at the checkerboard show with Muddy
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Gregg Rzab who played with Page and the Black Crows as well as Buddy Guy auditioned.....he is still short enough to blend in with the boys. Willie Weeks would have been my top choice. I think he was with Vince Gill at the time. He was off the road after his wife died so he could raise his kid(s).
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Keith played street fighting man in open E back then didn't he? later Sweet Virginia was standard tuning capoed at the second fret. I'd need to see pics of his left hand actually fretting a chord to tell for sure what is going on.
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the kids Ronnie is with int he pic above are Marlon n Angie Richards BTW
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yes and taylor hackford in the fore ground
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camels???
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too many from which to choose. Muddy 40 days and 40 nights, Junior wells Little by Little (clapton's fav BTW), Evil by Wolf, Sonny Boy's help me. the end is listless
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didn't Keith sell that guitar to Mick Taylor who then lost track of it? or was that another Lp with a bigsby? that whole story seems like a mess
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the guitarist furthest from Wolf is Hubert Sumlin
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ever hear this version> I bet Keith has!
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no this is a scam like that stupid fake pic of two black guys and everyone said it was RJ and Johnny Shines even after Johnny said that was bullshit and people finally noticed the pic was actually two pics. there is supposed to be a third pic and Mack McCormack had it and he just died this past month with his archives in flux.
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not him..gibson is a liar
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growing up in chicago going to Bulls games in the seventies there was an old black dude that sat near us and he drank vodka and orange crush. He taught me to read the game.. I am a vodka guy but I never liked that much soda or mixer, just a splash and then yes those are hard to drink in a large quantity maybe four pints at best before the motor skills turn to shit.
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duane allman...howard duane allman dickey betts....forrest richard betts butch trucks...claude hudson trucks jaimoe...Jai Johanny Johanson Berry Oakley...raymond berry oakley only Gregg Allman went by his real first name
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I have come to dislike the heavy saturation of the Boogie lead channels. I have been playing a princeton and a small marshall on an a/b switch
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the man of the world documentary is really good. I love the blues era/kirawn FM.
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I always love to hear what he has been listening to...I already popped out to the library to get that book as well I love Gregory Isaacs (sp??) but the synth drums wear on me.
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the Charlie one was interesting if only for the lack of rock n roll and blues.
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thanks.....I love finding new (to me) music through the boys.
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agreed, rod's voice is over really only Mick has kept his range together of the singers of that era and scene
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I am aware Keith loved Muddy....I became a Stones fan because I was a Muddy fan and heard them do Can't be satisfied. I play a ton of Muddy's songs (whether he wrote em or not). I am a chess record freak that in no way means Keith's mixed up stories do not deserve to be called out. I prefer the truth I guess.
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Ron Wood tells the story of being at the hyde park 69 show..that too is nonsense. He was in Detroit with Jeff beck that day. old guys "fixing" stories to spice em up..nothing new but when it is supposed to be history it is a bit uglier
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both of Keith's muddy stories have been debunked. He did not wake up at Wolf's after hanging at Muddys. I also am sick of Buddy Guy getting it wrong about Wolf being on Shindig. BUddy always says it was Muddy. It was Howlin Wolf. the best stuff IMO was checking out the gear and the idea that the focus was on music history rather than image/druggy crap. I sure have found lots of
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Muddy did not live there at the time of the checkerboard jams..he had fled to the burbs
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there is no doubling or harmony on the first bit os slide play at about 34 seconds in...then as we come to the dimished lick we get doubling.. again I cannot be sure but I know how I why Open E has its advantages.
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I play MSL in open E.. it falls under the strings far more elegantly that way. Perhaps he did not. I know later in life he mostly used standard tuning like Jeff Beck Mick taylor or Adrain Belew do. I do that a bit but I like open e and open G more...I am a blues guy. I'd have to go back and listen with a guitar on to pick up which tunes SEEM more likely to have been played in Open E
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George played slide in Open E and standard tuning. HE played into a tube compressor no amp and into the board. This is the same sort of thing Lowell George did...GH is simply not a blues based player but rather a moldy based player with indian roots. I've played slide for decades and George's moves are very unusual for someone like me who came up studying Elmore James Son Hose and M
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I bought this album the evening after I saw the last waltz. I love it there are a fair number of soundboard tapes from that tour that circulate
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I always like to know what Keith has been listening to lately I would not have come across people like Derrick Harriot without that sort of question. I would only ask music questions.
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