BPDG 3aim1

A freewheelin' jam on the ole Baby Please Don't Go riff, loosely based on Muddy Mater's version.

Big Joe Williams and others did it before Muddy, it is after all a "folk" tune, like all the basic blues

songs, but Muddy's is the obvious model for Them's version with Van Morrision on vocals and supposedly Jimmy Page as the session guitarist and then Michigan's own terrible Ted Nuggent's Amboy Dukes version with his Hendrix nod...what comes around, goes around. Arrowsmith and AC/Dc

continued the tradition.....

RIP 

Etta James

January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012

"At Last"

"The great Beyoncé. Like I said, she ain't mine. ... I can't stand Beyoncé. She has no business up there, singing up there on a big ol' president day, gonna be singing my song that I've been singing forever."

Etta James

Etta lived the life and sang the songs

and was far more than just another pretty face.

Occupy Wall St. Oct. 22, 2001

Maybe the revolution will be televised

after all.

Photo copyright 2011

Johnny Depp and Keith Richards, Live at Hiro Ballroom after party Rum Diary

Keef still has it, what ever it is, sounds like the blues to me.

Hope the Stones hit the road once more in 2012. OK I'm still a fan

despite three decades of less than inspiring albums, but since

2ooo their live shows has redeemed them... maybe they're more of

an oldies band, but they started out covering the blues and wrote a

few classics of their own along the way....

Occupy Wall St. aka Eat the Rich

A tip of the hat to Archie Shepp and the funky avant-garde jazz that

never really caught on the late 60's and early 70's. Plus a bit of Bach

in the piano....he was ahead of his time. Part of my video graffitti

series ....youtube and data bits instead of spray paint and flat

surfaces....

Variation's on Grieg's Morning 1B.m4v

 A bit of a departure from my blue and rock efforts

as my infatuation with the wah-wah pedal drives

me to explore new contexts for it use.

A throwback to my classical new age

pretensions as

Orchestra Imaginaire on MP3.com

Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011)   

"She received extensive publicity over her substance abuse and mental health issues."

What is the relationship between these two,

was she merely self-medicating her mental anguish?