4 Jul
2003
4 Jul
'03
9:07 a.m.
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 03:42, Daniel James wrote:
Mostly because his material was blues. There wasn't a big market for
it at that time. R&B was the big player. Blues was reintroduced to the
US from England a bit later. You guys had Big Bill Broonzy and a bunch
of other blues players floating around over there getting big audiences.
<OT editorial opinion>
On a side note sort of related to England's appreciation of a form of
music that was developed in the US. I've played in a number of places
outside the US - Monaco, Marseille, Pisa, Panama, ... - and I've noticed
that non-US audiences, for the most part, are much more appreciative and
attentive than US audiences. We (and I use that term loosely) seem to
be more interested in 1) is this the latest cool thing, 2) looks, 3)
getting lucky, 4) getting hammered, 5) did I mention looks? The least
important factor seems to be the music. Don't know why that is but it
annoys the hell out of me.
</OT editorial opinion>
I used to
love to listen to his work with the Isley
Brothers
Sure - and Curtis Mayfield, Ike and Tina Turner etc etc. There's lots
of material from those days on the cheaper Hendrix compilations. He
played with many of the mainstream black artists of the mid sixties,
but he still couldn't get a record deal for his own material.
It was after becoming known in England that he got to
play with Miles
Davis, mostly in private at Davis's house. I wish they'd been able to
make a record together...
Second that!
Jan