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too hot for YouTube: the "Crossroads Blues" video
too hot for YouTube: the "Crossroads Blues" video
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kudzurunner
3118 posts
Mar 20, 2012
8:35 AM
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I've re-uploaded it to Vimeo. The hell with YouTube, I say. I'll always be proud of the "inappropriate content" slur--even though I'm mystified by the charge. A blues performer who goes to the crossroads should be prepared for a little turbulence.
Adam Gussow, "Crossroads Blues" (2011) [Tone Room Productions] from Adam Gussow on Vimeo.
Last Edited by on Mar 20, 2012 8:36 AM
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laurent2015
58 posts
Mar 20, 2012
9:58 AM
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http://golfguidestips.com/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi
Adam, I'd like to report this to you, because it's outstandingly strange what happened.
This address above went about a golf website, where they had gathered more than 100 pages about you and your videos, I should say your several years'work, actually a "dossier" in an artistic meaning.
These pages have been suspended.
Maybe could you possibly inquire by the site's webmaster.
I feel a dark mystery behind this, don't you?
Be aware, anyway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Last Edited by on Mar 20, 2012 10:16 AM
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Sarge
138 posts
Mar 20, 2012
10:21 AM
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That's very good Adam. I had not heard that before. I didn't detect any slur in it.
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atty1chgo
273 posts
Mar 20, 2012
10:33 AM
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Love this video.
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Frank
442 posts
Mar 20, 2012
10:59 AM
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Adam, after viewing the video,I'm even more confused about this dilemma - That's a G rating if I ever saw one...
G — General Audiences. All Ages Admitted. A G-rated motion picture contains nothing in theme, language, nudity, sex, violence or other matters that, in the view of the Rating Board, would offend parents whose younger children view the motion picture. The G rating is not a "certificate of approval," nor does it signify a "children’s" motion picture. Some snippets of language may go beyond polite conversation but they are common everyday expressions. No stronger words are present in G-rated motion pictures. Depictions of violence are minimal. No nudity, sex scenes or drug use are present in the motion picture.
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LSC
190 posts
Mar 20, 2012
1:49 PM
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I just figured it out. Dude, it's obscenely good.
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LSC
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billy_shines
273 posts
Mar 20, 2012
2:11 PM
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nice vid but thats the wrong crossroads, and johnsons guitar skill came from a graveyard not a crossroads. i know where the graveyard is. crossroads was actually a rewrite of a song called graveyard blues.
I went down to the graveyard, fell down on my knees
I went to the graveyard, fell down on my knees
I asked the gravedigger to give back my woman if you please
the real crossroads is near a body of water it has to be. there is no water near the graveyard but a short walk directly true north of it has a 3 forked road.
and he wasnt taught by the spirit of legba/kalfu it was baron samedi/sagbata the lord of death and diseases.
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kudzurunner
3119 posts
Mar 20, 2012
3:33 PM
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My video isn't about Robert Johnson or "the" crossroads. It's about me and my mentor, Sterling "Mr. Satan" Magee. It's about a harmonica player who dares, at a moment of life transition, to transform himself into a one-man band by calling on the spirit of his mentor, a much more powerful one-man band. The crossroads at which this video is staged is my crossroads, not Johnson's. He was on a different journey. I'm also wearing a Cellular South t-shirt, you'll notice. That--and this crossroads, with the shaved and lowered Chevy Cheyenne (400 hp) in the background--is as it should be. I'm reinventing the song, not replicating somebody else's performance from an earlier era--although I DO echo Clapton's opening riff quite overtly. Johnson's world isn't mine. The Delta in which this video was shot is both a mythic land and a damned fine stage set circa 2011.
"All you got is your life!" is what Mr. Satan said more than once. I honored that creed to the best of my ability when I sat down in the studio and played this particular version; I was almost crying when I finished, a very unusual thing for me, and that told me that I had indeed put everything I had into the performance, holding nothing back. Hopefully the listener and the viewer feel that.
This video convinced a British harp player, Paul Pacifico, to put me into a big show in London, which got me onstage blowing a solo on "Got My Mojo Working" as I stood behind James Cotton, Maceo Parker, and Dr. John. When I finished the solo, Ronnie Wood turned around, grinned, grabbed my hand, and shouted "Great job!
That's what this video did. It took me there, to that moment in space and time. If that's not magic, I don't know what is.
Last Edited by on Mar 20, 2012 3:41 PM
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lor
103 posts
Mar 20, 2012
3:58 PM
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This video is a total work of art. Bravo!
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There's no reason for it to be hidden, although I can imagine one, only one, concocted in the mind of an insane person, and I won't even mention what it is.
Last Edited by on Mar 20, 2012 3:58 PM
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billy_shines
275 posts
Mar 20, 2012
5:10 PM
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kudos it worked :D
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