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Post by Pickers Ditch on Jan 28, 2021 19:26:48 GMT
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Post by bonzo on Jan 28, 2021 19:39:23 GMT
Good old Arfer. Used to run around to see him in the sixties. Alley Palley! 😎🎸👍 Saw him in Toronto, he just scared the natives!
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Post by Michael Messer on Jan 29, 2021 9:42:35 GMT
I know I've shared this before, but I never tire of seeing and hearing perfection.
Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, Paul Warren, "Uncle" Josh Graves, "Cousin" Jake Tullock.
Shine On Michael
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Post by Pickers Ditch on Jan 29, 2021 10:01:58 GMT
Good old Arfer. Alley Palley! 😎🎸👍 ...and what a night that was - except we didn't eat for about 18 hours coz the chippy on Archway burst into flames just before we reached it!
We have always wondered if Arthur had anything to do with that.
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Post by Michael Messer on Jan 29, 2021 11:25:49 GMT
Alice Cooper, among others, cites Arthur Brown as an influence on his stage performance and persona. My brother, Alan, worked with Arthur on a TV show in 1968 (which I think is the TOTP performance I have put in this post) and the God of Hellfire was rushed off to A & E after his performance because he set fire to his head!
For those who don't know about this influential lunatic....
Shine On Michael
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Post by bonzo on Jan 29, 2021 14:59:14 GMT
Mad as a brush but very bright with it. Played the 100 club not so long ago, stories, poems and music.
Not going to off thread I hope but a movie from 1940 called Grand Ole Opry is showing on Talking Pictures TV. Channel 445 virgin tv. Wednesday 10th Feb. Saw a Dobro in the trailer!
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Post by Pickers Ditch on Jan 29, 2021 15:12:18 GMT
Alice Cooper, among others, cites Arthur Brown as an influence on his stage performance and persona. My brother, Alan, worked with Arthur on a TV show in 1968 (which I think is the TOTP performance I have put in this post) and the God of Hellfire was rushed off to A & E after his performance because he set fire to his head! For those who don't know about this influential lunatic.... Shine On Michael He also appeared at High Wycombe Town Hall with his ankle/leg in plaster after he boke a bone jumping out of a crane bucket as it lowered him on stage at the Reading Festival a week or so before. It was an amazing sight to see him in full make up, psychedelic cloak with day-glo painted designs and plastered ankle doing his spastic dance with UV lights and strobes going. Hell of a performance - good musically, too - and he frightened most of the girls in the audience out of their mini-skirts as well as the local fire brigade who were running around in the wings like demented chickens not knowing what was coming next. All for seven and a tanner - what a nights entertainment!
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Post by pete1951 on Jan 29, 2021 15:23:24 GMT
I was hoping to listen to Louisiana Red and Sugar Blue playing ‘King Bee’ on the Cerys Matthews blues show (Radiio 2 Monday night) but she failed to to play it. Last week she played ‘Sweet Elise’ recorded at the 100Club in ‘78. Better luck next week Pete
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Post by blueshome1 on Jan 30, 2021 12:51:36 GMT
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Post by pete1951 on Jan 31, 2021 11:32:13 GMT
Thanks for posting , always a pleasure to here Red . This could also be on the ‘Examples of good Foot Tapping’ thread, very subtle tap in the background, fantastic. Pete
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Post by Pickers Ditch on Feb 1, 2021 17:40:57 GMT
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Post by Michael Messer on Feb 1, 2021 18:03:36 GMT
Time hasn't been very kind to Lightnin' Hopkins. He is rarely mentioned these days in blues circles, but there is no question that he was one of the truly great masters. That is an extraordinary and wonderful performance. I have seen it many times and in fact have it on my phone for car journeys listening. Shine On Michael
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Post by blueshome1 on Feb 2, 2021 13:44:03 GMT
Michael, anyone with a small knowledge of blues should have heard Lightnin’. My first experience was in 1962 or 1963 in a listening booth in Beatties basement in Wolverhampton. I’d picked out an LP of early recordings and was just blown away. So day I also heard Big Joe Williams for the first time. I was fortunate enough to see Lightnin’ at an ABFB concert. The place to go to hear him at his best is his Gold Star and Alladin recordings from the 40’s and early 50’s. Clearly the tune taken from Leroy Carr’s In The Evening.
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Post by bonzo on Feb 2, 2021 14:03:52 GMT
Having a voice like that doesn't hurt!
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Post by jono1uk on Feb 4, 2021 17:32:40 GMT
Excellent Album -highly recommended..
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