I have stayed out of some of the "off topics" lately. Unlike some on the board, I have NOT figured it all out, I don't have all the answers, I don't think I'm smarter than everone else, I'm not always right, and my status on the forum is not that of a guru.....No one ever says "wonder what harpdude thinks".
I do care about other people's feelings and hope this forum will stay more rooted in harmonica blues, it's players, techniques, instructions, gigs...etc...etc
Wonder what a new player thinks when he reads all this garbage?
Ike Turner made a great CD called Risin with the Blues. He was a bad, bad man at times, but in his last years he learned something.
no one (cept buddha) claims to have all the answers, we were just spouting off our opinions...no harm in that. thats what were here for, partly... im sure most of us would welcome what harpdude thinks, just like anyone else... ya gotta speak up tho.
garbage? that is subjective at the very least.
great vid by the way. i didnt know ike did anything at all after ida mae eclipsed him.. ---------- Kyzer's Travels Kyzer's Artwork
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He was born in 1931 in Clarksdale. He is credited with being one of the first to use distortion guitar, Rocket 88 in 1951. Many people believe this to be the "first" rock & roll record. He played with just about all the top blues players of his time and as well as guitar was a great rockin' piano player. He also liked to try new things. His arrangement and production of River Deep was much edgier than the Phil Spector version and had a synth solo which was pretty rare back then. Anyone who doubts his ability as an arranger should listen to the Ike version of the Archies Sugar Sugar. It shows that you can, sometimes, make a silk purse from a sows ear
Definitely a Clarksdale Mississippi homegrown. He and Jackie Brenston wrote possibly the first rock n roll song in Rocket 88. Ive played it every gig for 3o years. Its got a great spot for a harp ride.
Ike Turner & The Kings of Rhythm were a classic band. One tune that he did with Tina Turner that Otis Rush did as a guitar instrumental was "It's Gonna Work Out Fine," which is also a great tune to do as a harp instrumental playing basically more embellishments based more on the melody as opposed to just riffing. ---------- Sincerely, Barbeque Bob Maglinte Boston, MA http://www.barbequebob.com CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
