"Wrote a song about it, like to hear it, hear it goes....." ;)
Posted on 05/30/2013 3:02:07 PM PDT by BluesDuke
. . . after being even crazier enough to cut them as demos myself.
1) On Time.
This one is a little blues I came up with hoping to use it as a kind-of theme for my new blues group. Considering the rhythmic suggestion of clocks and the title I finally decided to use, I couldn't resist setting it to a montage of classic ad clocks . . .
Guitar: Gibson Les Paul. Vibraphone, bass, harmonica, drums, bongo, conga, temple block simulations: Casio LK-220 electronic keyboard. Amplifier: Fender Deluxe Reverb.
2) Fremont Ramble.
This is a little jam number I came up with. The opening theme and the closing turnaround are the only set-in-stone portions; in the middle, it's pretty much up to us for improvisation within the structure of guitar solo first, then keyboard solo, and then back to the guitar for the finale. We could, if we wanted, stretch this one out to ten minutes.
The photographs making up the video montage are photos I took myself while spending an evening on Fremont Street in Las Vegas a few weeks ago.
Guitar: Gibson Les Paul. Organ, bass, drums simulations: Casio LK-220. Amplifier: Fender Deluxe Reverb.
OK, hit me with your best shots!
(If anyone can figure how to embed the links so you see the YouTube itself, I'd be grateful . . .)
Love the Fremont Ramble (I’ve always been a blues boy)
Fremont Ramble is my favorite...
loved some of the clocks shown On Time.
Thanks, nice :)
+ 10 Fremont Ramble
Which of the jazz/blues musicians inspire you?
Ok will check it out
Sounds good!
Love the Fremont Ramble (I’ve always been a blues boy)So have I. Ever since I was fourteen years old and got the bite from having seen B.B. King live on a summer camp trip. (He was opening for the Who and Jefferson Airplane, about a fortnight before Woodstock, at Tanglewood. Three notes out of B.B. King and I didn't want to know from the others, and I'd been hot to go to that show because I was a big fan of the Who . . .)
Thank you for the kind words!
"Wrote a song about it, like to hear it, hear it goes....." ;)
I enjoyed them,,,, even though I’m a Delta Blues hits Chicago/Detroit player.
Nice. Like everyone else, I liked the Fremont Ramble the most. thanks for sharing your music.
Fremont Ramble made me want to dance! Do you guys play at any events or anything?
Which of the jazz/blues musicians inspire you?My number one influence is, was, and will always be B.B. King. But when I got home from camp that summer I first got to see him, my mother handed me my saved-up allowance from the summer . . . and I high-tailed it to my favourite record shop, coming away with as many blues albums as I could carry.
Aside from B.B. King, it was Mike Bloomfield who first showed me how beautiful a Les Paul could sound in the right hands. It only took me four and a half decades before I'd finally own one! I first became aware of Bloomfield because of an album someone else was on: I was a Buffalo Springfield fan and bought Super Session because Stephen Stills played on it. Only Bloomfield was on side one. One taste of him and I didn't want to know from Stephen Stills!
I was and am influenced heavily by Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon, Peter Green, the Eric Clapton of Blues Breakers, Albert King (oh, God, when I first heard Live Wire/Blues Power!), Otis Rush, Fenton Robinson, T-Bone Walker, Lonnie Johnson, Guitar Slim (he did the original "The Things I Used to Do"---Ray Charles played piano and led the band for that date), Percy Mayfield, John Lee Hooker, the Butterfield Blues Band, Luther Allison, Little Walter, Lowell Fulson, and Robert Pete Williams, among others.
Regarding jazz, I've been a jazz lover since high school. (I had an art teacher who played jazz during our classes, and I got so into that music I sometimes ran the risk of forgetting my art work!) Particularly, I love the jazzmen who didn't forget the blues: Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Count Basie, Horace Silver, Louis Armstrong, Jimmy Giuffre, Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, Jimmy Smith, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane (before he began going right out of his noodle circa 1963-64), Milt Jackson (you want to hear some lovely blues, pick up Milt Jackson and Ray Charles on Atlantic), Ray Charles, Wynton Kelly, Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk . . . among others.
Fremont Ramble made me want to dance! Do you guys play at any events or anything?We played a benefit gig earlier this month to help raise money for a local bluesman/veteran who'd been nailed big-time when a) he got very sick, and b) lost his job and apartment (the two went together). Since then, we've had to revamp because our bassist decided he'd rather be a guitar player. We're about to audition a new bassist and drummer (our incumbent is really a harmonica player, singer, and percussionist---congas, bongos, timbales, etc.---and, though he drums great and plays in a jazz group on the side, he'd rather be singing, harmonica playing, and percussing with us, he swears it's easier for him to sing when he doesn't have to use his full body) and hope to be getting back to playing gigs soon.
loved some of the clocks shown On Time.Thank you! I picked those clocks deliberately---they were clocks I remembered seeing frequently, and those products were stuff I or my family used often enough . . .
Sounds like a lot of talent in your group. I’ve bought all my grandkids a harmonica and then just make up some funny “blues” lyrics and we’d play (even though I don’t know how). Get them loving it early!
For me, it’s a toss up between On Time and Fremont Ramble. They are both terrific. I love all kinds of blues and the late Coco Taylor and Etta James are two of my favorite blues singers.
Your style is really smooth and danceable. Makes me wish I was 20 years younger or 30 or......oh well.
Not bad, not bad at all. Thank You for sharing. Advertising is good, and if you do become famous they'll show these at the grilling on your 60th birthday.With or without worcestershire sauce? ;)
Your style is really smooth and danceable. Makes me wish I was 20 years younger or 30 or......oh well.You're probably finer now than three decades ago!
Here are three more, I haven't made videos for them but you can just listen:
I Missed the Train
There's No Middle Ground
My Home is Where My Heart Is
Same Les Paul guitar, same electronic keyboard . . . enjoy!
Your drummer is rushing. :•)
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