Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Cactus Data Shield copy controlled cd's
From: Jan Depner (eviltwin69_AT_cableone.net)
Date: Fri Jul 04 2003 - 13:28:48 EEST
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 03:42, Daniel James wrote:
> > I used to love to listen to his work with the Isley
> > Brothers
>
> Sure - and Curtis Mayfield, Ike and Tina Turner etc etc. There's lots
> of material from those days on the cheaper Hendrix compilations. He
> played with many of the mainstream black artists of the mid sixties,
> but he still couldn't get a record deal for his own material.
>
Mostly because his material was blues. There wasn't a big market for
it at that time. R&B was the big player. Blues was reintroduced to the
US from England a bit later. You guys had Big Bill Broonzy and a bunch
of other blues players floating around over there getting big audiences.
<OT editorial opinion>
On a side note sort of related to England's appreciation of a form of
music that was developed in the US. I've played in a number of places
outside the US - Monaco, Marseille, Pisa, Panama, ... - and I've noticed
that non-US audiences, for the most part, are much more appreciative and
attentive than US audiences. We (and I use that term loosely) seem to
be more interested in 1) is this the latest cool thing, 2) looks, 3)
getting lucky, 4) getting hammered, 5) did I mention looks? The least
important factor seems to be the music. Don't know why that is but it
annoys the hell out of me.
</OT editorial opinion>
> It was after becoming known in England that he got to play with Miles
> Davis, mostly in private at Davis's house. I wish they'd been able to
> make a record together...
>
Second that!
Jan
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