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?

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.