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While Clapton’s roots lay in the sweaty R’n’ B of west London’s hip clubs he’d grown sick of what he saw as wrong-headed chasing after fame and fortune (and an unhealthy adherence to Chuck Berry’s template). As only a young man can do, he became a purist of the sternest kind, and in Mayall he found a man who felt the same. With less of a jazz background than the other father-figure to the British blues boom, Alexis Korner, Mayall was an alchemist of the highest order.
These men didn’t just distil the blues. They turned it into something new. Blues rock was to rule the ‘underground’ for years following this single blast of truly electric 12 bar music. One element was to be the most important: Clapton’s pairing of a vintage Gibson Les Paul with an overdriven Marshall amplifier. Within literally weeks guitarists all over the country were doing the same. It was that revolutionary.
The album really pays tribute to Buddy Guy and Freddie King, Clapton’s heroes to this day. It’s the edgier end of Chicago that drives each riff with the rhythm section of John McVie and Hughie Flint locked in tight. Eric’s pyrotechnics on “Steppin’ Out” still dazzle. While Mayall’s vocals are drenched in reverence for the material his essentially thin voice hasn’t worn quite so well. However on “Parchman Farm” his rasp is gutsy as hell.
It was a brief tenure for EC. Just as soon as he’d upset the apple cart, he was off to add a dash of jazz and psychedelia to his palette with the mighty Cream. Mayall continued for years to give a home to future stars (bassist, John McVie of course was to find fame with Clapton’s successor – Peter Green). But to this day, from the first rip into to the final chord of the ‘Beano Album’, as it came to be known, remains just about the defining argument as to why Clapton really was once, God. --Chris Jones
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Disc Two contains 19 Bonus Tracks including BBC sessions, Immediate singles, a previously unreleased stereo mix of "On Top Of The World" and 6 songs recorded live at The Flamingo Club in March and April 1966.
Contains 9 Previously Unreleased Tracks.
See John Mayall's Blues Breakers live in UK throughout October and November on a 37 date tour.
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I don't think much of your review, this recording has nothing whatever to do with me. I did not do any BBC work with John, and even if I had, I would certainly expect more than one rotten star !!
And your next album release is ?
Roger Dean (Bluesbreakers guitarist 1964)
And to add to mr. Roger Dean and mr. David Arturovitch's reviews I can add another mistake in mr Spice's review. Yes, it is true that Mayall took meticulous notes of recording dates, gigs, personnel etc. but all of that was destroyed when his house burned down in 1979. This means that there's no way of going back than to hope that the recording company kept some kind of recording log incl. personnel. Unlikely I think, the way popmusic was regarded in the early sixties.
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