Good Ol' Classic Blues Songs

[nofi]

maybe my favorite bluesman.

[Highlander]

Ver' nice...

[nofi]

[uwe]

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!









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 ...



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.



You may now commence posting your reprimanding reprisals!!! 

[nofi]

"i shall fight no more forever"

chief joseph, nez perce.

[uwe]

Come on, Nofi, don't be a spoiler! 

[Highlander]

One man's blues is another man's purples...

[uwe]

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.

[Basvarken]

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


And Ike & Tina did a great version too



And recently Rival Sons !



All three versions show you really need a strong lead vocal to do the song justice.

[Highlander]

Go smokey...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3wKHpODdvU

Or even, the prequel, back to the roots...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOhJjXOR6a4

[uwe]

Admittedly, the version by the lil' guy here (Marriott)



is a belter! Not that he ever lacked confidence or commitment:



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.

[Basvarken]

Where do you think he got the name the Artful Dodger?
He did go up in smoke 

[uwe]

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. 

[gweimer]

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.

[Highlander]

iirc, he was the "mystery" guitarist on the Herman Rarebell solo LP...