HBD to Stan Webb, of Chicken Shack since 1965, highly recognized for his significant role in the British Blues scene, particularly during the late 1960s alongside contemporaries like Fleetwood Mac who stole Christine from him.
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Cool rock n roll photos
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American Recording Studio in Memphis, TN 1968 with 3 members of the studio band (The Memphis Boys) backing up Atlantic recording artist Herbie Mann and guest musicians Sonny Sharrock and Larry Coryell. Out of view was house studio drummer Gene Chrisman and depending on the song, either bassist Tommy Cogbill or Mike Leech. Behind the baffle is Roy Ayers, another guest artist who played vibes. Producing Herbie Mann's Memphis Underground album was Tom Dowd of Atlantic Records.
Happy birthday…
Whut? Troublemakers in two entirely different ways. Actually, I had the opportunity to briefly meet Axl, and he was well-behaved, cordial.
Whut? Troublemakers in two entirely different ways. Actually, I had the opportunity to briefly meet Axl, and he was well-behaved, cordial.
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One of my most favorite album covers. I read that the band had been hours doing photo shoots and by the time this one was taken, they were pretty fed up.
1967 Moby Grape (first album)
1967 Moby Grape (first album)
Ah yes, the "finger" version. In the 90's I got to see a reconvened version of the band(I was far more of a fan of them and the quartet version of Quicksilver Messenger Service than the Dead or most of the other SF bands).
It was great and sad at the same time…Skip was long gone of course, but Bob Mosley was on stage. However, as he himself had suffered from mental health problems, he was just there to sing his songs, and he just wandered around up there otherwise. Tiran Porter from the Doobie Brothers was on bass(he frequently played with Grape guitarist Jerry Miller). Peter Lewis, of course, drummer Don Stevenson was missing, and IIRC, Skip Spence's son Omar was on additional guitar. Still, this congregation delivered the goods, and my wife and I also saw Peter play a solo acoustic show, then a Jerry solo band gig(with Tiran, she's an old friend of his)up in Santa Cruz.
Uhh, OK…
A drummer I work with sent me this, I guess it came down his FB feed. All drummer jokes aside, he definitely is not an idiot, is pretty knowledgeable, but not quite astute historically as I am(saying this with all humility). I took one look, and could tell it was some sort of bogus AI crap, so much was wrong about it at first glance. Even if it was some tribute band there's all sorts of incongruities.
The caption is inferring that this is the earliest Zep gig, as the "New Yardbirds", or at least one of them, that took place in Denmark, but those occurred in a small hall with a stand up audience, not an auditorium, and was amply photographed by a fan named Jorgen Angel, the pics having been published frequently over the decades…
It really annoys me, why do people keep concocting this BS historical distortion/revisionism? What's the point? Is this junk monetized? I get it that it's clickbait of some sort.
A drummer I work with sent me this, I guess it came down his FB feed. All drummer jokes aside, he definitely is not an idiot, is pretty knowledgeable, but not quite astute historically as I am(saying this with all humility). I took one look, and could tell it was some sort of bogus AI crap, so much was wrong about it at first glance. Even if it was some tribute band there's all sorts of incongruities.
The caption is inferring that this is the earliest Zep gig, as the "New Yardbirds", or at least one of them, that took place in Denmark, but those occurred in a small hall with a stand up audience, not an auditorium, and was amply photographed by a fan named Jorgen Angel, the pics having been published frequently over the decades…
It really annoys me, why do people keep concocting this BS historical distortion/revisionism? What's the point? Is this junk monetized? I get it that it's clickbait of some sort.
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Screaming Lord Sutch with Ritchie Blackmore at the Country Club, Hampstead, April 1970
Epic shot there…because of all the Woodstock hype and their period in the spotlight after A Space In Time, few know what a monster Leo was at frantic walking bass in a rock context, earlier on…
Yeah, a little sloppy in places, but so what…you try keeping that up constantly for 7 minutes plus.
Here's some more, a mellower groove:
their Woodstock footage was 'lost' and only Going Home survived, that became a blessing and a curse. he's still active last I heard. never got the praise his contemporaries receive. 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain is another British classic. it would seem Geezer Butler took directly from Leo but I've only heard him mention Jack Bruce as an influence.
what might have been, if that guitar hadn't gotten in the way
