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Post by Michael Messer on Dec 27, 2013 19:15:54 GMT
Hi Zak,
That is a new one to me, never seen it before. I have never seen a photo of Alexis with a Tricone before. Do you know where/who the photo came from?
I believe it was thirty years ago today that Alexis Korner died.
Shine On Michael.
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Post by zak71 on Dec 27, 2013 19:44:12 GMT
Sorry, Michael, I have no info about the photo and the photographer. A friend who is a vintage National dealer in Florida re-posted it (originally posted by someone named Mark Heller, who I don't know myself). The caption didn't include any information about the photo's origins. Here's the accompanying quote: c1961….Alexis Korner. ‘The Founding Father of British Blues”.
Alexis Korner (19 April 1928 – 1 January 1984) was a blues musician and radio broadcaster, who has sometimes been referred to as "a founding father of British Blues". A major influence on the sound of the British music scene in the 1960s, Korner was instrumental in bringing together various English blues musicians.
In 1961, Korner and Davies formed Blues Incorporated, initially a loose-knit group of musicians with a shared love of electric blues and R&B music. The group included, at various times, such influential musicians as Charlie Watts, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, Long John Baldry, Graham Bond, Danny Thompson and Dick Heckstall-Smith. It also attracted a wider crowd of mostly younger fans, some of whom occasionally performed with the group, including Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Geoff Bradford, Rod Stewart, John Mayall and Jimmy Page.
One story is that the Rolling Stones went to stay at Korner's house late one night, in the early 1960s, after a performance. They entered in the accepted way, by climbing in through the kitchen window, to find Muddy Waters' band sleeping on the kitchen floor.
Although Cyril Davies left the group in late-1962, Blues Incorporated continued to record, with Korner at the helm, until 1966. However, by that time its originally stellar line-up (and crowd of followers) had mostly left to start their own bands. "While his one-time acolytes the Rolling Stones and Cream made the front pages of music magazines all over the world, Korner was relegated to the role of 'elder statesman'."
Although he himself was a blues purist, Korner criticised better-known British blues musicians during the blues boom of the late 1960s for their blind adherence to Chicago blues, as if the music came in no other form. He liked to surround himself with jazz musicians and often performed with a horn section drawn from a pool that included, among others, saxophone players Art Themen, Mel Collins, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Lol Coxhill, Dick Morrissey, John Surman and trombonist Mike Zwerin.
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Post by zak71 on Oct 13, 2014 14:56:20 GMT
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Post by blueshome on Oct 13, 2014 16:01:54 GMT
Circa 2014!!!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2014 20:03:07 GMT
This is a bit odd - not sure of the link between hendrix and what looks like a mosrite...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2014 18:56:20 GMT
^^^^^ hendrix owned it... Anyhow, Primus's Les Claypool
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Post by twang1 on Oct 22, 2014 20:49:06 GMT
I love Primus, but if Claypool slap that reso-bass like he normally does on an electric, it would take minutes for the cone to crush! Frank
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