I'm not familiar with much after this initial run. I have the live album from '70 and it's pretty good. The general consensus seems to be that most of the post-Bloomfield and Bishop stuff isn't worth checking out. True?
― gear (gear), Friday, 11 November 2005 04:02 (twenty years ago)
I never went beyond that, but who knows? I couldn't believe how fast that Rhino Handmade reissue of the live album sold out. I kind of want to hear that now.
Sam Lay still plays around town here from time-to-time, leads his own bands. I have a friend who played with him a bit. dunno whatever happened to Phillip Wilson, who left the Art Ensemble of Chicago to join the band!
I thought Elvin Bishop sounded great for the two minutes or so he was featured on the grammy's last year; definitely one of the highlights..
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 11 November 2005 04:31 (twenty years ago)
On another topic, I had a bootleg (tape, so it may have actually been a released recording, but the sound quality tells me otherwise) of Muddy Waters singing with Bloomfield and various others, and after every solo that Bloomfield takes, Muddy booms "Mike Bloomfield, ladies and gentlemen, Mike BLOOMFIELD!!!" Classic.
― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Friday, 11 November 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)
― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 11 November 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)
― wowo, Friday, 11 November 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)
Unfortunately, the only post-Bishop track I'm familiar with is "Love March", which I remember as one of the most skippable portions of the Woodstock soundtrack LP. Dunno if my opinion's changed in the 20+ years since I last played it...
― Myonga Von Bloomfield (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 11 November 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)
Yes! You ever heard the 20-minute live Fairport Convention version of "East/West" from 1967/68? How did Richard Thompson learn to play like that and so young too?!?!?!?
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Friday, 11 November 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)
― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 11 November 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 11 November 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Friday, 11 November 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)
― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 11 November 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)
Are you sure that wasn't Fathers and Sons?
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 11 November 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)
Man those first two Butterfield Blues Band albums just kick ass. Things moved fast then but it is a shame there wasn't more real 'blues' that followed out of that, but there was too much money out there sounding like the Cream.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 04:03 (fourteen years ago)
word is this is the best of the post-bishop LPs, I've seen it used a lot but never piled the trigger. Any opinions?
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― christmas candy bar (al leong), Sunday, 14 April 2013 17:52 (twelve years ago)
Big Albums Box due in November
Looks like all the key and less than key Blues Band stuff, Better Days, the Woodstock set etc...
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 11 October 2015 19:49 (ten years ago)
Nerdy question: this is one of my favorite albums ever and I don't own it on vinyl. The question is: do I buy an original 1966 mono copy (they aren't terribly expensive in VG+), an original stereo 1966 copy (I do love the stereo separation, especially on the title track), or the recent-ish Sundazed reissue (which is likely the only 'mint' copy I will find)?
― Wimmels, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:54 (ten years ago)
If price is a factor, may I just point out that the Sundazed edition lists for $25 now.
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:57 (ten years ago)