relative hit for Chess, it features the exalted bluesman bellowing over psychedelicised arrangements that owe more to Steppenwolf than Willie Dixon. Waters himself comp...
relative hit for Chess, it features the exalted bluesman bellowing over psychedelicised arrangements that owe more to Steppenwolf than Willie Dixon. Waters himself compl...
relative hit for Chess, it features the exalted bluesman bellowing over psychedelicised arrangements that owe more to Steppenwolf than Willie Dixon. Waters himself compl...
relative hit for Chess, it features the exalted bluesman bellowing over psychedelicised arrangements that owe more to Steppenwolf than Willie Dixon. Waters himself comp...
Album Notes: Personnel: Muddy Waters (vocals); Phil Upchurch, Roland Faulkner, Pete Cosey (guitar); Gene Barge (tenor sax); Charles Stepney (organ); Louis Satterfield (bass); Morris Jennings (drums). Producers: Marshall Chess, Charles Stepney, George Barge. Reissue producer: Andy McKaie. Recorded at Ter Mar Studios, Chicago, Illinois, May 1968. Originally released on Cadet Concept (314). Includes liner notes by Mark Humphrey and Marshall Chess. Digitally remastered by Erick Labson (MCA Music Media Studios, North Hollywood, California). Often derided by cynics who see it as an ill-conceived attempt to update Muddy's sound, ELECTRIC MUD actually makes an odd kind of sense. In retrospect, its mating of Muddy's Chicago blues with a Cream-like, semi-psychedelic blues-rock sound merely places the blues godfather in amidst the world he helped inspire, if not create. Heavy blues-rock bands of the late '60s like Cream and Led Zeppelin would never have existed had Muddy not harnessed the power of electricity as a vehicle for his big-sounding blues in the '50s. ELECTRIC MUD is dominated by a fuzz guitar so unabashedly over-the-top it's downright endearing. All the trappings of the period are thrown into the mix: funky/heavy grooves, fuzz bass, wah-wah pedal, etc. There's even a rush of backwards tapes at the beginning of a rocked-up take on "Mannish Boy." 30 years later, hardcore blues artists like R.L. Burnside would benefit from an analogous approach by working with samples and loops, so hindsight makes this album seem more canny than misguided (it did create a marked increase in Muddy's poor late-'60s record sales). Besides, it's worth the price of admission just to see the photos that show Muddy's trademark "conk" hairdo in various stages of preparation.
Advantages: Too many to list - see the review! Disadvantages: Could cause the urge to spend money, lots of money!
...(There are so many versions of this recording that this is not a definitive list - the DVD audio includes more tracks for example. (I only suggest buying the remaster editions in whatever format, though)).
Band members are as follows:-
MuddyWaters Guitar, Vocals
Milton Rector Bass
Otis Spann Piano
Pee Wee Madison Guitar
J.T. Brown Clarinet & Tenor Sax
Francis Clay Drums
Clifton James Drums
Sammy Lawhorn Guitar
S.P. Leary Drums
James Cotton Harmonica
Buddy Guy Guitar
Willie Dixon Bass & Producer
Somewhat of a who's who of the blues world!
So can I summarise this? A great recording just for the performance alone. Also a great recording for the technical quality. A fantastic way to hear what your Hi-Fi is really capable of (but that could get costly...I take no...
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Advantages: Your child will sit down for ages to watch it Disadvantages: You may watch it after your child is asleep!
...Peppa Pig Muddy Puddles
Every day I feel thankful for the extra children?s channels that Sky offer as I don?t think I could live only with Cbeebies any longer! And now my daughter is at the age where she will happily have a DVD on whilst playing, I am even more thankful if I need a rest from playing and look towards my pile of washing that?s been waiting for ages to be put on!
Peppa Pig is one of my daughters newest fascinations after winning a toy Peppa on holiday a few months ago. My young sister decided she was too old for her DVD of Peppa Pig and along it came to our house, much to my daughters happiness.
PEPPA PIG
Peppa Pig is a lovely animated children?s programme about a family of lovable pigs, each episode five minutes long so short enough to keep even young children amused. This DVD also runs each of the twelve episodes...
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...First, a MUD is a multi-user dungeon (or dimension). It's online, it's free, and it's role-playing (or killing stuff as fast and as often as you can...).
What you get out of a MUD depends on what you want from it. The MUD I play, Discworld (based on the books by Terry Pratchett and available at http://discworld.imaginary.com:5678/), is a pretty friendly place. It has a number of starting points for newbies (that's characters new to the Disc, especially if they haven't played MUD before), many lands, languages, quests, places to explore, people to meet (and kill).
In game, you can rent or buy a house to live in, buy a shop to run, join a guild, get a job, or become a player-killer (this lets you kill and steal from other player killers as well as non-player characters or NPCs). You can also die (multiple times), meet Death who...
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