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ShortBuSX
February 13th, 2007, 07:17 PM
You know, I recon Im gonna continue to keep on posting blues videos, so I figure Id just start one topic and keep heapin em on here as I find em...

I keep coming back to this video...that Strat player looks so serious("awe..get it! get it!")...waaaay cooler version than Elvis did.
Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2aHVING6XQ)

Whachu think?

[edit]1971 live version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j9V96u9ZI8&mode=related&search=)
ShortBuSX
February 14th, 2007, 01:28 PM
The Yardbirds - Train Kept a Rollin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=730lGep5fWk&eurl=)

Led Zeppelin does an excellent version of this, but I cant seem to find it anywhere online...but anyways, I just love watching Jimmy Page play a Tele!!!
Jimi75
February 14th, 2007, 01:34 PM
Sorry to say, but nobody is, was or will be cooler than the King!

Other than that the video is cool!
warren0728
February 14th, 2007, 01:49 PM
keep coming back to this video...that Strat player looks so serious("awe..get it! get it!")...waaaay cooler version than Elvis did.
Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2aHVING6XQ)
check out this dvd...has some great historical footage of big mama thornton and others. It was filmed by the same crew that filmed the series "gunsmoke"

Big Mama Thornton - Big Joe Turner - George "Harmonica" Smith - and the man who invented electricity - Muddy Waters!

http://www.amazon.com/Gunsmoke-Blues-Various-Artists/dp/B0002TT0AA/sr=8-1/qid=1171482342/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-7002806-9920638?ie=UTF8&s=dvd
ShortBuSX
February 14th, 2007, 02:00 PM
Sorry to say, but nobody is, was or will be cooler than the King!


Even Mr.T is cooler than Elvis...and he never had a number one single!
http://origin.arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.media/mr-t.jpg
Tone2TheBone
February 14th, 2007, 02:05 PM
Even Mr.T is cooler than Elvis...and he never had a number one single!
http://origin.arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.media/mr-t.jpg


Cept for maybe this....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7_rBidCkJxo
Jimi75
February 14th, 2007, 02:23 PM
Ohhhhhhhh nooooooooooo, you kick history in the butt!

Shame shame shame.............:)
ShortBuSX
February 14th, 2007, 03:23 PM
Ohhhhhhhh nooooooooooo, you kick history in the butt!

Shame shame shame.............:)

Come on now, history?
When Elvis wanted to be "cool" he did Big Mama's song...so whos kickin history?
warren0728
February 14th, 2007, 03:36 PM
did elvis write any of his songs....i don't think he did....but i could be wrong

was never much of an elvis fan

ww
Tone2TheBone
February 14th, 2007, 03:57 PM
I'm more of a Scotty Moore fan myself. :)
ShortBuSX
February 14th, 2007, 04:21 PM
Saw this video last night, but had originally heard the lyrics in a Moby song(Run ON)...so I thought this was pretty cool...and the video is just HOT!
Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e0EQlQXoEo)
r_a_smith3530
February 14th, 2007, 11:28 PM
That was really Schweet! However, it wasn't Blues.

Here's some Blues. It is a classic performance by a young Koko Taylor on vocals, Little Walter on the harp, and the Hound Dog on the guit-fiddle. There was no credit given for bass, but Willie Dixon frequently backed up Koko in those days. This is Chicago baby!!!

Wang Dang Doodle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GG2v8LBcBU)
Spudman
February 15th, 2007, 08:47 AM
Another cool version of Train Kept A Rollin. Ths is the first one I ever heard and used to cover it in my bands. I didn't know that it went way back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOTD-Su8zmk
I always thought it sounded like Foghat's Honey Hush and would confuse the two whenever I started the song. (puts on dunce cap)

Didn't Ted Nugent cover Wang Dang Doodle?
Spudman
February 15th, 2007, 08:52 AM
Cept for maybe this....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7_rBidCkJxo

Ewwww! I actually sat through 2 minutes of this. Thy should show this at detainment camps 24/7. Them boys be talking real soon...fool.
ShortBuSX
February 15th, 2007, 03:03 PM
Another cool version of Train Kept A Rollin. Ths is the first one I ever heard and used to cover it in my bands. I didn't know that it went way back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOTD-Su8zmk
I always thought it sounded like Foghat's Honey Hush and would confuse the two whenever I started the song. (puts on dunce cap)

From what I gather, this is the original (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfclTLGteLc)...but Led Zeppelin did the best version, although its kinda hard to find, its well worth it! Ive got 2 versions on MP3, Knebworths the best!


Didn't Ted Nugent cover Wang Dang Doodle?

I think you are refering to "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang" :D
ShortBuSX
February 19th, 2007, 04:32 PM
Freddie King - Sweet Home Chigaco (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG-LudjYv60)

I was looking for Jimmy Reed's You dont Have To Go...but I recon this'll do.
ShortBuSX
March 5th, 2007, 02:01 PM
More Freddie!
Tore Down (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI8hxTZ5hPQ)

Big guys got some energy!

Big Leg Woman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWOi_R7bxfA&mode=related&search=)
ShortBuSX
March 6th, 2007, 07:06 PM
This is a pretty cool video... Guitar Shorty (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1jKiBgnPxo)
guitartist
March 12th, 2007, 04:11 PM
From what I gather, this is the original (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfclTLGteLc)..


Actually "Train Kept a'Rollin'" goes further back than that.The "jump blues" orchestra leader Tiny Bradshaw cowrote it with a couple of other guys and was the first to record it, back in 1951. Then The Johnny Burnette Trio cut their famous rockabilly cover of it in 1956. The Jim Dale version appeared in a film in 1958 (BTW, its awesome to see that clip, thanks for posting it). Then the Yardbirds covered it with Jeff Beck on guitar in 1965, and then performed it in the "Blow Up" movie in '66. A Texas garage band, the The Scotty McKay Quintet covered the song in 1966 (I think) with an over-dubbed solo by none other than Jimmy Page (who was doing a lot of session work in those days).

When Led Zeppelin first got together , "Train Kept a'Rollin" was the very first song they ever jammed together on (so its fitting thats what they played when they were inducted into the Rock N'Roll Hall of Fame). Like most of you guys, the first version I ever heard of the song was Aersmith's version from '74 (which is still my favorite). I'm sure other bands have covered the song, but that's the history of the tune as best I know it.
tot_Ou_tard
March 12th, 2007, 05:04 PM
Wow! Thanks for all those links!

The Grateful Dead played Wang Dang Doodle many times.
ShortBuSX
July 19th, 2007, 11:14 AM
Today I heard Peter Green's version of "Black Magic Woman" for the first time...OMG! Love it!

BUT I cant find it anywhere online :(
guitartist
July 20th, 2007, 08:20 AM
Peter Green was FANTASTIC! I think of all the British blues guitar heroes of the 60s he came the closest to capturing the Chicago sound (especially that of Otis Rush). GREAT STUFF! Its the only version of FLeetwood MAc that I really like.


A while back in this thread there was a discussion of the song "Train Kept A'Rollin"...I've since heard yet another version, and this one might just be my favorite. Its on the Yardbirds' 2003 reunion disc "Birdland". The only original Yardbird members in the reunion are Jim McCarty and Chris Dreja, but Jeff Beck plays on one song. There's several other big-name guest guitarists playing on it, Slash, Brian May, Jeff "Skunk" Baxter and others, and its great! Joe Satriani plays on "Train Kept A'Rollin" and whoa, is it SMOKIN'!!!