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Post by pete1951 on Apr 26, 2019 7:18:31 GMT
John Lee Hooker documentary next Friday at 9pm on BBC4 as well So that’s tonight If it’s half as good as the last 2, they will have been twice as good as this one Pete |
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Post by Stevie on Apr 26, 2019 7:33:23 GMT
I'll be at The Palladium tonight. "Wakey wakey!"
I'll be there tomorrow too (a bit of a story there) so happy days.
e&oe...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2019 8:02:56 GMT
Apparently there is a new Robert Johnson documentary / film on Netflix starting today (may have this wrong).
I'll try and find more details, unless someone knows them already.
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Post by Pickers Ditch on Apr 26, 2019 11:08:22 GMT
Apparently there is a new Robert Johnson documentary / film on Netflix starting today (may have this wrong). I'll try and find more details, unless someone knows them already. TT Is this it, TT? www.netflix.com/gb/title/80191049 |
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Post by bod on Apr 26, 2019 11:34:29 GMT
Apparently there is a new Robert Johnson documentary / film on Netflix starting today (may have this wrong). I'll try and find more details, unless someone knows them already. TT Is this it, TT? www.netflix.com/gb/title/80191049Here’s the trailer: |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2019 12:32:45 GMT
I'll give it a look, but the trailer looks rather hackneyed.
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Post by creolian on Apr 26, 2019 14:25:08 GMT
I hope that netflix is not pretending that this is " reality " tv... having seen the remnants of sharecropper slavery, imagining how a poor black man lived in Mississippi at the time, I listen to RJ and that is all the legend I need...
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Post by bonzo on Apr 26, 2019 14:29:42 GMT
Judging by the trailer I think this might come under the 10 minute rule!
Best wishes to you all, John
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Post by jono1uk on Apr 26, 2019 15:02:45 GMT
I'll be at The Palladium tonight. "Wakey wakey!" I'll be there tomorrow too (a bit of a story there) so happy days. e&oe...Both nights? Wow |
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Post by Pickers Ditch on Apr 26, 2019 15:06:50 GMT
I'll give it a shot but I'm not holding my breath.
....but I have ordered this book:
Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson, Hardcover – published 4 Jun 2019
by Gayle Dean Wardlow and Bruce Conforth (Authors)
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Post by Michael Messer on Apr 26, 2019 15:59:41 GMT
Generation by generation all this stuff gets diluted. It has turned into romantic fantasy bullshit. It is interesting to hear Bonnie and others talk about his genius, but let's not get too carried away. His music is one of the most beautiful sounds of the 20th century. I love it almost beyond description, but it does not form THE template for what became rock'n'roll. It forms a small part of the template of what became rock'n'roll, or more to the point, 60s rock music.
There were people playing music in the 1930s that resembled rock'n'roll in various areas in the USA, that were not influenced by him. I could write a long list of musicians from many States that contributed to that melting pot, but I won't.
This is becoming mythology and legend, no different to King Arthur and his sword.
Shine On
Michael
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Post by jono1uk on Apr 26, 2019 16:51:51 GMT
so ..have you watched the whole think Michael?
am viewing later
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Post by jono1uk on Apr 26, 2019 16:54:11 GMT
I'll give it a shot but I'm not holding my breath. ....but I have ordered this book: Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson, Hardcover – published 4 Jun 2019 by Gayle Dean Wardlow and Bruce Conforth (Authors) Same here .. |
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Post by Michael Messer on Apr 26, 2019 17:15:46 GMT
so ..have you watched the whole think Michael? am viewing later Jono, the trailer was enough to stop me from wanting to see any more. I guess at some point I will see it, but the music is really all I need, because that's all there is. I have been around the blues for my whole working life, it's my job and maybe I view it in a different way because of that. I was romanticising about Robert Johnson's life when I was 17 and I have been studying and listening to his music and other blues masters for the past 46 years. That doesn't mean I am jaded, but it does allow me the option to be choosy about what I watch, listen to and play. Shine On Michael (grumpy old bastard!)  |
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Post by Pickers Ditch on Apr 26, 2019 17:24:43 GMT
Watched it right through....The Robert Johnson film, that is.
Hmmmmmm!
Recording the John Lee Hooker programme to watch later as the Liverpool match is on Radio 5 Live at the same time.
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