Does re-enacting the sinking of the USS Maine at the age of 11 in a cove on Lake Winnipesaukee count? 😀😀😀
Carefully ballasted and the joints below the waterline carefully sealed, filled with a lot of left over fireworks, moderately long fuse. Set it adrift in the cove after lighting the fuse. Large bang and parts sailing through the air, what was left caught on fire and sank within seconds. I went for swim afterward and retrieved the remains.
Today I design and build audio equipment with the express desire they do not follow the Maine to its watery grave.
Carefully ballasted and the joints below the waterline carefully sealed, filled with a lot of left over fireworks, moderately long fuse. Set it adrift in the cove after lighting the fuse. Large bang and parts sailing through the air, what was left caught on fire and sank within seconds. I went for swim afterward and retrieved the remains.
Today I design and build audio equipment with the express desire they do not follow the Maine to its watery grave.
YES, it counts! We’re all hands lost? Desired outcome and outcome don’t always align, so good you have that previous experience. My wife made me buy a fire extinguisher for my new “electronics lab..” I’ve found she’s often right!
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There are many ways people get turn on to the music, I've no doubt many discovered it via the album Scott referenced in exactly the same way when I hear that many others discovered it via bands like The Stones, Fleetwood Mac , etc, I don't doubt that either.
The British rock establishment did very little to inform the public of their sources. The early blues revival here, which was already going in the 50's, physically sought out the artists that were still alive and even had them play at some music festivals and record LP's in the early 60's.
I don’t know that much, but The “folk movement” did include some blues masters such as Muddy Waters at The Newport Jazz festival in 1960. And lots of blues singers were recorded for posterity just in time, but I very much doubt there were a huge number of aficionados. I have heard that when Muddy heard what folk singers were getting paid, he said something like “I can do that stuff” and got out his acoustic guitar and cut his album “Folk Singer” in 1964. Great Album!
Still the British did electrify and distortionafy the blues which made it suddenly appealing to a new generation. I was a Stones fan in 6th grade! Then at university in the early ‘70s many were into the “root”s blues” as well as the English stuff, which is where I learned about it, about 7 years later!
Still the British did electrify and distortionafy the blues which made it suddenly appealing to a new generation. I was a Stones fan in 6th grade! Then at university in the early ‘70s many were into the “root”s blues” as well as the English stuff, which is where I learned about it, about 7 years later!
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IMO, no and yes Scott 🙂
I can’t see an establishment involved in the 60ies during the import/experimental approach of blues in UK.
The individuals, musicians, music groups involved were as amateurish/naïve as they were expected to be for their young age. And these, hadn’t hidden the roots of the music they were trying to be part of, on the contrary.
Certainly at a subsequent stage when cash flow seemed possible, the initially alien/ negative toward blues, recording studios and group professional managers turned to be positive and forwarding toward locally made ‘blues’ music. Those were who had multiple financial incentives to conceal the originators of the music their customers (UK music groups) were producing.
Very true. That was their undeniable artistic contribution (and it couldn’t be different, else they would have been mere copiers).
They were coming from a different society, at a later time, at a different historic step than the originators of the blues.
Historically, in all cases, music genre surfacing and adoption is a trusty indicator of broad social needs of the time.
‘Avant garde’-ists are early tellers of social trends. True to the root meaning (vanguard)
George
To be a cranky complainy opinionated Old Guy (see? I'm on topic!) Both the original blues musicians AND the rock blues kids produced damn fine music!
And yes I know Chicago blues guys used electric guitars
And yes I know Chicago blues guys used electric guitars
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I'll skip the follow ups and go straight to this one for a reply. Black Americans always knew the music from the get go, and they count. Your "many" is cagey speak for ?????
And as Scott Wurcer noted, you were totally wrong.
I had no idea that much the music I grew up with was basically ‘cover’ songs until I started getting deep into early blues from the 20’s-30’s and started to recognize the music!
Ripped Off! How the blues was stolen | Louder
Ripped Off! How the blues was stolen | Louder
Audio Note supply silver wired speaker coils in their higher priced speakers, so perhaps it will.
Here ya go boys!
A couple of nice heaters, er, I mean tube amps, "reasonably priced" too!
Just the thing to use on those cold winter nights.
Fork over some cash and enjoy the music.
Audio Research calls them "Reference", so they must be good!
MountainMan Bob can use them to pan-fry some of those fish he catches.
A couple of nice heaters, er, I mean tube amps, "reasonably priced" too!
Just the thing to use on those cold winter nights.
Fork over some cash and enjoy the music.
Audio Research calls them "Reference", so they must be good!
MountainMan Bob can use them to pan-fry some of those fish he catches.
