RS 1981 CHECKERBOARD LOUNGE
Muddy Waters & The Rolling Stones - Checkerboard Lounge: Live Chicago 1981 x
MUDDY WATERS ~ ROLLING STONES ~ BUDDY GUY ~ JUNIOR WELLS ~ LEFTY DIZZ
"The blues had a baby and They named it rock and roll," Muddy Waters once sang. Few other bands have this combination of blues and rock in recent decades so perfectly performed as The Rolling Stones, owe their name turn the Waters song "Mannish Boy."
November 22, 1981 as the Stones came to Chicago to play there three nights in a row in the Rosemont Horizon, they visited the Checkerboard Lounge, Buddy Guys small blues club in the South Side to see Muddy and band live. Of course, it kept the Stones not long in the audience, as the finally appears on DVD recording "Checkerboard Lounge: Live Chicago 1981 'shows.
The show starts relatively quiet and unspectacular. Waters' band playing "Sweet Little Angel and" Flip Flop And Fly "(Piano Player Lovie Lee takes over the singing) before the boss is personally called on stage and immediately in moving performances of" You Do not Have To Go "and" Country Boy "loses. While "Baby Please Do not Go" something is happening in front of the stage.
The Stones entered the lounge, sit at their tables, accompanied by Waters' amused eyes. Long he does not wait and asks repeatedly Mick Jagger on stage, which must be persuaded first. Quick follow Keith Richards and Ron Wood, while the hall is boiling over. The audience shaking their heads, impressed and slightly confused as "Hoochie Coochie Man" a monstrous jam session brings the ball rolling.
For "Mannish Boy" the stage is really crowded. Hardly Jagger and Waters have sung in a true noise, enter gradually Buddy Guy, Junior Wells (the man who a young Stones frontman a few tricks on the harmonica showed) and Lefty Dizz the stage.
Now there is no stopping Jagger's and Waters' sit in the audience to watch the action.
Wells grabs his harmonica, Lefty Dizz is the bandleader and brings out his guitar, the quintessence of the Blues out before one last time feels the stage to the final "Champagne And Reefer". Apart from Buddy Guy now all are on the way too small boards, elbow room is a foreign word, the soul of a genre and its drying pulling son whip each other up.
Amidst the mayhem are a grinning Muddy Waters and an ecstatic, childlike acting Mick Jagger, who can hardly believe his luck; nor the still perplexed audience.
What happens in those 90 minutes and is magical. Waters in itself is already an experience, but this spontaneous jam session with the Stones, which is a all
star gig with a journey through the history of the Blues (only "Rollin 'Stone" is missing, but would have been too obvious) celebrated.
Carefully restored and mixed by Bob Clearmountain and mastered, radiates "Checkerboard Lounge: Live Chicago 1981 'in a new light, is an absolute must-have for Blues fans. Even 30 years later, the magic of this historic night looks even more after.
Release: 06.07.2012
Eagle Vision (Edel Music Distribution)
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Muddy Waters and The Rolling Stones Checkerboard Loungeby Jonny Meister
The release late in 2012 of the DVD “Muddy Waters & The Rolling Stones Checkerboard Lounge 1981? once again brings to my mind the strange relationship between blues and rock ‘n’ roll.
The great Muddy Waters is in his last years, performing at Buddy Guy’s Checkerboard Lounge with his final band, which includes John Primer on guitar, Mojo Buford on harmonica, and Lovie Lee on piano. Lee does a couple of opening numbers, and then Muddy comes out to sing a simmering version of “You Don’t Have To Go.”
This show occurs almost four decades after Muddy’s days on the plantations in Mississippi, but the power of that musical heritage is only enhanced by his maturity and elder statesman status in the world the blues. During Muddy’s third song, there’s a shot of the Rolling Stones entering the club and then one of their being seated at a table in front of the stage. Muddy invites them to “take your time” and have a drink, and then calls out for Mick Jagger to join him. Jagger, either coy or genuinely anxious about joining Muddy, needs a few requests from the master before he gets up with him.
Soon Muddy says “What about Keith?” and Keith Richards and later Ron Wood also get up on stage, both furiously puffing cigarettes while playing guitar, the cigarettes never leaving their mouths, almost as if they were fig leaves in post-fall Blues Eden. They are kind of a comical duo to be sure (I wonder how they get any actual oxygen to breathe as well!).
What goes through the mind of the great blues master hosting the world’s biggest active rock band on a nightclub stage in Chicago? The Stones, like many other rockers, at times seemed to worship at the altar of these blues masters, yet the rockers are always the real stars, and the reverence often has its lapses – - as when The Stones initially took credit for “Prodigal Son,” later correcting it to indicate authorship by Rev. Robert Wilkins. It’s definitely a two-sided coin. The influence of the rock musicians did make blues known for wider audience, but the blues artists are ultimately always in a subordinate position, and for true blues lovers, whose love of blues transcends the fact that it is the major ingredient in rock, the whole thing can be a bit grating.
Muddy and Mick sing “Hoochie Coochie Man” together, and when Mick sings the line, “I was born for good luck,” Muddy replies, “I see that!” It’s hard not to see this exchange in a broader context than just the song.
Muddy calls out for Buddy Guy, who joins the group on stage repeatedly embracing Jagger. Muddy also calls for Junior Wells, who embraces Muddy and seems largely unaware of Jagger. Perhaps I’m reading too much into this, but some deep blues fans have been troubled by Buddy’s relationship with the rockers, how he seems to defer to Eric Clapton, and appears to get on board with each ephemeral rock phenom that comes along. To be sure, Buddy has talked about how some of the greats of Chicago blues didn’t get what they should get, and he was determined that would not be his situation. Junior seemed less interested in courting the rockers.
Unfortunately, too many very talented blues artists never did benefit from recognition in the rock world. Lefty Dizz joins the band at one point, a great left-handed guitarist and singer who leads things for a while while Muddy and Mick sit out, and is certainly more fun to watch than the “cigarette twins” (except when Keith’s long ash finally falls from his cigarette while he’s playing). Lefty is one of the many artists that only the true blues lovers got to know and appreciate. Mick, sitting at a table, definitely appreciates him, but rock ‘n roll, while it did advance the career of Muddy Waters, did little for Lefty Dizz and most other Chicago blues players.
Muddy and Mick are both shown responding approvingly to Lefty’s politically incorrect song “Ugly Woman.” Both come back at the end for a few more songs, with plenty of guitar support, from John Primer, Keith Richards, and Ron Wood. Primer’s appearance on this DVD is especially welcome. His playing is great, and there is a bonus cut where he sings lead. He is still active today with a new album “Blues On Solid Ground,” issued last year.
As a “blues lover first” I may view this DVD somewhat differently from a rock-oriented viewer. I’m especially excited By Primer and Lefty Dizz, who are not publicized in the title of the disc, and Muddy remains transcendent for sure. The Stones are more interesting as a cultural phenomenon than as blues players.
To my thinking, the Stones’ greatness lies not in what they do with blues, but in their own songs, which clearly incorporate their knowledge of the blues, but are really a different sort of music. This DVD certainly contains some great performances and some moments of fun, but it is also a reminder of just who stands where in the music world, and how blues artists and blues music played a crucial role in popular music while ultimately never quite rising above a “best supporting” role themselves.
Lefty Dizz
Keith Richards and Ron Wood “The Cigarette Twins”
John Primer, Muddy Waters, Mick Jagger, Buddy Guy
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