Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Profound Attitude


Muddy Waters still gets no credit by name. WTF?

23 comments:

Methadras said...

RACIST!!!

bagoh20 said...

I don't know. Does Muddy give credit to the people who influenced him? He didn't invent his music any more that Page did. All invention and art is derivative. That's why I never took lessons, and don't learn to read music or play scales. I want mine to be original, and that's also why I suck.

The Dude said...

I worked with guys on the Delta who sang field hollers that some ethnomusicologists claim can be traced back to songs sung in West Africa.

Muddy Waters needed to pay reparations.

chickelit said...

@bagoh20: I was alluding to the Willie Dixon lawsuit against LZ, but I was really just reacting to how Waters didn't get a screen caption like Link Wray did in this short clip. Perhaps it got edited out.

yashu said...

Great clip; thanks.

(I don't think Pollo meant Page so much as the documentary, which identified the first record Page listened to-- Link Wray's Rumble-- but not the second.)

chickelit said...

Also, LZ was big ol' rich target. There was no money to get of Ronnie Lane and Steve Marriott

chickelit said...

Correct, Yashu. I recently watched the whole documentary.

rhhardin said...

Wm. Byrd consort songs.

The viol is tuned like a lute, which in turn is tuned like a guitar with the G string moved to F#.

If you play a lute, you can astound the household cellist when a viol moves into the house. You have to learn only bowing, where the cellist has to learn a whole new fingering not to mention the chords that come up.

You're about three years ahead of him from the start.

The Dude said...

rh - thanks for posting that - that a lovely piece of music. I remember playing Byrd's keyboard works back when I was a student over 50 years ago. Mostly don't listen to music from that era now, but it is wonderful to hear.

I quite admire this William Byrd's lifestyle, too.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

Don Draper talked about nostalgia being the pain of an old wound - or something like that - but I think that had something to do with the Kodak Carousel projector and it's relatively late, and I'm ready for bed, and I don't feel like looking it up right now.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

I saw Muddy Waters . . . at the Spectrum . . . in Philadelphia . . . probably in the late 1970s.

He opened for Eric Clapton.

Both were astonishingly boring.

yashu said...

Beautiful, rh. I love Renaissance music (I share your love of Monteverdi, too), but I'm more familiar with French & Italian than British/ Elizabethan. Here's a vein for me to mine.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

That is all.

yashu said...

Don Draper on nostalgia.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

You missed the best part - where he shows Edge how to play Kashmir.

bagoh20 said...

Zepplin does have a long running issue with crediting songs as they should have. I always loved their music, but that really spoils their bona fides for me. It takes away nothing to give credit when you love something enough to interpret it your own way.

deborah said...

Speaking of proper crediting, what's going on here?

Vivaldi's Gloria

chickelit said...

@Ritmo: Kashmir? "That's one of those real hypnotic riffs."

chickelit said...

Carousel is very ouroboros

yashu said...

Carousel is very ouroboros

And the Kashmir riff too.

chickelit said...

Ouroboros surrounds us.

Chip Ahoy said...

Oh, Man, I love that Page interview.

psst, hey Guys, let's go to Page's house. Wear brown.

The Dude said...

@deborah - thanks for posting that - I had never heard it before.

I am reminded of what the wag said - Vivaldi didn't write 600 concertos, he wrote one concerto 600 times.

But that one has its moments, as do many of his works. He's no Bach, that's all I'm sayin'...