Word Association Game

[grumpyhack]

From Waters to Hooker and a chance to show a clip from one of my all time favourite films - the original Blues Brothers from 1980 with Dan Ackroyd (who co-wrote it) and John Belushi.

This is a lovely cameo with John Lee Hooker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fRlgmeSe2M

Several of Muddy's band were in it and the film did a great job of introducing latecomers to blues.

The line up of musicians in the film was tremendous: Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Steve Cropper and more. Actors including Carrie Fisher and even cameo parts for Twiggy and Frank Oz.

Also some of the greatest car chase sequences you'll ever see.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTRXnuoK1ss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSTmh7Pjqb8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMagP52BWG8

Enjoy

Edited March 5, 2014 by grumpyhack

[whisty]

Everybody gotta love that movie.

John

[grumpyhack]

Duck

John to toilet and toilet to Duck

gives me an excuse to post this novelty hit by C.W. McCall from 1975

(Opening line PigPen to Rubber Duck)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN4XpIbEY-Y

And the UK version by Laurie Lingo and the Dipsticks (aka Dave Lee Travis - though perhaps dipstick isn't a word he'd want to be reminded of).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d189uP-48sU

[carlosj]

Can I go back to the Blues Brothers so soon, with Donald 'Duck' Dunn, who played on Green Onions?

Edited March 6, 2014 by carlosj

[whisty]

Green Onions and Take 5, can't separate in my mind

Did somebody mention Chicago and Blues Bros, I'm going to make a tenuous link just because it combines something of both.

Onions to Tears because Too Many Tears is on BG last album that I know of & the joy of finding out Buddy Guy was playing 2008 was just, well you know. And Ok he showboated a bit but has every right to do so in my book.

Edited March 6, 2014 by whisty

[carlosj]

From tears to ?

I first heard 96 tears on an EP by Eddie and the Hotrods, including Gloria and Get out of Denver, volume turned up to 11, but then heard the song by ? And the Mysterians, although I'm not sure who did it first. Glam video with scary doll heads though. Cool.

[grumpyhack]

From ? or Question to Moody (we've done rather a lot of blues) so here's a bit of what I suppose some would once have called Prog Rock.

I was really knocked out the first time I saw the Moody Blues at the Colston Hall in Bristol. It was the first time I'd heard a Mellotron live and its sound really filled the hall.

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

I also love 96 Tears Carlos. I think the original was by ? and The Mysterians. One of the first garage bands. It was a real problem for record shops (remember those?) where to file the record in all the alphabetical collections.

Eddie and the Hot Rods are still touring hard and put on a great show. I can't get over how Eddie is still as skinny as ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GoN-y9irn4

[whisty]

Now I know you like it hard and could have picked Snooky but let's do Boogie instead. Wiki takes the credit for the following, not my lack of knowledge or fuddled memory.

Snooky Pryor (Harp) & Moody Jones (regarded by his contemporaries as the best guitar player on the Chicago scene)

Snooky & Moody's Boogie" is of considerable historical significance: Pryor claimed that harmonica ace Little Walter directly copied the signature riff of Pryor's song into the opening eight bars of his own blues harmonica instrumental, "Juke," an R&B hit in 1952.

[grumpyhack]

Well I'll go for something before even I was born as I know Whisty likes a challenge.

The Andrews Sisters, huge in their time, with the "Boogie, Woogie Bugle Boy from Company B". From an Abbott and Costello film of 1941.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qafnJ6mRbgk

I actually saw this performed at a festival a couple of years ago by a female close harmony group, whose name I'm struggling to remember, but they did great Glenn Miller numbers from the forties.

[whisty]

If "Boogie, Woogie Bugle Boy from Company B" doesn't make you smile nothing will.

So I was going to post the 1936 version of Bugle Call Rag but ceded to the following version, any chance to see Buddy Rich hands flow should not be missed, just amazing.

Last post for a while, taking my turn for a long weekend break

And the vid that caught my attention in the 1st place. I quote "This drum battle can actually be tittled as Ronnie Verrel Vs. Buddy Rich Because this guy Verrel is the one who actually play animal as drums.

Edited March 7, 2014 by whisty

[grumpyhack]

Buddy Rich was my hero as a teenage wannabee drummer. I remember him doing a great show with his Big Band. At the end of the first half he came to the front of the stage and asked for requests. The whole of the second half was then the requests.

There was a young boy in the front of the audience and Rich asked him if he played drums. The boy replied "A bit" and Buddy gave him some drum sticks.

The show ended with the obligatory epic drum solo from Rich. At the end, as the applause died down, someone in the audience shouted "One more time!"

Buddy went to the front of the stage, looked down to the young boy and asked: "Do you want to come up and do your bit now?"

Anyway, I digress. Have a good weekend off Whisty. This thread will probably have moved on by your return but in answer to Rag I offer you Maple.

Maple Leaf Rag was probably Scott Joplin's best known rag.

A fun version here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9ilv5_m-pE

Most people probably know Scott Joplin for The Entertainer, which featured in The Sting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xWS3h-apmk

Edited March 7, 2014 by grumpyhack

[brandycoke]

From maple Leaf to Canada's finest.

Could've picked any number of way more popular tunes ,but settled on this more up to date one from" Clockwork Angels"

Probably not for the purists, but works for me.

[carlosj]

I'll take Canada then, as mentioned in A Case of YOU, by Joni Mitchell. Fantastic album, and range of her voice.

Nice to see more of the muppets though and the musicians behind them, I've never grown up really, and Animal was my favourite.

Have a great weekend all, it's coming up fast, and thanks for all these vids to look into further.

[grumpyhack]

From the sublime to the ridiculous and one ex colony to another.

But repetitions of the word you remind me of what has to be one of the greatest karaoke sing-alongs of all time .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imp2i11Q-ZM

This is Abba performing 'down under'

Who of us hasn't been to a wedding night party and not heard this performed by a bunch of drunks on the karaoke machine.

But wouldn't it make a great Glasto sing along?

Sorry, I forgot the connecting word..... "You can Dance"

Edited March 7, 2014 by grumpyhack

[brandycoke]

"You can dance" ..three words I've never had uttered to me in my entire life .

Abba at Glastonbury, now that would be something.

Here's Frank with dancin' Fool

[grumpyhack]

A chance to show the delicious Elkie Brooks, revealing a softer side, compared to her Vinegar Joe days

Fool If You Think It's Over

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWa9s7UKkTg

She had a cracking voice. I actually prefer her version of Lilac Wine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0RfTsZvk4M

or Pearl's a Singer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2yYLdigGbo

[brandycoke]

Great voice Elkie Brooks, saw her a few years ago and forgot how many great tunes she had.

From over, to split, and Split Enz with something that, although it did well in Aus and NZ, i don't think was too well known over here.

For your pleasure ...Six Months in a leaky boat.

[grumpyhack]

Not sure what word I'm supposed to pick up from Brandycoke. I'll take Boat for starters because it's a chance to have a bit of Lulu and Neil Diamond. Neil wrote the song. Lulu had the UK hit but here they are together.

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

But in case it was supposed to be Split here are The Groundhogs doing Split.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvEfVDB3QM4

How times have moved on. I first saw The Groundhogs supporting The Stones in 1969 and they blew The Stones off the stage. Now The Stones pull the biggest audience that Glasto has ever seen. And I fear that Tony McFee hasn't worn as well as Mr Jagger.

So the link word is Hog.

Edited March 9, 2014 by grumpyhack

[brandycoke]

Apologies GH ,no clue there at all, but you excelled yourself, and second guessed incredibly well.

Tony McFee's doing allright imo , he just doesn't have Jagger's make up artist.

Stone's in 69' eh?

Don't wish to narrow your options , but keen to hear what current bands do it for you, so if poss a current band association from Dr Feelgood's I'm a Hog for you Baby.

[grumpyhack]

Oh dear BC, I see a lot of live music, probably four gigs a month. I saw an excellent young (ish) blues-rock guitarist last night Larry Miller, but most of what I go to see tends to be blues, roots, folk or classic rock/tributes so current bands in the charts/pop context are really off my radar.

Looking through the Sunday papers today Mrs GH spotted that Jame Taylor is doing a tour later this year. Though I don't know if because he's doing a tour he could be classed as current.

Anyway, here's James Taylor telling the background to and performing "Sweet Baby James" - and the link word is Sweet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9MncdJ_lOs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9MncdJ_lOs

[carlosj]

We saw Stanley Brinks and the Wave Pictures last night, fantastic. I try to see 1-4 gigs a month, and am lucky to be nearer Leeds than I was, so I get to venues more easily. Strangely enough, this gig was in Wakefield, my old manor.

Anyhow, not my favourite George Harrison track, but it was the one that springs to mind with sweet, and that includes truffles - Savoy Truffle, from the white album.

[brandycoke]

Siouxsie and the Banshees did a version of Helter Skelter from the White album, so that leads me to my favourite tune from them .."Mirage "

Bundled in with punk bands, but completely unique.

[grumpyhack]

You get Mirages in the Desert (the link word)

An excuse to post one of my favourite songs featuring one of my favourite singers. This is the original Fairport Convention recording of The Deserter with the late Sandy Denny doing vocals from their Liege and Leaf Album.

(So a double connection Desert and Sandy!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6hoH0N2IJs

And just to have a bit more of Sandy. This is still probably Fairport's best known song. Still a great end of concert sing along.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwpheKw6TO8

[carlosj]

From desert to boot, a classic from Clarks (other manufacturers available) and a classic from Nancy.

Get walkin'

Edited March 10, 2014 by carlosj

[grumpyhack]

I have several pairs of desert boots 'made' by Clarks (although if you look at the small print on the Clarks label you can see that this fine old 'Somerset' firm now 'makes' them in Vietnam).

And if you get walkin' in desert boots you could easily cover 500 Miles - cue great singalong with The Proclaimers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69AvNm8zubo.

A few years ago they played the Trowbridge Pump Festival where I was stewarding. The day before they played a local fun folk band did a rehearsal of the song and changed the chorus refrain of "Fa, la, la la" to "Pint of Lager."

This was much to the confusion of The Proclaimers when they did the song the next day. When they got to the chorus 10,000 festival goers joined in with a rousing shout of "Pint of Lager"