He was a Detroiter on a time. I remember radio ads for sets at Baker's Keyboard Lounge. As I understood it, he played boogie, which was distinct from blues, or jazz, or r&b. Perhaps this is the place for Bill's disquisition on the subject?
- alex 6-22-2001 5:46 pm [add a comment]

• ElyseSlab's : boogie favorites
  
  Booker T and the MG's - Red Beans and Rice
  Blackfoot - Train Train
  Man - Spunkbox
  Pink Faeries - Right On Fight On
  Atomic Rooster - Death Walks Behind You
  Argent - Be My Lover, Be My Friend
  Wet Willie - Dirty Lies
  Allman Brothers - Dirty Lies
  Jethro Tull - Song For Jeffery
  Alice Cooper - Under My Weels
  Led Zeplin - How Many More Times ?
  Sir Lord Baltimore - Master Heartache
  Silverhead - Long Legged Lisa
  Ten Years After - Hear Me Callin'
  Savoy Brown - Same Old Feeling
  Iggy and the Stooges - Shake Appeal
  Paris - Black Book
  Lee Michaels - Do You Know What I Mean ?
  Van Halen - Mean street
  Big Brother - Combination of Two
  Jefferson Airplane – Eat Starch
  Funkadelic – Mommy, What is a Funkadelic ?
  Captain Beyond – Mesmerization Eclipse
  Traffic – Pearly Queen
  Bloodrock – Crazy ‘bout you Lady
  Pat Travers – Killer Instinct
  Granicus – Bad Talk
  Kool and the Gang – Spirit of the Boogie
  Aerosmith – Movin’ Out
  Animals – I’m Crying
  Black Sabith – Hole in the Sky
  Blue Cheer – Doctor Please
  Creedence C.R. – Born on the Bayou
  Leon Russle – Out in the Woods
  Sly and the Family Stone 0 Sex Machine
  Neil Young – Vampire Blues
  Free – Trouble or Doubletime
  Humble Pie – The Fixer
  Blue Oyster Cult – City’s on Flame
  Taste – Same Old Story
  Long John Baldry – Lets Burn Down the Cornfield
  Jeff Beck Group – Goin’ Down
  Derringer – Here Beyond the Universe
  Dust – Loose Goose
  Ted Nugent – Stranglehold
  Uriah Heep – Real Turned On
  Starz – I Pull the Plug
  AC /DC – Nightprowler
  Rose Tatoo – Butcher and Fast E
  ddie Johnny Winter – All Torn Down
  Joe Cocker – High Time We Went
  Cactus – Big Mamma Boogie
  Budgie – Blotted
  Wishbone Ash – Queen of Torture
  Thin Lizzy – Johnny the Fox and Jimmie the Weed
  Deep Purple – Sail Away
  Lynyrd Skynard – Poison Whiskey
  Ground Hogs – Cherry Red
  Little Richard – Sanctified, Sanctified. Toe-Tapping Boogie
  Brownsville Station – Martian Boogie
  Ike and Tina Turner – Popcorn
  Mountain – Sea of Heartache
  Yardbirds – Aint Got You
  Fleetwood Mac – Station Man
  Motorhead – Sweet Revenge
  Black Oak Arkansas – Fever in My Mind
  Grand Funk Railroad – Foot Stompin’ Music
  Foghat – Slowride
  David Bowie – Gene Genie
  Roxy Music – Virginia Plain
  T.Rex – The Slider
  Canned Heat – On the Road aga
  in ZZ Top – Brown Sugar
  Jo JO Gunne – Run Run Run
  James Gang – Woman
  Steppinwolf - Ballcrusher
  
  Boogie spoken here.
  
  
  - bill 6-23-2001 5:17 am [add a comment]




• That's certainly a connoisseur's list (although it's in the wrong thread), but I'm still not sure I know what Boogie is. Hooker apparently considered himself a Bluesman, and I guess Boogie is a subspecies of Blues, defined by it's propulsive and danceable beat. Perhaps the rhythm is related to the left hand of Boogie-woogie piano style, transformed by transference to guitar? The Rock boogiers, of course, are not playing Blues any more than Cream did. Notice how Elyse concentrates on lesser-known numbers by the famous artists. But is her bias showing in her failure to cite New Speedway Boogie?
  - alex 6-28-2001 8:23 pm [add a comment]




• Yes, certainly a bias for the unsung (undersung) boogie masters. There were plenty of DH'rs proping the GD at the time and just a few of us Thin Lizzy freaks at the original time of publication.
  - bill 6-28-2001 8:42 pm [add a comment]




• gail collins as new times editor
  - dave 6-28-2001 8:48 pm [add a comment]




• Does she boogie like her sister Mo?
  - alex 6-28-2001 9:07 pm [add a comment]

"John Lee Hooker is one of the giants of post-World War II blues, on a par with Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf, and Lightnin' Hopkins. Known as the father of the boogie, an incessant one-chord exercise in blues intensity and undying rhythm, Hooker's sound is also a study in deep blues. From his guitar come shadowy tones, open tunings, feverish note clusters, and that familiar chugging rhythm that has been his blues signature-all of which hark back to the music' s formative years."
- dave 6-23-2001 2:37 am [add a comment]

• "Baby Please Dont' Go" has scored
  channels so deep in my skull it plays
  itself in an endless loop when my word
  mind goes on hold & I gets down to
  working. I saw Hooker at a dive in Durham,
  North Carolina in 1977 & his good friend
  the Reverend Gary Davis came up on
  stage & sang "Death don't have no
  Mercy" & that day I knew what people
  mean when they say "makes the blood
  run cold..." Hooker once bolted a
  speaker to a toilet to get a more natural
  reverb sound in the studio.
  - frank 6-23-2001 8:34 am [add a comment]

Here's a couple of good quick personal stories from Doc Searls, and booknotes has had two days (1 and 2) of great farewell links.
- jim 6-23-2001 4:57 pm [add a comment]