jaxson50 Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 Struck gold here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitefang Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 Wow, JAXSON---- You could have put most of those in ONE POST! Regardless... I once saw this guy at Detroit's GRANDE BALLROOM during the late '60's "resurgence" in American blues...... A week after the latter was brought in for a show. Great shows, both of 'em! Whitefang 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdgm Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 (edited) I would have loved to see Jimmy Rogers. One of my favourites. He wrote some of the great blues numbers. He had a killer rhythm guitar tone on the Chess records, which probably came from some beat-up old guitar and a tiny valve amp. I've never been able to mimic it exactly - there's a huge amount of midrange and some distortion. Edited June 14, 2021 by jdgm 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jaxson50 Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 12 hours ago, Whitefang said: Wow, JAXSON---- You could have put most of those in ONE POST! Regardless... I once saw this guy at Detroit's GRANDE BALLROOM during the late '60's "resurgence" in American blues...... A week after the latter was brought in for a show. Great shows, both of 'em! Whitefang That must have been an awesome show, I really dig both of these cuts, That Saturday fIsh fry cracks me up, 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Whitefang Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 20 hours ago, jdgm said: I would have loved to see Jimmy Rogers. One of my favourites. He wrote some of the great blues numbers. He had a killer rhythm guitar tone on the Chess records, which probably came from some beat-up old guitar and a tiny valve amp. I've never been able to mimic it exactly - there's a huge amount of midrange and some distortion. Last I heard of him he was supposed to be appearing at some bar/blues club in Taylor, MI( imagine). It was the late '80's-early '90's. I didn't manage to get there, and read somewhere he died in '97 I think. Another of his I like---- Whitefang 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxson50 Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 Jesse Ed Davis deserves a nod , 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdgm Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 (edited) Jesse Ed Davis deserves a nod . He certainly does! People think it's Cooder playing slide on that track but - it's Jesse. Beautiful guitar playing through a Leslie on Taj's "Giant Step" LP, too. Edited June 16, 2021 by jdgm 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxson50 Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 3 hours ago, jdgm said: Jesse Ed Davis deserves a nod . He certainly does! People think it's Cooder playing slide on that track but - it's Jesse. Beautiful guitar playing through a Leslie on Taj's "Giant Step" LP, too. Agreed, Jesse Ed Davis was a great player, some people think he copied Duane Allman on Statesboro Blues, it was the other way around, Allman admitted it, he was a big fan of Jesse's. Jesse also played the lead guitar on Jackson Brown's hit Doctor My Eyes. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxson50 Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 This might have been one of the last gigs Jesse Ed played with Taj Mahal. In an interview Taj said that for his first three albums and until Davis left the band, it could just as easily been named the Davis Band. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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