[Michael.SF.]

Just saw this. Another legend retires.

I saw him again here in Scottsdale about three years ago. The man still had it.

Also had the brief pleasure of meeting him when we visited his son in west LA (this was '79 or '80). Mayall popped in to say hi to his son and listened to the impromptu jam session. Mayall was very impressed with Fredo, our 19 year old harmonica player (the rest of us, well, not so much). Told him "he had it", but it was not to be.

Mayall had a long great run with a lot of great people brought up under his wing. Sorry that I won't be able to see him again

[BenLurkin]

Electric piano done right....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-CtM8Qt5qU

[bagadonutz]

I was lucky to see him and his band in 2019 at a small theater. His lead guitar player was a very talented red headed woman. He is great on leading a band and letting the talent shine.

[pepsi_junkie]

A lot of people don't know Mayall these days but he was really important in cultivating the British blues scene. From his band sprung Eric Clapton as a guitar god and Fleetwood Mac, which began as a straight blues band.

As a guy who plays guitar a bit I know that his album featuring Eric Clapton was earth shattering. On that album Clapton broke with the trends of the time and played an old Gibson Les Paul (which at the time were out of production because nobody wanted them) into a new-fangled Marshall amplifier and he CRANKED it. The tone he got and his aggressive playing made guitar players stop in their tracks.

After that the way guitarists played and what they played on changed and birthed the rock gods of the late '60s and '70s. Mayall did that. Then he brought in Peter Green and that's a whole 'nuther story but the punchline is "and they went on to form Fleetwood Mac". I have two of his records, the one with Clapton and the one with Green. Good stuff.

[FreeReign]

John Mayall Won’t Tour Anymore...

"That's all way in the past".

[jy8z]

Retiring? He'll always have Room To Move

[GOP Poet]

Wonderful story about the impromptu jam session. Nice you were able to see him before his retirement.

[Billthedrill]

88? Lazy bugger.

Kidding. We are all getting so old, aren't we?

[albie]

Joan Baez has ended touring? Thought she was dead. Her “music” certainly is.

[wardaddy]

Mayall and Alex Korner fathers of British blues

Korner spawned :

Charlie Watts, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, Long John Baldry, Graham Bond, Danny Thompson and Dick Heckstall-Smith Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Geoff Bradford, Rod Stewart, John Mayall and Jimmy Page.[

Mayall:

Clapton
Jack Bruce
Peter Green....as good as it gets in my view
Mick Fleetwood
John McVie
Ginger Baker another good as it gets
Canned Heat
Paul Butterfield
Mick Taylor.....best Stones player ever
Albert king..yes the big man and my favorite of electric delta bluesmen
Allen Touissant
Billy Gibbons
Steve Miller
Otis Rush
Steve Cropper
Joe Walsh

Just a few members and collaborators....not aware anyone else that pedigree

Mayall lengthy career
Korner died young ....

[LouAvul]

who’ve announced an end to touring — Paul Simon, Joan Baez, Elton John

Rogue's gallery of liberals, hippies and a fag.

So?

[Hot Tabasco]

Wow, haven’t heard that rocker in decades. Album “Back to the Roots” was great and favorite song was Prisons on the Road....