Music thread

boltonbonce wrote:Stop name dropping! Were you investigating their tax records at the time?

You started it with your Bob Greaves moment, Boncey.

I was a lowly paid, green whipper snapper when I saw most of 'em and I expect they all paid their dues to  the IRS in the good old US of A. Can't see many of them having had interest-free loans or companies registered in the UK (or Delaware) tbh.

I did see Champion Jack Dupree once before he married a Yorkshire lass and went to live in Halifax.

boltonbonce wrote:

I love the authenticity of the early blues and Jazz. When they sung it because they felt it.
This Lady seems incongruous with playing a Gibson SG. She is another happy soul doing what she enjoys.

Here's an account of that rainy night in Manchester:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-27256401

Ten Bobsworth wrote:Here's an account of that rainy night in Manchester:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-27256401

I remember watching a BBC4 documentary about her on iPlayer a few years ago. Remarkable woman.

Ten Bobsworth wrote:Here's an account of that rainy night in Manchester:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-27256401

That is a fantastic account of the show. I enjoyed that. The journalist using words such as alighted and cakewalk was a joy.
This is an event nobody knows of these days, Im sure, except a few.
I love the slow pace those times put across in contrast to today.
Some famous people got a Bus up from London to watch this too!
The Artists were surprised that they could sit on the train carriages with other people. They had to segregate in the US.

boltonbonce wrote:
I remember watching a BBC4 documentary about her on iPlayer a few years ago. Remarkable woman.

She certainly put on a show that night in Manchester didn't she, Boncey?

Ten Bobsworth wrote:
She certainly put on a show that night in Manchester didn't she, Boncey?

Would have loved to have seen it. Sadly, the eleven year old me, was still listening to this.

I found this Muddy Waters song from the same show. This is proper blues. He is using a Fender Telecaster here and a slide on his little finger, so as he can also pick out those arpeggios and pentatonic notes. A crafsman, a blues man. Respect to the Gentleman.
You cant lose what you aint never had.

I'd love to see the original show, is it available anywhere? Wilbraham Road is not that far from me although that station doesn't exist now i don't think?

There is a longer video here




The Railway Station has been demolished now?

The G string on Fenders notoriously wander out of tune. His wasnt tuned up on one of the songs and can hear almost a flat note. However it isnt his fault on a live show like this.

Norpig wrote:I'd love to see the original show, is it available anywhere? Wilbraham Road is not that far from me although that station doesn't exist now i don't think?

I'm working on it. Must be one somewhere.

Good work Boncey i'll give that a watch. I love Muddy Waters 

boltonbonce wrote:http://www.openculture.com/2013/01/muddy_waters_and_friends_on_the_iblues_and_gospel_traini_1964.html

This was the same group of Blues artists that did a concert at the Free Trade Hall around the same time. Sister Rosetta Tharpe was probably the least well known to a UK audience but impressed Mrs Bobsworth and I the most. Brings it all back. Thanks again Boncey.

Long John Baldry was a British artist that appeared on the same bill and would later share billing with the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart and Elton John.

I remember seeing John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers at the FTH around 1969. I think they broke up a year later, but so many big names came through the Bluesbreakers.

For anyone interested, this is an in depth interview that Billy Conolly did with the Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham. It is a rare interview in which Bonham discusses his life and his career in the Supergroup.  Bonham interviews are extremely rare, and for him to discuss the things he does in this interview is a real scoop. It was broadcast on television in 1980