captin beef harp
2 posts
Aug 28, 2010
11:20 AM
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i think this was the best playin ive heard of his also think muddywaters most exciting stuff
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Pluto
96 posts
Aug 28, 2010
2:48 PM
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Beef,
I agree. I also like what I think is the only recording of Jeffrey Carp playing "All Aboard" on his chromatic. I read somewhere that he disappeared in Mexico during the 70's trying to make a quick buck.
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captin beef harp
3 posts
Aug 28, 2010
3:27 PM
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one of the best cuts ,i cant play a chromatic but try to play something close to it on the diatonic and mix it with what paul plays
im new here thanks for reply
intersting about jeff carp
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ZackPomerleau
1043 posts
Aug 28, 2010
3:40 PM
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Never knew that about Jeff but I never liked the album. Butterfield and Bloomfield don't mesh with Muddy too well. They are so cutting and forceful with their playing, I just feel it isn't a good mix. Historically it is important, but otherwise I don't get it. I must say though, Sam Lay, Otis Spann, and Donald 'Duck' Dunn doing the rhythm work is quite something.
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Joe_L
576 posts
Aug 28, 2010
4:45 PM
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I thought that stuff, while good was almost the weakest part of Muddy's career. The Electric Mud and Super Blues Bad stuff was probably the worst stuff.
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captin beef harp
4 posts
Aug 28, 2010
5:17 PM
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well ya just dont have anything with paul playin like that now i love all the harp players muddy had and ya the mix was bad but the energy on record paul was so excited to make this with muddy and muddy was makin a come back maybe not his heyday but a for a whole lot of kids they never new him he had a alot of new fans
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ZackPomerleau
1046 posts
Aug 28, 2010
5:41 PM
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I agree there was a vibe that was outrageously good, but musically I didn't like it.
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Tuckster
737 posts
Aug 28, 2010
7:29 PM
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"The Woodstock Album" is a good one to get. Muddy & Paul are both in fine form on it.
Last Edited by on Aug 28, 2010 7:29 PM
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DanP
131 posts
Aug 28, 2010
9:16 PM
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I think the Fathers and Sons album has some of Butterfield's best harmonica playing but it does not contain Bloomfield's best guitar work. Bloomfield had a bad drug problem for most of his short life and it may have been the drugs.
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Elwood
512 posts
Aug 29, 2010
12:45 AM
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Liner notes to Howlin' Wolf London Sessions say Jeff Carp drowned in a boating accident.
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Andrew
1154 posts
Aug 29, 2010
2:03 AM
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Welcome to the forum, Captin.
Occasionally I try getting the other members interested in Don van Vliet, but it's like kicking dead whales along a beach.;-)
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Andrew,
gentleman of leisure,
noodler extraordinaire.
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Diggsblues
476 posts
Aug 29, 2010
6:54 AM
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one of my favorite albums.
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How you doin'
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captin beef harp
6 posts
Aug 31, 2010
8:22 PM
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THANKS EVERYONE
im learning alot here
never knew there was so many great harpers out there
now cause of elwood i have to make dry white toast and clean my room to find the london sessions
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ZackPomerleau
1058 posts
Aug 31, 2010
9:22 PM
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Dan, Paul had serious drug problems, too. The circumstances of Michael's death is outrageous. It includes an overdose caused by another overdose. Bloomfield barely got to play on this album. I love Michael's work; he might not have always been at the top of his game but he always gave it his all and had incredible tone.
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captin beef harp
7 posts
Aug 31, 2010
10:24 PM
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everyone knows where drugs will leed but its ironic that in the 50s & 60s so much good music was made up on them
wasnt easy for musicans to stay away from all that lost way too many but in 69 when this was made paul & mike did not have the habits that they passed from thats why the harp playin in so good paul was in great shape then saw him live many times saw bloomfield tour with musslewhite in the 70s still in good shape and playin better then ever leave the blues to us was the album charlie had out then
he just keeps going
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