I just heard some kid the other day, Johny Lang that's a blues gutarist/songwriter, sounds promising. I'm going to play him some this weekend. Yeah I've heard some of Blind Faith Hyde Park, awesome. Still can't believe SRV died. _
Johnny Lang is not a new act. He's been around for several years. I also love the blues. I found out recently about this live album of Mike Bloomfield with Al Kooper at the Fillmore East from 1968 that apparently got lost in Columbia's vault for decades, and was rediscoverd about four years or so. Aside from being excellent, with a bit of shakey drumming, it is also notable for being the concert where Johnny Winter was introduced in effect by Bloomfield to the Columbia execs who were in the audience. Bloomfield was Columbia's top gunslinger guitarist in those days, and his endorsement and Winter's blistering performance on My Own Fault, trading leads with Bloomfield and holding his own, was followed that Monday morning by Columbia signing him to a contract. A fascinating bit of blues rock history. Check out the cd, if you love the blues you will love it. One gem is Bloomfield doing One Way Out, a song everyone associates with the Allmans. Imo this different version is simply better.
Tedeschi Trucks Band at The Beacon later this month. My favorite current touring "rock" group. It's blues, gospel, funk, rock.
There's plenty of good traditional rock blues music out there...you just gotta find it. Pandora is pretty good for discovering new artists. Just create a station based on whoever, and it''ll play songs that are in the same vein (usually)... Quotsa is one of my all time...started listening to Kyuss when I moved to LA in the late 80's. Have a few friends that are/were in the band. Jonny Lang put out his first record on 1995....he's only like 34!
Going to see the Meat Puppets next month in Boston. Me and probably twenty other people. So I got that going for me.
Every time I hear "Meat Puppets" I have the uncontrollable urge to flap my dick around like a party favor. Yeah, TMI, I can't help myself.
Dudes. it's the 21st century. Nice call on FF..BB..two pages in on a NY thread people talking rock blues, no Love for Joe Bonamassa? But man, as much as I love the classics, bands like FFDP,A7X are like a breath of fresh air...(I'd include Seether, but that's only new to me......sheesh how a decade slipped by after Audioslave broke up is beyond me,....) The first half of American Capitalist, feels like hearing Whole Lotta Love...Heartbreaker,White Room, Frankenstein,Hocus Pocus, Bitch,...et al...for the first time when I was 7 or 8...
Best show I ever saw: Clapton and Winwood at MSG about six years ago. When the stage is set with two Hammond B-3s, you know you're in for a good night.
Thanks dude, just listened to a bunch of cuts off that album. Wow what a great find and a hidden gem. I gotta get the full CD. Do you know if there is any video of that? I'd love to see who was playing which solo on It's My Own Fault. _
You know you are getting old when the classic rock station is playing Nirvana right after Lynrd Sknyrd.
This was the B side of Not Fade Away. I bought the 45 with the picture cover in early '64 (still have it). It's the only Beatles song the Stones ever recorded.
I loved early Rod Stewart but my favorite time was when he was with Beck. I bought the double CD compilation Truth and Beck-Ola and it's in my top 20 alltime. _
One of the best rock and roll books I've ever read, and I'm not much of a Stones fan: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219024.The_True_Adventures_of_the_Rolling_Stones
The Winter guitar sounds more trebly than Bloomfield. Bloomfield started out playing a Telecaster, but by the time of this show he was firmly in the Gibson Les Paul matched with Fender amps phase. I don't know what guitar Winter was playing on that cut, but it was not an LP, almost certainly not a Gibson SG, either. Might have been a Firebird, which does have somewhat more treble. But it likely was a Fender Stratocaster or Mustang, which Winter did play early on. I don't think there is any video from that concert. And you are welcome. Yes, a hidden gem.
