Tom - my guitar playing buddy picked this one and sent the link to me. I thought the singing sounded very sweet -and awfully familiar. The harmonica - was darn good and isn't credited till a buried comment posted on the next page (don't look).
If you got this right off - you've bested me once again.
On the youtube page - on the second page of comments is the answer - for those who can't wait. Don't post the anser here just yet. Duster Bennet (I don't know him) is not the harp player. ----------
Not for anything...but a gamblin' man would take MBH board over the YT comments section on this subject. We don't have close to the knucklehead factor that the YT comments section does. Although at times we try our best ;-)
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from an "everything Fleetwood Mac" site http://discog.fleetwoodmac.net/songs.php?sid=689&perfid=1598:
Mean Old World Date Performance 1968-10-23 Running Time 3:45 Performers Christine McVie (Vocal), Christine McVie (Piano), Stan Webb (Guitar), Andy Sylvester/Silvester (Bass Guitar), Dave Bidwell (Drums), (Big) Walter (Shakey) Horton (Harmonica), Mike Vernon (Produced By), Blue Horizon (Records) (Production), Mike Ross (Recording Engineer) Comments Intro: 0:33 Track: 3:12 Recorded at CBS Studio, New Bond Street, London.
the credits listeld on that second comments page where lifted from Filisko's Walter Horton discography - scroll 9 pg.s down http://filisko.com/assets/Walter%20Horton%20Discography.PDF ----------
There's another version on youtube, from the BBC archives (the presenter namechecks Duster). I think it might actually be the same recording as the one above, but just poorer quality because of the source.
Ah, I see what's caused the confusion. There are two versions of Mean Old World recorded by Chicken Shack - the one above, & another one I'm listening to now on Spotify, from the 'Complete Blue Horizon Sessions', and that's definitely Big Walter I'm hearing.
Two different harp players for sure. The first had me thinking Charlie Musselwhite doing the comping during the first couple of choruses. Lots of minor sounding scoops and rolloffs. But the solo was not a Charlie solo. ---------- MBH Webbrain - a GUI guide to Adam's Youtube vids FerretCat Webbrain - Jason Ricci's vids (by hair colour!)
Both clips posted here are the same player, neither of them is Big Walter. Both probably Bennett.
Andy Sylvester was until recently, still busy as Mike Sanchez' guitar player (replaced a couple of years ago by Big Boy Bloater, who was in turn replaced by Tom Bull) - great player. He's on the Album "Blue Boy".
You know...listening close back and forth with headphones...I'm thinking now that this is the same recording but man...what an audiio difference. I'm wondering if this second one is a great example of digitally re-mastered CD with all the dynamics and punch averaged out of it. The first is so much more clear. Vinyl? ---------- MBH Webbrain - a GUI guide to Adam's Youtube vids FerretCat Webbrain - Jason Ricci's vids (by hair colour!)
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Yeah, both videos feature the same BBC recording with Duster on harp, no doubt about that. However, there's another version from a completely different session that's available on "The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions" (3-CD album). That's the session Big Walter took part in. I couldn't find it on youtube, but if any of you have Spotify, you can hear it on there. : )
Spot on. There has always been some confusion regarding this recording...
As detailed in Martin Celmins Biography 'Duster Bennett - Jumping at Shadows', Duster recorded this with Chicken Shack on the 4th September 1968 as a radio studio session. When Chicken Shack recorded the track about a month later for Blue Horizon, they were joined by the mighty Walter Horton.
The Shack/Duster version was re-issued on Stan Webb; Chicken Shack - The Anthology 1968-2001, although the sleeve notes incorrectly credited Walter Horton.
Though I thought the harp didn't sound much like W.H. - I honestly hadn't known of Duster before - and knew it wasn't Mayall. A nice new turn on. ----------
kinda irritating after awhile. A little too much going on there for my tastes. I am a big fan of early Chicken Shacks' Stan Webb. What a (the real)"Bad Boy" bluesman. His prowess on guitar, too. His later stuff never grabbed me like the early stuff. here's one of my all time favorites.
"You know she told me....that we were through..."...
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Why is it that we all just can't get along?<
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