On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 03:42, Daniel James wrote: > > I used to love to listen to his work with the Isley > > Brothers > > Sure - and Curtis Mayfield, Ike and Tina Turner etc etc. There's lots > of material from those days on the cheaper Hendrix compilations. He > played with many of the mainstream black artists of the mid sixties, > but he still couldn't get a record deal for his own material. > Mostly because his material was blues. There wasn't a big market for it at that time. R&B was the big player. Blues was reintroduced to the US from England a bit later. You guys had Big Bill Broonzy and a bunch of other blues players floating around over there getting big audiences. <OT editorial opinion> On a side note sort of related to England's appreciation of a form of music that was developed in the US. I've played in a number of places outside the US - Monaco, Marseille, Pisa, Panama, ... - and I've noticed that non-US audiences, for the most part, are much more appreciative and attentive than US audiences. We (and I use that term loosely) seem to be more interested in 1) is this the latest cool thing, 2) looks, 3) getting lucky, 4) getting hammered, 5) did I mention looks? The least important factor seems to be the music. Don't know why that is but it annoys the hell out of me. </OT editorial opinion> > It was after becoming known in England that he got to play with Miles > Davis, mostly in private at Davis's house. I wish they'd been able to > make a record together... > Second that! Jan
