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Hubert Sumlin was a mystical legend to me.
I mean he was a blues guitar player.
He actually played with Howling Wolf and Muddy Waters and it was just, it was
it was almost like a godlike figure to me.
I couldn't believe I was sitting in
the same room with him and he's telling stories about how he got into the blues
you know and he said, he said, the blues was the devil's music and he said
basically I'll say he found a record that was by the trash and it had it was
like he said it was a piece missing out of it with a piece like the size of a
pizza.
He put it on the record player and it went round and it was Howling Wolf
and the Howling Wolf went, whoa, he said and that was the moment I loved the devil's
music.
It is a great storyteller.
Yeah but for a man to have played with those
amazing legends was something else and I said to him, I said you were bending
strings weren't you before Clapton, when Clapton was in diapers.
He said like that
that was funny you know because he was you know he was bending strings.
[G] He just
about invented it you know.
We hear the [Am] great blues guitar players you know we
know about Muddy Waters and Elmore [Bm] James and all these guys but Hubert Sumlin when
you talk to blues musicians they put him way way at the top.
Well yeah definitely
yeah so your blues Mick what about you?
Blues and soul.
That's true that's true yeah
yeah what are your?
Very similar really I mean more Chuck Berry more of that
rock and roll stuff but you know Chuck Berry played with all these blues
musicians anyway in Chicago on the chess sessions.
Otis Spann, Willie Dixon
wrote all those great songs.
Well it was all connected wasn't it?
Absolutely yeah so
it was I didn't realize well I realized years ago but it wasn't just it seemed
that long ago that the way they got the groove on those Chuck Berry records was
the band was playing a shuffle and he was playing fours on the guitar so that
that rolling rhythm and I remember when I was younger the English bands could
never get that feel on that because they were playing it like white people dead
straight.
It's so wooden it didn't swing at all and I always knew there was
something wrong and I eventually figured it out and I thought that's it
that's what the light came on.
Yeah so Chuck Berry and also you know Albert
King, Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, yeah all those Freddie King.
So the Chicago blues
primarily.
Yeah all from that period that was my favorite blues period I'm not so
much a purist in I mean obviously Robert Johnson's great songwriter.
Yeah I'm not
really a purist you know I just I'm not really hugely knowledgeable about it I
just it's just something I like you know.
I like that electric period when Muddy Waters.
He came to England Muddy Waters with a with his Fender Telecaster and all
these English people in the audience didn't like it they couldn't even like
purists you know how dare you play an electric guitar.
And poor old Muddy Waters was like well I just thought I was trying something different.
Yeah and then the next time he came he didn't bring his electric guitar.
Of course
the audience wanted to know where's the electric guitar.
Typical English you can't
please them.
Yeah just so fickle.
And Simon?
[Ab] Well all of the above you know
Paul and Mick was saying the blues I loved Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett,
Aretha, Soul really.
Al Jackson was my number one governor in drums.
Al Jackson Jr.
who was the drummer with the Stax house band.
Tamela all the Tamela Motown
drummers oh yeah and big band jazz I started watching but the first thing I
ever saw on TV was a thing called All That Jazz and it featured big bands
swing bands and I was mesmerized by primarily the the drummer and then
through the Beatles and the Stones I got into you know black music soul and blues
if it hadn't been for the Beatles and the Stones I think the cause of black
music would have been many more years in coming thanks to them you know.
Well their first
album was all covers wasn't it?
The Marble X, Mr.
Postman.
And the band I love the band
Lee Van Helm was a great influence on me and Ringo.
Yeah Ringo don't forget Ringo
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I mean he was a blues guitar player.
He actually played with Howling Wolf and Muddy Waters and it was just, it was
it was almost like a godlike figure to me.
I couldn't believe I was sitting in
the same room with him and he's telling stories about how he got into the blues
you know and he said, he said, the blues was the devil's music and he said
basically I'll say he found a record that was by the trash and it had it was
like he said it was a piece missing out of it with a piece like the size of a
pizza.
He put it on the record player and it went round and it was Howling Wolf
and the Howling Wolf went, whoa, he said and that was the moment I loved the devil's
music.
It is a great storyteller.
Yeah but for a man to have played with those
amazing legends was something else and I said to him, I said you were bending
strings weren't you before Clapton, when Clapton was in diapers.
He said like that
that was funny you know because he was you know he was bending strings.
[G] He just
about invented it you know.
We hear the [Am] great blues guitar players you know we
know about Muddy Waters and Elmore [Bm] James and all these guys but Hubert Sumlin when
you talk to blues musicians they put him way way at the top.
Well yeah definitely
yeah so your blues Mick what about you?
Blues and soul.
That's true that's true yeah
yeah what are your?
Very similar really I mean more Chuck Berry more of that
rock and roll stuff but you know Chuck Berry played with all these blues
musicians anyway in Chicago on the chess sessions.
Otis Spann, Willie Dixon
wrote all those great songs.
Well it was all connected wasn't it?
Absolutely yeah so
it was I didn't realize well I realized years ago but it wasn't just it seemed
that long ago that the way they got the groove on those Chuck Berry records was
the band was playing a shuffle and he was playing fours on the guitar so that
that rolling rhythm and I remember when I was younger the English bands could
never get that feel on that because they were playing it like white people dead
straight.
It's so wooden it didn't swing at all and I always knew there was
something wrong and I eventually figured it out and I thought that's it
that's what the light came on.
Yeah so Chuck Berry and also you know Albert
King, Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, yeah all those Freddie King.
So the Chicago blues
primarily.
Yeah all from that period that was my favorite blues period I'm not so
much a purist in I mean obviously Robert Johnson's great songwriter.
Yeah I'm not
really a purist you know I just I'm not really hugely knowledgeable about it I
just it's just something I like you know.
I like that electric period when Muddy Waters.
He came to England Muddy Waters with a with his Fender Telecaster and all
these English people in the audience didn't like it they couldn't even like
purists you know how dare you play an electric guitar.
And poor old Muddy Waters was like well I just thought I was trying something different.
Yeah and then the next time he came he didn't bring his electric guitar.
Of course
the audience wanted to know where's the electric guitar.
Typical English you can't
please them.
Yeah just so fickle.
And Simon?
[Ab] Well all of the above you know
Paul and Mick was saying the blues I loved Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett,
Aretha, Soul really.
Al Jackson was my number one governor in drums.
Al Jackson Jr.
who was the drummer with the Stax house band.
Tamela all the Tamela Motown
drummers oh yeah and big band jazz I started watching but the first thing I
ever saw on TV was a thing called All That Jazz and it featured big bands
swing bands and I was mesmerized by primarily the the drummer and then
through the Beatles and the Stones I got into you know black music soul and blues
if it hadn't been for the Beatles and the Stones I think the cause of black
music would have been many more years in coming thanks to them you know.
Well their first
album was all covers wasn't it?
The Marble X, Mr.
Postman.
And the band I love the band
Lee Van Helm was a great influence on me and Ringo.
Yeah Ringo don't forget Ringo
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_ _ _ _ _ Hubert Sumlin was a mystical legend to me.
I mean he was a blues guitar player.
He actually played with Howling Wolf and Muddy Waters and it was just, it was
it was almost like a godlike figure to me.
I couldn't believe I was sitting in
the same room with him and he's telling stories about how he got into the blues
you know and he said, he said, the blues was the devil's music and he said
basically I'll say he found a record that was by the trash and it had it was
like he said it was a piece missing out of it with a piece like the size of a
pizza.
He put it on the record player and it went round and it was Howling Wolf
and the Howling Wolf went, whoa, he said and that was the moment I loved the devil's
music.
_ It is a great storyteller.
Yeah but for a man to have played with those
amazing legends was something else and I said to him, I said you were bending
strings weren't you before Clapton, when Clapton was in diapers.
He said like that
that was funny you know because he was you know he was bending strings.
[G] He just
about invented it you know.
We hear the [Am] great blues guitar players you know we
know about Muddy Waters and Elmore [Bm] James and all these guys but Hubert Sumlin when
you talk to blues musicians they put him way way at the top.
Well yeah definitely
yeah so your blues Mick what about you?
Blues and soul.
That's true that's true yeah
yeah what are your?
Very similar really I mean more Chuck Berry more of that
rock and roll stuff but you know Chuck Berry played with all these blues
musicians anyway in Chicago on the chess sessions.
Otis Spann, Willie Dixon
wrote all those great songs.
Well it was all connected wasn't it?
Absolutely yeah so
it was I didn't realize well I realized years ago but it wasn't just it seemed
that long ago that the way they got the groove on those Chuck Berry records was
the band was playing a shuffle and he was playing fours on the guitar so that
that rolling rhythm and I remember when I was younger the English bands could
never get that feel on that because they were playing it like white people dead
straight.
_ It's so wooden it didn't swing at all and I always knew there was
something wrong and I eventually figured it out and I thought that's it
that's what the light came on.
Yeah so Chuck Berry and also you know Albert
King, Otis Rush, _ _ Buddy Guy, yeah all those Freddie King.
So the Chicago blues
primarily.
Yeah all from that period that was my favorite blues period I'm not so
much a purist in I mean obviously Robert Johnson's great songwriter.
Yeah I'm not
really a purist you know I just I'm not really hugely knowledgeable about it I
just it's just something I like you know.
I like that electric period when Muddy Waters.
He came to England Muddy Waters with a with his Fender Telecaster and all
these English people in the audience didn't like it they couldn't even like
purists you know how dare you play an electric guitar.
And poor old Muddy Waters was like well I just thought I was trying something different.
Yeah and then the next time he came he didn't bring his electric guitar.
Of course
the audience wanted to know where's the electric guitar.
Typical English you can't
please them.
Yeah just so fickle.
And Simon?
[Ab] _ Well all of the above you know
Paul and Mick was saying the blues I loved Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett,
Aretha, Soul really.
Al Jackson was my number one governor in drums.
Al Jackson Jr.
who was the drummer with the Stax house band.
Tamela all the Tamela Motown
drummers oh yeah and big band jazz I started watching but the first thing I
ever saw on TV was a thing called All That Jazz and it featured big bands
swing bands and I was mesmerized by primarily the the drummer and then
through the Beatles and the Stones I got into you know black music soul and blues
if it hadn't been for the Beatles and the Stones I think the cause of black
music would have been many more years in coming thanks to them you know.
Well their first
album was all covers wasn't it?
The Marble X, Mr.
Postman.
And the band I love the band
Lee Van Helm was a great influence on me and Ringo.
Yeah Ringo don't forget Ringo _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Db] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Hubert Sumlin was a mystical legend to me.
I mean he was a blues guitar player.
He actually played with Howling Wolf and Muddy Waters and it was just, it was
it was almost like a godlike figure to me.
I couldn't believe I was sitting in
the same room with him and he's telling stories about how he got into the blues
you know and he said, he said, the blues was the devil's music and he said
basically I'll say he found a record that was by the trash and it had it was
like he said it was a piece missing out of it with a piece like the size of a
pizza.
He put it on the record player and it went round and it was Howling Wolf
and the Howling Wolf went, whoa, he said and that was the moment I loved the devil's
music.
_ It is a great storyteller.
Yeah but for a man to have played with those
amazing legends was something else and I said to him, I said you were bending
strings weren't you before Clapton, when Clapton was in diapers.
He said like that
that was funny you know because he was you know he was bending strings.
[G] He just
about invented it you know.
We hear the [Am] great blues guitar players you know we
know about Muddy Waters and Elmore [Bm] James and all these guys but Hubert Sumlin when
you talk to blues musicians they put him way way at the top.
Well yeah definitely
yeah so your blues Mick what about you?
Blues and soul.
That's true that's true yeah
yeah what are your?
Very similar really I mean more Chuck Berry more of that
rock and roll stuff but you know Chuck Berry played with all these blues
musicians anyway in Chicago on the chess sessions.
Otis Spann, Willie Dixon
wrote all those great songs.
Well it was all connected wasn't it?
Absolutely yeah so
it was I didn't realize well I realized years ago but it wasn't just it seemed
that long ago that the way they got the groove on those Chuck Berry records was
the band was playing a shuffle and he was playing fours on the guitar so that
that rolling rhythm and I remember when I was younger the English bands could
never get that feel on that because they were playing it like white people dead
straight.
_ It's so wooden it didn't swing at all and I always knew there was
something wrong and I eventually figured it out and I thought that's it
that's what the light came on.
Yeah so Chuck Berry and also you know Albert
King, Otis Rush, _ _ Buddy Guy, yeah all those Freddie King.
So the Chicago blues
primarily.
Yeah all from that period that was my favorite blues period I'm not so
much a purist in I mean obviously Robert Johnson's great songwriter.
Yeah I'm not
really a purist you know I just I'm not really hugely knowledgeable about it I
just it's just something I like you know.
I like that electric period when Muddy Waters.
He came to England Muddy Waters with a with his Fender Telecaster and all
these English people in the audience didn't like it they couldn't even like
purists you know how dare you play an electric guitar.
And poor old Muddy Waters was like well I just thought I was trying something different.
Yeah and then the next time he came he didn't bring his electric guitar.
Of course
the audience wanted to know where's the electric guitar.
Typical English you can't
please them.
Yeah just so fickle.
And Simon?
[Ab] _ Well all of the above you know
Paul and Mick was saying the blues I loved Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett,
Aretha, Soul really.
Al Jackson was my number one governor in drums.
Al Jackson Jr.
who was the drummer with the Stax house band.
Tamela all the Tamela Motown
drummers oh yeah and big band jazz I started watching but the first thing I
ever saw on TV was a thing called All That Jazz and it featured big bands
swing bands and I was mesmerized by primarily the the drummer and then
through the Beatles and the Stones I got into you know black music soul and blues
if it hadn't been for the Beatles and the Stones I think the cause of black
music would have been many more years in coming thanks to them you know.
Well their first
album was all covers wasn't it?
The Marble X, Mr.
Postman.
And the band I love the band
Lee Van Helm was a great influence on me and Ringo.
Yeah Ringo don't forget Ringo _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Db] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _