Not only are the Rolling Stones one of the most influential rock bands of all time, they are also responsible for creating the groundbreaking mobile recording studio: the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio (wiki link). Ian Stewart, the band’s road manager and pianist oversaw the creation of the first unit in …
A member of the guitar great birthing group John Mayall’s Blues Breakers, a founder of Fleetwood Mac, the writer of Black Magic Woman, a great guitarist and a troubled soul, Peter Green passed away July 25, 2020. We lost one of the best blues/rock guitarists and writers of all time. …
I find it interesting to follow the genealogy of artists and bands as members move around forming new bands and the occasional supergroup. It’s fun to see how the music is impacted by bringing disparate musicians together. John Mayall is responsible for giving us some of the best and most …
As mentioned in other posts, I am a fan of the blues. I was thinking about how best to describe my journey of discovery from the early ’70’s to today, and I saw it in three phases: the original bluesmen, the adoption of that style by the young (at the …
