Mike Bloomfield playing a Duo-Sonic

[westtexasred]

Childs guitar,huh?

[paul_]

He played it on the '64 sessions with John Hammond (where these pictures are from). He described it as "worn-out" and "just lousy".

Also note Ampeg "The Amp".

Those sessions predated the Clapton John Mayall Beano album sessions, and Bloomfield rips it up twice as hard IMO.

[westtexasred]

He played it on the '64 sessions with John Hammond (where these pictures are from). He described it as "worn-out" and "just lousy".

Also note Ampeg "The Amp".

Are any of those recordings on youtube?

[paul_]

He played it on the '64 sessions with John Hammond (where these pictures are from). He described it as "worn-out" and "just lousy".

Also note Ampeg "The Amp".

Are any of those recordings on youtube?

Yep

[youtube][/youtube]

They've made it onto several compilations, the ones I have featuring the tracks are "Don't Say I Ain't Your Man" on CD (features 3 duo tracks) and "I'm Cutting Out" on vinyl (a recent Sundazed release, features all of them)

The tracks he recorded with the duo-sonic are the ones slated on Dec. 7th '64, on the Mar. 1st '65 ones he used his Butterfield/Dylan tele.

I Feel So Good [2 takes]
Goin' Down Slow
I've Got You In the Palm of My Hand
The First Year I Was Married
Got My Mojo Working [Alternate] (the one done on his tele in '65 is the more common one, starts out sounding exactly like Butterfield version... duo-sonic version is plinkier)
Last Night

[westtexasred]

Thanks man!

[jcyphe]

Those sessions predated the Clapton John Mayall Beano album sessions, and Bloomfield rips it up twice as hard IMO.

I don't think he does. I also think his influence on The Les Paul and people playing it has been exaggerated. I think it's all Eric when it comes to the Les Paul.

[Dice]

"Worn Out" = "Good" in my book!

Cool pictures - that (very very) short scale is pretty comfortable to be completely honest. The first guitar I ever played was a late 50's Duo almost 20 years ago.

[paul_]

No prob westy, here's the Duo tracks from the '64 sessions

http://rapidshare.com/files/251249371/B ... o.rar.html

@Jcyphe: This isn't about influence, I just prefer Bloomfield's guitar playing. Clapton's influence is tone/attitude oriented. I also agree with you that Bloomfield's influence on the LPs popularity is mostly retrospective, Peter Green's too.

[jcyphe]

@Jcyphe: This isn't about influence, I just prefer Bloomfield's guitar playing. Clapton's influence is tone/attitude oriented. I also agree with you that Bloomfield's influence on the LPs popularity is mostly retrospective, Peter Green's too.

I agree with you but I don't prefer his playing but I agree with everything else you said. The guy Peter Green really inspired was Santana but he was never a huge user of the LP.

Green was playing a Harmony and he heard Eric and that's why he had an LP in the first place. Also he replaced Clapton in Bluesbreakers and I'm sure Mayall nudged him into playing the LP if it wasn't all his choice.

I've read so many quote straight from the mouths of players like Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Peter Green about picking up an LP because they were terribly impressed with what Clapton was doing with it. Also Jimi Hendrix wanted to go to England because he loved the Bluesbreaker album and wanted to meet Eric. Even Billy Gibbons said he heard The BEANO album and wondered how he got that sound and saw he had an LP on the back cover and looked for a Gibson straight away and got a '58 V and later Pearly Gates.

[Keith]

thats incredible!

[stewart]

The BEANO album

i can't stand clapton normally but that's a great album. i found my dad's old copy of it in the attic when i was a teenager. i don't think john mayall really gets the credit he deserves for fostering loads of really good musicians. or maybe he does, i dunno...