I was happy to hear Jason playing with ferocity; this was a high profile gig sharing the stage with some big name players and it doesn't hurt to try and stand out.
Jason is definitely the most qualified to be playing blues among that crew, but I too had to remind myself this was an induction for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and NOT the Blues Hall of Fame.
I'll keep hunting for the full performance. ---------- Ridge's YouTube
I must be out of the loop here,...who the Hell are the other guys? (I live in Hawaii)) Jason should have sang it, too? That was unforgivable. Good to see Jason lookin, and playing, so well. Nice over blow on the solo! Smokin! That's an all time winner song! My fav. RIP PAUL BUTTERFIELD! ---------- Yes, there are blues in Hawaii.
Tom Morello is from Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave. So if you skipped two decades of rock music starting in the 90's you may have missed him! :)
Zac Brown, admittedly, I am not really familiar with. He is kind of straddling that pop/country line. ---------- Ridge's YouTube
JR, Nice work, be happy - you deserve it. The shout out to Pat was class. Note/Public Service: Anybody who works with Gabriel Butterfield better get the money up front. I'll leave it at that -just believe it.
"Paul is a jabber. He moves in, jabs, moves out, comes in again. Never still. Got to be moving, Looking for that opening...only Paul is a musician, not a boxer" (Liner notes from "Better Days"). JR captured that perfectly! A knockout performance! Thanks for the posts, Ted and Ridge!
I've watched Jason's YouTube videos for years. I thought he was very courteous and a true gentleman. And boy, can he play!
@Mojokane - Admittedly, I didn't catch the pun the first time around, but I'm kind of slow on the uptake. That said, well played, clyde!
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Great job Jason!!!! Jason was the Butterfield Band Spirit on stage. The other guys in the band I'm not sure they listened to the original recording and I'm not sure why they were even playing. Joe Morello? Isn't Jeff Beck still alive? ----------
I didnt watch the show-but Joe Morello was the great Jersey drummer from the Brubeck combo. TOM Morello is a political rocker from rage against the machine
Let's hear from the man who started it all for many of us. God bless Paul Butterfield. ---------- Ted Burke __________________ ted-burke.com tburke4@san.rr.com
Since we're commerating Butterfield , here's a two hours of he and Rick Danko from the Band performing. It's a nice showcase for both of them; Butter is in fine voice and his harp work is tasty and exhilerating all at once.
Ted Burke __________________ ted-burke.com tburke4@san.rr.com
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Thanks for posting the Danko/Butterfield video. I saw Butterfield a few times with this outfit and I think it was the best thing the two of them did in their final years prior to their untimely deaths. Butterfield's solo recording efforts after the "Muddy Waters Woodstock Album "never measured up to his former glory. This video was the best stuff recorded by him after that album.
The first time I saw Butter was in 1975 with Better Days at the Escohaeg RI Blues Festival. The band was just awesome, very funky and "modern" sounding particularly in comparison to other bands on the bill (Taj, Muddy, John Lee Hooker, Koko Taylor) Remember, this was back in the days before SRV, so Butter was still regarded as the modern sound of blues. It would be a a number of years when I saw him again with Danny Draher at Tramps. That particular night he was good, but it seems a lot for him to carry the whole night with just a quartet. But the room was full of "stars": Blondie Chapman, Jimmy Vivino, and others were there making the scene. Butter still had a star quality as a result of his appearances at Woodstock and The Last Waltz.
It is funny in retrospect that the first member of the band to have a top charting tune was Elvin Bishop with "Fool Around and Fell in Love." He is still out playing and bringing the blues to a new generation.
Jason played great and the whole band was smoking.. they played it straight for the first bit and then shredded the second... as they said in the interview. I though Brown did a great job on the vocals and his voice is closer to Butterfield's than Jason's is. Of course the other guys are going to get the recognition, they have sold way more music and played way larger venues over the years than Jason. But this makes it clear that Jason is the top rock/blues harp player in US music right now.. probably the world.. I like the way Jason slicked his hair back, but he shoulda grown the mustache too.... :-)
Great stuff, Jason! Whew. I think the song was the perfect way of showcasing one of Jason's strengths--that extremely high energy shredding that he honed back in the middle of the last decade, always working with (and against) heavy-duty guitar guys. The harp did NOT get drowned out here, and that's great. Just a kick-ass performance that should win JR some new fans.
In case anyone missed this or would like to check it out: an interview on the NPR radio program "Here and Now" where they interview Peter Wolf about the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Paul's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Yep, East-West. I don't think Paul did a whole lot in 3rd but that tune, at 13 minutes, qualifies as early "jam-band" and was memorable for that reason. Listening back to it, (I just did on my scratchy vinyl copy) it seems pretty meandering and self-indulgent but I sure didn't think that back then. His first record will always be my favorite.
