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Post by earleg on Sept 14, 2019 17:23:35 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2019 19:40:38 GMT -5
I really liked the early Steve Miller offerings. I bought his albums (which is the best compliment I can give any musical artist), Bought both with Boz (and perhaps some without).
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Post by whitefang on Sept 15, 2019 10:36:41 GMT -5
I mentioned elsewhere, either on these forums or in another about folks I knew who were unfamiliar with Steve Miller before "The Joker" or "Fly Like An Eagle". But--- Hats off to EARLEG who dug up far more musical history of Miller than I was ever aware of. My introduction to him was with his STEVE MILLER BAND and their debut LP "Children Of The Future" which was bought at a very odd record shop on Plum St.(Detroit's version of Haight-Ashbury). Another of those "cool" looking LP covers that made me curious enough about the music inside to buy it. Just like SPIRIT's first LP. I bought(later) "Sailor" too, but was going through a period of "funny money" when "Brave New World" came out, which has the Miller-McCartney collaboration--- (with an opening guitar riff that might sound familiar ) Hell. Even my KIDS like Miller. My younger daughter is fond of "Wild Mountain Honey". You can't discuss '60's OR '70's rock'n'roll or "blues/rock" without mentioning Miller. But even though I liked this Miller tune, I favored this Scagg's live version just a BIT more.. ACK! Now I gotta find if somebody will get me a CHEESEBURGER! Whitefang
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Post by earleg on Sept 15, 2019 16:10:26 GMT -5
Whitefang, That is a really cool and different version of "Baby's Calln' Me Home" . I didn't know they used horns in that time span.
I bought a more recent CD (2010) of his, "Bingo", and it is quite good. They cover some traditional blues tunes and it is dedicated to Norton Buffalo who plays on it. Jimmie Vaughan wrote or co-wrote with Nile Rodgers, several of the additional songs. "Miller said of the album, "This is a party record, man. It's about getting up and getting ready to dance. It's like the fraternity party gigs I used to play in college. I went through and picked all my favorite tunes that I really, really loved. I wanted to make this record forever; it started off as just kind of a goof, and then it got real serious."
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Post by jbone on Sept 15, 2019 21:31:27 GMT -5
I heard some pretty early stuff- like 1968- some years ago. It was John Lee Hooker doing "House Rent Blues", with none other than Steve Miller backing him on slide guitar.
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Post by whitefang on Sept 16, 2019 10:36:46 GMT -5
Whitefang, That is a really cool and different version of "Baby's Calln' Me Home" . I didn't know they used horns in that time span. Ha! Yeah, when rock or "rock/blues" bands do the unexpected it's always interesting. Like who, at one time, would think of having a "rock band" in which some guy plays a FLUTE? Or a VIOLIN? But JETHRO TULL and THE FLOCK both sounded and did pretty well. And Mitch using brushes on the Hendrix tune "Up From The Skies" was an unexpected but welcome surprise too. That Scaggs used a trombone was a surprise as usually the only "horn" type instrument in blues is usually a sax, but it works, don't it! Whitefang
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Post by earleg on Sept 17, 2019 14:44:19 GMT -5
I remember "Flute Thing" by The Blues Project being any early entry into adding odd or other instruments to rock.
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Post by whitefang on Sept 21, 2019 10:19:43 GMT -5
Maybe this should be in the "Instruments" thread, but I remember this odd(but familiar sounding) instrument being played by a member of GARY LEWIS and THE PLAYBOYS in the mid '60's. I a few times related the tale of a music store owner I knew who in '69 got rid of his entire guitar stock( but wouldn't give me a deal) to instead be an exclusive dealer for THESE, claiming, "Guitars are on the way out. These are gonna be the next big thing!" He was out of business by the end of the year.
Whitefang
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