timeistight
2095 posts
Apr 09, 2017
9:33 AM
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HORN FROM THE HEART: The Paul Butterfield Story, a feature-length documentary about the life and career of legendary blues musician Paul Butterfield, will screen this month at the Newport Beach Film Festival.
Last Edited by timeistight on Apr 09, 2017 9:49 PM
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Sundancer
93 posts
Apr 09, 2017
5:23 PM
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Thanks for headsup- film plays at 5:15 on Friday the 21st of April at the Island Cinema - I think it's the one at Fashion Island. I'll be driving up from Laguna Beach for this one.
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MN
426 posts
Apr 11, 2017
7:36 AM
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CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THIS FILM!
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octafish
1 post
Apr 11, 2017
2:27 PM
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Butter definately played from the heart. I met him in the late-seventies in Boulder and felt like a green kid meeting Mickey Mantle. He was a very gracious guy. F*cking white powder..
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bigd
633 posts
Apr 11, 2017
2:49 PM
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When I first heard Butterfield (Drifting and Drifting live) I realized I couldn't just listen to the harmonica - I had to play the harmonica, i.e., suspend the duality between that sound and I...When I finally met him (towards his twilight) in NYC at Folk City he was a ghost of who he had been....."Drifting and Drifting" plays like molasses with thorns in it....That and C.M.'s "Christo Redemptor" gave me auditory orgasms!
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garry
675 posts
Apr 11, 2017
8:11 PM
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Eargasms?
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1847
4062 posts
Apr 13, 2017
3:14 PM
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i get off early tomorrow... looks like i will
have time to drive across town to see this documentary.
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Sundancer
94 posts
Apr 13, 2017
3:46 PM
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Movie also playing at 2:30 on Tuesday the 25th. I like a matinee.
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Popculture Chameleon
198 posts
Apr 13, 2017
4:54 PM
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I already ant the BLURAY
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1847
4063 posts
Apr 13, 2017
6:15 PM
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well post it on youtube.. save me 15 bucks + gas
and at least i will not have to sit next to my friend
and his girlfriend while they make out in some sleazy movie theater in newport beach.
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1847
4083 posts
Apr 24, 2017
8:45 AM
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So a few of us went to see the film on Friday, we all seemed to enjoyed it.
Afterwards they had a question and answer session with several members of the band.
It wasn’t until after we left, that I thought of a great question, I am kicking myself for Not asking.
They had the trumpet and sax player there, along with the guitar player buzzy.
All of which played at Woodstock. The question I did not ask was this
“did you bring your axe”
Across the street within walking distance was a great band playing,, they would have welcomed them with open arms. So I completely screwed up, a once in a lifetime opportunity, to play with paul butterfields band.
Someone please just shoot me, and put me out of my misery.
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1847
4086 posts
Apr 25, 2017
3:09 PM
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Horn From The Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story Trailer from John Anderson on Vimeo.
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Sundancer
96 posts
Apr 25, 2017
5:56 PM
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Just got home from the matinee showing, and I'm buzzing. Shamefully, I didn't know much about Paul Butterfield before seein the film. Wow, did I get an education.
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kudzurunner
6218 posts
Apr 25, 2017
7:10 PM
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I'm not impressed by the trailer. There isn't the slightest bit of subtlety to what he's playing in these clips.
It's White Guys (and a token woman and black guy) Tell the Blues Story With a White Blues Harmonica Guy Front and Center.
Wow. Really? Butterfield was a great player, but not because Mike Bloomfield and Buzz Feiten said so.
The problem with the trailer is that it is 100% oriented towards a white audience. And yet Butterfield's story is the story of a young white man who went deep into the black community and dealt with a LOT of black Chicagoans--musicians, audience members, and other folk--in order to become who he became. The trailer is utterly uninterested in that part of the story. Yet that IS the story.
Too bad. A wasted opportunity.
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1847
4087 posts
Apr 25, 2017
7:24 PM
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If you didn’t like the trailer, you will not like the rest of the film… those were the best parts.
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Sundancer
97 posts
Apr 25, 2017
8:09 PM
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Sorry to disagree with you 1847 , but I do not agree that the best parts of the movie are in the trailer. Far from it. The movie was as much a study of the formation of Paul's character & musical journey within the social setting of the 60s as it was a concert film. Adam - fortunately, the adulatory bits of the movie only lasted long enough for the trailer. I think you'd get the story you're looking for if you saw the film.
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kudzurunner
6220 posts
Apr 26, 2017
5:04 AM
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I'm eager to see the film. Is it available for purchase or rental?
Don't get me wrong: Butterfield is an amazing player. He's one of only two white players on this website's top-10 all-time greats for a reason. (And yes, I know that the top-10 list contains 11 players.) I was hugely influenced by his playing as a younger man, as were many of us. But I see his story as essentially a crossover story, and a crossover story always has two sides: before you cross over, and after. BB King's story is a great example. Any good and honest telling of Butterfield's story has to evoke the black urban Chicago environment in which he actually learned to play, including (and especially) the other fine black players who were on location, holding court, and playing gigs. He came up in that. I don't know all the details, but I know that much. And I didn't see that evoked in the trailer. I saw people talking about the man who crossed over in '65 and the big career that followed, not what happened in the years leading up to '65. This sort of telling is not surprising. Ain't no new thing. But this sort of telling is one reason why some angry young black people and others on the left like to cry "appropriation!" with increasing stridency these days. When you leave the black community out of this sort of story, you're left with a fiction that the blues is in some sense "everybody's" music. And that's not true. It belongs to people who earn it. And the process by which they earn it in the earliest years of significant white blues playing has EVERYTHING to do with black-white interchange in spaces dominated by black musicians and audiences.
Last Edited by kudzurunner on Apr 26, 2017 5:05 AM
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Sundancer
98 posts
Apr 26, 2017
9:16 AM
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The movie is organized as a classic trilogy Adam.
Pt 1 - Paul's early years and his education in the south side clubs at the feet of the masters. Lots of good footage from this period.
Pt 2 - Paul's success and crossover - which included purposely opening the west coast market for his mentors.
Pt 3 - Paul's disillusionment with the music industry after getting f'ed monetarily by Albert Grossman, and his long decline afterwards.
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Popculture Chameleon
201 posts
Apr 26, 2017
11:01 AM
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ADAM- You can follow them on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ButterfieldDoc/
was just told it will be awhile before it hits blu ray dvd
Last Edited by Popculture Chameleon on Apr 26, 2017 3:11 PM
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octafish
7 posts
Apr 26, 2017
11:39 AM
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Kudz-I could be being hypersensitive, but if ever there was a non-exploitive, non-appropriator, it was Mike Bloomfield; who learned at the feet of Big Joe Williams, and who talked about his apprenticeship period with Joe constantly and even put together a very entertaining graphic story with Robert Crumb about his time learning from Joe. I too would probably rather see the deep cultural-historical context framed by the words and music of Big Walter and Little Walter and by the thoughts of writers like say, Ishmael Reed, but don't be too rough on Bloomfield, who was a guy who, in his lifetime, was self-effacing and respectful of his musical mentors almost to a fault.
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Goldbrick
1792 posts
Apr 26, 2017
12:30 PM
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I really get tired of this race thing.
Half of my family is black and includes musicians and radio people.
NONE of them have any interest in the blues- R and B absolutely, Jazz for sure. They wouldnt know Little Walter from Walter Winchell
Blacks ,for the most part . have left the traditional blues behind-like it or not
How many black players are regulars on this board ?
So i guess what i am saying is black folks originated the blues everybody knows that-why beat a dead horse
Last Edited by Goldbrick on Apr 26, 2017 3:09 PM
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Slimharp
437 posts
Apr 27, 2017
9:57 AM
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Hey So. Cal Folks, there will be another showing of Horn From The Heart today 4/27/17 @ 2:15 at the Big Newport theater in Fashion Island, Newport Beach. This is an added show and is at a different theater. The Big Newport is right off of Newport Center Dr.and is not in the Mall. If you ever dug Paul, this documentary is a must.
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ted burke
550 posts
Apr 27, 2017
1:16 PM
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I look forward to seeing the film eventually. Seeing Butterfield was literally a life changing event for me. The blues, however much we want music to transcend matters of race , politics and the lot and speak to each of us as human beings, pure and simple, the blues is inextricably black music and it is the music of an oppressed people. It's my view that Butterfield and several of his comrades achieved legitimacy as blues musicians, but Butterfield's tale cannot be told without dealing with race. We have the essence of a debate that, on the one side , we have Humanists who view music as a human activity that transcends matters of race, ethnicity, culture and engages all people , by passing embedded codes, prejudices, or rational resistence. (It's worth remembering that Plato wanted to drive musicians, poets and playwrights out of his Republic because such things as the arts--music especially--seduced the unsuspecting into accepting false appearances as Real). On the other we would have the Cultural/Ethnic/Racial determinist who would insist the blues is black music exclusively, both as cultural expression, an intransigent art form , and a creation of a political situation that non-blacks cannot begin to grasp. Butterfield, perhaps not by intention, was a transgressor . What he did changed the music culture to some significant degree as it has to do with relationships between blacks and whites. We must, to be sure, celebrate his accomplishment and respect the genius of his musicianship, but I don't think one can avoid discussing race when dealing with the full Butterfield saga
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