The Anti-Climax Blues Band
― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Monday, 24 April 2017 22:26 (six years ago) link
how many of you here bring your own harmonicas to blues concerts
― Neanderthal, Monday, 24 April 2017 22:39 (six years ago) link
TS: 'Andrew's Blues' vs. 'Cocksucker Blues'
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Monday, 24 April 2017 22:48 (six years ago) link
Where does "I bought all three Rhino Handmade sets by Cactus" fall?
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 24 April 2017 23:00 (six years ago) link
It's pretty much all rubbish except for Canned Heat, who rule.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Monday, 24 April 2017 23:09 (six years ago) link
Alan Wilson's voice ruins Canned Heat for me.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Monday, 24 April 2017 23:17 (six years ago) link
here's some canned heat for ya
*farts*
― Neanderthal, Monday, 24 April 2017 23:19 (six years ago) link
how did Jeff Healey know his girlfriend was pretty in "Angel Eyes"?
― Neanderthal, Monday, 24 April 2017 23:22 (six years ago) link
Disgusting savages, the pair of youse.(xp)
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Monday, 24 April 2017 23:22 (six years ago) link
I used to work in a warehouse and my boss' final collection was predominantly blues rock. Hearing that daily was a slow suffocating kind of monotony. Canned Heat and Papa John Creach were good though.
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Monday, 24 April 2017 23:27 (six years ago) link
*vinyl
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Monday, 24 April 2017 23:28 (six years ago) link
Alan Wilson was a genius.
― timellison, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 00:05 (six years ago) link
You're thinking of Brian.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 00:21 (six years ago) link
I love Brian Wilson's blues rock
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 00:25 (six years ago) link
i don't understand the poll options
― the late great, Monday, 24 April 2017 21:55 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― virginity simple (darraghmac), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 00:26 (six years ago) link
Heard one blues-rock song, LITERALLY heard them all.
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 00:33 (six years ago) link
1st "music for olds"
― sleepingbag, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 00:38 (six years ago) link
sleeve otm
― People like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 00:49 (six years ago) link
fallacy of the excluded middle: Fleetwood Mac sucked after Danny Kirwan left.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 01:16 (six years ago) link
I skip "Stormy Monday" on Fillmore East
this is the only unacceptable choice
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 01:57 (six years ago) link
Voted for 'zero tolerance for blues-rock' by Pat Metheny
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 06:03 (six years ago) link
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Monday, April 24, 2017 8:16 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
No way dogg
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 11:57 (six years ago) link
Electric Mud is pretty awesome. Would like some more like that.Really like Ten Years After when the bebop's showing
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 12:02 (six years ago) link
Found a nice copy of Then Play On by FM on RSD I was well chuffed tbh
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 12:07 (six years ago) link
Picked up the remaster of that when it came out a few years back, a bit less overtly bluesy than the debut but great, great lp.
Stackwaddy are really great, do Buffalo fit?Groundhogs had at least 3 fantastic lps.Steve Miller's early stuff takes a blues influence to some great ends.Gun Club are one of my favourite bands and reinvention of delta blues influenced stuff is one of their marked influences.Same with Howard brothers era crime & The City Solution.
Beefheart's bluesier stuff is pretty cool too.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 12:10 (six years ago) link
Was in a taxi the other day and the driver had some Calvin Russell in the CD player, was pretty sweet.
― heaven parker (anagram), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 12:13 (six years ago) link
The less that blues/blues rock sounds like it was made with a stencil, the higher my tolerance.
― Crackers and Snacks (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 12:22 (six years ago) link
The more it sounds like something a regional sales manager would grind out onstage at the corporate retreat, the lower my tolerance.
― Crackers and Snacks (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 12:24 (six years ago) link
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― Brexectile dysfunction (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 12:39 (six years ago) link
Hot take: Albert King's Born Under a Bad Sign album was simultaneously great and also the seed of all terrible blues rock
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 12:55 (six years ago) link
Booker T and the MGs as backing band innit?
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 13:02 (six years ago) link
I've been jamming "Boogie With Canned Heat" lately...feels good man
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 13:02 (six years ago) link
UK blues/rock albums i enjoy:
then play on; the pious bird of good omen; mr wonderful - fleetwood maccricklewood green; ssssh - ten years afterraw sienna; looking in - savoy browna hard road; blues from laurel canyon - john mayall
not sure i consider wishbone ash "blues rock" but i dig their s/t, pilgrimage, argus
future blues by canned is pretty cool but i'm rarely "in the mood" for those vocals
― Dogshit Critic (m coleman), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 13:21 (six years ago) link
"Well I've been plowin' — pickin' cotton all day long!"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaM6lTmhnak
― Jazzbo, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 13:36 (six years ago) link
Good songs vs. good solos wins the day. See: Robert Cray.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 13:36 (six years ago) link
Steveo's list otm, love the Groundhogs/Tony McPhee.
antipodean blues:
Coloured Balls (Lobby Loyde!)Rose Tattoo Human Instinctthe Scientists
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 14:01 (six years ago) link
There's probably stuff out there that I like or tolerate, but zero-tolerance feels like the right option. I'm clearly not the only person who thought of that blues hammer clip when I saw the phrase "blues-rock".
― Moodles, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 14:01 (six years ago) link
no honestly anytime anything remotely blues rock comes up on ilm for like the last 15 years someone makes a blueshammer joke
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 14:03 (six years ago) link
blues hammer jokes seem like the only appropriate response
― Moodles, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 14:04 (six years ago) link
blues hammer is shameful cultural appropriation of authentic blues-rock
― Brad C., Tuesday, 25 April 2017 14:08 (six years ago) link
there is a spectrum of blueshammer bands, some are good, e.g. led zeppelin, some are bad, e.g. the original blueshammer
― marcos, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 14:18 (six years ago) link
i like plenty of blues rock
― marcos, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 14:19 (six years ago) link
george thorogood rules, the blues albini
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 14:22 (six years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/article/bad-to-the-bone-to-be-used-in-film-3903
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 14:30 (six years ago) link
is blueshammer a strawman band? i've never really encountered a bar band like that ... i guess it's supposed to be kinda sub-par stevie ray vaughn. anyway, my tolerance has probably risen over the years, i like canned heat, zz top, rory gallagher, peter green etc.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 14:48 (six years ago) link
I am listening to 21st century Robin Trower albums today. (He's got a new one coming out next Friday.) Unfortunately, his US tour - which starts tomorrow - is all Midwest and West Coast dates, nothing on the East Coast.
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 14:51 (six years ago) link
growing up around Chicago, it was amazing how many terrible blues rock bands there were in the area. lots of corporate retreat type dudes who looked like jimmy buffet and thought the blues started with jake and elwood.
― nomar, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 14:57 (six years ago) link
as far as a guy who does have a lot of the tendencies to overwrought blooze bluster that ppl tend to hate, rory gallagher is fucking amazing IMO
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 15:32 (six years ago) link
i mean i get why he might come across as a sorta overplaying white blooze dude, but he is actually great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t_1vgh_X9w
― tylerw, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 15:36 (six years ago) link
yeah irish tour is what got me into him, that's the one
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 15:37 (six years ago) link
i mean i get why he might come across as a sorta overplaying white blooze dude, but he is actually great.
His cover of Tony Joe White's As The Crow Flies from the same album is great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heD3siavZBg
― the_ecuador_three, Friday, 28 April 2017 13:25 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 29 April 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
i like harvey mandel. does that count?
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Saturday, 29 April 2017 01:36 (six years ago) link
harvey mandel rules
― a but (brimstead), Saturday, 29 April 2017 01:39 (six years ago) link
Resisting the temptation to once again post video of "Can Blue Men Sing The Whites."
― Shpilkes for a Knave (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 29 April 2017 01:42 (six years ago) link
https://assets.teamrock.com/image/10e8c0a9-6348-4e55-b5d8-599d360d9871?w=1280
― earlnash, Saturday, 29 April 2017 13:58 (six years ago) link
They missed out on a goldmine by not licensing their name to other products.
Foghat's Hog Fat would've been a big seller.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 29 April 2017 14:35 (six years ago) link
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― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 29 April 2017 18:02 (six years ago) link
wow that's a real thing. i guess i assumed it was too good to be true
http://foghatcellars.com/
― budo jeru, Saturday, 29 April 2017 18:43 (six years ago) link
"Mmm, Roger, this is good stuff...notes of oak...a hint of near-cinnamon...and the finish goes down like a SLOOOW RIIIDE!"
"Fucking knock it off."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 29 April 2017 18:53 (six years ago) link
One of my all-time favorite stories shared by others on ILM:
Sometime in the Summer of 1996, Foghat played after a minor-league baseball game in Louisville with Mountain and Iron Butterfly (I didn't actually witness this, unfortunately). According to my friends who were present, Foghat started the set by having the lead singer ask the audience, "Do we have your permission to JAM?!?!?" When he received a positive, enthusiastic response, he then yelled "Then jam we must!!!!" and they broke into a 20-minute version of "Slow Ride," which was basically their whole set. My friend Chris took off his shirt and twirled it 'round his head.― hstencil, Tuesday, April 8, 2003 3:06 PM (fourteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― hstencil, Tuesday, April 8, 2003 3:06 PM (fourteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 29 April 2017 19:16 (six years ago) link
Forever Bad Blues Band Just Stomping
― Stevolende, Saturday, 29 April 2017 19:33 (six years ago) link
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I love this album. Very old school very bluesy kick butt album. I don't know what album the guy who said it wasn't very good was listening to. But Under The Influence ROCKS!
― nomar, Saturday, 29 April 2017 20:23 (six years ago) link
Resisting the temptation to once again post video of "Can Blue Men Sing The Whites."― Shpilkes for a Knave (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, April 29, 2017 2:42 AM (nineteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Shpilkes for a Knave (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, April 29, 2017 2:42 AM (nineteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It's an obvious thing to post, sure, but id does underline the fact that even in the sixties there was a reasonable suspicion about a lot of this stuff. And Clapton was his mate too, so there's also that.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 29 April 2017 20:52 (six years ago) link
Foghat's latest effort is a masterclass in musical alchemy, reigning in a stunning diversity influences -- everything from Cream to Led Zeppelin, the blues to blues-rock -- and proffering a record that is, at turns, both powerful and poignant. It's as if the band had finally decided to kick open the proverbial oak casks, those mythical vessels which contain all the LPs that have music on them that you like, and let the influence flow.
― budo jeru, Saturday, 29 April 2017 20:59 (six years ago) link
I remember listening to Foghat's 2010 album. I don't remember what it sounded like, but I remember listening to it.
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 29 April 2017 23:08 (six years ago) link
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― earlnash, Saturday, 29 April 2017 23:11 (six years ago) link
While I don't doubt that modern Foghat is probably a very professional live outfit, I tend to doubt it really can scratch on the original band with Lonesome Dave and Rod Price. You really can't go wrong with any old 70s Foghat or Savoy Brown.
I always loved those two pictures. The funny thing about the Rock and Roll Outlaws cover shot is the plane was a total prop for the record, they didn't tour in one.
― earlnash, Saturday, 29 April 2017 23:16 (six years ago) link
Keep thinking thread title reminds me of that one Le TIgre song.
― Shpilkes for a Knave (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 29 April 2017 23:17 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 30 April 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
Damn right.
― Mark G, Sunday, 30 April 2017 00:14 (six years ago) link
i call bs on the person who voted "I seek out and attend gigs by the surviving members of Blodwyn Pig." i don't think any of them still tour. though this would have been cool...
On 9 May 2016, Mick Abrahams, the legendary founding guitarist with Jethro Tull, Blodwyn Pig and the Mick Abrahams Band, brought together musical friends old and new, for a night of celebration of his music.
Mick was joined on stage at London’s Borderline by special guests, who included Mungo Jerry, Rick Wakeman, Geoff Whitehorn, Clive Bunker, Elliott Randall and more. Visit's Mick's Media for exclusive pictures from the night
― Thus Sang Freud, Sunday, 30 April 2017 00:30 (six years ago) link
as a member of Blodwyn Pig I take exception to your post
― People like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 30 April 2017 01:31 (six years ago) link
ANOTHER new album from Robin Trower??
― the rockists' red glare (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 30 April 2017 14:55 (six years ago) link
Jump on it!
― Shpilkes for a Knave (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 April 2017 15:09 (six years ago) link
More Trower To Him!
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 30 April 2017 15:25 (six years ago) link
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and there's another live set around.All instrumental
― Stevolende, Sunday, 30 April 2017 15:32 (six years ago) link
don't skip "Stormy Monday"
― Brad C., Sunday, 28 May 2017 01:04 (six years ago) link
― Lmao Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 May 2017 01:36 (six years ago) link
More Blueshammerism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF6yiV8N6G4
― smug dinner-jazz atrocity (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 15 June 2017 17:01 (six years ago) link
Kingfish (new blues trio) is opening for Vampire Weekend, so...is Hendrix-SRV-Buddy Guy Blues/Blues Rock to next Hipster Musical Crush?
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 18 August 2019 01:08 (four years ago) link
Jeff Healey deep cuts
― calstars, Sunday, 18 August 2019 01:39 (four years ago) link
I love straight up blues. Most blues rock always sound like it was made for people that own faded "Fuck Disco" t-shirts.
Blues metal is great except when it isn't.
― FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 August 2019 01:50 (four years ago) link
"Wade in the Water" by Harvey Mandel is a stone cold groove and awesome psychedelia with strings. Recent find for me and a great track.
― earlnash, Thursday, 12 September 2019 01:54 (four years ago) link
yeah I just got a nice copy of Christo Redentor what an album!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 12 September 2019 15:25 (four years ago) link