Another thing the Dedicatee and I shared was the love of good music - we just couldn't agree on what that was! As a kid I was sick to death of only being "allowed" to listen to classical music and opera - now I couldn't be more grateful for the education.
That being said, he "introduced" me to Stephane Gappelli and Django Reinhardt -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpmOTGungnA
and to "negro spirituals" (possibly a distant relation of gospel music) and the outstanding voice, intellect and athletic grace of Paul Robeson who suffered horribly form the vileness, bigotry and scaremongering of McCarthyism -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoJB_JiG1RM
(a much longer link here - by a happy coincidence in Moscow - if you read the comments the Soviets clearly got more than they bargained for!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rK1ZZ_SpyU
One Christmas my brother and I got an old windup gramophone (look it up kids!) complete with "trumpet" speaker and "one time" use steel needles, and some 78 rpm bakelite (look this up as well!) amongst which was a version of "St. Louis Blues" and that was as close as the Dedicatee and I got on the blues.
One of the (many) joys of sitting in the (Moscow) Peter1 Hotel lobby in the early hours of the morning was the music played - at least once on every occasion I heard a version of "Come On In My Kitchen" - I was never able to work out who was singing (maybe Buddy Guy and one other, but I have not been able to find the recording), only that it wasn't the Man
In Tucson I have been lucky to become friendly with two excellent Blues musicians - Tom Walbank (an Englishman!) - http://www.tomwalbankmusic.com/look-listen/videos/ - a fine writer and excellent interpreter of the "classics"; and Stefan George - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHw7PnT6hw8; and here they are together - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBiJt5_ytrE (Stefan playing my favourite guitar!)
But for me, right here in Tucson, is one of the best guitarist I've ever seen/heard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR4DQBKnXmc&feature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T9GnTefck4&feature=youtu.be
he played with MC5 years ago back in New Jersey, but he is his own worst enemy and can never keep a band together, so no one has ever heard of him!
That being said, he "introduced" me to Stephane Gappelli and Django Reinhardt -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpmOTGungnA
and to "negro spirituals" (possibly a distant relation of gospel music) and the outstanding voice, intellect and athletic grace of Paul Robeson who suffered horribly form the vileness, bigotry and scaremongering of McCarthyism -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoJB_JiG1RM
(a much longer link here - by a happy coincidence in Moscow - if you read the comments the Soviets clearly got more than they bargained for!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rK1ZZ_SpyU
One Christmas my brother and I got an old windup gramophone (look it up kids!) complete with "trumpet" speaker and "one time" use steel needles, and some 78 rpm bakelite (look this up as well!) amongst which was a version of "St. Louis Blues" and that was as close as the Dedicatee and I got on the blues.
One of the (many) joys of sitting in the (Moscow) Peter1 Hotel lobby in the early hours of the morning was the music played - at least once on every occasion I heard a version of "Come On In My Kitchen" - I was never able to work out who was singing (maybe Buddy Guy and one other, but I have not been able to find the recording), only that it wasn't the Man
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But for me, right here in Tucson, is one of the best guitarist I've ever seen/heard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR4DQBKnXmc&feature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T9GnTefck4&feature=youtu.be
he played with MC5 years ago back in New Jersey, but he is his own worst enemy and can never keep a band together, so no one has ever heard of him!
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