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Re: The Blues Channel
« Reply #150 on: December 21, 2019, 02:12:03 am »
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Re: The Blues Channel
« Reply #151 on: December 21, 2019, 11:45:57 am »
I've been fortunate enough in my lifetime to see the following Blues musicians live:

B.B. King
Albert King
Buddy Guy
Gatemouth Brown
Albert Collins
Johnny Clyde Copeland
Robert Cray
Lonnie Johnson
Etta James
Duke Robillard
Ronnie Earl
Room full of Blues
Lou Ann Barton
Marcia Ball
Lonnie Mack
Susan Tedechi
Little Charlie and the Night Cats
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Fabulous Thunderbirds (Jimmie Vaughan)
Eric Clapton
Allman Brother (newer version-w/o Duane and Dickie, but with Trucks on slide)

From the late eighties to the mid nineties, I was a lead guitarist in a blues band called "The Detonators"
We did okay, had plenty of work.
We played regularly in a venue called "Billy Blues" in Houston, on Richmond Avenue.
It was known for this big blue saxophone statue made of Volkswagen parts, at the entrance to the building.
Here's a link to a photograph of it:

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I love this subject

I am familiar with most of them,and have seen and heard a lot of them play,but not Etta James. I am eaten alive with envy.

This is one of my all-time favorite You Tube videos. Two old pros,both past their prime,but still showing the children how it's done.


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Re: The Blues Channel
« Reply #152 on: December 24, 2019, 08:45:16 pm »
Gregg Giarelis - Five Years Of Trouble


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Re: The Blues Channel
« Reply #153 on: December 24, 2019, 10:11:49 pm »
   My nomination for Blues song of the year ~ (2006)

Acme Blues Company - Liquor Store


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Re: The Blues Channel
« Reply #154 on: December 24, 2019, 10:21:33 pm »
   My nomination for Blues song of the year ~ (2006)

Acme Blues Company - Liquor Store


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OK, I love the song well enough, but who... is... that.... woman?  Yum.
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Re: The Blues Channel
« Reply #155 on: December 24, 2019, 10:24:53 pm »
I just received this book as a Christmas present . . .



. . . so I got into the mood to listen to what I think are his best blues (and choosing isn't easy) . . .


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(He has the second guitar solo here . . .)

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« Reply #156 on: December 24, 2019, 10:26:51 pm »
    I have nary a clue @andy58-in-nh and I feel guilty because I should, since I've had carnal knowledge with her in my mind.
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Re: The Blues Channel
« Reply #157 on: January 11, 2020, 05:37:30 pm »
PK Mayo - Arms Of The Blues


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« Reply #158 on: January 11, 2020, 05:39:03 pm »
Chris Bell - Elevator To Heaven


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« Reply #159 on: January 11, 2020, 08:31:03 pm »
Working Blues Band - Who's Been Talking


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« Reply #160 on: January 11, 2020, 08:46:55 pm »
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Re: The Blues Channel
« Reply #161 on: January 11, 2020, 08:52:21 pm »
Not really one for the 'Blues'. I've seen the Moody Blues several times.  Do they count?  :whistle:


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Re: The Blues Channel
« Reply #162 on: January 11, 2020, 08:57:52 pm »
   You better be glad 'they' don't allow me to Moderate this Category anymore is all I gotta say.  :tongue2:
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Re: The Blues Channel
« Reply #163 on: January 11, 2020, 09:07:25 pm »
   You better be glad 'they' don't allow me to Moderate this Category anymore is all I gotta say.  :tongue2:

 :beer:  I needed a respite from "politics"
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Re: The Blues Channel
« Reply #164 on: January 11, 2020, 09:54:57 pm »
   I do too, more often than not here lately, @libertybele and Music is a great escape for me. 

@EasyAce first time I've heard this version.

Aunt Kizzy'z Boyz - I'll Play The Blues For You


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Re: The Blues Channel
« Reply #165 on: January 12, 2020, 05:55:48 pm »
Delbert McCliinton  -  B Movie Boxcar Blues


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Re: The Blues Channel
« Reply #166 on: February 07, 2020, 07:25:30 pm »
David Bromberg ~ Tongue


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Re: The Blues Channel
« Reply #167 on: February 07, 2020, 08:14:41 pm »
Not really one for the 'Blues'. I've seen the Moody Blues several times.  Do they count?  :whistle:


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Uh, no, they don't. They were never a blues group, even if their original lineup (pre-Days of Future Passed) leaned on R&B. The original lineup: Denny Laine (lead vocals, guitar, and future member of Paul McCartney & Wings), Ray Thomas (vocals, harmonica), Mike Pinder (keyboards), Clint Warwick (bass), and Graeme Edge (drums). That lineup recorded one album (The Magnificent Moodies in England, Go Now in America) and had a smash on both sides of the ocean covering R&B singer Bessie Banks's "Go Now" in early 1965. (In the U.S., the success of "Go Now" earned the original Moody Blues a slot opening for the Beatles on some 1965 tour dates.) When they were unable to follow that hit up with anything else anywhere near as successful, the closest they got being "From the Bottom of My Heart," tension arose in the band and Warwick decided to leave in spring 1966, with Laine following almost at once.

That left Thomas, Pinder, and Edge to think about starting over, beginning with inviting a former bandmate of Thomas's, John Lodge, to join them as their new bassist. Then, near the end of 1966, Justin Hayward (guitars, vocals) joined up. While they concentrated on playing in Europe, where they could earn a good living in live performances, Lodge, Hayward, and Pinder also began writing very different kinds of songs than the original lineup took on. And Thomas mostly put his harmonica aside in favour of the flute, while all five of the new lineup began writing songs as well. (Edge, in the beginning, was more likely to write poems to be read aloud that way over music than to write songs.)

Between that and a quirk of fate involving their British record company, things would change for the Moody Blues rather drastically starting in 1967. British Decca had a new stereo concept they wanted to experiment with, something they called Deramic Sound---and with the Moody Blues owing them a pile from unrecouped advances during their down period, the label all but ordered the band to deliver an album recorded in that concept . . . and, somehow, the band convinced the label to turn away from the intended rock version of Dvorak's From the New World and let them split the difference, recording a new, original cycle of songs depicting a day in the life, with a full orchestra. The net result was both 1967's Days of Future Passed and British Decca's Deram subsidiary label, on which would also come such hit groups as Procol Harum (for one album, anyway, before they moved to A&M) and Ten Years After.

Days, of course, became a hit album in England and America; Edge wrote and read the two poems that bookended the album. In England, "Nights in White Satin" became the big hit single, while "Tuesday Afternoon" (edited down from the album's "Forever Afternoon (Tuesday)") became the hit in America that year. (Exactly why "Nights in White Satin" didn't catch in America the first time around is unknown, but when it was reissued in 1972 it became a blockbuster.) And it presented a bigger problem: Days was successful enough to retire the Moodies' debt to their label, but the label wasn't willing to foot the bill for another round with a full orchestra. Enter the Mellotron, which the Beatles were already using in their music and which Mike Pinder knew more than a few things about---when the Moodies had down periods, Pinder worked in the factory that produced the instruments that could reproduce orchestral sounds through internal tape looping, and he knew enough about them to alter them drastically to fit his and the Moodies' need. (They got nicknamed Pindertrons, in fact.) Beginning with In Search of the Lost Chord, the Mellotron became a major signature sound for the group---and a temporary headache when they realised a lot of the music they were producing from there wasn't easy to perform in concerts because of the prodigious overdubbing. It seems to have taken them until portions of On the Threshold of a Dream (Edge once again wrote and recited a poem---essentially, the album's title track---over a sound backdrop) and (especially) A Question of Balance to write material they could perform live including Pinder's Mellotron washes.

But you know the rest.
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Re: The Blues Channel
« Reply #168 on: February 27, 2020, 08:15:34 pm »
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« Reply #169 on: March 03, 2020, 09:23:47 pm »
Stevey Hay's Shades Of Blue - Fade To Black


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« Reply #170 on: March 06, 2020, 11:44:57 pm »
Harder Dreams - John Moreland


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« Reply #172 on: March 23, 2020, 08:16:55 pm »
Tony Joe White - The Guitar Don't Lie (Best All Time Hits 2014 / 1080p HQ) Mu©o


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« Reply #173 on: April 06, 2020, 03:00:16 pm »
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« Reply #174 on: April 06, 2020, 03:14:45 pm »
Stevey Hay's Shades Of Blue - Fade To Black


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BTW,the guy in that photo is the star of a Netflix series titled "Peaky Blinders". They are a Gypsy gang in Ireland dating back to pre-WW-1 days that used to put razor blades in their hat brims so they could swing the hats and blind people they were fighting with.

Good scripts,superb acting,and beautiful scenery. Kinda brutal at times,though.
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