Word: guitars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Paul Butterfield, 44, innovative harmonica player of the 1960s and co- founder of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, which helped introduce city blues to rock audiences; of undetermined causes; in Los Angeles. The band backed Bob Dylan when he used an electric guitar, a controversial move, at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, but became celebrated in its own right for cleverly merging blues, rock, folk and jazz themes...
...modest house in the shape of a coffee cup for a waitress or Ralph Kramden for a bus driver. Unfortunately, these renegade architects, for all their noble ideals, are merely creating playgrounds for the wealthy. Come on, build me, a simple workingman, a house that looks like a guitar or a fox terrier...
...Gibson, Hooker packs country-blues licks with all the eerie, electric echoes of a factory city at night. (In fact he was working as a janitor at a Detroit steel mill when he cut his first records.) This merger of acoustic and electric elements in his trademark "guitar-boogie" style has helped him survive countless folk and rock packagings in his career as a blues deity...
...Buddha's free-form style is notoriously difficult to back up, and is best suited to a low key bass accompaniment. But this backing band's overblown sound could have been straight out of Blues Brothers soundtrack, with lead guitar from Spinal Tap. Perhaps the most spontaneous moment came when the backing guitarist announced that the videos would be on sale after the show, and the Buddha put on his black spaceman glasses to rousing applause...
...Chaos describes it nicely," says Rush, but when it works, it means that Guitar Wizard David Bromberg, for example, doesn't just appear, do a three- song Bromberg bubble unrelated to anything else and then vanish. Instead he may back up Rush later on slide guitar and improvise a number with the gifted white Bluesman John Hammond. This season's featured guest was the formidable black Rhythm-and-Blues Pioneer Bo Diddley, whose major weapon is a five-speed turbo electric guitar built in a startling rectangular shape...