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If you know of any thing cooler than this, POST IT!!!

Posted over 2 years ago
Great for many reasons. I'll elaborate after I hear others' ideas.
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  1. mousetrap
    mousetrap says Well, for starters, check out "*my post from 4/29*":http://mog.com/mousetrapmedia/blog_post/68860 (Otis' birthday) that includes this same performance clip. But then again, I had just started doing my Blues Birthday posts, and they were nowhere near as detailed as they are these days (for better or worse...). So I'm uncertain whether I commented on what _you_ find to be cool about this tune. Could it be... *1.* His killer, Marge Simpson-rivaling hairdo? *2.* His cool shades? *3.* His crazy left-handed guitar playing? *4.* That riveting, unaccompanied opening holler? *5.* How he substitutes a I# chord (a half-step above the tonic) for the V chord in the turnaround? *6.* The frightened-looking white people? I dunno, yoto - you tell _me!_
    Permalink posted 06/03/2007
  2. dermahrk
    dermahrk says http://mog.com/mousetrapmedia/blog_post/68860#comments will take you to something which is equally cool. In fact, EXACTLY equally cool, with appropriate comments. Sorry, don't mean to be a smartass. :)
    Permalink posted 06/04/2007
  3. Cody B
    Cody B says Just off the top of my head, but let me see if I can find some others
    Permalink posted 06/04/2007
  4. Cody B
    Cody B says It isn't a competition though..It is all good.
    Permalink posted 06/04/2007
  5. yotochan
    yotochan says Whoa there ! Now I know how to get a response. "How quickly they turn" :-) But I'm still waiting for something cooler. That's the challenge, not the knowledge of blues you all have. Kind of a battle of the bands if you like. There's a similarly cool performance from Junior Wells at this concert. I think it's a German audience, that might explain the tranquilized demeanor of the crowd. I'm going to have to rip the footage myself. I have the video. Reasons 1. Wrote the music and lyrics, taught himself how to play and sing also, creating his own tone and style. 2. This was his first recording. The impact was huge. 3. The clothes, the hair, the attitude, all genuine. He's not pretending to be a blues singer. This is who he was 24/7. 4. I met him and he was cool to us, anyone that's kind to kids is cool. 5. Pure Chicago And all mocking and condescension is forgiven, "Lord they know not what they do.........
    Permalink posted 06/04/2007
  6. Cody B
    Cody B says There are a couple of vids I've seen before on MOG that I thought were cool. I think "Ivy put one up":http://mog.com/ivylander/blog_post/58166 I will continue to search my memory banks
    Permalink posted 06/04/2007
  7. Cody B
    Cody B says Sorry. Damn MOG wont link to Ivys post http://mog.com/ivylander/blog_post/58166
    Permalink posted 06/04/2007
  8. kristiana
    kristiana says yep, that's a pretty nice clip! how about this.
    Permalink posted 06/04/2007
  9. Cody B
    Cody B says kristiana, that's pretty cool. Out o the box thinking too. The rules said nothing bout the blues being required. Genius
    Permalink posted 06/05/2007
  10. kristiana
    kristiana says Haha, well, you know me. I kid. I had to think about it for a coupla minutes - when I think of "cool", who do I think of? Memphis Minnie is pretty freakin' cool too.
    Permalink posted 06/05/2007
  11. Cody B
    Cody B says 2 from Sister Rosetta Tharpe You can see her playin guitar a little better in the second tune
    Permalink posted 06/05/2007
  12. kristiana
    kristiana says cool! she rocks!
    Permalink posted 06/05/2007
  13. Spike
    Spike says Finally a chance to see Sister Rosetta Tharpe perform. She's so "there," like a twenty-five-year-old, swinging in total command. Nary a bad item on this post. Let me pull the envelope back into the box that we were thinking inside of earlier, i.e., Otis Rush. I've convinced myself that I had noticed on my own all of the cool things about Otis Rush's video that mousetrapmedia mentioned above, but I hadn't put them into words. Mousetrapmedia must have felt happy to find another Mogger who likes Otis Rush enough to post the video but who understandably was unaware that it had already been posted. MOG is too massive a juggernaut to keep up with. Otis Rush recorded a number of minor-key songs for the Cobra label, but his last Cobra single, "All My Love (I Miss Loving)" (1958) had a latin beat as well. It also had Ike Turner and His Band as accompaniment, which was state-of-the-art blues musicianship.
    It's hard to think of any other blues records in the fifties or earlier with a latin beat and a minor key, but there is one from 1957, Howlin' Wolf's "Who's Been Talkin'."
    Next time I talk to Otis, I'll ask him if Wolf's record inspired him. (I've never met Otis.) It seems safe to assume that Otis Rush's "All My Love" inspired Peter Green (of Fleetwood Mac) to compose "If I Loved Another Woman" (1968) and "Black Magic Woman" (1969), both minor-key latin beat blues. It also sounds as if Rush influenced Green's and John Mayall's singing style.
    Permalink posted 06/08/2007
  14. kristiana
    kristiana says Thank goodness for Spike. Something to sink my teeth into round about 2am tonight. If I make it that far.
    Permalink posted 06/08/2007

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