Bob, there's a lot of very good music on your list. I'm sure that the first ABB I heard was Don't want you no more, into Not my Cross to bear on the first LP....we were just blown away...nothing else like it. That entire record just killed us. I can't find my original copy...but I've got the Beginnings set and my original, 1st edition, hot off the presses Live at Fillmore...that really did us in. We were covering as much Allman material as possible in 1971 at dive bars near Hagerstown on Rt 11 & Rt 40
I can remember a friend of mine in high school band turning me on to Cream and hearing Crossroads for the first time. That blew my mind and I started on a path of discovering the blues artists. I was real fortunate to catch Muddy Waters at the Marble Bar in Baltimore around 1978.
I practiced my drum kit with headphones, playing with the live Crossroads on Wheels of Fire in '68...that must have made my parents neighbors totally crazy.
Crossroads was the first “real” guitar song I connected with and learned to play. I moved on from Clapton really quickly once I heard Duane, but for about 10 years he was a talisman for sure.
Muddy Waters was great in late 70s-early 80's. Saw him about 3-4 times. Saw him open up for The Brothers outside @ Vanderbilt in Nashville.
I've always been huge Johnny Winter fan. Those 2 lps he produced by Muddy are classic.Great band ,Bob Margolin,Pinetown Perkins,Willie" Big Eyes" Smith. First couple times I saw MW he was standing,fairly active. I recall the last time I saw him he was sitting on stool,showing his age
I hipped to Muddy as soon as I got my first guitar. The first guitar player magazine I bought had a tribute to him. He had just died. I felt like I missed something big by never having seen him. Muddy Waters is a talisman in my life.
Saw Champion Jack Dupree @ Jazz Fest in New Orleans in the 80s.
Most of the folks we were with went and saw somebody on one of the main stages;my buddy Woody and myself checked out Champion JD on side stage. So glad we did
those songs Champion Jack Dupree recorded with Clapton, were some of the most mysterious sounding music I had heard at that point in my young life. DEEP blues for sure
Bob, there's a lot of very good music on your list. I'm sure that the first ABB I heard was Don't want you no more, into Not my Cross to bear on the first LP....we were just blown away...nothing else like it. That entire record just killed us. I can't find my original copy...but I've got the Beginnings set and my original, 1st edition, hot off the presses Live at Fillmore...that really did us in. We were covering as much Allman material as possible in 1971 at dive bars near Hagerstown on Rt 11 & Rt 40
I can remember a friend of mine in high school band turning me on to Cream and hearing Crossroads for the first time. That blew my mind and I started on a path of discovering the blues artists. I was real fortunate to catch Muddy Waters at the Marble Bar in Baltimore around 1978.
I practiced my drum kit with headphones, playing with the live Crossroads on Wheels of Fire in '68...that must have made my parents neighbors totally crazy.
Crossroads was the first “real” guitar song I connected with and learned to play. I moved on from Clapton really quickly once I heard Duane, but for about 10 years he was a talisman for sure.
Muddy Waters was great in late 70s-early 80's. Saw him about 3-4 times. Saw him open up for The Brothers outside @ Vanderbilt in Nashville.
I've always been huge Johnny Winter fan. Those 2 lps he produced by Muddy are classic.Great band ,Bob Margolin,Pinetown Perkins,Willie" Big Eyes" Smith. First couple times I saw MW he was standing,fairly active. I recall the last time I saw him he was sitting on stool,showing his age
I hipped to Muddy as soon as I got my first guitar. The first guitar player magazine I bought had a tribute to him. He had just died. I felt like I missed something big by never having seen him. Muddy Waters is a talisman in my life.
Amen
Saw Champion Jack Dupree @ Jazz Fest in New Orleans in the 80s.
Most of the folks we were with went and saw somebody on one of the main stages;my buddy Woody and myself checked out Champion JD on side stage. So glad we did
those songs Champion Jack Dupree recorded with Clapton, were some of the most mysterious sounding music I had heard at that point in my young life. DEEP blues for sure