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?

07-17-2011.m4v

Wall Street Boogie "Muddy the Wah-Wah Waters and his Garage Band" take on the stock speculators and manipulators....an orgy of wah-wah guitar....

The Underdogs Blues Band

The Underdogs Blues Band

One of my favorite 60's band.

I don't think they ever got a name outside of

New Zealand but they were a progressive blues band

with a lot of John Mayall influences 

including a cover of the Peter Green/ Ansley Dunbar instrumental

"Rubber Duck"which can be heard at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKXrr82AZ1U

Another Mayall cover, "Sittin' in the Rain"

with a 1967 video. The original singles were pretty much unavailable in NZ, 

so covers versions served a practical purpose. Plus Mayall never toured in NZ.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoxAc7gXtT0&feature=related

A bio is at:

http://www.sergent.com.au/music/underdog.html

A little rough in place on record they were a hot live band

that were a musical treat at the teenage dances in the Wellington area

in the mid-sixties. 

"Underdogs Blues Band - And Beyond (1967)"

Compiles all the Material the Band Ever Recorded for Zodiac:

 Their Blues Band LP, Sitting in the Rain EP and 45's 

featuring the Genius Guitar Playing of Harvey Mann! 

(I think he left after *)

Tracklist:

1. Oh Pretty Woman

2. Snowey Wood

3. Main Line Driver

4. Mary Anne

5. Pauline

6. Pretty Girls

7. Yonder Wall

8. All My Love

9. Hey Gyp

10. It Hurts Me Too

11. Rubber Duck

12. Cheating/Everybody Needs Somebody/Ride Your Pony (Live)

13. See Saw*

14. Looking Back*

15. Sitting In The Rain

16. Shortnin Bread

17. Cheating/Everybody Needs Somebody (Live)

18. There Will Come A Time

19. Fine Jung Thing

Personnel:

Neil Edwards (bass), 

Murray Grindlay (vocals), 

Harvey Mann (lead guitar), * only

Lou Rawnsley (guitar), 

Tony Walton (drums), 

Dave Orams (bass).

CD re-issue available as of 5-24-2011 at

http://www.mediafire.com/?fqt867f3b4hemc5

12-06-10 Muddy the Waters 3

An oldie but goodie, I'd almost forgotten abut my "signature" song in the aftermath of my mother's death. I ain't as bad as I thought, ha, ha, ha, :)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sweet Home Kokomo

Recycled rhythm track, and an attempt at an improvised

lead...sweet home chi... I mean Kokomo... its the same track I

used for Bury Me on Highway 61...very much a work in progress as

I attempt to develop a vocal and lead guitar interplay...Buddy Guy

I ain't but something is emerging in the way of my own distinctive

style...off the wall as it is. Just think of me as the Banksy of youtube

video graffiti.....

03-01-2011 Bury Me on Highway 61.m4v

A dylaneque rocker with screaming guitars

and my first attempt at slide guitar (standard tuning)

on record. More reflections on mortality.

Pussy Cat Blues #2.m4v

A slightly different version with a guitar intro...

Mary June Echterling

RIP 

1924-2011

Your loving son

My Mama's Dyin'

What can a poor boy do......

Po' Boy in Paris 1975

Copyright 1975

Just a poor boy in Paris
thinking of Marlon Brando
(what can a white male expat do)
and Brian Jones
[[god rest his troubled soul]]
(could I play the
Rolling Stones' blues
on the Left Bank
 or imagine Miles Davis sittin' in
with the Funk Brothers doin' the Temps),
channelling Sartre and de Beauvoir
sipping coffee at the cafe
and envisioning Andy Warhol
sublimated into
Francis Bacon
and Mark Rothko
with a touch of Dali
in the recipe.
An impossible stew
that I never was able to brew...

02-06-11 2

   I just discovered how to auto-tune in Garageband...inspired by the

Black Eyed Peas at the Super Bowl... if I only could get in the ad game

like the Black Eyed Peas, or now the Black Keys, BlakRoc, etc, etc, ... 

the new alternative/ independent music is advertising fodder,

but would I say no to ad money...good question...

Maria Schneider RIP

   Maria Schneider died Thursday in Paris at the age of 58.  She was female lead opposite Marlon Brando in Bernardo Bertolucci's X-rated "Last Tango in Paris" which was an iconic film in 1972 that served to illustrate the tension between the old avant garde and the emerging concerns about sexual exploitation. It was groundbreaking in its depiction of sexuality in mainstream cinema but shocked feminist sensibilities with what could only be perceived as the sexual fantasies of a dirty old man - the aging film icon Marlon Brando... Gato Barbieri provided a riveting sax driven tango flavored soundtrack that gave him exposure beyond the jazz world and also gave a wider audience to Francis Bacon's erotic paintings...

The Poetic Spirit of the Blues

 New blog....
    Musings on the lyrics of blues as an expression of an existential philosophy. A natural rather than an academic philosophy, an implicit attitude for coping with the oppression and repression of segregation and discrimination against the descendants of enslaved Africans in North America but also with the experience of exploitation shared in common with the working poor and all the disadvantages that come with living in a society and culture shaped by money, property, and power...An approach to the blues inspired in part by Paul Garon's "Blues and the Poetic Spirit". The singular and unique experience of slavery in America was essential to the birth of the Blues but its universality and global appeal is its insight into the human condition from the bottom up...
http://poetryblues.blogspot.com/

Basement Boogie 1981

Cover Art from 1981
Before the Fall
into Wage Slavery
Copyright: Terence Echterling

Another blast from the past. Artwork from my mixed career of creating art

for my own projects and psychologically damaging experience of working in

a "corporate" environment...that is, where the company can claim "authorship"

of someone else's work. Does the current copyright law really violate the spirit

of protecting a creator's effort and is just another means

 to gain control and rights to another's creations.

Buddy and Junior 1970

Charles Sawyer has three photo's of Junior Wells and Buddy Guy at the Ann Arbor Blues Festival that look like the same performance I photographed and he gives the year as 1970. 

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~sawyer/blues-gallery.html

Maybe my memory isn't as bad as I thought it might be.

Buddy Guy 1970

More shots from Ann Arbor

all photo's copyright

Terence Echterling

He was right in front of me!

See my OTHER STUFF page "Ann Arbor 1970" (in box to left) for

some comparisons with shots by other photogs.

Ann Arbor Blues Festival 1970?

See my OTHER STUFF page "Ann Arbor 1970" (in box to left) for

some comparisons with shots by other photogs.

Ann Arbor Blues Festival 1970 or 1969?

A cropped but longer shot of Buddy Guy on stage.

Definitely not the Fuller Field stage of "69".

Copyright: Terence Echterling

All rights reserved.

Buddy Guy and Junior Wells 1970

I found some prints but no negs yet.

Dick Waterman give 1969 for his shot of this performance too.

But the Ann Arbor Chronicle clearly shows the "69" stage as different from this photos.
See photos in link and longer shot by me in the next post.

http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/08/27/column-singin-the-ann-arbor-blues/

The list of performers in the comments section has Junior on Fri. nite in 1969 but

I was only there Sat. nite for Wolf and Muddy and Otis Rush

so I couldn't have taken these photos in 1969!!
Photograph copyright Terence Echterling
All rights reserved, etc., etc., so don't use it
without permission
unless you're commenting on the dating controversy.

Ann Arbor Blues Festival 1970

Another shot of Buddy Guy as he came out into
the audience as he played. I've got more photo's somewhere but I'm still looking for them and the negs.
Other photographers seem to think this performance was in 1969 but I'm pretty sure it was in 1970.
But if you remember the 60's you weren't really there.
Photo copyright: Terence Echterling
and used with my permission.
(coz that's me)

Buddy Guy 1970

The Ann Arbor Blues Festival of 1970
Buddy Guy was cooking and showing his stuff as THE Chicago blues guitarist of the day.
Shots by other photographers of this performance say it was 1969
but I didn't take pictures that year so it had to the second festival in 1970.
The schedule has Guy doing an afternoon performance.
 But who am I to question Jim Marshall, etc., if they thought it was 69?
Photo copyright: Terence Echterling

Somethun' Funny 01-03-11

   A slight departure from my earlier vlogs on Youtube in that it is built on a bass line rather that rhythm guitar, a direction I first explored with using the drums as the foundation of "Fightin' in the Streets." It also marks a shift in direction as I search for my musical persona - not really an assumed facade - but a style that reflects who I am and where I'm at as an artist expressing myself in words and music and images. I was a touch too late to be part of the beat generation but there was something in the poetry of the beats and their affinity for jazz and existentialism and buddhism and disenchantment with the moral hypocrisy of society that appealed to me. I tried to express it in painting but I was again too late for abstract expressionism. But I recently remembered on an old magazine from 1970 that I'd hung on to alluding to a link between surrealism, social liberation and rebellion against repression and oppression, and the blues. I can never authentically be a Delta blues singer but the poetic spirit of struggling for freedom to be fully human is shared by us all...