Good Ol' Classic Blues Songs

[rahock]

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 .
Rick

[4stringer77]

Maybe he didn't wear wigs or panty hose but Kokomo Arnold sings about switch hitting in a dry spell on this one.

[Pilgrim]

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.



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!

[4stringer77]

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.

[gweimer]

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...

[uwe]

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).



Never mind ... it does have its benefits ...

[4stringer77]

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.

[uwe]

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),



Joe Lynn Turner, Ritchie Blackmore, Steve Morse, Jon Lord, Don Airey and Ian Paice too. Where were we? Ah, back to Grand Funk!!!

[4stringer77]

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.

[Rob]

You're not kidding he steals it1

[sniper]

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!

[nofi]

have not heard that tune in ages. nice version.

[sniper]

when the vid is done and it gives a lot of little windows, go to the left and click on his Hendrix "Voodoo Chile"

[westen44]

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.

[Pilgrim]

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.