave radio station (Jon Lord: "Ritchie always heard the weirdest radio stations. Through a radio built in his stovepipe hat no doubt!"). Machine Head was in that way a very "inspired" album! :mrgreen: But with Blackmore it is hearing a riff, being inspired by it and taking it as a starting point for something different, which is perfectly legitimate. Zep swiped (swope?) whole songs, lyrics and even arrangements.
Quote from: uwe on January 13, 2011, 05:01:03 AM
Machine Head was in that way a very "inspired" album!
One of my favorite numbers from that album was the instrumental "Hard Road (Wring that Neck)". It was the "B" side on the 45 of Highway Star, IIRC.
Anyone else a fan of that one? IMO it really stomped! If I were a baseball player, it would be my batting intro music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EfhDuM3kbs&feature=related
So it's not old-style blues.....meh.
I always loved that track. It is a good example of extending the blues with classical references. And it works here.
Quote from: Pilgrim on January 13, 2011, 09:19:58 AM
One of my favorite numbers from that album was the instrumental "Hard Road (Wring that Neck)". It was the "B" side on the 45 of Highway Star, IIRC.
Uwe shows better restraint than me but when it comes to Deep Purple I'm too pedantic not to correct this one. Apologies Al :)
Wring that neck was on the 1969 album The Book of Taliesyn.
Listen to that hammond riff and tell me thats not heavily influenced by The Man with the Golden Arm theme.
Thanks for that Al I had never noticed that before.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/76/Taliesyn.jpg)
I won't argue about the album - I was thinking of a 45 I have - I thought Hard Road was the B side of Highway Star, but it has been a long while since I've held that 45 so I won't swear to it. I'm suffering from CRS as usual, y'know.
There are few sounds in music I love more than a B-3!!!
My favorite Bukka White song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqnU-dRGwTs
His most famous composition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsJTOY67vlk
Almost forgot my favorite old blues song. Closer to jazz.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5T2_9swfCo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xUGpxiXLsc
not an old classic but an integral part of the blues revival in the sixties.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiWFTTZ-e_8&feature=related
chicago bob nelson. the guy i used to play with.
Quote from: nofi on January 21, 2011, 07:52:50 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xUGpxiXLsc
not an old classic but an integral part of the blues revival in the sixties.
Is this one that Todd Rundgren produced? If memory serves, Butterfield was one of Rundgren's first producer jobs.
my record shows the producer as paul rothchild.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2A-SxElXvQ&feature=related.
if it has the right vibe for you than you can tag it blues.
http://www.youtube.com/watch/v=QzC_rGX-XyM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=K5jKqoGwbqo&featute=related
Quote from: gweimer on January 23, 2011, 11:07:02 AM
Is this one that Todd Rundgren produced? If memory serves, Butterfield was one of Rundgren's first producer jobs.
According to Wiki:
His earliest outside credits were as producer on a long-unreleased Janis Joplin track (recorded with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band) and as recording engineer for the LP Stage Fright by The Band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giGGK3Fk9co
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXKQlCQKtIg
Jimmy Reed was great. I didn't realize it would be considered classic blues. Here's one of my favorites.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9YTlMs4NlI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSWTkI_aVSo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/?v=p6tfNVbgwu4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/?v=wY8YaLQ8H74&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7lg_hx-yzE&feature=related
three different songs with the same title.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THIsYGV1v-Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GID8SPUMDxQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtnJM8iUy38
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7qPXB5lHVU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV3rI57hoaQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aODLdu8Zkq8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYjSiXutRWA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy6pMeTMvkQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eZee41b4cA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsG4RwBwBeA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqcqZlFMUYQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4IS0TDcYEs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4IS0TDcYEs)
welcome back, garrett
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klcDgu2f_pQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_veQRT7bus&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcqqyL-Y6Go&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqFE5fJ3xT4&feature=related
yeah, this guy is real.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1tKpDYUlIo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNBk1faWI-k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1FK620bS7A (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1FK620bS7A)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAobIpnkCNw&feature=related
Re: Blues From Old Woman
I think that is the first time I've ever seen anyone use a light bulb for a slide ;D
Might even be a Tom Edison original bulb.
Rick
i think he may have given it to her in person.
Quote from: nofi on February 06, 2011, 09:57:57 AM
i think he may given it to her in person.
If that don't have the makins of a blues tune I don't know what does ;D.
Got me a damn light bulb, can't afford no lectricity
It's the only thing I own, cepting my guitar and me.
Rick
Only thing that jumped to my mind was, we don't always appreciate how truly blessed we are...
Quote from: Kenny's 51st State on February 06, 2011, 05:19:27 PM
Only thing that jumped to my mind was, we don't always appreciate how truly blessed we are...
That is so true!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzznbzry5R8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzznbzry5R8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaT2JwEfetc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQONgN-as4s&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sor7vbJpgzY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sor7vbJpgzY)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64T6ugyWXAA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtlVSedpIRU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54GNI2K3-ec&feature=related
Quote from: nofi on February 09, 2011, 07:59:42 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64T6ugyWXAA
Classic tune Nofi! Have you heard The North Mississippi Allstars version?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WETFnlfL-XQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WETFnlfL-XQ)
They do a great cover of Juinor Kimbrough`s "All Night Long" too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj3N5UReFvI&feature=related
i think i like rl burnsides version the best. (shake 'em on down)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-FjK87b5QMe&feature=related
i could not upload the jimmy reed version so i'm
left with these.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgE7nD-X45Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r60qdFr69vY&feature=related
found it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd-o_kLONVI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQN21IbRCNQ
jimmy reed is just great. my wife is a fan as well. too bad he seldom gets mentioned along with the other greats.
Got a Jimmy Reed CD in the player in my car right now. It sees a lot of action ;D.
I've played several clips from this thread for my wife. She says she gets why me and that nofi guy get along so well ;D.
Rick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOyj4ciJk34 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOyj4ciJk34)
In 1963 I bought Charlie Rich's "Big Boss Man" and Lonnie Mack's "Baby What's Wrong" within a few months of each other and noticed that both were written by Jimmy Reed. I hadn't heard of him until then but figured it was time to look for more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMXWuWQgWP8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjxMTTbMPeg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBjgZuDZXvc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34VJzHT9nuk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vIlRY7277E&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWIWphPSBTc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN7j-LCgaiE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrljWGIHB7c&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOxf1pM5Xzs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMzoqpyUbhg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhLFRE4Q5yw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMf-em-56Mc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUzmZvwMNsw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayucqk6UkQI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayucqk6UkQI)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmu38Iv4OPw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmu38Iv4OPw)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6C61sxbjII
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMidJpcbK4I&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/?v=x-heqLIhH6E&feature=related
Gregg Allman has a new liver & a new solo album called Low Country Blues:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz24oE2GDaU
Mighty glad this gentleman is still with us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZNk76_4lds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2sTm5cowGY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2sTm5cowGY)
Rosalie Hill, guitar and vocal. Field recording by Alan Lomax in Como, Mississippi, September 25, 1959.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3LEhfbKCSc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw2fqDcLitU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BidqH1xo5Go&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfpKXOAuL9I&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2ydqatRz3s&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFI_DyShyKc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WllnGLeqQGw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQZntaTPtLo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xUGpxiXLsc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOaOVAgGIhE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3KAdmivOVQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ78-GT3gdQ&feature=related
Well nofi , I can't wait to see what's next. I think you have officially hit all of my favorites from Robert Johnson and Sonhouse right through Canned Heat and Paul Butterfield and thanks for including my old buds the Frigid Pink.
Speaking of Canned Heat, I don't know if you ever caught them back in the day, but that was one of the best live shows out there. Their records never did them justice. I can't even tell you how many times I saw them, but Bob the Bear walked up to me once and shook my hand and thanked me and told me he was pretty sure he saw my face every time they were in Detroit. I'm pretty sure he was right too.
Rick
to my knowledge they only came to atlanta with an unoriginal line up. if i couldn't see alan wilson i didn't care to go. otoh they may have been here at the atlanta rock festivals in 69 and 70 but i'm not sure. glad you like the music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyVbiDJb2nk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHsf_m2fac8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6yVn4wFpt4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clb7_jvejWw
A large slice of Foghat in that last one ;D (1st, 4th and 5th L2R iirc with Mr Youldon in the hat)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA4jfEOanIk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuThNm_iLRs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpvm4GbnFZQ
Junior Kimbrough
July 28, 1930 — January 17, 1998
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-Taae2zLfA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-Taae2zLfA)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-o-s-5eAXc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp5NIxWdUbI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE6D8WghRkU&feature=related
My theme song ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSWTkI_aVSo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSWTkI_aVSo)
Happy Birthday to Johnny Winter!
(http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p60/gallofino/Old%20Pics/johnny-winter-40-years-001.jpg)
February 23, 1944
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqJOsNMhIRo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqJOsNMhIRo) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tyg5SJDpiQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tyg5SJDpiQ)
Johnny Winter in 1970 with Tommy Shannon on bass and Uncle John Turner on Drums.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oypAbJj-fEs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGqAd3hCccs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qck-s79efuw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoKKJjf-oQA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhtG5YrQ-lY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_s4mI_FKnQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIYNoH99Guc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui92SXehjjM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1wfoMKd_M4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzrzoY-syCE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly8qTLjRmCE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOknYdvEX5k&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLTFZgy7fbk
LOL, Nofi, it's not like you have any deeper penchant for da blooze, is it? :mrgreen:
Are you reincarnated and have a deep connection to Canned Heat, by any chance...?
Keep em coming... 8)
This is always my contribution to Blues threads;
Watermelon Slim: Smokestack Lightning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeMRIu43qjg
This guy sold his soul.
From R. L. Burnside`s "A Ass Pocket Of Whiskey"
(http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p60/gallofino/babes/1029-a-ass-pocket-of-whiskey.jpg)
1. "Goin' Down South"
2. "Boogie Chillen"
3. "Poor Boy"
4. "2 Brothers"
5. "Snake Drive"
6. "Shake 'Em on Down"
7. "Criminal Inside Me"
8. "Walkin' Blues"
9. "Tojo Told Hitler"
10."Have You Ever Been Lonely
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V9mb__6yVY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V9mb__6yVY) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgvBsrnTLTE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgvBsrnTLTE)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSnCnpm3uMo
some people think robert johnson's original recordings were "sped up" anywhere from 15 to 20%. this supposedly is what he really sounded like. ???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0JMmr00G3Q
a contemporary of johnson's talks about the mythical 30th song. this is robert jr. lockwood.
Quote from: nofi on February 27, 2011, 09:47:04 AM
some people think robert johnson's original recordings were "sped up" anywhere from 15 to 20%. this supposedly is what he really sounded like. ???
Possible, but from what I can tell, most Johnson authorities don't agree. He sounded the same in two different sessions in different places.
Or maybe his pact with the devil called for speeding up the tapes.
yeah all this was news to me until i saw a rj cd saying played at 20% reduced speed. then i did some research. might be a marketing scam because this is one guy you can't raid the vaults for new material to sell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSV69BO2Uak&feature=related.
apparently he has become the bigfoot of the blues. :mrgreen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EiwR18S6Ag&feature=related
white stripes version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv-_mzVBSF8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPXjuD8sH_Q&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRWn3zYas_I&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?V=CkTT-hfZsh4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5tOpyipNJs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsJTOY67vlk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co-lFidsM6Q&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Cck3LOpNs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCqbKdnHZTs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am8HCq9vBvo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpVCqXRlXx4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx6a2DC4QIs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WueRseB85vY&feature=related
Quote from: nofi on February 27, 2011, 02:18:50 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EiwR18S6Ag&feature=related
white stripes version.
I never liked the White Stripes till I heard that cover. After that the rest of it made more sense.
It's sometimes interesting how much closer more modern covers are to the original than you expect. For example, coming from covers of "I Put A Spell on You" by The Animals and Nina Simone, the Marilyn Manson version sounds like a travesty. Till you go back to Screaming J Hawkins and realise Manson pretty much nailed it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Xrxqt3ovE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNRKK9V8ekw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V85V5aDEeSk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJU81OBkFPk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95YlwLT5ZT4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyuSDajZTNo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PUM0W1gjPs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQRL3T-rQEY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWLvm11MAaM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT-FoZt95D4&feature+related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Cpc7IUb8U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrIIJ9_RF2A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35AEB3PiIc4+feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_TINGFPWeI
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KoE9HhyD2lw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqJ-mCpoJ9c
Now there's a band that produced some cookin' music... 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrYLfLcxSY8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMTmXQomPDI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtvL5_6BFd8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjRefkosHE4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGyAAWu3Gks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_BNz_B1PNg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGqAd3hCccs&feature=related
now you know where brownsville station got the 'inspiration' fot their song "martian boogie". cub coda was a hugh blues fan so it makes perfect sense.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NAie-UsI_A&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff_oY5vETkU
blind willie mctell performing "georgia rag".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hz2yEwtAdA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJXixWGaOH4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv5j_Lx2R4g&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIlgmA7aMwA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j_TDoOPnIA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCH6LV87k7w&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx1TaurjL1E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9j25V4iw94
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD2jXjV9Z8A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9fKhx8lm6k&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoasUjXBkm8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Aj-htjqfdk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq49tS75xCA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-3C8BvpZLA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXjg9wlIT8A&feature=related
houston stackhouse singing tommy johnson's "cool drink of water".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_WtSpKAT5E&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czjlomOQdHM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqHmPlK14XU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mABWR1jCmw8&future=related
more king biscuit boy with the ronnie hawkins band.
Ol' Duane played on some Ronnie Hawkins stuff...
ordinarily led zep would be a good band to include in 'the original vs redone' comparison. but since they 'stole' roughly sixteen songs without giving credit to the original artists, screw 'em. >:(
Nofi,
King Biscut Boy with Crowbar WTF :o. I've been looking for that since the early 70s. There is a song on that called Badly Bent that I played for years. The guitar player I had at the time was a real stick of dynamite and he turned me on to the tune and he turned a few others on to it and I turned a few others on to it and so on. Anyway, there have been at least 20 or 30 local bands playing that song for 40 freakin' years and I only know two people who have ever heard the record...and one of them died two years ago. No one ever had the lyrics right, I had a few and made up the rest and another singer I know who learned the song from my old guitar player did the same thing and made up about half his own lyrics. Everytime I hear a local band do that tune I listen to see if they're singing my lyrics or his. I always track down the band members to see where they got the tune and it always comes back to someone I or my old guitar player crossed paths with. I found a few other versions searching on line a few years ago but I never heard the record and of all the people out there playing the song , I've never met anyone who has heard the record except my old guitar player and he never owned a copy. It's a kick ass fast past rocker of a tune(or at least I think it is). I searched for this forever just to see if I was anything close to the original , but no one in any record store I was ever in had a clue. I wasn't really sure it even existed. Part of the problem may have been, I always thought it was Crowbar with King Biscut Boy.
I think Crowbar was a band out of Canada , but I don't know anything for sure ???
Have you got a copy of this??? Where kind I find it ??? JEEZ , I feel like I'm about to find the Holy Grail ;D ;D.
Rick
Rick, the one album King Biscuit Boy did with Crowbar was called Official Music. It was reissued on CD in the mid 90s and it's still in print (or reprint). And it's on iTunes.
IIRC Crowbar were Canadians who had backed up Ronnie Hawkins.
Quote from: Dave W on March 18, 2011, 12:42:15 PM
Rick, the one album King Biscuit Boy did with Crowbar was called Official Music. It was reissued on CD in the mid 90s and it's still in print (or reprint). And it's on iTunes.
IIRC Crowbar were Canadians who had backed up Ronnie Hawkins.
I've got to check this out. I said it before and I will say it again, This is the best thread ever ;D. I can't exagerate enough to tell you what a quest this has been for me. I just know when I find the original it will be nothing like the song half of Michigan has been playing for 40 years ;D. I've got a couple of arrangements that I've done from memory of something I heard on the radio and I will come home and hammer it out and think I nailed it. I polish it up and play it for years and pass it on to a lot of other musicians and then a couple of decades later I hear the original again and find out I pretty much wrote an entirely different song. A couple of them are my signature pieces and I get loads of compliments on my creative arrangements. Little do they know it's simply a case of F'd up memory ;) Thank you a million times, I've got to get on itunes and track this sucker down.
Rick
I may still have the vinyl - I had a number of Crowbar albums... presently under a lot of stuff in the loft if it's still here...
Jozef Chirowski was a keys player with them - went on to work with Alice
i have all the records. that is one thing in my collection that never changes
I hate to say it but I again forgot how to post a YouTube video. I'm surprised at how many great live Sonny Boy Williamson videos there are on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGUGXOxs6p0
Can't get much more classic than Sonny Boy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0rRvfwrrGc
http://www.youtube.com/?v=CN_9sc4BdUM
the marvin gaye classic!
from the "american slendor" soundtrack.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFOWOk6xVes&feature=fvwrelhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
just had to mention these guys for better or worse. :mrgreen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZvXjCxXT3M&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J3ellc3eK0&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCkZWyohP7M&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7jRs6hSfl0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1kVM8s8sCw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFdVc0o4Sag&playnext=1&list=PL2001E5E7BA05DF2A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J7kJf4lxTY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcCNcgoyG_0
Foghat! Great band! One of the best British blues bands, in my opinion.
Well done! Energized is one of my all-time favorite albums and Tony Stevens has always been one of my favorites.
Nofi, you da man ;D. Always loaded wih good stuff.
Rick
Roadcases is one of my all time favourite albums, just full on, unashamed blues rock.
If you say Foghat to most people in the UK, you just get a blank look. A few remember Savoy Brown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JbKgloyx4o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSiqtsw0S9A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTNBEpRrw30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og0R6HLCzws
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZX5RdIa9D0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZShVsRM_-c
'inspired' by the magic sam tune "i wanna' boogie".
One of my favorite albums from Foghat was In The Mood For Something Rude, a collection of cover songs, ranging from the Johnson Brothers to Rodney Crowell. It was the last one with Nick Jameson handling bass and production.
Quote from: nofi on March 24, 2011, 07:16:26 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZShVsRM_-c
'inspired' by the magic sam tune "i wanna' boogie".
Gotta love Cub Koda!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwjGytOVVQA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWu6IhVSViE
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=son+house+john+the+revelator&aq=3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLCbFrfQUCs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRsUdr1b9xg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGdE0ASwduU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fM2qhG8mA4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03YUgHAshSo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h77lNWVxfSY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZXBw-9gyc0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu90s6vvdiY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuyHURx-1JE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0XsVRIdTE0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHar2MV2JdE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgZxWb8walw&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXF6an2BvQs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v4AWlKOGRM&feature=related
two thirds of cactus plus this guy
It had to happen, Foghat get its own thread here!!! :-X
Where is Sgt. Dave yelling "stadium rock!!!" when you need him?!!!
Quote from: uwe on March 24, 2011, 10:36:04 AM
It had to happen, Foghat get its own thread here!!! :-X
Where is Sgt. Dave yelling "stadium rock!!!" when you need him?!!!
I think I can save him the trouble ...
http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=5090.msg81289#msg81289
He'll probably say something even more damning like "Fogwho?"
Quote from: uwe on March 24, 2011, 10:36:04 AM
It had to happen, Foghat get its own thread here!!! :-X
As well they should.
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y247/lowend1/FHgrp1.jpg)
Weren't you the guy who preferred them over Roxy Music?
i still have a warm place in my heart for frogfat. even though radio play of 'slowride' just about killed it.
Quote from: uwe on March 24, 2011, 10:36:04 AM
It had to happen, Foghat get its own thread here!!! :-X
Where is Sgt. Dave yelling "stadium rock!!!" when you need him?!!!
I only yell that when certain Germans try to pass off a stadium rock band as an old fashioned blues band. :P
Quote from: uwe on March 24, 2011, 12:46:58 PM
Weren't you the guy who preferred them over Roxy Music?
I prefer Heino to Roxy Music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiNzhBpaKbw&feature=related
just because these guys rock, plain and simple. and johhny b. has to be one of the best AND most underrated drummers in the history of best and most underrated drummers. :mrgreen:
I'm fine with Foghat, hey, I even bought Fool for the City as some fancy pants gold hifi remaster CD and their comparatively recent Essential double CD.
They've just released a new album (or a band bearing their name). Charly Huhn, he of Motorcity fame or notoriety, now sings with them. I think I would have preferred Derek St. Holmes to have gotten that job.
Roger Earl has been a constant feature; Craig MacGregor is in the present line up...
RIP Lonesome Dave and Rod the Bottle...
The story goes that my Hiwatt belonged to someone in Savoy Brown (afaik Kim Simmonds is Marshall until death so Lonesome or Tone?) but no way of knowing...
I feel their work started to slip around Boogie Motel - Road Cases is a great live album, mind you...
In memory of Robert Lockwood Jr on his birthday!
(http://image1.findagrave.com/photos/2008/86/16750887_120667106421.jpg)
Mar. 27, 1915 / Nov. 21, 2006
Lockwood developed a style all his own becoming one of Blues most successful musicians. He was born in Turkey Scratch, Arkansas. He learned to play the guitar at age eleven from blues pioneer Robert Johnson and by the age of fifteen was playing professionally. After playing locally on the radio (where he mentored B.B. King), Lockwood moved to Chicago, Illinois in the 1950's and became a popular session musician for Chess Records. In 1960 he settled in Cleveland, Ohio performing regularly at Fat Fish Blue and other blues establishments. Late in his career he received recognition for his solo work with two of his albums, "I Got to find me a Woman" (1998) and "Delta Crossroads" (2000) receiving Grammy nominations. He toured the US, Europe and Japan regularly, won several National Blues Music Awards and WC Handy Awards and in 1989 was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. The music legend died in Cleveland after suffering a stroke.
Bio by Big Woo http://www.robertlockwood.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6AOmLSXKac (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6AOmLSXKac) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_7UkcMVzag (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_7UkcMVzag)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyVbiDJb2nk&playnext=1&list=PL67C705BED39B23D3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWMF0pEK3fg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SqHN_pEYZc&feature=fvsr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtlVSedpIRU&feature=fvsr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54GNI2K3-ec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR0weJrAPl0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9xjUZJWHOg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq6SX9F2cb8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9A6kUSs0WQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuYn2YP7DNg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj3N5UReFvI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSumCTWa-5Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNBk1faWI-k&feature=fvst
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgsJZaHMj7s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBA2REoRD98
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn77rGEV6XM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsgZ5IDQu80
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te_ojuZbFwU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWoc4cAr0Kk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaT2JwEfetc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7iqUxRG0UU&feature=fvsr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOUQRmUncZ4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJCH3xO-mYQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsELdS1tQBU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EdJtrlIdeQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tmaHOHeehs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN_jY8EoJdo&playnext=1&list=PL0943BE9D97EB1BE1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBx0GxmAPPc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8W0uVu1g_Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOAVSK7VhYk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uksl5gnEY8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAEaxGfekD8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bftj8lOjp4s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-GN-BP_Qlk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39RBm4tH9cA&feature=fvsr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVgI5czHIMs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fwwf1PH3-0&feature=fvsr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyAKNRmB2B8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Emb0bi0n4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klcDgu2f_pQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXfcou4Qo7Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78M7NB_JrDY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22wJuRT28_g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNp8vMgkenU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoyFATdpSlY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbfnh1oVTk0&feature=related
Geez nofi, talk about hijack a thread ;) ;D
yeah, i know. i just don't want this thread to go away. at about 150 hits every week or ten days somebody out there is listening. :)
I'm one of them. Thanx!
Guilty as charged... ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tixv6oVKU8
A bonus is Berry Oakley and Jaimoe on the rhythm section...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZBG9H3v2P8
It's actually the Hourglass, with Duane and Gregg... stuff they recorded when they got frustrated with the pop they were forced to record...
Quote from: nofi on April 21, 2011, 07:34:38 AM
yeah, i know. i just don't want this thread to go away. at about 150 hits every week or ten days somebody out there is listening. :)
Dont worry, I'm one of them too ;)
How about some Humble Pie, doing some old Ray Charles?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmoMY8qDNI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgEG1OV6F1w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3yd-c91ww8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S8Rjwwo2g4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3GEDqkJeVs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTX1rNr6izs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MioqWR4OADY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUjLxvGp3qo&feature=fvsr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLcUEeiyhM0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL3J3mffKUg&feature=fvsr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgNd_2Ysy6o&feature=fvst
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7up2b4keW_k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ISfX91HERc&feature=grec_index
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr31OJ80xI8&feature=fvsr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnoeTmbUmZw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW_D1Gy7IB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJYvAVhSIMg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGVShoAWp00&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FShhBW-NBPQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W0BVrmCbhs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLDc80xzMuI&feature=fvsr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5qx0I2tyTI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BW9ZoGbK3c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlQZwHcBqyQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvoKuQPVEdU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_AJifsE2eQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpPs6xUbHZo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A--ZYJFxTg8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib8bCR5lFug&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR7tvPeiYJE&feature=fvsr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Hbuf6FEoY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk7I_KWkswQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8aR4wwJs-0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdrN-UAayAE&feature=fvsr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTP-8VfIvn0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KHyv4RIxhE&playnext=1&list=PL6608ECA8B995ABC9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZayTpvm0Yho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juIupw49qe0
Only saw Roy once. Man what an experience.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hEYwk0bypY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liX7zPV095Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5IOou6qN1o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T2hygHu8CI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr839d9t44I&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unf2S8zJMoQ&feature=fvst
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu3CbGyKgiA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPfJoBwWRQ8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2_zdgPYhJg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1gl5mmGLHU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgaxYEsEVVY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THIsYGV1v-Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjPezeHN9Hc&playnext=1&list=PL27044E592E079A15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd0tUHHjCMU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrKHz94rGpk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWZFMIvEPcg&feature=fvst
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvNjZGZ_UjI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VGyO5TlBik&feature=fvsr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMAsJ-53cGQ
Thanks for all that good music! Just keep coming with that great stuff! I saw a show at that European tour in -76. What a thrill it was to hear Muddy face to face at last!And that great band he had!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW4tUx7cQH4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcqqyL-Y6Go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpxNJcNRwFA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6afWI1FZTU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga3E-70u4g0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrYLjjq3j0g&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-POnP8O2R0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UuChTazs9Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PfkXkbBTTQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWUwm5iEX78&feature=related
Quote from: nofi on May 21, 2011, 05:38:30 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW4tUx7cQH4
I got to jam with Billy Branch in the '90s, when he had Carl Weathersby on guitar. I'll have to dig up a pic some day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqyqU0Tyg4w&playnext=1&list=PL5A765C29068E0E06
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAPIUIy8SCk&feature=related
purists beware.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD3_QWi0-zw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q06eUcpaIfk
looks like a wish bass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgWqPUrqjSI&feature=grec_index
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGUGXOxs6p0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jH6WkydTMk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bxtS6UeOyo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFRMBWgyH-M&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bY0vcg2F-I&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b-UF0FlZjo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNzEXJTPS0U&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhlygCtJFSM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBDr9YESFOs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo25io_R990&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj293l5w2MU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq1selXrQD8&feature=fvwrel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVvkDfLN-h4&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVvkDfLN
not sonny but a fun song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqvVC3Fp3f0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4up4VP8zjyc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnsBlY4rKwM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MCHI23FTP8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dloPrGI0EuY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBIa-kYc1PI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmkkTGYyn5o&feature=related
How incongrous is this... I have almost all of his known work on my iPod... ;)
Keep findin' them Nofi, keep findin' them...
some different stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgdzS4OSQ1M&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbfnh1oVTk0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuY6NROhCQw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lza3NVH6Ig&feature=fvwrel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqI130TS1vM&feature=related
can someone delete the last 2 posts please. what happened to the delete option.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqI130TS1vM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqI130TS1vM&feature=related
what happened to the delete option. as you see it would be helpful.
We made a few changes. You can edit the post to a blank, then we'll delete.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-AlUhcySPk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_0jVlf2SKI
Never heard of this pair before. Great, anyway!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGRpxhUhfHU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og0R6HLCzws
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4vPdSWQckQ
not quite blues from here on down, just some stuffi like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4vPdSWQckQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VixQhTaed1k&playnext=1&list=PLDADB933C52E1752C
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDbON8udTPo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDAEXn8RJFs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgjnsJA464k&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgjnsJA464k&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgjnsJA464k&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgjnsJA464k&feature=related
Quote from: nofi on August 02, 2011, 04:06:21 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDAEXn8RJFs&feature=related
I do a real rockin' version of this, very different from the original and it has been my closing song for decades.
Rick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03mV8WfXC_Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TnNb3cBzuE
The Homemade posting sprung this up...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjU2Be3yaBg
6.45 made me smile... ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4pkZYKAUUY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA8na2z4Sq8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKf7oYywdS8
not pandering but found this interesting.
Seen him play stuff like this a few times... 8)
I always marveled at his braveness turning his back on the whole scene and going for what (I suspect) he always loved...
not the blues exactly but an excuse to post some of these guys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nta-EbKyjVM&feature=related
Nice... great band... supported the Scorpions one time over here... great show...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF9z25XBfu4&feature=related
Beautiful blues tune from Ian Moss and the guys from Cold Chisel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgK5RhN1Kns
This guy has a great voice IMO. Top guitar player too.
Ian Moss from the PetrolHead album.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py90iQzE3Ic&feature=fvsr
Saw Cold Chisel at the Marquee as one of the few brits in a club swarming with Oz folk... great gig... 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfnwQyTT5UU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sewlci75N54
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLsQ08k1lAA
just because...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4XVJj4jER4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YTAR8VHEpo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGsAh2jx6JA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRWn3zYas_I&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=336dDZsU1Eg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFJr1OJpP0E&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuY6NROhCQw&feature=fvwre
yet another contender but really, who cares.
I may have already posted this....couldn't check the whole thread....decided to take some liberty and post bluesy numbers from non-bluesy artists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYvht1yDvE0
For those who are tempted to say that Brian May never did the blues.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTHsZqU9uVw
that's ok. uwe managed to sneak a deep purple clip in here awhile back. :mrgreen:
what's the deal with rogers' voice. he sounded way better in free. now its kind of smooth and generic sounding.
Quote from: nofi on November 26, 2011, 12:12:20 PM
that's ok. uwe managed to sneak a deep purple clip in here awhile back. :mrgreen:
what's the deal with rogers' voice. he sounded way better in free. now its kind of smooth and generic sounding.
The common opinion on Paul Rogers is that he is the greatest Rock singer of all time. He has a very good voice but I think he has a very generic sound too. To me , everything he does sounds the same ???.
Rick
Quote from: nofi on November 26, 2011, 12:12:20 PM
that's ok. uwe managed to sneak a deep purple clip in here awhile back. :mrgreen:
what's the deal with rogers' voice. he sounded way better in free. now its kind of smooth and generic sounding.
Free was the early 70s. He was what, 20 or so? Undoubtedly, he was at his best in Free and Bad Co. The "Muddy Water Blues" album was done in '93 if memory serves - and he has done a fair amount of recording since then. Compared to most rock vocalists from his era, his voice has held up remarkably well. I am one of those who consider him to be the top dog. His voice, IMHO, is the best blend of blues, soul and rock ever. He managed to get all of that emotion and grit into (with Bad Co) three-minute rock staples. Lou Gramm is another guy who had that gift, but sadly, his health issues cheated him out of at least a decade or so, and his voice has not weathered the storms well.
Quote from: lowend1 on November 29, 2011, 06:46:36 PM
Free was the early 70s. He was what, 20 or so? Undoubtedly, he was at his best in Free and Bad Co. The "Muddy Water Blues" album was done in '93 if memory serves - and he has done a fair amount of recording since then. Compared to most rock vocalists from his era, his voice has held up remarkably well. I am one of those who consider him to be the top dog. His voice, IMHO, is the best blend of blues, soul and rock ever. He managed to get all of that emotion and grit into (with Bad Co) three-minute rock staples. Lou Gramm is another guy who had that gift, but sadly, his health issues cheated him out of at least a decade or so, and his voice has not weathered the storms well.
While I am a huge Rogers fan, whenever this conversation comes up I always like to remind people of how amazingly good Steve Marriot was in this regard. "the best blend of blues, soul and rock ever" applies to Marriot in equal terms to Rogers IMHO. Both guys have/had incredible pitch too which is something that ppl seem to take to easily for granted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YvPf1yRGQM
Henry Rollins? IMHO no matter what he calls it, that's not blues. Just Henry's plodding pretentious pseudo-metal.
of course its not 'real' blues. like a lot of stuff i post i can find microscopic evidence of the genre in it. just a feeling, really.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqyqU0Tyg4w&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLFE7D8113B299426C
in honor of breaking 10,000 hits. a little jazz from two legends.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xJlV0Agi1w&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJc2g6RrjtE
More funk than blues. Still an unexpected source.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQqCyy1ACk0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IewXQ_x3yXU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWeaFsPZkyw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuHyRyM97d4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA4jfEOanIk
Love Burnside, big fan. 8)
New to me - I'll have to listen to some more... 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMVAWvmct80&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMVAWvmct80&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sazIm9MSbdo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mBvm0Vcpg0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtjJLGc1JUE&feature=fvwrel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm-L9uMxzQA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKVnur5DkdI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=s76mkRRGPZA&feature=endscreen
finish up with this little ditty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI_bev7kYHU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QjTGFSa97M&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9SivL7ebg4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVZpOSdWGEM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CD5yMpYjtM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6PA3_xeDI8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhis33IOXN0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOlqUzKBrsw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17W7496230Y&feature=relate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz6LbWWqX-g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOn-lITIfyA&feature=relmfu
I can't tell you just how many times this thread has put a smile on my face, but it's got to be somewhere between a bazillion and a gazillion ;D.
THANK YOU EVERYONE, and especially you nofi 8),
Rick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUUEtCBhn_Q&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvI0P6o_H8k&feature=fvwrel
Man, I wore out that John Mayall album (and a few others) when I was still in high school ;D. Interesting thing is, Mayall was my introduction to the blues. Learning American music from Brits is a bit bass akwards, but I'm sure I'm not the only one of that era that got it that way. I've been a blues man ever since.
I was hip to Mayall before I was hip to BB King and I was hip to BB King before I was hip to T Bone Walker and Muddy Waters. God I was a Backwards Child :-[.
Rick
it worked that way with me as well. cream helped me find the originals, too. ;)
The Animals and Cream were what started pointing me in that direction . A few years later I was over the fence and down the road :P.
Rick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiYLIMwOVlU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hQHyXeTywg&feature=fvwrel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnFBWrHEgH8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbvgfcFf4lchttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbvgfcFf4lchttp://watch?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmd0-S8RG1s&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohx9Ve7-GS0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2A-SxElXvQ&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=AL94UKMTqg-9BuavIxK5f-zW3H5sWwoHNH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abixZSlea8k&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HPe2J2K4c8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NKJBiTTB3A&feature=related
Chicken Shack. I remember seeing them at a rock festival in Iowa. When they started playing my friend dragged me up to the stage. The album out at the time was "Accept" and it is great. A few years ago I was looking on ebay to buy a copy and found the CD titled "Pluckin Good" another great blues collection.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wmfpjeqDqE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5T2_9swfCo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33Jaodra7AY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0if87pp8m8
This song was the one that made me a Rory Gallagher fan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5GPALLiWQE
i think rory's death bummed me out more than all others combined. no snooty rock star stuff from him, a man of the people. :sad:
Quote from: nofi on May 16, 2012, 05:50:45 AM
i think rory's death bummed me out more than all others combined. no snooty rock star stuff from him, a man of the people. :sad:
I had the pleasure of interviewing him, and what you say is very true. He was very down to earth. He even invited my then girlfriend into the dressing room, when it was found that a small fire had broken out at Park West. That night, in Chicago, Rory had a sold out show with The Who competing in an arena across town.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkIQGcTinaU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gzE4_-OszY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbBHqR4-Hkw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkQS3j349v8&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqUm1Pigx4k&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xROakz2j2dw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuY0SKBX9Wg&feature=related
I don't know if I got this one yet or not, but I never used to find it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KcGhOltCY0
I like the Stone Foxes a lot. I listen to them pretty regularly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6eBNlLvD-M&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rws_7mLTqj8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPaK1EfqNU8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqeW7-tmVU4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-zlSq4mWiE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCT7ua7WbBU&feature=related
oh, what the hell...
don't forget to see the new stuff on the previous page. no, it's not more dicky blackmore.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ako-WpbzK3c&feature=related
that's his wife on rhythm guitar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtvT_hOC80A
some extra jr. stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_wLVCLPx0M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=497ZmAsGAT4&feature=related
I'm not sure if I got this one before, but it's worth a replay.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsgtxIWZndI
good one! have'nt heard it in years.
Not classic blues but as long as we're on Junior Brown...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaEzT5MusFs
the classic blues category has expanded greatly. ;D i saw jr. when he had the upright bass. i like that better than the electric.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqhKxUDSaes
i saw that tour. brilliant! ;D
i noticed jack hall and john anthony from wet willie in this video audience shot.
We should have gotten this last month. Or did we? Starts in after 1:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyfSSkzADrY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h986aTCAo4w&feature=g-vrec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6ZLTLyJZpQ
i found this cd in the bargain bin for a dollar. these guys are from arkansas and i like 'em.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95zqEpNXZqk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxtlxq7yqXA
http://www.genghisblues.com/film/index.html
paul pena wrote jet airliner that made steve miller a lot of money. royalties from that song pretty much sustained pena through out his life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8Lr_27MkzA
give it a look. great film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfnwQyTT5UU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sewlci75N54
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K5tEkSO2zs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6htup-wTFeI&feature=related
blues is a feeling more than a structure. i'm just saying...
I just came across this little goodie. Dig the space ship that David Lindley is playing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkcrLaf5Sac&feature=related
Now, back to some blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1jzRRMAdsA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrqM0ITLXIc
the blues never left. just wandered off a bit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95zqEpNXZqk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHLKoh1JSmw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA1nw-CF_x0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpwNc-xwnxo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpwNc-xwnxo)
Man, that Dana Fuchs has the most Joplinesque delivery I've ever heard! Powerful!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-EP4FdVSYQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-EP4FdVSYQ)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvEtts_67AU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWLvm11MAaM
Hmm? suddenly overcome with a craving for Jack Daniels Tennessee Honey Whiskey.
ha! i found this version on their commercial.
You find blues guitarists in the most unlikely families. ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfN78EIZMkA&feature=related
paul looks like a wax robot. his kid has promise, though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27mK47yxCb8&feature=related
Certainly more fluid than "I-studder-across-the-strings"-Ace Frehley ever was. :mrgreen:
I liked the guitar shop scene because while Paul looks like a Soprano his son looks so much "Jewish nerd kid" he could be casted for the role, yet plays some nice lines (like any good father Paul says he has been surpassed by his son as a guitarist by now which is most likely true so Stanley sen. can do more on guitar than Kiss shows). It struck me as "universal language of the Blues" (whether you eat porc or not), that is why I posted it. Glad you appreciated it, I did not want to lay claim that young Evan Stanley (or Evan Eisen as the case may be) is the next great white hope blues kid!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgVW3SGu0Ng&feature=related
random bits from hither and yon...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eH5G34BLTU&feature=related
kathi mcdonald. longtime lead singer in long john baldry band and a member of big brother and... for a lttle while
That's very nice. Was she Janis' replacement?
Quote from: uwe on November 26, 2012, 11:33:23 AM
That's very nice. Was she Janis' replacement?
Yes. I had the misfortune of seeing Big Brother with Kathi. They were pretty bad by then, and opening for a young Blue Oyster Cult didn't help them. A couple years later, McDonald had a solo album out that had Ronnie Montrose on it. I remember it getting some good reviews.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnI9vUC6FKQ
i saw her and big brother as well. apparently it failed to make an impression as i remember nothing about the show, other than the fact that i was there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXKhwjlGAH4&feature=related
I watched that show when it was first broadcast...
Quote from: HERBIE on November 27, 2012, 03:51:18 PM
I watched that show when it was first broadcast...
It would have been nice to have been in the moment on that one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOlpcJhNyDI
That's a cute clip. It strikes how squeaky-clean and refined (albeit well-made) the Duke's music already was at that point, the animal had been taken out of it. Probably one of the reasons why it conquered whitebread ears too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umq610FdhEE
duet. ellington and ray brown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeoQI-SwI5w&playnext=1&list=PL60052CB54F3E5F8C&feature=results_video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzmqxTBaNyI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vKGluBbhro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdaOorDbuX8
Ah, Johnny Mayall :-*. Seen him many , many times and he never failed to cast a spell on the crowd ;D. He is the white guy who turned me on to the blues.
Rick
he's the white guy that turned white america on to the blues, me included. those were fun days of discovery. ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuAVHHRlxLg
This street duet used to be a highlight of my lunch hour downtown Chicago. Sad story - they moved to San Francisco, and apparently he had a heroin problem and ended up murdering her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiT1LKagawI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIo_au2QQfM
what great vocals, and a sad story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fUkQIzCYcA
local guys from atlanta. in a former life tom gray wrote 'money changes everything' for cyndie lauper. he's the vocalist and slide player.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmC9dxucBqo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c60FCXN73s
I betcha he's an university professor in his day job.
no day jobs for these guys. constantly touring and recording. why they were even in germany last year.
No surprise, we have a strong Blues community, jawohl.
;D
Not all Kraut bands sound like the Scorpions, Nofi, some of zem even zing ze blües in Deutsch. Like the iconic Interzone which were in my book the best German singing band ever. This will probably sound grating and alien to you native English speakers, but Heiner Pudelko, their late lead singer (brain tumor, no, he wasn't gay), phrased our schöne langwich like no other. He sang the blues as if it was invented in East Prussia where he was born.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2ZcBwGmcFI
Most people attempting to sing blues in German phrase it like English. Jule Neigel, talented as she is, is one of those "Germenglish"-singers. I suppose her lead guitarist saw one SRV vid too many. :-\
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCnrC7CGDI4
thank god all german bands don't sound like the scorpians. ;D i like when bands sing in thier native tongues, even the blues.
I thought Interzone was covering Tom Petty's "breakdown" for a minute there. That guitarist's outfit in the second vid is too funny!
That first TPATH album was very popular in Germany and the band had a 45 minute live feature on German TV only a few years before the Interzone debut came out - I wouldn't rule out some inspiration! Good ears.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y3d8028PXg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usAa6GeoQlI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qQbsnF_E5Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usyTlQ5hLAw
Johnny Guitar Watson before he was all pimped out.
Not exactly old school blues but ya gotta love Space Guitar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gJg7_FgVTI
One of me last bands listed their influences on it's old myspace page as: "basements and beer.... also Mississippi Fred McDowell and Robert Nighthawk".... and already saw some Mississippi Fred on pg 1 (wasn't about to sift through 50 pages to make sure there ain't been no Nighthawk yet so apologies if this is redundant).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM1DVOlCLyw
... and that old band of mine I mentioned ("irreverant noise-blues" containing absolutely no bass): http://peeder.bandcamp.com/
many of the blues guys on fat possum don't use a bass. rl burnside, paul wine jpnes, some jr. kimbrough, etc.
and the very late and very great hound dog taylor. on alligator records.
'we don't need no stinkin' bass to play the blues'.
Quote from: nofi on March 23, 2013, 02:10:03 PM
many of the blues guys on fat possum don't use a bass. rl burnside, paul wine jpnes, some jr. kimbrough, etc.
and the very late and very great hound dog taylor. on alligator records.
'we don't need no stinkin' bass to play the blues'.
you can throw the jon spencer blues explosion in there as well but really...
i answered my own post by mistake! >:( :P :mrgreen:
Anyone heard of Don Whitcher? You wouldn't know from listening, but he's a white guy from Arizona playing a Rick lap steel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXQdfqLq-_k
I already saw them on the first page of this thread but a bit more of Holland's finest from the seventies won't hurt. Interesting Jazz bass in this clip with a humbucker near the neck. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lsk9LI1E1I
Quote from: nofi on March 23, 2013, 02:10:03 PM
'we don't need no stinkin' bass to play the blues'.
Oh for sure; I just know my audience. Anyway, one more bassless one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlrQVI-cNlw
I dunno how I spaced out and forgot these guys in my last post. Local dudes. Looks like they got a new drummer I liked their first record best (before the keyboardist joined; rawer, dirtier, rootsier - back when they'd be performing on street corners in Kensington market, and similar nooks and crannies) - that's here, no vids I could find: http://catl.bandcamp.com/album/ad-nde-vas-a-ning-n-lado.
Anyway, last time I saw them I turned to my bud (blues fan and guitarist) and said
"Dude sure knows the Devil's fingering"
"what's that?"
"use your tail to hold the sixth note in the chord"
LOLs all around
Not so old...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPMYkITzxn0
Quote from: John Schoen on March 24, 2013, 12:45:16 AM
I already saw them on the first page of this thread but a bit more of Holland's finest from the seventies won't hurt. Interesting Jazz bass in this clip with a humbucker near the neck. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lsk9LI1E1I
Old beef of mine re:videos. Plug your guitars in. Even if there's no amp at the other end of the cord, help me suspend my disbelief. In wide or passing shots, fine, you can get away without, but if you're gonna close up on the guitar body so that the empty jack is right there staring me in the face, then you're just a lazy sod with a asshat director.
Quote from: John Schoen on March 24, 2013, 12:45:16 AM
I already saw them on the first page of this thread but a bit more of Holland's finest from the seventies won't hurt. Interesting Jazz bass in this clip with a humbucker near the neck. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lsk9LI1E1I
They could at least have the decency to plug in their guitars!
Quote from: Granny Gremlin on March 24, 2013, 11:34:28 AM
Old beef of mine re:videos. Plug your guitars in. Even if there's no amp at the other end of the cord, help me suspend my disbelief. In wide or passing shots, fine, you can get away without, but if you're gonna close up on the guitar body so that the empty jack is right there staring me in the face, then you're just a lazy sod with a asshat director.
Quote from: Denis on March 24, 2013, 11:52:43 AM
They could at least have the decency to plug in their guitars!
Wires? We don't need no stinkin' wires!. ;)
It is a fragment from a popular Dutch music show, everybody mimed on that show. Some artists didn't like that and did silly things to show that it was all fake.
I don't know if we got this one, but I just found out that this was included with the time capsule sent up with Voyager I.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNj2BXW852g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tyg5SJDpiQ
Thanks for sharing this. Love Johnny's playing. On a Epi Wilshire right? Tommy's bass is great too. He's still rocking that bass today. Gotta admire the commitment.
i think that's randy jo hobbs on bass 'red' on drums.
According to the YouTube entry, it's a Danish TV performance from 1970 with Shannon on bass.
Looks like Tommy to me.
(http://i1151.photobucket.com/albums/o632/4stringer77/Joan/tommyshannonbass_zpsf6b11c8b.jpg)
That bass has done some miles... 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8lme8he8WU
Quote from: nofi on April 06, 2013, 10:23:07 AM
i think that's randy jo hobbs on bass 'red' on drums.
that's Tommy. Randy was later on and a pbass guy with SVT not acoustic
I had heard that Shannon had health problems - just checked his website and a few other sites, and I can't find anything except that he was OK and signed an endorsement deal with Markbass in May of 2012.
His website says there's a 30th anniversary edition of the Texas Flood album about to be released....
Disc One of the 30th Anniversary Legacy Edition of Texas Flood includes the original album in its entirety with the bonus track "Tin Pan Alley" (aka "Roughest Place in Town").
Disc Two of the newly expanded Texas Flood will premiere a previously unavailable hour's long set of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble live at Ripley's Music Hall in Philadelphia. Recorded on October 20, 1983 for a WMMR broadcast, the extraordinary Ripley's performance finds Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble coming straight out of the gun already at an undeniable peak of their formidible powers.
That sounds remarkably like a release I already have...? presently packed away...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYQR1DALdXE&list=PLE31A3D8521D9F6A8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNg1RMGYmzE&list=PLE31A3D8521D9F6A8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcXcdHZLk4o&list=PLE31A3D8521D9F6A8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N5gUIUVgbM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCBrQQlcPLwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCBrQ
what a voice!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT8aUdSuCCE
Lot's of versions of that one.
the original Tampa Red
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34VJzHT9nuk
Elmore James
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAa-lCowVMY
John Mayall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMV4rDgY-BQ
Pig Pen, the Dead and Dwayne Allman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgPV9DFkQFs
Foghat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F1n43D-UkU
everyone on earth has covered this tune. hands down elmore james is my favorite version. but like i said luther has the 'voice'.
This thread has been quiet for too long... ;)
exceptional quality for an old video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS3rlsTYJKg
I just came across this one. It's a cover, but read what Donal Gallagher says about it, and The Commitments.
"Roddy Doyle, who wrote that, based it on Rory. Rory was a sort of muse for that – kind of the guy who didn't want to play this show band music, and went out and sort of went for a different form of music, i.e. the blues. In the movie, it's soul music. In fact, when they were casting for the movie, [director] Alan Parker called the office. He had gone back to the writer, Roddy Doyle, and said that they couldn't find the trumpet player, Lips or whatever the guy was called. Roddy said to Alan Parker "Well, if you can't find him, truth be known, I wrote it about a guitar player – Rory Gallagher. If you could get Rory to play the part of Joey 'Lips', the trumpet player, I'll rewrite the screenplay to be a guitar player. The whole legend of 'did he play with so-and-so', that all comes from Rory – did Rory play with Muddy Waters, did he play with Jerry Lee Lewis, did he have this reputation, did he really go out there and do it?" I managed to get Rory as far as Alan Parker's office, and Rory just refused. He did a reading for him, but just said "Look, I'm not the one." At the time, I was praying that he'd take the part. I really thought it would be a life-changing experience for Rory at a crucial point in his life. I thought he'd really have to look at life differently. It wasn't to be. But in fact, in the movie, the last line is "Let's go back to Gallagher's." -- Donal Gallagher
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZvLWWxbt64
I'm still in a Rory Gallagher mood. Not necessarily traditional blues, but still really cool. And Gerry MacAvoy is one of those guys I picked up on without trying.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgHyLpaVQ5s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuLaWgbu24M
It's a Hot Tuna Saturday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt_W6UhbOlk
Jimmy Page and Chris Farlowe. Not exactly old, but I like it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyOgi4V4EVA
Quote from: nofi on June 30, 2013, 12:42:51 PM
exceptional quality for an old video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS3rlsTYJKg
Yeah, pretty amazing vid quality. Love the fan on the back of the amp in the bottom right of the openning sequence.
Jr is really into this one, probably, I think, because Thomas the Tank Engine is a Blue Train (though he also loves Folsom Prison Blues, which is on the same record; we're starting him off pretty good I think):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EmzhG9P-y8
A slight departure. A local young kid who's carrying the torch for the next generation. He's about 18 now, I think. He used to come to a local jam when I was getting out and about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILYssxHYv2I
RIP Joe Kelley - former Shadows of Knight guitarist. I'm learning of this from the Chicago musicians on FB today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVVUizLsjvQ
Quote from: gweimer on September 01, 2013, 03:12:23 PM
RIP Joe Kelley - former Shadows of Knight guitarist. I'm learning of this from the Chicago musicians on FB today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVVUizLsjvQ
RIP Joe
Where have all the bluesmen gone... rip...
they all turned into robert cray. same could be said for jazz players. nobody has popped up since the greats died off. and that has been a long time. fusion doesn't count.
Is there anyone that is near the mark these days...?
gary clarke jr. is the current media, critics mainstream darling. hell, he even played at the whitehouse but its nothing you haven't heard 100 times before. other than that...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zyf34-5rns
Quote from: nofi on September 02, 2013, 04:33:38 PM
gary clarke jr. is the current media, critics mainstream darling. hell, he even played at the whitehouse but its nothing you haven't heard 100 times before. other than that...
I bought his disc recently. Enjoyable but like you said, nothing new.
Tom and Andy... now ain't that the blues... :rolleyes:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0sik4yZHY8
Quote from: nofi on September 02, 2013, 04:33:38 PM
gary clarke jr. is the current media, critics mainstream darling. hell, he even played at the whitehouse but its nothing you haven't heard 100 times before. other than that...
I have his debut. It is as much RnB/soul (in an old-fashioned sense) and pop as it is blues. Plus a little Hendrix thrown in. No black guitarist - unless he's very traditionally bluesy and has short-cropped hair - will ever escape the Hendrix tag me thinks. Anyway, the album is by no means bad, but not the awe-inspiring piece of work it has been heralded as either. Not exactly hype, but over-excitement, ok?
Quote from: nofi on September 02, 2013, 09:11:47 AM
they all turned into robert cray. same could be said for jazz players. nobody has popped up since the greats died off. and that has been a long time. fusion doesn't count.
I like Cray, but I guess he is too well-behaved for most blues enthusiasts, they probably miss the grime in his playing. To me he sometimes sounds as if he was a black guy from Northern England who grew up listening to Eric Clapton not the American blues greats. But I like his terse and clean style - "unblack" as it may be.
Maybe rap and hip hop are the new blues. Of course most of the older white guys here wouldn't want to concede to that.
the blues will remain the same, only the players will change. since the black community shows little or no interest in this music, i guess its up to old fat white guys to keep the blues alive. sad, really. :sad:
"since the black community shows little or no interest in this music ..."
True, but why is that I wonder? Is it that they feel that the blues was hijacked by white rock'n'roll? That Jimi Hendrix is no longer one of theirs? That the blues origins are too little urban, still too much Jim Crow and plantation, while soul and funk were the music of an emerging black middle class and that rap and hip hop is the confident modern music of an angry and demanding urban black youth? Eminem aside, rap and hip hop certainly havn't been adopted by white music culture to the extent that the twelve bar blues became a mold for white rock'n'roll and eventually white rock or even to the extent that black soul music shaped blue-eyed soul.
Tina Turner once said something that made me think. She was asked why - once she had her 80ies career sans Ike - her backing bands regularly featured no black players, why she had white players heavily influenced by black players (such as Laurie Wisefield who had played with Home, Al Stewart and Wishbone Ash and had a strong blues and funk infuence), but not "the real thing". And she said, rather defensively and not declaring it a coincidence at all, that whenever she hears a black player she hears the blues and that that was essentially the music of dejection and oppression to her and that she did not want that for her band, that white players didn't have that emotional baggage weighing them down.
Tina may feel that way but I'm sure B.B. King doesn't mind.
Blues stopped being an exclusively black music once radio and records became widespread. It influenced other forms and was influenced by other forms, just like every other genre. All music changes, some will keep playing the old stuff, others evolve it into something different.
The douchebags at Rolling Stone who claimed that white rock 'n' roll was nothing more than a ripoff of black blues were all idiots. The R & B music of that time was heavily influenced by white popular music, and rock 'n' roll was just as influenced by country as R & B. Just ask Chuck Berry about that.
I get the impression that Tina Turner's viewpoint is one which is widely held.
Ari may have something there... there are no great black "blues-men" as there is too much comfort to produce it, whereas disenchantment with life resulted in punk and rap. Blues is a statement; a feeling: I got the blues; I feel blue... it was all about an old Dobro, a bottle-neck off of an old jug, a dusty porch down some dirt track, an aging arthritic guy just about able to lay that Dobro across his lap and tease some notes out of it whilst proclaiming how life was hard, how unfair it was, how unfaithful he was, or his woman; kids running round in rags, but happy (mostly) with what they had... here, we had punk, albeit the "fascist regime" was men in suits disguised with zippers, but the true disenchantment nowadays probably is RAP... people not happy with their lot, proclaiming how unfair life is, how unfaithful the bitch has been, where the next fix comes from, dreaming of the quick road to wealth, guns and drugs...
Modern life... time to go...
Just had the word that by the time Jackie hits the next big-one we'll be looking at moving to an independent Scotland... once there, I'll find some old resonator and lay it across my lap and try and tease a note or two out of it with a piece of glass, remembering this lost place called the south...
Ha! Too funny Kenny. Let's keep the vids rolling here. Here's a couple that highlight the evolution of the music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqrg0i1aK8o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g5kNQ_cy3g
Quote from: CAR-54 on October 02, 2013, 12:44:59 AM
Ari may have something there... there are no great black "blues-men" as there is too much comfort to produce it, whereas disenchantment with life resulted in punk and rap. Blues is a statement; a feeling: I got the blues; I feel blue... it was all about an old Dobro, a bottle-neck off of an old jug, a dusty porch down some dirt track, an aging arthritic guy just about able to lay that Dobro across his lap and tease some notes out of it whilst proclaiming how life was hard, how unfair it was, how unfaithful he was, or his woman; kids running round in rags, but happy (mostly) with what they had... here, we had punk, albeit the "fascist regime" was men in suits disguised with zippers, but the true disenchantment nowadays probably is RAP... people not happy with their lot, proclaiming how unfair life is, how unfaithful the bitch has been, where the next fix comes from, dreaming of the quick road to wealth, guns and drugs...
You could probably say all the same things about metal, which has become another area of disenchantment. My daughter just posted something yesterday that gave me a chuckle. "Metal is just fast hip hop with guitars. And screaming."
And like all musical styles, the blues have evolved. New instruments, new society, new interests and focus. The change hasn't always been easy to swallow. I'm not a purist by any means. I got into the blues by way of the '60s British contribution, and then worked back a ways. I love the old Elmore James stuff. Hated the Bo Diddley blues songs. Paul Revere and the Raiders, believe it or not, started early sounding very much like a blues band. Black Sabbath emerged from Earth, a blues-based band.
There are some newer blues that I like. And the purists would probably balk at the five-string bass sound in this, but I like it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm1opP8x3Qo
The more I learn about older blues, I find myself liking piano blues far better than guitar blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Kb3s5QvKqI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ek3rXUWwUo
Covered this in a pick-up band - really loved playing it... my preferred version is by a Brit player called Nigel Bagge but can't find a link to it at present...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF36qarU-k0
... and then there's the unexpected... the same... but different... Alan Jackson's my preferred...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bonIfoN2NIg www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJhMUmuczPY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5HsQdB6eGU www.youtube.com/watch?v=kETbYPRJ9EU
This is another one I covered in the same pick-up band...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zAoICOqpEo
Does this fit? It's one that our band plays...it's about as up-temp blues as you can get! (And fun to play)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsmsuLT79Xo&list=PLEA61AB4ECE58FF92
Quote from: uwe on October 01, 2013, 12:50:53 PM
Eminem aside, rap and hip hop certainly havn't been adopted by white music culture to the extent that the twelve bar blues became a mold for white rock'n'roll and eventually white rock or even to the extent that black soul music shaped blue-eyed soul.
Most 15 year old white boys are trying to be gangsta and don't even wanna hear anything with a prominently featured guitar in it with the notable exception of the new Daft Punk. There are exceptions obviously (there's still metalheads, punks,etc, but they're not in the mainstream). Hip Hop sensibilities are easily dominating pop music now (production and backing music style, many pop songs have rapped lyrics over the bridge or break at least, many of of those by a guest star MC etc - if it isn't an outright Hip Hop track). Blues is played out, as someone who very recently was in a very blues based band, the kids don't wanna hear it (hell, the young adults and those my own age don't want to hear it).
Today's top 40:
1 Miley Cyrus (current single is a ballad, but a) she 'twerks' and b) total hip hop style production usually)
2 Katey Perry ( total hip hop backing track, maybe less so the choruses - but whole note guitar is hardly blues)
3 Royals (never heard them before just now, but that's definately Hip Hop influence)
4 Awicci (OK you got one so far.... maybe - kinda folky)
5 Robin Thicke (total hip hop backing track and 2 guest rappers.... he's like a white Nate Dog but with nothing relevant to say and nicer clothes)
6 Drake (he's even black! :P)
...
(and these are just the easy case ones on the rest of the first page of the list):
....Eminem is at 11, JayZ and Justin Timberlake at 14, another Robin Thicke w guest rapper at 18, Big Sean, Lil Wayne & Jhene Aiko at 22....
There isn't a solidly blues-based song in the bunch.
The only people left carrying the torch are Harde Blues Dades (bit of an in-joke from another board I am on but this guy pretty much summarises it):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpiRBBi4JYM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=336dDZsU1Eghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=336dDZsU1Eg
Dig the shoes and socks...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuoiR3Pzw64
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sn-HIQk1t8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n20U8hWHSE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytVww5r4Nk0
nice one, kenny!
You go back to the start of this thread, Tom, or even dip in here and there, and you follow the links that come up, and you find all sorts of good stuff that's almost forgotten... ;)
Quote from: CAR-54 on October 02, 2013, 12:44:59 AM
... there are no great black "blues-men"
I beg to differ. Second generation playing a song written by his father.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82GYj6GTLTU
And this guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQqNTgnJmpE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swrYZWr7M-Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYP4gTX9bRk
Is that Luther's son...? :o
As long as we're on the children of famous blues players, here's Johnny Copeland's daughter, Shemekia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjvcHvSSgQU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CupQmWlS81Q
Quote from: CAR-54 on October 09, 2013, 12:42:22 AM
Is that Luther's son...? :o
Yes. Luther's son, Luther's song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrqM0ITLXIc
funny comment about clapton at the beginning.
Hmm... not sure which one you mean...
The Luther video. Eric Clapton also does a song titled "Bad Love" but it's not really a Blues song.
We thought $12,100 for that Robert Johnson record (http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=8335.0) was a lot.
This one (http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/international-news/352279/collectors-holy-grail-becomes-most-expensive-78rpm-record-ever-sold.htm) went for $37,100!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayltwUwpW04
The owner reckons to have 78,000 recordings from the era... mind-blowing...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyA-1nSGUBw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14nAkwXCi7c
Someone needs to get Bud a tuner.
Quote from: gweimer on September 02, 2013, 05:56:27 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zyf34-5rns
I forgot one little detail that applies to this crowd. You'll notice the Marshall head. Sonny's amp used to belong to he who shall not be named.
Have we had anything by this gent...?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoFWtohnz9E
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKkw4nkifa8
i'am sure we do but more mississippi john never hurts. no pun intended.
Quote from: Dave W on October 19, 2013, 10:57:49 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14nAkwXCi7c
Tuning blues indeed. :)
henry has the blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laxeDa4B628http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laxeDa4B628http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laxeDa4B628
Speaking of out of tune instruments, here's a tune that's not quite a blues in form but the piano makes it sound very bluesy. I can't believe they let it on the album. I guess they took what they could get in the 50's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aStkf_yEpD0
LOL, voice and guitar are perfectly in tune - just not with each other! The piano has that classic Western Saloon distuning in itself but is also too high compared to voice and bass. Wonder whether they speeded up some tracks but others not when mixing the end result.
That was painful.
Little Richard has lost some weight in recent years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl-uKZXcPis
^
It seems NutriSystem will go to any lengths to sell their products now.
Quote from: westen44 on November 05, 2013, 02:34:42 PM
^
It seems NutriSystem will go to any lengths to sell their products now.
:mrgreen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNI3SBfgLWA
nice song. i see hite's brother had joined the band to replace larry taylor. canned heat were great but i kind of tuned them out after henry vestine and alan wilson were gone.
They were never the same after Al Wilson died.
I remember growing up and listening to my brothers "Boogie With CH", "Future Blues" & "Hooker 'n Heat" albums.
Years later I was amazed to learn that they were playing a bar show at a small military facility in California (1979 or '80) where I was going to school. Well, as they went on "the Bear" took ill, and never fully made it out from behind the curtain. Heat went on (for a short while) anyway and it was pretty awkward. I remember that at one point, he was prone, behind all the gear, with a mic (which would soon be confiscated by a bandmate).
I'd blame the airline food, but I think they were from California.
Too bad, that tiny club was usually booking stuff that no one wanted to listen to, let alone go see live. I dragged a whole bunch of people down there to watch this train-wreck...oh well, I was 18 years old and they had .50 cent screwdrivers...which, come to think of it, might have been the cause of the problem.
...or the mountains of drugs he regularly ingested.
Quote from: Dave W on November 11, 2013, 01:01:18 PM
They were never the same after Al Wilson died.
Was he the guy that sang Going up the Country with that really high but pleasant voice?
yes.
You need your trousers/pants a size smaller to get that pitch-perfect... ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqeW7-tmVU4
here you go kids. ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEaIiB4UV20
Eddie Shaw's son is the guitarist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVCo5EgsHcs
Canned Heat was a fantastic live show back when they had the full crew. Their records were good but never did them justice. I saw them several times and they never failed to please ;D. Larry Taylor playing through a couple of Sunn heads and 4 30" speakers was something to behold :o 8).
Rick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pozAY0BRnhk
band is warren zevon with r.e.m. minus stipe.
This one got me searching. These were my two faves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgjw4hnPvIg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PzoqIJXZ5s
This is cool too. Nice distortion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg0dud3QbwQ
not the blues but who cares
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj_lZ4hkJd8
NOT going home. :mrgreen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21n_FkKPoXk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ltu1tzKKJlo
Quote from: nofi on February 16, 2014, 08:17:49 AM
not the blues but who cares
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj_lZ4hkJd8
It's a classic, that's for sure. And I think it's Elton on keys behind him.
Not sure I like the idea of Elton behind me...
I've heard he did a lot of that back in the day...
Not the blues but here's the earlier, original hit by local boys Crow in 1971 (same band who did Evil Woman Don't Play Your Games With Me).
"you can't come across the Atsville bridge
Until you pay the toll"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULbtUPtrGDo
i had no idea. what a great song!
Dave knows Black Sabbath songs?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWW9j_ZGiBo
Nothing is sacred anymore!
Quote from: uwe on February 17, 2014, 07:54:43 AM
Dave knows Black Sabbath songs?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWW9j_ZGiBo
Nothing is sacred anymore!
I resisted the temptation on this one. Glad you got my back. :thumbsup:
Dave is now gonna say something anticlimatic like "Black who?" or "I wasn't aware they had covered this song" or "My dad was a Methodist preacher, I wasn't allowed to listen to Black Sabbath at home" or something similar, watch this space.
Actually, those early Sabbath albums had quite a bit of blooze content. You could hear where they came from. I always thought that early Sabbath owed their share to Cream and Mountain, they sounded a bit like those two bands on a heavy dose of Quaaludes ...
Ozzy was wise to listen when Felix spoke.
(http://i1151.photobucket.com/albums/o632/4stringer77/felixnozzy_zps1e56383f.jpg) (http://s1151.photobucket.com/user/4stringer77/media/felixnozzy_zps1e56383f.jpg.html)
Ah, Felix in true rock star attire!!!
Quote from: uwe on February 17, 2014, 09:19:28 AM
Dave is now gonna say something anticlimatic like "Black who?" or "I wasn't aware they had covered this song" or "My dad was a Methodist preacher, I wasn't allowed to listen to Black Sabbath at home" or something similar, watch this space.
Actually, those early Sabbath albums had quite a bit of blooze content. You could hear where they came from. I always thought that early Sabbath owed their share to Cream and Mountain, they sounded a bit like those two bands on a heavy dose of Quaaludes ...
We went over this with Evil Woman a few years ago, and no, I wasn't aware of it at the time.
Crow still plays a few shows a year, with the original lead singer and bassist and IIRC sometimes the original keyboardist. They some sort of benefit show early this month with Joey Molland's Badfinger. I haven't seen them since the early 90s.
When I heard the Sabbath debut for the first time I thought that was the only good song on it! It had more harmonies than the rest of the album combined. :mrgreen: It took me a while to get to like Sabbath, they were initially too doomy-gloomy monolithic for me. The first album of theirs I really liked was essentially their Sgt Pepper: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath which to most Sabbathos is already too sophisticated and over-arranged. I learned to like their older stuff from there, but SBS is still my favorite.
Quote from: uwe on February 17, 2014, 11:06:03 AM
When I heard the Sabbath debut for the first time I thought that was the only good song on it! It had more harmonies than the rest of the album combined. :mrgreen: It took me a while to get to like Sabbath, they were initially too doomy-gloomy monolithic for me. The first album of theirs I really liked was essentially their Sgt Pepper: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath which to most Sabbathos is already too sophisticated and over-arranged. I learned to like their older stuff from there, but SBS is still my favorite.
My favorite album is still Paranoid. Those blues roots do come out with the harp on "The Wizard", another favorite. Outside of that song, the first album plodded a little too much for my liking. They picked up the pace a little and I think that's what carried them over. The title track for SBS is reminiscent of this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsAoH2R9KMw
And I agree that SBS was probably their best album. Those of us old enough to have been there when it came out remember that.
The only time I saw Badfinger, Jerry Shirley was the drummer.
"The title track for SBS is reminiscent of this ..."
Oh, wow, I think Tony Iommi heard that album a little too often then!
What rock band didn't start with the blues?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYZrcfSEViA
True, but Sabbath retained a certain bluesish feel more than most. It transcends 12 bar. Has something to do with how organic those early albums were me thinks.
i know conventional wisdom says sabbath was blues influenced. i've heard that for years but don't see it, feel it or hear it. any brit band from that era always state they listened to american blues when starting out. unlike obvious theives like led zep, i don't find it in sabbath's music.
Sabbath was a straight blues band before they got signed. Tony's accident that cut off his fingertips led to them detuning and Ozzy's laziness made sure they stayed there. There are very clear blue roots under their music, but circumstance and their individual personalities changed it into something much more more than simply the sum of its parts. Those dirty Birmingham boys were the antithesis of hippie musing which grew into to prog overindulgence. Sabbath's extended jams always resolved rather than evolved, and once that tritone deal with the devil was struck, there was no going back. They literally laid down the framework that every angry metaller has since followed, myself included.
Quote from: Psycho Bass Guy on February 23, 2014, 02:04:19 PM
Sabbath was a straight blues band before they got signed. Tony's accident that cut off his fingertips led to them detuning and Ozzy's laziness made sure they stayed there. There are very clear blue roots under their music, but circumstance and their individual personalities changed it into something much more more than simply the sum of its parts. Those dirty Birmingham boys were the antithesis of hippie musing which grew into to prog overindulgence. Sabbath's extended jams always resolved rather than evolved, and once that tritone deal with the devil was struck, there was no going back. They literally laid down the framework that every angry metaller has since followed, myself included.
And there are those, such as myself, that would say nobody has every truly improved on what they started.
i reject your reality and substitute my own, as adam says!
Quote from: nofi on February 23, 2014, 04:45:28 PM
i reject your (Uwe's edit: Master of R)eality and substitute my own, as adam says!
Darn, Nofi can't even get the Sabbath titles right,
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DQORZ_b4JJw/TDeOT7EwfSI/AAAAAAAABrE/9pxTRdjo4Gk/s400/morbs.jpg)
he's snowblind! :mrgreen:
But not deaf (nor dumb) and thus able to hear (and grasp) the blues roots in this here, some of that stuff could come from a Cream, Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green era), Bluesbreakers or Canned Heat album:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-dbZIm8gkk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geLR_0_mLYM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0knGBI7_pU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8lAzfI90DE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCjspyo-_aI
You must really work at your preconceptions, Nofi! :) No need to get all paranoid about it, free your mind and the rest will follow ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVBoJhE4vlw
It's ok to credit Sabbath with their blues roots, doesn't make you lose credibility as a blooze afficionado!
Next week: Even the Purps did it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpFpu2qXF_M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_Iq9CWuqMM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT0OMkk4Hkg
Alas!, destruction of an empty argument is my one and only crime ...
Uwe should've posted the MTV video of Free Your Mind. It (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7iQbBbMAFE) was the first time I saw a Vox bass I think.
I looked for that, but it's not available in Germany. Hot vid, hot song, good message.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqgS22eb_5Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sos8_oo_nEw
I don't remember Bukka White coming up before, but I might be wrong...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=szGRsuK8MbM&feature=kp
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ptrcBDeiLk
Quote from: CAR-54 on March 16, 2014, 01:44:43 PM
I don't remember Bukka White coming up before, but I might be wrong...
...
I put him on page 1! You can't remember a mere 55 pages ago? ;)
i posted him a couple times as did someone else. :)
My presence here shames the board... :o
My only redeeming quality comment is that you just can't get enough of a good thing... :mrgreen:
Pick yourself up, Kenny-Boy!!! At least you didn't mistake one blues great with another. It's not always that easy to tell things apart, Ken, we know that, not for everyone.
This Forum prides itself in forgiving and forgetting.
Forgetting what? :o
Quote from: gweimer on March 17, 2014, 12:04:11 PM
Forgetting what? :o
I forgive you for forgetting. :-*
Let's not bring it up again. It's water under the bridge ...
(http://www.michaelmcfadyenscuba.info/images/hellcat-front.jpg)
ROFL...! :mrgreen:
(http://www.michaelmcfadyenscuba.info/images/hellcat-michael.jpg)
(Thank you Gentlemen...)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/EnterpriseBurningHellcat.jpg/800px-EnterpriseBurningHellcat.jpg)
Quote from: Dave W on March 16, 2014, 03:44:05 PM
I put him on page 1! You can't remember a mere 55 pages ago? ;)
Good for you Dave that's where he belongs.
Shame on you Kenny
"Did you know that tHe call is an anagram of a popular American carrier-borne WWII aircraft ..."
Try as I might I can't scrabble "Corsair" out of those letters ... ???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJHGB_xqZkM
Quote from: uwe on March 18, 2014, 11:28:14 AM
"Did you know that tHe call is an anagram of a popular American carrier-borne WWII aircraft ..."
Try as I might I can't scrabble "Corsair" out of those letters ... ???
How about the Ford Pubic... made out of old Cors-airs...
... and this might relate to Gary's post above... ;)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdyVHgrxMW0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiT1LKagawI
I liked the recent album of these guys (risen from the ashes of post-Alvin Lee Ten Years After):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8a4Y61ojIA
There are parallels to Bonamassa's work no doubt, but Hundred Seventy Split are perhaps not quite as "finger-snapping blues class teacher's pet" as Joe B.
its a shame that black folks have pretty much abandoned the blues. the voice is the key for me and most white guys don't have it. imo blues is like jazz in that the golden days are long gone and they ain't coming back. gary 'the new face of modern urban blues'clarke included. :rolleyes:
I bought that Gary Clarke jr album on the basis of the hype around it and was disappointed. Yes, there are blues influences, but I don't find them overt, I've heard Lenny Kravitz tracks that owe more to the blues than most of what is contained on Clarke's last CD. Mind you, he's not a bad singer or songwriter or guitarist, but I can't see the much heralded new urban blues wonder in him.
I also got my hopes up high for Gary Clark, Jr., but was disappointed.
I like several of the songs on his album, but I wouldn't crown him as the new blues king by any stretch. I don't think he broke any new ground with that album.
clarke is like robert cray. blues-ish but not really blues.
I disagree, Nofi! Cray might be too little raw for a purist like you (and your blues knowledge can run circles around mine), he's a bit like a black Eric Clapton, gentlemen blues so to say. Cray is a black blues guitarist like Denzel Washington is a black actor - they both don't correspond to the "black male" stereotype we all, without being racist, tend to have (and which a genre like Rap reinforces all the time).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew7hvG--n0g
But I like Cray's approach. No, it's not animalistic, gritty and you can't hear the plantation just around the corner, but I think it's sincere. Miles Davis wasn't a "black male" either and his music, while intellectually playful and not unemotional, was always a little reserved and not oozing raw emotion.
cray seems more r&b influenced than others. smooth dinner music for the polite set. i disagree about miles. i find alot of emotion in his music, even bitches brew. :o coltrane was awarded the emotion crown long ago starting with a love supreme and on to the end. even his last record, interstellar space, which was 100% free jazz from start to finish is loaded with emotional playing. even though most folks can't stand it. a tough but rewarding listen, imo.
That makes two of us here! Who like Bitches Brew I mean. :mrgreen:
You guys do realize we're repeating this discussion from last fall.
yeah, but i don't care.
Unlike Deep Purple the Un-Sex Pistols, Miles Davis doesn't suffer from being overmentioned here! 8)
Besides, 90% of the topics in this forum are of cyclical nature and get masticated over and over. You know how old men keep retelling their war stories and restating their inflexible opinions. Was it ever different?
And I'm always happy when Nofi speaks with me at all and doesn't say anything degrading or derisive about my heroes!
I repeat myself when under stress
I repeat myself when under stress
I repeat myself when under stress
[trollpost]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVdrxF2FpR0
And some of his more usual work:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBgxCunPUUM#t=33
[/trollpost]
Since when are you from Norway?
I don't think one needs to understand the language to appreciate the art/harde dade blues.
... also I thought it the dude was Finnish?
I was joking on the "troll" aspect. But of course I know that you are from Germany or Russia, depending on wherever the borders were at that time ... :mrgreen:
Trolls are Norwegian? I suppose that explains why Death/Black metal are so cool/memeworthy online.
Also, I'd be careful with the jabs if I were you. I have some elite babuszka operatives surrounding you, stationed in Berlin and Bach.
I'll call Putin!!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
You don't think he's too busy to help you right now do you? .... or that he hasn't pissed the EU off enough yet this year?
We could always hold a referendum!
WTF... :o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIpSv-Wxz0o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSnQ0bdHW0s
was that chef dancing? excellent. ;D
Same song, different form.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkpWb4PZvkk
Quote from: gweimer on April 16, 2014, 11:04:01 AM
I repeat myself when under stress
I repeat myself when under stress
I repeat myself when under stress
The more I look at it,
the more I like it.
I do think it's good.
It's too nice out this time of year to be posting blues tunes. Here's a song from a band I can't get enough of lately. It has the word blues in the title of the song. Close enough.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwvlBtaWLaA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quNxcPJR4gE
grand funk, huh? you should be drawn and quartered! this is almost as lame as when uwe tried to pass of some deep purple nonsense as the blues. :o
Quote from: nofi on May 13, 2014, 12:05:05 PM
grand funk, huh? you should be drawn and quartered! this is almost as lame as when uwe tried to pass of some deep purple nonsense as the blues. :o
Does this qualify?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pHlSX_zbwY
yes it does. imo lots of non traditional blues box stuff is the blues as long as i can get that bluses feel out of it. this tune has it plus a little bit of swing. not so much with DP. i'm far from being any kind of expert on this stuff. i just like it.
Well, then, let's hear from Carl Perkins (and his toupee)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWzilrg8wgI
Which was based on this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3GEDqkJeVs
I like to remember that although Hank is long gone, his music still lives on, and that unlike some instruments that just get locked up in a glass case for people to gawk at and drool, one of Hank's acoustics still gets regular use on the boards...
(http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/files/2010/03/Neil-Young.jpg)
Quote from: nofi on May 13, 2014, 12:05:05 PM
grand funk, huh? you should be drawn and quartered! this is almost as lame as when uwe tried to pass of some deep purple nonsense as the blues. :o
Maybe I should let more competent men on the matter speak:
"I never heard any blues like I heard the guitarist from Deep Purple play. I had to stop blink my eyes, and go back and take a close look at this cat. He was playing some black blues that'd make some black guitarists stand up and take notice." Robert Alexander "Bumps" Blackwell in a Melody Maker inteview, Sept. 1972
(http://api.ning.com/files/qlMo5YCkkJo-LlDJOd2-2K9D1IMlVy31mBcpMAcUuMrkwQkZnO0AgTQR1NCeuLTvX0PmMZkhgIpSOxi3MEuTwn7kkKvJMlTo/bumps.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgcnU74Ld8Qhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te8hW2mO6rQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te8hW2mO6rQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSVfoJ-Frsk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQkftebEYBE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm3QjqhUlUk
Dear Nofi, your observations can sometimes be of striking lucidity, but here they are - to quote a Deep Purple title for once -"clearly quite absurd"! Your definition of blues is as convenience-driven as your good administration's definition of international law. "If two parties do the same thing, I get to define why it's different after all!"
Since when is Robert Alexander "Bumps" Blackwell an authority on what to call Blues? :popcorn:
this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MqYPyRkcNs
i'm through talking about dp in this thread. friggin' hopeless. :rolleyes:
Bumps Blackwell? The man behind Little Richard and Larry Williams? LOL! He's no blues authority! You might as well ask Dr. Dre.
DP is not a blues band.
Quote from: Basvarken on May 15, 2014, 04:10:57 AM
Since when is Robert Alexander "Bumps" Blackwell an authority on what to call Blues? :popcorn:
You're right, he might have discovered Little Richard and co-written some of his hits, but then Little Richard is - like Keith Emerson really - already too far removed from the blues to count. And Sam Cooke, but that guy had nothing to do with blues either, because blues and soul are really like man and ape, not related at all.
The only authority in the blues apartheid state is of course Nofi, grand wizard of definition who is in and who is out.
"DP is not a blues band."
Thanksfully not, but I'm not aware that anybody made that claim. But they could play a blues tune unless your definition of blues is that it cannot be played by anyone who plays nothing else but blues. How elitist.
Bumps Blackwell was always a jazz and early rock & roll guy. Not a good ol' classic blues guy.
Most popular music has some blues influences. That doesn't make Sam Cooke a blues guy or Bumps Blackwell a blues authority. And DP playing a blues tune in DP style doesn't qualify either.
Posting five videos in one post to try and prove a point is reminiscent of a certain departed person. It's not going to convince anybody. And it really slows down my browser. What's next, prefacing your posts with "as we all know?" ;)
Lawyers give evidence, that's our job. And if one ignores an "ah, it's all Smoke on the Water" mindset and actually listened to what DP and affiliates do on those tracks they might hear something that just might challenge their preconceptions. If one wants one's preconceptions to be challenged that is. I listen to vastly varying music - even Blues :o if this guy qualifies under the scrutiny of the Blues Secret Police -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMFQYYia5bE
and I've found out that if you listen closely you tend to learn or notice something new everytime.
You crack jokes about former members who were kicked out against my opinion, I accepted the democratic vote. But incidentally both Terry and "As we all know" were more open to revising their view in the face of argument than some other people here who wallow in their preconceptual complacency.
Quote from: uwe on May 15, 2014, 02:23:43 PM
Lawyers give evidence, that's our job. And if one ignores an "ah, it's all Smoke on the Water" mindset and actually listened to what DP and affiliates do on those tracks they might hear something that just might challenge their preconceptions. If one wants one's preconceptions to be challenged that is. I listen to vastly varying music - even Blues :o if this guy qualifies under the scrutiny of the Blues Secret Police -
.....
and I've found out that if you listen closely you tend to learn or notice something new everytime.
You crack jokes about former members who were kicked out against my opinion, I accepted the democratic vote. But incidentally both Terry and "As we all know" were more open to revising their view in the face of argument than some other people here who wallow in their preconceptual complacency.
Oh please! Those two were the least likely to change anything. They were both much too busy stirring up trouble, one a gullible troll and the other a pathological attention-seeker.
Yes, Tom and I must be the arbiters of what is and isn't real blues. Not that we want to be, but when faced with an invasion of 70s arena rock bands in this thread, we'll spring into action. With apologies to Potter "I know it when I see it" Stewart, we know it when we hear it. And we know what isn't. :P
I was waiting for that argument to come: ""I know it when I see/hear it". That must have crept under our scientific proof radar here.
Except that you guys don't listen, you compartmentalize.
I also herewith call the unwarranted and undeserved demotion of Deep Purple from "stadium rock" to mere "arena rock". Insult to injury, the people laughed, when (s)he said burn!!!
(http://www.californiajamfanclub.com/image/bw_aerial.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJSA2lRnJ9c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZZD8ckwLJA
Nah, can't be real Blues since there is no Deep Purple nor anal sex involved.
As we all know... real Blues can only be played on an early EB made lefty while wearing a mediaeval peasant costume with an open crotch.
When in doubt please consult Inspector U.W. "Horny" Frankfurter of the Global Music Missionary Institute.
8)
I've seen discussions elsewhere similar to this one. Such discussions can take many forms. Sometimes it seems blues purists have some kind of test that must be passed to determine if someone is really a "bluesman" or not. I suppose if people want to look at it that way, that's okay. Ultimately, though, I don't care how someone gets labeled. I've seen people argue whether Hendrix was a bluesman or not. Once again, I don't care. I think he was heavily influenced by the blues. Whether he passes the "blues test" or not just doesn't matter to me. If I were going to be critical of him, though, I'd be more critical of the direction his music was taking during his latter period. Some people, of course, think that's when his music was at its best. It's a matter of opinion.
If you really slow down Clapton's solo on "Sunshine of Your Love," that really sounds bluesy to me. Is the song a blues song? Probably not. Once again, I don't care. I don't see what the point is in this thread. But I guess that's my problem. Maybe I'm not interesting enough or perceptive enough.
As I type this, I'm listening to the Hendrix Axis album. One reviewer labeled it as "jazz metal." But is it jazz or metal, or jazz metal? Probably not. It doesn't matter. I don't know what's so important about labels. To quote a line from Wayne's World when somebody was supposedly quoting Kierkegaard--"If you label me, you negate me."
You just stopped me in my tracks, Michael... the only time I've ever heard that expression used was a band I was in in '83 as a self-titled instrumental we did was described as quirky jazz metal... never thought of Axis as jazz-metal... :o
This is blues...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTFvAvsHC_Y
if you wear panty hose and a wig you can't be a blues guy.
Have you seen the pic of Duane on the gatefold of the above LP, Tom ... ?
Mind you, you have a point... :mrgreen:
Uwe... a lawyer of your grade should easily be able to present evidence to prove this case in your favour... ;)
Quote from: Highlander on May 16, 2014, 04:10:39 PM
You just stopped me in my tracks, Michael... the only time I've ever heard that expression used was a band I was in in '83 as a self-titled instrumental we did was described as quirky jazz metal... never thought of Axis as jazz-metal... :o
This is blues...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTFvAvsHC_Y
I'd never heard the description before. I ran across it last night.
Q Magazine said--
"Axis dazzles as the Experience creates a genre short-lived, probably because nobody else could play it: jazz metal might be the appropriate tag."
I think of Hendrix more as a mix of post modernist blues/ R&B and surrealist expressionism ???
Anyhow, my last posts were tongue in cheek, but to back up Uwe, Ritchie definitely could feel the blues. Dig his licks on this tune.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h_OIg_6mcP4
I'm no blues purist. Hell, I'm not even a big blues fan. Music evolves. But no matter how many stadium rock band videos are posted to deliberately derail this thread, you're not going to convince anyone but yourselves that it's even remotely near classic blues. I know it when I hear it, and DP ain't it.
This thread is ruined. Post away.
No need to get flustered Dave. I hear the blues in what Blackmore played in the context of that Deep Purple song. If you can't, maybe Uwe's right and you weren't listening. I wouldn't say they qualified as stadium rock at that point in their career yet either. Here's a more traditional blues song dealing with heartache.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G-WEqsOA9Fo
I'm not flustered, but I'm mighty irritated at what this thread has become.
Yes, most stadium rock bands were/are influenced by blues. So what? That doesn't make their music classic blues. The DP song you posted is not even remotely close.
I'm done posting in this thread for now. nofi can let me know if it ever gets back on track.
Quote from: nofi on May 16, 2014, 04:30:17 PM
if you wear panty hose and a wig you can't be a blues guy.
I think this is even mentioned in the bible somewhere ;D.
Rick
Maybe he didn't wear wigs or panty hose but Kokomo Arnold sings about switch hitting in a dry spell on this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq49tS75xCA
I'm going to post one of the most obvious choices - because it still stuns me that Cream took Robert Johnson's "Crossroad" and made it into one of the rock breakthroughs of the 60's. I think Johnson must have been spinning his grave like a lathe when they released it. However, I think it's a magnificent musical adaptation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd60nI4sa9A
In this 1968 version of Crossroads, I'm amused by the video "technique" from 2 minutes on - zooming in and out quickly and pulling focus were about the only visual effects that directors had to work with back then. The quick zooms in the solo are especially annoying. And as usual, the cameras didn't capture Jack Bruce going nuts on the bass - that guy was all over it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=becWr0vc6cA
That Sissy Man blues is also a take on Robert Johnson's I believe I'll dust my broom. Here's ZZ top's take on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyXZUP2oRKA
Quote from: 4stringer77 on May 17, 2014, 07:30:08 AM
Maybe he didn't wear wigs or panty hose but Kokomo Arnold sings about switch hitting in a dry spell on this one.
And, on the subject of switch hitting...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nmrWB1ovQ0
Quote from: Dave W on May 16, 2014, 11:58:14 PM
I'm not flustered, but I'm mighty irritated at what this thread has become.
Yes, most stadium rock bands were/are influenced by blues. So what? That doesn't make their music classic blues. The DP song you posted is not even remotely close.
I'm done posting in this thread for now. nofi can let me know if it ever gets back on track.
That, dearest Dave, is (to use a technical term) a load of crap. Once you have cooled down scroll back and find the posting where Nofi complained in his reply to a Grand Funk bluesish track being posted how that was almost as preposterous as claiming that Deep Purple played blues once in a while. It was then and only then that I intervened to stop the nonsense and provide - this being the LBO - some facts. I had no intention to derail nor did I derail, I'm actually happy how a thread started by Nofi's longstanding friend Terry has been nurtured by him in Terry's lamentable absence and has now seen the same lucky fate as the Crimean: It's back in good hands.
You being flustered is down to a dearth of facts and failing to read (and listen).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYZaXo4jOu0
Never mind ... it does have its benefits ...
(http://inktank.fi/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/1984-1.jpg)
The Grand Funk tune was called I don't have to sing the blues. I wasn't trying to claim it was particularly bluesy. I've been listening to them often lately and jokingly used the title of the song as an excuse to post it, like summertime blues. Sorry to derail, carry on.
Renewed mention of Grand Funk, always an underestimated and unjustly derided band, gives us the chance to return this thread elegantly to its original tracks ... Mind you, I'm hedging my bets and posting John Ellison's original rather than Grand Funk's (also very nice) take on it, albeit even that might be a little too soulish for our resident Bluesfascisonados here, but, hell, I'm European and allowed to get away with it! It at least avoids the stadium/arena rock tag. Pleasantly unrelated to Nick Simper, Rod Evans, Roger Glover, Ian Gillan, Glenn Hughes, David Coverdale, Tommy Bolin (ooops, deserving an honorary mention in this thread, don't hold the color of his skin and a short stint with Purple against him forever),
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLlVFwj8pXE
Joe Lynn Turner, Ritchie Blackmore, Steve Morse, Jon Lord, Don Airey and Ian Paice too. Where were we? Ah, back to Grand Funk!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lErsfM7L0Z4
Oh yeah Grand Funk did do Some Kind Of Wonderful. That's bluesy alright. I prefer the earlier material though, when Mel had the mudbucker in his Jazz bass. Nice rendition from John Ellison there Uwe.
Here's a tune off an album I just picked up from an old shop in Lowell, MA. It's 89' and that's kinda classic from my perspective. Hamp is classic. He's backed up by some young lions here, notably Anthony Jackson who is laying it down solid and simple. Hamp is the one who steals the performance when his solo comes around. Listen for a man in his 80s expressing a lifetime of experience. That's good ole' classic blues to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6SW_BjSGKc
You're not kidding he steals it1
fat boy do good:
http://youtu.be/YLUrzHhciAU?list=PL6175BB148102C554
the bassist is so tight in his timing ... about 6:46 on Voodoo Chile you get a good shot of the bass rig and it is dead nuts righteous!
have not heard that tune in ages. nice version.
when the vid is done and it gives a lot of little windows, go to the left and click on his Hendrix "Voodoo Chile"
Quote from: sniper on August 18, 2014, 12:17:59 PM
when the vid is done and it gives a lot of little windows, go to the left and click on his Hendrix "Voodoo Chile"
He is can play, obviously, but his comment at 4:32 is not like something Hendrix would have ever said.
Quote from: westen44 on August 18, 2014, 03:37:08 PM
He is can play, obviously, but his comment at 4:32 is not like something Hendrix would have ever said.
Nor something that either the sound man or the bass player would appreciate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fwTMNkxDik (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fwTMNkxDik)
We play that tune, and i really like it. I'll see if I have it recorded somewhere....
My girl did a great show last friday with her band.
They kicked ass. here's the opening tune of the concert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4KdDkq5ObY
Nice!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neZ6kMjDiG0
Cool! I know of a couple versions. Johnny Winter did it, and this guy...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeoYlKfenlY
There' a few others on YouToob as well; The Meters and Robben Ford. I like the original best though. Really nice sparsely layered, syncopated, simplistic groove that's very different. It also refreshingly has no guitar solo!!!!!
I think this may be my favorite Guitar/bass/drums band of all time. The first is an old O'Jays (actually older than that) tune. Not really a blues I guess, but more so than Deep Purple :)
The second is a blues for sure and has its own intro:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdMDexoMSlc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqZz4tW4GSU
Got me hooked now Gino
I'd heard a song or two from Snooks over the years but I re-discovered him maybe six months ago and listened to everything of his I could find. He was very eclectic, claimed to have a live repertoire of 2500 songs. Lots of acoustic stuff that I'm really not that interested in but there's plenty of other stuff that's just great.
Here's another simple little tune that I couldn't get out of my head for several months:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw4nDEHIm2E
The bass playing on this Ten years after song caught my ear. It's got to be a Gibson bass, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoSN_QV-5Sc
Nice guitar work from Doyle Bramhall II. Thinking about checking his show out tonight at the Bull Run in Shirley Mass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1peUidQDdO8
Quote from: 4stringer77 on November 09, 2014, 09:49:25 AM
The bass playing on this Ten years after song caught my ear. It's got to be a Gibson bass, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoSN_QV-5Sc
Doubt it! Bas(s)ically, Lyons is a Jazz Bass guy (and he could get that sound with the front pup). I've seen him play Wal, Warwick and boutique Jazz Basses, but never anything remotely Gibson. Not a short scale guy I believe.
"Lee was the best known as the front man of Ten Years After, and Lyons was the co-founder. Lyon's bass playing is rock solid and is a great example of the rock blues styles of the sixties. His main bass is a sunburst '62 Fender Jazz bass with a rosewood fingerboard. He still has the bass but also plays a replica of the bass, knocks dings and all, made for him by The Bass Centre in London."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_o4omd8T5chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_o4omd8T5chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_o4omd8T5chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_o4omd8T5chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_o4omd8T5chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_o4omd8T5chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_o4omd8T5chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_o4omd8T5c
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDprYZ-tgiA
strings... :o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byZXD-AHg3g&list=RDbyZXD-AHg3g#t=0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd_-gWN3-4E&list=PLcMzMChJkZsM5R6np9U-fKvLKdYFZ7PEm
Quote from: nofi on March 03, 2015, 12:36:24 PM
strings... :o
And what's wrong with strings? 8)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWXnr43Wacw
Quote from: nofi on March 03, 2015, 12:36:24 PM
strings... :o
at least six, as a general rule; preferably an old Dobro, open-tuned in E; piano's got over 100 of 'em... ;)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1x0-AjX__M
Well, Tuesday's just as bad, and even a bit of muted trumpet and some baritone for good measure...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQEEWC4ZxYQ
and no strings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0bv_PTazDc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx1OFl_y-ic
muddy's try at psychedelic blues, late 60's. funky bass line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THIsYGV1v-Y&list=PL6366244DCC2CD22A&index=6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvNjZGZ_UjI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ4NFsw4bOU&list=PL6366244DCC2CD22A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EToCRYeiI0&list=PLgDXL3BjY36_j7fJffPljX8eSsQICyRU9&index=7
had enough.
Warm fuzziness emanating from across the Pond... 8)
Some nice "sessions" material linked to these... not a "short" listen...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuQahedYZVg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR01T4EPNYA
Speaking of Albert, he works well with Cropper and Staples on this album.
Can't believe I'm just finding out about it now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65j0o-m-BrM
You'll just have to go back to the start of the thread and annotate all the bass parts as penance... :mrgreen:
Ha! I'll get right on that Ken. Working on Mary Jane at the moment actually. The Rick James song to be clear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqUm1Pigx4k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvEtts_67AU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-aLadXQnyg
Great band, I found out about them a while ago on Spotify.
New to me...
not the blues but check out a young albert lee from the early seventies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pXW8LoisGs
Chas Hodges, of that well known quality beat-combo and bar band Chas and Dave - saw them (sort of - an encore) work together, on a cover of Goodnight Irene, whilst Lee was touring with EC and C&D were support... that was fun...
To my surprise... this is them guesting on a show with Chas and Dave...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VoFPGJD5OY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZm96PKwtHc
interesting combo here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXk--eL5-kQ
More or less the same...?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EnQLAmwY9o
and something prickly in nature...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=47DQqShSPlM
Following suit - Peter Green, Jack Bruce, Aynsley Dunbar, Rod Stewart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=126&v=DCMLa_Gs8Ic
always liked this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3fKCFoTpP0
Quote from: nofi on August 19, 2015, 06:48:06 PM
always liked this one
Great version ! Has been on my repertoire off and on for some 20 years.
+2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSK0ZVPsqk8
Since we started talking about Firebirds in the Thunderbird thread, that got me to thinking about Clarence Gatemouth Brown. He's one of those musicians who spans the entirety of American music in my estimate. Blues, Country, Jazz, R&B, and Rock. Sounds as good with Roy Clark as he does with Freddy King or a big band with horns.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoeBEFDrnZs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRowoJ7KSnk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVK_nSrxhiQ
Quote from: nofi on August 05, 2015, 08:20:48 AM
interesting combo here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXk--eL5-kQ
The really cool thing about this clip is that Gallagher didn't know the song at all. You can hear Jack Bruce telling him how the song goes as they walk towards the stage. Rory is getting a feel for the song during the first verse, and pretty restrained. By the second verse, he's on top of it. My favorite live version of this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsnXQ99RX7k
maybe my favorite bluesman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-uw7iU9-3E
Ver' nice...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt-8Q1OF1fM
I assume that posting this will get me uncermoniously ousted from this forum forever and my name erased from all its historic records. Plus Nofi will say something how only a stadium-rock-warped Teutonic character like me could slip Def Leppard into a blues thread. Here we go!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_eWLgir_a8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WmPcVKYYz4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSzNYXm6DV8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEEqtcfYAMM
To make matters worse, the young man is not only a member of, yes, Def Leppard, but also a - gulp! - Deep Purple fan. That is him on the back cover of Made in Japan (Dave: a Deep Purple album that had fleeting popularity in the 70ies), when he still had hair, the blond kid watching Blackmore (right underneath Herr Blackmore's posterior if I am not mistaken), he wasn't at the Budokan, but he was at the Rainbow Theatre in London where the pics on the Made in Japan cover are from. Collen says that this gig made him decide to pick up playing guitar, all things not only lead to, but are also spawned by Ritchie ...
(http://japan.escubes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/deep-purple-made-in-japan-super-deluxe-back.jpg)
Speaking of Herr Blackmore, this is the best Mistreated cover version I have so far heard. And the fact that it is sung by a man (Joe Elliott, another lep(p)er, who should by rights not be mentioned in a blues thread) and a woman (the amazing Ms Debbi Blackwell-Cook, godmother of Mrs Helen Collen, Phil's wife) gives the lyrics and the situation they describe a whole new slant. Lovely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txX8-EDf9PY
You may now commence posting your reprimanding reprisals!!! :mrgreen:
"i shall fight no more forever"
chief joseph, nez perce.
Come on, Nofi, don't be a spoiler! :mrgreen:
One man's blues is another man's purples...
Or - as one fine Englishman once put it: "One man's meat is another man's aching butt." Like with a lot of quaint Brit phrases, you never quite know what to make of it.
A brave attempt of Phil, you gotta give him that. But somehow his version never really gets airborne. His voice is too limited. And his acoustic guitar skills are nothing to write home about either (as far as I'm concerned).
I still prefer the Humble Pie version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z9wni2uzR8
And Ike & Tina did a great version too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7GgziI8gug
And recently Rival Sons !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XpmD_fjt6I
All three versions show you really need a strong lead vocal to do the song justice.
Go smokey...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3wKHpODdvU
Or even, the prequel, back to the roots...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOhJjXOR6a4
Admittedly, the version by the lil' guy here (Marriott)
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is a belter! Not that he ever lacked confidence or commitment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNRuASgNV6Q
I never knew he had a West End career as a child. By today's standards he must have back then been an "American Idol". Darn, he should have never started to smoke. :-\ He could be making recordings with Rick Rubin by now.
Where do you think he got the name the Artful Dodger?
He did go up in smoke :-X
I never gave that a thought, sorry! My Marriott knowledge is pretty much limited to a Small Faces and a Humble Pie compilation plus the iconic Rocking the Fillmore. His work - spread over so many record labels - has not been served well on CD (I also had Rock On as an LP way back ...), it really is high time for a comprehensive boxed set, "reassuringly expensively priced" for middle-agers like me. :mrgreen:
I've got a live CD of Steve, not sure if it's the Original Receivers or Packet of Three, but he does an equally outstanding version of "Amazing Grace" on that one.
iirc, he was the "mystery" guitarist on the Herman Rarebell solo LP...
I almost forgot about this thread until it came up again recently. This fellow passed away on April first in case you needed another reason to have the blues. Nice looking ES-335.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyk_ljL9Tf8
Yippee...!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs
The thread... not the artists contained therein... I believe all newbies should start at the beginning of this thread and listen to it all as a rite of passage... :mrgreen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu_rwoAkcj8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byZXD-AHg3g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_o4omd8T5c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy2tEP3I3DM
Some of the players may not be with us but the blues will never die and neither should this thread!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtNZm9KXm8w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiQfhwWcDkk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdgrQoZHnNY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGsAh2jx6JA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izgFESZdSxc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq6GULGiad8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-uw7iU9-3E&list=PLnQdgjHiWnCtJ-QIqb4NMjsZfIeYEMtsW
Quote from: nofi on April 20, 2017, 08:42:37 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byZXD-AHg3g
Shamefully :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ , this is the first time I have heard the original and the guitar playing and singing are certainly noteworthy! I wouldn't have expected such a strong folk/bluegrass influence.
I wonder if my boys actually ever heard the original or were they just aping Cream?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YUDkUr4kgY
Jon Lord might have - he was in various British blues combos long before Cream existed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Isu3NsYxFWY
Oh... welcome home ol' friend...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0_eRVroLqs
... and this from 1966 has a bit of EB0 with an evertilt... :mrgreen:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hEYwk0bypY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR2gR6SZC2M
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOrhjgt-_Qc
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Gh2dbPp5o
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0sik4yZHY8
skip james played piedmont style blues which has rag time influences and employs a rather complex three finger picking technique.
You live and learn, danke. Ragtime, the music reintroduced to public perception in the 70ies via this here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FefhMk2HDNg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An9rC8olaVY
the myth himself. everything about this guy's life is speculation, even the number of songs he recorded. i read the number was eight with only four accounted for. you all recognize this tune via canned heat.
Willie is credited with backing up Son House. I think Willie is playing the bass lines on guitar here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge5j_86znJQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtzP2mDXW6Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm8FxZF2Z5k
Quote from: Highlander on April 20, 2017, 04:29:12 PM
... and this from 1966 has a bit of EB0 with an evertilt... :mrgreen:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hEYwk0bypY
It's's a bar bridge, not an evertilt, which wasn't around that early. Also looks like he's using a thumbpick.
Mere amateur, and rather prone to errors... that's me... :mrgreen:
A venial sin, Ken, at least you didn't say it was a B.B. King vid! ;D
Wasn't it...? :mrgreen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rws_7mLTqj8
As long as we're going there...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mgcIfKdflo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUkDXDrh8t8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGVShoAWp00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIfcKy-VcXo
Big Ten Inch... Record... an old classic... 8)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZWe2w03hU4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW0M2zEx-7g
Lucile Bogan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkPCmIxv-3k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LLWVqUZvT0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEleM86fPtE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3yd-c91ww8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdwu0I_vhXk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6eBNlLvD-M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=500M6yHlo_Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heYxa6yX2os
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGypxhxCE5Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYFUaGb4C1M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EpT28AMTyU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9-ltPsbw9g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXb95qJMxIU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpt8PFNW9Og
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLL3uuygekA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES7e_AB98h8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHBqcU0ym4I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsF9Tn-Xe-M