Paul James' hitchhiker from Vancouver sits in . . . . .
Another totally extraordinary interview with Flaggin Down The Double Es as Bob Dylan guests and vice versa!
The stack says:
Paul James has sat in with Bob Dylan so many times he can’t remember them all. He’d just show up to a Dylan show and, often as not, get called onstage. He never knew it would happen in advance, and never had time to prepare.
Their relationship started, though, not with him sitting in with Bob, but with Bob sitting in with him. In 1986, Dylan was filming the movie Hearts of Fire around Paul’s home base of Toronto. Paul gigged constantly then, shlepping all around Canada. And at one night’s show at a bar in Toronto, he gained a very unexpected new guitar player. . . . . . . .
Paul James Band cover 'It's All Over Now Baby Blue'
Musicians
Paul James, guitar, vocal, harmonica
Gary Gray, keyboard, guitar
Michael Theodore, bass
Paul Armstrong, drums
Sweet Sue, percussion
Sound engineer- Ross Whitney
Produced- by Paul James
Not Dark Yet - With Eric Clapton - for reasons that the article makes apparent . . . watch the interplay between the two guitarists . . . . . . . . . .
“[L.A. WOMAN] is a blues album. We've even included a John Lee Hooker cut called ‘Crawling King Snake’ which was part of our set in the earliest club days.”
- Jim Morrison
Remembering the blues legend John Lee Hooker
(August 22, 1912 or 1917 – June 21, 2001)
"I look for a deep, gutty feeling. I don't use picks, so I can get that deep gut feeling. People ask, "How do you get that?" It's just there. A lot of people try to play real fast chords – da da da da da – that's not the blues. It's synthetic. It ain't the hard, solid blues. It's a lot of speed and everything. It has no feeling to it.
You've got to sit down and play some funky, funky guitar. Take your time! Don't rush it. Just let it come flowing through you. I can play guitar so funky, until it brings teardrops to your eyes. It has that funky, funky tone. I'm just me.
People just feel – that's the way the blues is supposed to be played. Shut your eyes, and then you'll know what you're doing. I know what notes to hit. I know what notes not to hit. I can do a 12-bar perfect – perfect. Oh, yeah. If I did, then I wouldn't be John Lee Hooker.
See, I'm known for not doing it. When I'm just playing to myself I do it: 8, 12, 4, 16, 24. But ordinarily I don't do it, because it would take away a lot of my feeling. You cannot learn this in a book. You feel it here [points to his heart and head], not by writing on a piece of paper
Throw that paper away!
-From Jas Obrecht , Guitar Player
Photo Jay Blakesberg
Boom Boom live 1969
France. John Lee Hooker - guitar vocal; Sunnyland Slim - piano;
Willie Dixon - bass; Johnny Shines - guitar; Clifton James - drums.
This is fun, lengthy and curiously chaotic somehow, what can they have been doing when Grace seems confused as to what number they are even going to start with and then doesn't seem entirely sure once they start?! She seems to decided and the band fall in around her . . . . . . . but maybe that's just me . . . . totally different arrangement of Somebody To Love? . . . . . . just me then.
Those were the days . . . . . . . . . better quality than I expected!
Jefferson Airplane live at the Matrix in San Francisco CA on 2/01/1968. The Airplane had been the first band to perform at the Matrix in 1965, so this show was a homecoming of sorts. Surrealistic Pillow was released 1 year to the day before this concert, and Crown of Creation would be released 7 months later. The Airplane were at their psychedelic peak at this time. Broadcast on KMPX 107 FM San Francisco. - The Internet Archive
The Matrix
San Francisco
02 01 1968
Excellent RADIO KMPX FM recording
01 Somebody To Love 02 Young Girl Sunday Blues 03 She Has Funny Cars 04 Two Heads 05 Martha 06 Kansas City 07 The Other Side of This Life 08 Today 09 Won't You Try - Saturday Afternoon 10 No Secret 11 Blues From An Airplane 12 Watch Her Ride 13 Plastic Fantastic Lover 14 White Rabbit 15 3/5ths Of A Mile In 10 Seconds 16 Share A Little Joke 17 Ice Cream Phoenix 18 Fat Angel 19 The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil 20 Flying Bird 21 Wild Thyme 22 Go to Her 23 Rock Me Baby
With as usual three sources over at Soundaboard . . . . . . .
an all time favourite song and first heard it via a Byrds tribute album Time Between sung by Richard Thompson and band (with the peerless Christine Collister whose voice I adore here)
Taken from the Byrds tribute album on Imaginary records ILLCD 400 released in 1989
Here Without You - Richard Thompson, Clive Gregson and Christine Collister (from the same album)
again with thanks for the reminder of the Byrds' song from O My Soul
