blueswannabe
346 posts
Nov 11, 2013
8:31 PM
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There's some interesting exchange by little walter and mr. Chess on the Worried llife tune found on the essential Little Walter cd, chess records. Little Walter is complaining about his mic and chess is telling him to stop complaining and just try it out. It's pretty funny and at the same time very telling because contrary to what some may think, it appears that Walter cared about the mic to the extent he is commenting on it. This begs the question, what mic was he using? And why was it a "b**ch." any thoughts?
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mattfolk327
36 posts
Nov 11, 2013
8:54 PM
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Walter was known to be a bit testy. That's what ultimately killed him. Some guy punched him in the heart and he died a few hours later. It was that poisonous alcohol that did it man. Ruins too many lives.
Don't mean to be sleeping with the enemy but these guys are very knowledgeable.
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/so-much-gear-so-little-time/387819-chess-records-mic.html
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blueswannabe
347 posts
Nov 12, 2013
4:26 PM
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Ribbon Mic? Do you think he is playing off the mic or cupped?
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mattfolk327
40 posts
Nov 12, 2013
7:57 PM
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Oh there are so many old blues stories floating around I get mixed up. Either way man was testy.
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chromaticblues
1511 posts
Nov 13, 2013
12:07 PM
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Well it was obviously not a bullet mic that he had recorded with previously.
In the back of the Little Walter book it has the recording sessions cronologically. It is a very interesting book!
I wish there was record of what he used while recording each session.
There are some contradictory facts?
there are no obvious signs that he recorded with an echo-plex, but one of his band mates said he used one on a road trip they did? "Sad Hours" sounds like it to me, but I don't know!
@tmf I thought he was gambling and drinking was also winning so he kept on and when he left someone jumped him.
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