Good Ol' Classic Blues Songs

[nofi]

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!

[Dave W]

Anyone heard of Don Whitcher? You wouldn't know from listening, but he's a white guy from Arizona playing a Rick lap steel.

[John Schoen]

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.

[Granny Gremlin]

'we don't need no stinkin' bass to play the blues'.

Oh for sure; I just know my audience.  Anyway, one more bassless one:



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

[gweimer]

Not so old...

[Granny Gremlin]

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.

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.

[Denis]

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.

They could at least have the decency to plug in their guitars!

[John Schoen]

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.

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.

[gweimer]

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.

[gweimer]

[4stringer77]

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.

[nofi]

i think that's randy jo hobbs on bass 'red' on drums.

[gweimer]

According to the YouTube entry, it's a Danish TV performance from 1970 with Shannon on bass.

[4stringer77]

Looks like Tommy to me.

[Highlander]

That bass has done some miles...