Any Blues or Rockabilly fans here

[LESStar58]

love it (Rockabilly)

Chris Cheney is a big Rockabily fan and you can tell by Living Ends latest CD, there are two songs with a very strong Rockabilly feel about them. He also like the look, hence the semi acoustic and double bass that they play.

Now lets talk Blues, a term that get bandied around too much.

Artists like John Mayal who played alot with Clapton in his younger days had a band called Blues Explosion, never had a drummer, just guitars and keyboard, download any old John Mayal stuff if you want pure blues that is commercially available.

If you ever get a chance to see Kevin Borich live, do it. Saw him at Byron Bay pub a few years back and thats all he plays, and he is damn good.

If you have Austar or Fox, they have about 50 Audio channels, or Radio Channels. One of them is just Blues, and its Blues mainly from the deep south and from the 30s to about the 60s. Most of the music is from the original roots of Blues, not the stuff they refer to as Blues nowdays.

If you are a fan, its an addictive channell.

Of course.... they were called The Runaway Boys very early on... go figure!

;-)

 

[LESStar58]

great station Twizzle

mate i saw the living end in sydney a lot of years ago before they made it they were playing more straight up and down rockabilly with a punk edge,great band

check out a chick called Kim Lenz for some modern rockabilly she is probarbly my fave at the moment

mate for british blues check out the original Fleetwood Mac with peter green awesome stuff, also the early yardbirds with clapton on guitar is veerrry good

and ronjeremy ratt and poison give me the blues ) )

I have a few old MP3s of TLE in their Runaway Boys days covering 20 Flight Rock, Lookin' Out My Back Door, Oh Boy and a few others...... excellent stuff!

 

[2 True Blues]

Apart from being a blues suporter I have played the blues since I was 9 on the trumpet. !!!! Thought Jimmy BARNES did well in his Soul deeper efforts at the basement though !!!!

 

[Twizzle]

sorry OVP i have just seen the second half of your last post

i agree with you all the classic Blues are awesome, i was just listening to some Elmore James while i was cooking dinner

to you and Twizzle
do you like the newer blues from the last twenty to twenty five years eg: the James Harman Band, Duke Robillard, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Anson Funderburgh and Rod Piazza

I haven't heard a lot of it

I'm still finding new old stuff if there is such a thing

there is so much of it around, it will take a life time to listen to it all

 

[hillbillyjazzer1954]

Twizzle send me a PM

I will see what i can do i have heaps of that stuff

 

[OVP]

one of my fav Hendrix songs Voodoo Chile the slow version, now thats blues

That song, which is also on Electric Ladyland is called Voodoo Chile. 15 minutes of pure Blues bliss ... great pick Twiz

Red House by Jimi though is my all time fave Blues Song ... he wrote the lyrics in 8 minutes. Legend.

Voodoo Child (Slight return) is completely different (and to this day remains Hendrix's ONLY number 1 song) even though they are on the same album. Quite bizarre huh.

 

[OVP]

sorry OVP i have just seen the second half of your last post

i agree with you all the classic Blues are awesome, i was just listening to some Elmore James while i was cooking dinner

to you and Twizzle
do you like the newer blues from the last twenty to twenty five years eg: the James Harman Band, Duke Robillard, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Anson Funderburgh and Rod Piazza

Yeah mate i know the Thunderbirds really well. Love em. Cant say im too familar with the rest you mentioned. Remember that old Aussie band called Chain ? Black and Blue remains the best Aussie blues song of all time imo. You can download it here ...
http://rapidshare.de/files/29376336/Chain-Black___Blue.mp3.html

If you ever go CD shopping one day, look out for the Best of ZZ Top (the 1970's version) ... they actually released two Best of's, but the 70's one was 100% Blues. Some truly great tracks on that too. Rare as hen's teeth tho ... maybe i should upload them for you ... just PM me if you are keen.

 

[Weasels Ripped My Flesh]

Four Words: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

 

[LESStar58]

3 words: the black keys

but yeah, JSBE are sh*t hot! I loved "plastic fang"

 

[hillbillyjazzer1954]

thanks OVP

i dont want o sound like music wanker...........but i have all of that stuff
if you PM me i can do you and twizzle some copies of some of the later blues stuff i have or if you go to any file sharing programs and type in the above names you should get some of it, also try google and go to the official sites and then to the links page......and a whole new blues world is waiting for you

weasels

the jon spencer blues explosion is a good band......not really my cup of tea, but i can see what they are doing

it is good to see that there is a few blues/rockabilly people around here

 

[2 True Blues]

Two words " The basement " !!!!

 

[LESStar58]

BIG NEWS!

Lee Rocker of the Stray Cats is touring here next month!

 

[hillbillyjazzer1954]

YEE HAAAA!!!!!!!! where did you hear that Less, mate that is great news
i might make the trip to sydney if he is not playing at Newcastle

2True
yep the basement is a great venue.....i spent many a drunken blues night there.......two of the best were The Foreday Riders 25th anniversary bash and Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters

 

[LESStar58]

Sorry mate but I don't think he's playing Sydney. A mate of mine p there caufght wind of it ages ago.

He's playing at the rockabilly festival in Narooma and I know he's playing down here at the Corner bt dunno about Sydney or anywhere else....

for the record.....the best thing about rockabilly/psychobilly gigs beside music....

have this book at work....been meaning to buy it for ages. nice cars and awesome girls!

 

[hillbillyjazzer1954]

bugger!!!!

thanks mate

i have a few bills at the moment anyway so will not be able to make it down south

mate the Kars and Kittens in the rockabilly scene are awesome.......three of my favourite things females,hotrods and music

another great band to check out is Cari Lee and the Saddle-ites a combination of Rockabilly and Western Swing

 

[LESStar58]

Got my Lee Rocker ticket for the Corner.... I have ticket #1 which is a fdirst for any show I've been to!

 

[hillbillyjazzer1954]

ya lucky bugger who is the band with him

mate wherer abouts are you i thought the corner was in melbourne

 

[LESStar58]

Yeah...the Corner is in Richmond.

Now Slim jim Phantom is playing.... full Stray Cats reunion or, at best, one of Brian Setzer's projects......i hope!

 

[Briza]

Don't mind Blues or Rockaabilly when I hear it, but i've never really gotten into it.

Closest I come to Blues would be Lynyrd Skynyrd or Steve Ray Vaughan.

 

[carcharias]

I actually can't stand blues music ...boring 12 bar stuff kills me.
However there is an old Aussie band called chain that do blues really well.