BOP
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I posted Blind Faith's only album in "What song are you listening to?" but it could just as easily gone here in this tred. So basically, you guys know what I was listening to back in the '70s and '80s (other than the radio). Basically, just about everything. From the time I was on active duty, music was an exploration, not passive listening.
I credit my father and his brother for the wide variety of music I listened to (folk, jazz, classical, psychedelia rock), and my shipmates for the in-depth search for the off the beaten path stuff, even from people who had made the big time, musically speaking. There is so much good stuff out there, most of it better than the music that charted. To me, that was what the whole "Band called Phish" phenomenon was really all about. Seeking out the unknown, the obscure, the unlistened to and embracing it.
This is one of my favorites from the mid- to late '70s (when I discovered them), John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers. The band was something of a home port for many of the blues influenced rock legends - (from wikipedia) Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Jack Bruce, John McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Mick Taylor, Don "Sugarcane" Harris, Harvey Mandel, Larry Taylor, Aynsley Dunbar, Hughie Flint, Jon Hiseman, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Andy Fraser, Johnny Almond, Walter Trout, Coco Montoya and Buddy Whittington.
Wow! There's some names I haven't heard or thought about in a long time!
Mayall was born in 1933, and to the best of my knowledge, he's still touring today.
Anyway, this is purportedly from a BBC concert, which is more like a studio audience than it is a full-blown concert as we tend to think of them. The BBC actually has an impressive library of these concerts. I have several on CD.
You'll see a good many of John Mayall's concerts and recordings feature Eric Clapton on guitar, but that's not unusual. It's almost easier to say "who didn't Eric Clapton jam with?" than it is to list the Who's Who of individuals and groups he did play with.
I credit my father and his brother for the wide variety of music I listened to (folk, jazz, classical, psychedelia rock), and my shipmates for the in-depth search for the off the beaten path stuff, even from people who had made the big time, musically speaking. There is so much good stuff out there, most of it better than the music that charted. To me, that was what the whole "Band called Phish" phenomenon was really all about. Seeking out the unknown, the obscure, the unlistened to and embracing it.
This is one of my favorites from the mid- to late '70s (when I discovered them), John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers. The band was something of a home port for many of the blues influenced rock legends - (from wikipedia) Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Jack Bruce, John McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Mick Taylor, Don "Sugarcane" Harris, Harvey Mandel, Larry Taylor, Aynsley Dunbar, Hughie Flint, Jon Hiseman, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Andy Fraser, Johnny Almond, Walter Trout, Coco Montoya and Buddy Whittington.
Wow! There's some names I haven't heard or thought about in a long time!
Mayall was born in 1933, and to the best of my knowledge, he's still touring today.
Anyway, this is purportedly from a BBC concert, which is more like a studio audience than it is a full-blown concert as we tend to think of them. The BBC actually has an impressive library of these concerts. I have several on CD.
You'll see a good many of John Mayall's concerts and recordings feature Eric Clapton on guitar, but that's not unusual. It's almost easier to say "who didn't Eric Clapton jam with?" than it is to list the Who's Who of individuals and groups he did play with.
