Move over Rover and let Jimi take over, "All Along the Watchtower" [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wiuk4rIM8OU[/MEDIA] [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTdLeVjSaaM[/MEDIA] I beleive its Jimi Hendrix who said the blues are all the wrong notes played in the right places. Here he is @ Woodstock 1969 [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epFM8Fe_WDc[/MEDIA]
"Well, I just got into town about an hour ago" L A WOMAN [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgVA1_qG0e0[/MEDIA]
One of the best rock voices and one of the very best rock ballads ever: [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLLjJF9Z3yo[/MEDIA] RHIANNON [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etd4cm2a5xg[/MEDIA]
DAMN HATCH didnt know you were this in to music!! BB King once referred to him as a Black Man born in a White Mans Body... MISTER STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg2_iKTJJFo[/MEDIA]
Yes, Crip, I love music. SRV is one of those muscians with a sound that is all his own. FRAMPTON [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1kh06jaNi0[/MEDIA]
When I was in college in the spring of 1974, I got a call from my mother who was attending a conference in New Orleans and staying in the old Roosevelt Hotel. It was my girlfriend's birthday and dear old Mom said that Ray Charles was playing that night in The Blue Room and that dinner and the show was on her if we could get there. So we dropped our plans, hopped in my hippie panel truck, and drove on down. I ate the best steak I ever had that came with a sauteed mushroom the size of a softball. You could cut steaks off of it and it melted in your mouth. We were at the back of the Blue Room but it was a pretty good view. But right before the show, the old black waiter, that I'm sure my Mom had tipped generously, came by and said that a party cancelled a reservation and freed up a table nearer the stage, did we want it? We said, "you bet" and he led us to the absolute front table center. Ray Charles had a full stage band and the Raylettes with him. He was less than 12 feet away and I could have reached out and touched one of the Raylettes. He put on a hell of a show that I'll never forget. [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9h77KzF2iY[/MEDIA]
The amazing thing about Ray is the fact that he reached across so many genres, e.g., R&B, gospel, country, pop, etc. He was the music genius of my generation. I also got to see him perform in Tokyo in the early '70s. Caught him again at a concert in Denver many years later. Two brilliant performances.
