R.i.p. John Mayall

[Khandro]

https://www.itv.com/news/2024-07-24/father-of-british-blues-john-mayall-dies-peacefully-aged-90

Great performer & great guy. (Manchester, of course !) 90 not a bad score for an old rocker.

[Khandro]

[Lie-in King]

Genuinely sad news, he was a master of his craft.

RIP John & thanks for all the music.

[The Builder]

Way back in the 60s, he was famous for discovering and bringing on new players. Far too many to name here.

One of the times I saw him then, featured a young Mick Taylor (later joined The Stones), and a fifteen-year-old Andy Fraser on bass.  Andy went on to form 'Free'.

Mayall was one of those people who seemed to have always been around.

[Prudie]

I didn't know he was still alive so a great age. He was the first rock concert I ever went to (Bournemouth Winter Gardens), all my 5th year classmates were going so I went, I'd never heard of him.

[Khandro]

We both went to Manchester college of art, but he before me so I never met him, but the legend had it that when he was there he lived in a house in a tree ! 

[Khandro]

That is a terrible video I put up above. I put it there without listening to it I confess, sorry.

Here's the original from The Turning Point

[Togo]

R.I.P. John Mayall. He was the nucleus, that all the other protons and neutrons, of what we now know was the big bang of British music, revolved around, and were drawn to for powerful influence. I saw him two or three times in the 60s at the Twisted wheel and the Torch, perhaps, and was priveleged then without even realising it. Great life well lived. There is a good wiki profile that tells of all the band members that he nurtured and influenced. We will not see his like again. 

 

[Togo]

(Manchester, of course !)

Born Macclesfield Cheshire!

[Khandro]

Togo : //Born Macclesfield Cheshire!//

A stones throw 🙂 

[douglas9401]

I'm sure he influenced The Stones. 😁

[10ClarionSt]

Never heard of him till today. And I'm a Mancunian baby boomer. Ah well.

[douglas9401]

I suppose 'These Fleetwood Mac, Chicken Shack, John Mayall can't fail blues' passed you by too. You've missed out.

[10ClarionSt]

Listening to The Turning Point for the first time ever today (tis true folks. I know some won't believe it, but hey ho!) I couldn't help seeing Morecambe & Wise doing that Spanish dance routine and shouting "Peanuts!"

[Khandro]

10C That in turn reminded me of something I haven't listened to for maybe half a century. Where have all the real musicians gone?