Genuine Brit Blues Buddies

Subject: RE: Genuine Brit Blues Buddies
From: Les from Hull
Date: 18 Jan 02 - 02:49 PM

The Hull session is on the second Sunday of each month, at the Tap and Spile on Spring Bank. It runs from 3pm to about 6pm or later, and it's mostly electric, although it can be acoustic with pa.

Subject: RE: Genuine Brit Blues Buddies
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Jan 02 - 01:22 PM

...and too, some personal stuff about Stevie Ray Vaughan that Doyle Bramhall II said in an interview in one of those guitar mags:

Doyle says he learned the value of protecting his fingers from watching the abuse SRV subjected his fingers to. Evidently, to get the sound he wanted, SRV played using very, very heavy strings. He played so hard that he'd wear holes in his fingers. Doyle recounts an incident backstage where Vaughan was preparing for a concert. He ripped skin off other parts of his body, filled the holes in his fingers with Super Glue, and then glued 'skin pads' onto the ends of his fingers. All this just to make it through a gig. What price stardom.

Subject: RE: Genuine Brit Blues Buddies
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Jan 02 - 01:01 PM

..electric blues here, circa syko-delic 60's white boy/black influence music, loud and proud.

Gibson reissued their SG with the original P-90 pickups, and called it a Pete Townsend signature model. But it's like the one Clapton played when (arguably) he was at his best with Cream doing tunes like "Sleepy Time Time," "Spoonful" and "Crossroads." Such a sweet, yet deliciously wicked tone...what tears would sound like if they had an indignantly righteous voice.

And just when I'd thought Clapton had sold out to corporate interests (re: the beer commercial with the "Cocaine" soundtrack), here comes this tune "Sick And Tired" off his "Pilgrim" effort (not his most recent, admittedly) that just blows my socks off. Sadly, the rest of the CD is pretty much fluff.

Subject: RE: Genuine Brit Blues Buddies
From: jbailes
Date: 18 Jan 02 - 11:57 AM

les from hull, could you please give the date of your monthly blues session and its address? rolfyboy6, i posted something on the tweedboard. thank you both for your suggestions.

Subject: RE: Genuine Brit Blues Buddies
From: Hrothgar
Date: 17 Jan 02 - 05:10 AM

"Cookie" = sweet biscuit??

As opposed to "cracher" = dry or savoury biscuit??

To heck with these computer people, staeling words from those poor Yanks.

:-)

Subject: RE: Genuine Brit Blues Buddies
From: ddw
Date: 17 Jan 02 - 12:11 AM

Nope, rolfy, I'm not shittin' ya.....

I've got nothing against trumpets and saxophones —— I've played both in times past. But what's the point of playing a guitar to sound like them? Most of the electric bluesmen play rhythm guitar, interspersed with long-held bent notes that just doesn't do a thing for me. Not when there are players like Taj Mahal, Keb Mo, Paul Geremia and quite a few others out there who can really play — the way Robert and Lonnie Johnson and all the Blinds played. To me, that's music. BBK et al are just making noise......

cheers,

david

Subject: RE: Genuine Brit Blues Buddies
From: Rolfyboy6
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 11:54 PM

Yer bullshittin' me, right? Otherwise, you got my sympathy. Don't go to Mardi Gras, it'll only torture you. Those nasty saxophones and trumpets! One note wonder B.B. King. Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh.

Subject: RE: Genuine Brit Blues Buddies
From: ddw
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 11:02 PM

I've been listening to blues since the '50s, playing some since the '60s and playing them almost exclusively since I got back into music about 4 years ago.

I play strictly acoustic (Well, I plug a couple of my acoustic guitars sometimes because so few people know how to mike them these days) and favorite bluesmen to learn from are all the Blinds (Blake, Fuller, Davis, Jefferson, McTell), lots of Piedmont and Georgia players, Robert Johnson (who I consider an excellent musician, but not one of the originators of blues), Big Bill Broonzy and Josh White.

I think Muddy Waters didn't invent electricity, he electrocuted the blues. I can listen to a few of the plugged-in bluesmen, but not many and see nothing particularly appealing about one-note wonders like B.B. King who play guitars to sound like trumpets and saxophones.

I live in Canada now.

cheers,

david

Subject: RE: Genuine Brit Blues Buddies
From: Rolfyboy6
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 09:17 PM

I'm a bluesey type. I live in Northern California tho'.
I often frequent a website/bulletin board called Tweed's Blues. Tweedboard
One of our contributors is MO who lives in Bristol. We also have a Norweigan and some aussies, etc. Stop by. We like the blues in various styles.

Subject: RE: Genuine Brit Blues Buddies
From: Les from Hull
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 04:32 PM

Although I'm one of the aformentioned folkie-types, I have lots of blues records, and play blues on harmonica, bass, (some) guitar and even bouzouki (Greco-Irish blues?). I'm sure some of our London 'catters will have some suggestions for clubs and sessions. We only have one monthly blues session in Hull (but there is a piano).

Les

Subject: RE: Genuine Brit Blues Buddies
From: mack/misophist
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 03:38 PM

A cookie is a small text file that web sites place in your browser. Some sites use it for accounting; some, like the Mudcat, use it to identify members; and others use it to spy on you. It's wise to delete them regularly and replace as needed.

Subject: RE: Genuine Brit Blues Buddies
From: jbailes
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 03:27 PM

are you in england? i play barrelhouse piano - folk blues and primitive new-orleans-style jazz. i am landing in london march 3 2002 looking for people to play with. any advice?

Subject: RE: Genuine Brit Blues Buddies
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 21 Jul 00 - 08:05 PM

boz, there are quite a few of us Blues Afficionados out here, we just happen to be outnumbered by the Birkenstock-wearing, homespun Folkie-types. Actually, I love traditional music of all kinds, but when I play, it's mostly the blues. I play in a little combo doing Chicago style blues: Willie Dixon, Lightnin Hopkins, Howlin' Wolf, Tampa Red, etc. I play blues harp, and we do it all amplified. We play bars, weddings, chicken-fights, whoever'll have us. I don't get out to hear much live blues, but I like to listen to the original founders (including the Mighty Robert Johnson, and the nearly as mighty Son House), as well as Stevie Ray, Jimi, Eric, early Pete Green era Mac, John Hammond, Charlie Musselwhite, Hell even that punk kid Johnny Lang. Ever hear Ol' Max (the Mudcat's Founder) pick? Not bad for a white boy.

Other Blues people on here- Bill D, Roger in Baltimore, Easy Rider, Midchuck, Whistlestop...

Subject: Genuine Brit Blues Buddies
From: boz
Date: 21 Jul 00 - 07:11 PM

O.K.,typically English. What's a 'cookie'? A Malted Milk, perhaps? Anyway... Are there any Blues fans out there. I know there are, I've met a few over the years (all Muso's, know what I mean), but since moving to the West Country three years ago I've not come across any. Are there any Mudcaters out there into the Blues Scene. If so, where are you? Tell us more. Tell us anything. Speak. I'll be away for a week so I hope there will be a lot of reading when I get back home.

Boz.