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Charles “Skip” Pitts, soul and r&b guitarist, Stax session musician, long-time band member for Isaac Hayes and recently co-founder of the Bokeys, has died. You know at least a couple of his famous guitar lines– the guitar in “Theme From Shaft,” and in the Isley Brother’s “It’s Your Thing.” That’s Pitts on stage with [...]  At the Checkerboard Lounge in Chicago on November, 1981, Muddy Waters owns the stage while backed by the Rolling Stones. The Stones posted this video because Waters died 29 years ago today.
I enjoyed Chris’s reading, sponsored by Vox last night. There can not possibly be a more appropriate post than this one. If you weren’t there, you’ll not know why until his next novel is published, but you’ll at least experience the lessons of Dave Batholomew and “The Monkey Speaks His Mind.” He’ll be playing at 10. Johnny began playing in Z.Z. Hill’s band while still in high school, and played later with Little Johnny Taylor and the Sweet Inspirations. In the mid to late 70s, he was O.V. Wright’s band leader, and then lead Johnny Talyor’s band for five years. Since then, he’s been [...] This is Levon and the Band, before they became the Band, and when Levon Helm was 21 and just a couple of years out of Helena. And here’s their recording of “Farther On Up The Road” from the same year. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] This is all from a blog [...] I’m having trouble dealing with all the tributes to Dick Clark (someone on Facebook posted, “Will the world be the same without Dick Clark?” I resisted the impulse to comment “Yes.”). All I can offer is this surreal moment of Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd (1967) lip-synching “Apples and Oranges” on American Bandstand, followed [...] He’s in the final stage of his long battle with cancer, and his family has asked for prayers. The first video below is the Band at Woodstock, playing “The Weight,” something that did not make it into the Woodstock film. The second is “Up On Cripple Creek” from The Last Waltz. Incredible band. A [...] Olympic organizers in London are staging a “Symphony of Rock” as a part of the closing ceremonies this Summer. They wrote Keith Moon’s manager asking if he would be interested in playing. As his manager pointed out, Keith Moon died before he got old. Like 34 years ago. But why think small? Why not [...] One element of the defining sound of Memphis soul was two horn players who recorded at Stax, Hi Records, and elsewhere, the Memphis Horns, which was Andrew Love on sax and Wayne Jackson on trumpet. From his NY Times obit; Mr. Love was black, tall and laid back. His musical partner, the trumpeter Wayne Jackson, was [...] Roger Stolle writes on Facebook: Mississippi Hill Country bluesman RL Boyce’s home in Como was broken into last week, and his guitar (red Epiphone 335 style) and amplifier were stolen along with other things. If anyone has a guitar or amp to donate to RL (or cold hard cash!), he will be at Juke [...] |
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