Dude!...I don't mean to be patronizing and I'm not showing off...believe me. But I became a professional musician in 1974 just after I got back from the UK after a four year stint in Europe getting my A-levels and wandering around Spain and Italy. I studied in Wales 1968-1970 and our school had some wonderful field trips. For a ten bob note I saw "Stone The Crows" with Maggie Bell, John Mayall. Christine Perfect(McVie) with Chicken Shack and Stan Webb. Family, Colosseum, Long John Baldry. Love Sculpture played at our Spring dance and Dave DaviesBand at another. I spent two weeks on a field trip in Guildford where in 1969 there was a huge Blues culture. Not to speak of my weekends at the Roundhouse , London's premier live music club. Although some of the British Blues seems pedantic and out dated now, I treasure Them, the early Stones and The Yardbirds for exposing me to Black music I would never have heard in my segregated community
PS heh heh...I got the original 78's and LP's right here in my room.
Panzade ----- no sweat pal. the names you mention were/are very much part of my own back pages. Yeah the black american music was accepted overhere very easily. From early Little Richard, Fats Domino, thru Mo town & the old blues stuff. It was listening to Clapton and others playing blues that got me listening to the original recordings. Big influence. I'm no expert but I do like listening to real people and real music
It's great the way music breaks thru the walls and barriers
You're so right. Think of it. Black music is imported by sailors passing through Liverpool in the 50's. British bands reinterpret the music and export it to America where white teenyboppers hear it for the first time. We owe you guys.
Hey Panzade ----- it's a 2 way ocean out there. you guys gave us plenty to work with. also a lot of american singers and bands came over here as well and we got see them on tv regularly. we had a friday night rock show called "ready steady go" on tv and all the greats were on it at some time.
Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye and Martha Reeves were way up my list of greats. My dad worked for a record pressing comp and I was selling armfulls of Stones albums at half price. great days or was that daze
I was an avid watcher of RSG and managed to be at the Isle of Wight festival.l I also tried to storm the roof top the day the Beatles filmed the Let It Be video. To no avail...those Bobbies really know how to use a truncheon!
One last item Knew.
I've got the Stones "Out Of Our Heads" on London (ffffffffr) label...is it worth much?
Panzade ----- You and I have traveled the same roads brother. I worked for the TV comp that made the RSG show. You mentioned Long John Baldry earlier, I saw him singing blues in a pub in Putney back in the seventies. Pub music was always great & got the crowds singing as well.
By the way, those bobbies carry machine guns these days
Times change and so do the weapons.. Must be midnight in Merry Ol'..I'll sign off now
Goodnight Penzade, you must be surrounded by Brits in Florida.
Take care
Eduardo Falu-Encuentro
This Argentine has to be one of the most underappreciated guitarists ever. Writing folk songs and playing with a classical touch, his music is breathtaking.
Misa Creolla- A Christmas operetta from the Andes. It is powerful year round
AC/DC --------- "back in black" on headphones & fully turned up.
Etta James ..... "The Sweetest Peaches"
Always feel better when I listen to this woman.
the hockey game, baby, i'm listening to the hockey game!
Pink Floyd .........Hey you
belle & sebastian - legal man
Billy Joel-We Didn't Start The Fire
