THE BLUES

[TC]

Just been watching it on BBC2........Didn\'t want it to finish....fascinating stuff.

If you missed it and like Delta Blues stuff by Son House, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, etc (the REAL blues men), you missed a treat.

Son House playing \"death letter blues\".........Whooo-Hoooo.....tremendous !!

Just tuned my acoustic to Open A - gotta get me a bottle neck tomorrow....lol

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[willywetegg]

Just been flicking about cos there was nowt on. As they say in Consett Bo££ocks. Would have enjoyed that.

Jim.

[mark]

double bollocks!

right up my avenue, got tons and tons early blues, started out as a mission to find the original versions of all the tracks on the first 2 zeppelin albums (yup they are nearly all cover versions) and ended up with a catalogue of artists with names almost as strange as the names given to fishing flies!

[TC]

Zeppelin actually got a mention in the program, Mark:-

Lemon Song.........inspired by and including a few lines of Robert Johnsons\' \"Traveling Riverside Blues\"

[alan]

if you check BBC 3/4 the program listings it might be repeated

[fishfinder]

Used to have a mate that played in a blues band fantastic to watch him play he used to be nuts about stevie ray vaughn !!! and not to nuts about eric clapton on account of stevie ray apparantly died on the way to a clapton gig or summitt ,personaly I think clapton rocks

[Stores]

SRV died in a helicopter crash so the terminus was irrelevant (except for being terminal). Love him to bits though. Bit more edgy than Clapton (who\'se still a good guy)

[RobAdair]

Prefer SRV to Clapton, but Rory Gallager beat the two of them hands down for a raw, edgy sound.

[Stores]

Think I\'ve posted this before but Rory was one of my all time heroes. Saw him at the City Hall once and then sat with him in the Wimpy Bar opposite the Central Station and he chatted to us for ages, us waiting for the last bus and him waiting for the train. Magic bloke.

[TC]

Got to agree with ALL the names mentioned........they are/were ALL good - better than \"good\"......but.........all imitators - not inovators, in my book. Nearest any of the above named came to sounding like the \"real\" blues (and not the more easy on the ear, \"cleaned up\" blues), was Rory Gallagher when he really got that bottle-neck going.

[fishfinder]

http://www.rorygallagher.com/html/index.htm
click on albums and theres a load of mp3 samples to listen to sinnerboy guitar solo ..cool

[TC]

I know that I seem to be keep going on about them at the moment and that they are not to the liking of many.......but.....it\'s great to see a band with a HUGE following of young fans covering songs originally written and performed by the likes of Leadbelly, Son House, Blind Willie McTell, The Memphis Jug Band and Robert Johnson.
As there are only 2 members of White Stripes, their sound (paricularly live) is very raw and basic....much the same as the original blues players.

Take a look in here and click to play the demo of \"Death Letter\" (originally Death Letter Blues, by Son House) - infact - click on the rest, too - you might just like it !
http://delit.net/music/title_list_world.phtml?id=7072


It\'s good to know that there is still a young audience wanting to hear songs by the great bluesmen from the past and not just the latest thing by Coldplay or Franz Ferdinand With a bit of luck, they might even start looking for and listening to the original versions - much the same way as Mark did with the Led Zeppelin covers.


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[RobAdair]

Already got my young\'uns (and not so young\'un) in practice

I doubt many 9 year olds would know who Steppenwolf or Cream are, yet alone listen to them

[fishfinder]

love the white stripes mate and know what you mean about the raw sound ...its one band I would absolutely love to see live

[mark]

not a big fan, and wasn\'t that impressed with their performance on Live 8 (was it Live 8??), but if you will play a cardboard guitar though, I don\'t suppose you can expect it to stay in tune for long

much preferred French and Saunders take off of them - \'The Poo Stripes\' very funny