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BY LUIS BUENAFLOR JR.
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Monday, March 5, 2018
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AND Jesuit psychiatrist Fr. Jaime Bulatao’s psychiatric report on one Benigno S. Aquino III finally came to pass proving to the natives Noynoy is indeed nuts. Suddenly nincompoop became a benevolent term describing him.
So suspended congressman Jerry Treñas finally realized he has become a lame duck politician and declared by popular demand he is running for mayor of “I Am Iloilo City.” Really, who cares!
This is getting to be boring. Moi needs a shot, no several shots of Tequila Cuervo Añejo with some really loud blues and rock and roll.
At the start of the music revolution in the early 1960s two bands emerged from the British music scene which would greatly influence the musical genre known as pop music today. These two bands were also greatly influenced by what was known then as American black music or “rock and roll.” They would eventually emerged as the leading bands in what is known in pop music parlance as the “British Invasion.”
The Beatles and the Rolling Stones started just about the same time in England with the Beatles emerging from Liverpool and the Rolling Stones from London. They were like twin sons from different mothers. Although both bands were heavily influenced by rock and roll and blues music, both bands took different routes to musical and commercial success.
The Beatles, from a rock and roll band, were reinvented by their manager Brian Epstein to be the first ever “boy band” with clean cut wholesome images and pa-cute antics with their hordes of screaming teenage female fans.
The Beatles eventually broke free from this boy band image when they started experimenting with LSD and yoga influences coming out with their psychedelic albums i.e. “Magical Mystery Tour” and “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” and finally to their last album together, the iconic “Let it Be.”
Meanwhile the Rolling Stones stayed true to form as a rock and roll and blues-influenced raunchy “rhythm and blues” band. Why, even their name Rolling Stones is the title of one of blues legend Muddy Waters’ album.
Of course we all know the Beatles eventually broke up and went their separate ways with their musical journey and careers. The Rolling Stones stayed on together and became probably the greatest and most popular rock band in the world today.
Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, and Charlie Watts are well into their 70s today but their live concerts fill out to the brim football stadiums and whenever/wherever they have their live concert it is always sold out.
As a tribute to their roots and influences in the blues, the Rolling Stones came out with an all cover blues album aptly titled “Blue and Lonesome.”
Here are some excerpts from an article in http://www.rollingstones.com:
THE ROLLING STONES’ BLUE & LONESOME
Last December 2016, The Rolling Stones released ‘Blue & Lonesome’, their first studio album in over a decade. ‘Blue & Lonesome’ takes the band back to their roots and the passion for blues music which has always been at the heart and soul of The Rolling Stones.
The album was produced by Don Was and The Glimmer Twins and was recorded over the course of just three days in December last year at British Grove Studios in West London, just a stone’s throw from Richmond and Eel Pie Island where the Stones started out as a young blues band playing pubs and clubs. Their approach to the album was that it should be spontaneous and played live in the studio without overdubs. The band – Mick Jagger (vocals & harp), Keith Richards (guitar), Charlie Watts (drums), and Ronnie Wood (guitar) were joined by their long time touring sidemen Darryl Jones (bass), Chuck Leavell (keyboards) and Matt Clifford (keyboards) and, for two of the twelve tracks, by old friend Eric Clapton, who happened to be in the next studio making his own album.
‘Blue & Lonesome’ sees the Rolling Stones tipping their hats to their early days as a blues band when they played the music of Jimmy Reed, Willie Dixon, Eddie Taylor, Little Walter and Howlin’ Wolf – artists whose songs are featured on this album.
“This album is manifest testament to the purity of their love for making music, and the blues is, for the Stones, the fountainhead of everything they do.”
The double CD album is now available in the Philippines mostly in the big record shops in the Block in SM North and Mall of Asia. It’s a great blues album staying true to the musical form but with the usual Rolling Stones flair. It is a collector’s item for the proper bluesman. Moi highly recommend it.
As Keith Richards would say, “It’s only rock and roll but I like it.” (brotherlouie16@gmail.com/PN)
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