[Harp-L] What got me started.....

[Lynn wemmer]

Cool story!!

On Mar 3, 2017 8:14 PM, "tomsmics" <tomsmics at xxxxx> wrote:

> In the Summer of 1967 I was a beach lifeguard on a crew that included a
> fine
> looking 22 year old woman who had recently relocated east from San
> Francisco.  She brought copies of Rolling Stone Magazine with her, and
> there
> was a story in one issue about how Butter felt the Doors paid lip-service
> to
> the blues.  As a Doors fan (introduced to them by Jay Thomas, who was
> hosting an AM show locally, playing deep album cuts and anything else he
> wanted to program-=-but that's another story) who had heard or owned their
> stuff, I wondered what that was all about.
>
>
>
> So I went right out and bought the first Butterfield album.  I remember my
> Dad wandering into my room the first day I was listening, telling me that
> "those guys really have the Chicago blues down";  he had spent a lot of
> time
> in Chicago listening to jazz and blues before we moved to FLA.
>
>
>
> I was hooked.  But had to know more, and started to look for the original
> recordings of the songs on that first Butter LP.  You know what follows.
>
>
>
> Nearly 50 years later I'm STILL listening to that stuff (Butter just
> yesterday), and I'm just as amped about playing now as I was for all  the
> years I had/played in bands.  In fact, I just bought one of Tony Ayer's
> Major Cross instruments and am having a blast with it playing everything
> from jazz tunes to the Star Wars theme.  And I'm itchin' to get out and
> play
> live again.
>
>
>
> But there's still nothing like Butter. Please cue "Born Under A Bad Sign"
> from the live sessions done for the Singer Sewing Company radio
> broadcast...incredible..TOM
>
>