Off of the same Along For The Ride album; If I Don't Get Home, featuring Gary Moore on lead guitar.

 

 

John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with a cover of Otis Rush's All Your Love off of their '66 Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton LP.

 

 

Room To Move recorded at a concert at Bill Graham's Fillmore East on 12 July '69 and found on his '69 The Turning Point LP.

 

 

Volume is a bit suppressed so it might need a turn of the dial.  Walking On Sunset live with the Blues Breakers.

Shot in 1968 on Rick Shaw's "Saturday Hop", Miami, FL.  John was 34 years old and had a young looking Bluesbreaker band that didn't look too enthusiastic being on TV.  Check out Mick Taylor on the guitar.  Sooo young and talented.

 

 

Edited July 24, 20242 yr by Tippaporn

John Mayall with California, also off of  his '69 The Turning Point LP.  So smooth and silky.

 

 

Another Otis Rush cover, his '58 Double Trouble live with Peter Green and future Fleetwood Mac rhythm section comprising John McVie and Mick Fleetwood.  Recorded in '67   Issued originally in the Netherlands on So Many Roads in '67.

 

 

It's been a long and memorable road.

 

 

Hey @bannork, old friend.  I've tried to make my home elsewhere for too long, and it hasn't worked out well for me.  Time to return to my true home.  This thread.  This is where I belong.  

 

Methinks @Mutt Daeng will be pleased with the tribute's selections when he shows up.

 

Edited July 24, 20242 yr by Tippaporn

4 hours ago, Tippaporn said:

Volume is a bit suppressed so it might need a turn of the dial.  Walking On Sunset live with the Blues Breakers.

Shot in 1968 on Rick Shaw's "Saturday Hop", Miami, FL.  John was 34 years old and had a young looking Bluesbreaker band that didn't look too enthusiastic being on TV.  Check out Mick Taylor on the guitar.  Sooo young and talented.

 

 

 

Now that's a basic drum set.  LOL

There's no doubt in my mind that Providence had bestowed Mayall with a great many blessings considering the degree and numbers of exceptional talent which flowed in and out of the Blues Breakers.  I can only imagine the great sense of loss Mayall must have felt at the departure of Clapton.  Only to find Green as a replacement.

 

I can't recall quite accurately but I do believe it was Mayall who commented, in so many words, that Green was the better of the two.  Green was considered a Guitar God in the UK in the late 60's.  And that he was.  Of course, so was Clapton.  In my mind they share a pedestal.  I cannot bring myself to pick one over the other.

This was a pleasant and surprising find for me not long ago.

 

Whilst Jonathan Richman of The Modern Lovers is no guitar God in the eyes of most folks (if anyone has heard of him at all, that is) he certainly has his moments which one cannot take away from him.  Pablo Picasso is one such shining moment.

 

The Modern Lovers were an obscure local band out of Natick, Massachusetts, formed in the early 70's and styled after the Velvet Underground and the Stooges, from whence Richman got his influence.  Despite being an obscure local band they were generously talented.  Original drummer David Robinson went on to drum for the Cars and original keyboardist Jerry Harrison went on to become a member of the Talking Heads.

 

Pablo Picasso was covered by the Talking heads in a live performance on 9 October '76 at Max's Kansas City in New York City.  Unfortunately, the sound quality is not the best and their version, I think, did not do the song justice.  It's been covered by many through the years,  Burning Sensations did a fair cover which found its way onto the '84 Repo Man movie soundtrack.

 

Anyway. it's a great minute and a half solo which was highly creative and unique, unpredictable as the solo took many unexpected turns.

 

 

 

This one is for posterity's sake.  Alex Korner's Blues Incorporated doing a blues set on BBC Jazz Club, 12 July '62.  Interesting list of bandmates.

 

• Alexis Korner - Guitar, vocals
• Cyril Davies - Harmonica, vocals
• Dick Heckstall-Smith - Saxophone
• Dave Stevens- Piano
• Jack Bruce - Bass
• Charlie Watts - Drums

 

 

 

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band with The Blind Man off of his '64 The Sensational Alex Harvey Band LP.  Harvey showcases his flawless and powerful vocals on this tune.

 

 

 

Why so much Alex Korner today?

 

Korner was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2024 in the musical influence category.

 

Alexis Korner on 29 April '83 at the 25th anniversary of the Marquee Club with some old companions.

• Alexis Korner: Guitar/Vocals
• Ian Stewart: Piano
• Bill Wyman: Bass
• Charlie Watts: Drums
• Nico Korner: Guitar
• Shappo Korner: Vocals
• Ruby Turner: Vocals
• Jacki Graham: Vocals
• Mel Collins: Saxophone
• John Pickard: Trombone
• Willie Garnét: Saxophone
• Ted Bunting: Saxophone

 

 

Alex Korner's Blues Incorporated covering T-Bone Walker's '47 classic Stormy Monday off of the '64 Red Hot From Alex LP.

 

 

 

Alexis Korner with Up-Town off of his Kornerstoned - The Alexis Korner Anthology 1954-1983.

 

 

 

Sadly Jerry Miller of Moby Grape died a few days ago. What a unique band they were.

 

 

 

13 hours ago, Tippaporn said:

Hey @bannork, old friend.  I've tried to make my home elsewhere for too long, and it hasn't worked out well for me.  Time to return to my true home.  This thread.  This is where I belong.  

 

Methinks @Mutt Daeng will be pleased with the tribute's selections when he shows up.

 

Thought you'd like this Tippers

 

 

 

Another legend gone. RIP John.

 

10 hours ago, bannork said:

Thought you'd like this Tippers

 

 

Wow.  Thanks for that, bannork.  That was truly heartfelt and touching by Eric.  I suspect John is in the process of putting together another band now.  One is allowed to dream.

Sitting In The Rain never made it on the '67 Hard Road LP.  However, it was included in the 2-disc remaster released in 2003.  That double disc CD compiled all of Peter Green's studio contributions to Mayall and the Blues Breakers from '66 through '71.  This is sweet little diddy.  Great images of Mayall throughout.  From those images we learn that Mayall painted the cover of Hard Road himself.  Quite the artist.

 

 

 

I hadn't seen this for about 20 years. 

 

Catchy tune. 

Edited July 26, 20242 yr by Korat Kiwi

Another one of Mike's.  Only surviving member of the Monkees is Mickey Dolenz. 

 

 

Classic Bowie

 

 

An interesting documentary about John Mayall. Lived in a treehouse as a young man!

 

 

They are saying the Paris Olympic games opening was great.

I still like this one the best,really amazing!

 

 

On 7/27/2024 at 7:44 PM, jvs said:

They are saying the Paris Olympic games opening was great.

I still like this one the best,really amazing!

 

 

Nice find, JVS.  It ain't rock and roll but it's hard not to appreciate the immense talent.  I heard the Paris Olympic Games opening was disgustingly woke LGBQT+ with an insulting anti-Christian theme.  I don't agree with using the Olympics for woke, anti-Christian messaging so I have no desire to watch it.  I hear the Olympics board received a ton of flak.  Make the Olympics about the Olympics and leave the politicisation and current cultural issues out of it.