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Posted by: Patrik Jezierski Jan 21 2010, 11:14 PM

today with my new bluesband

I'll take it from the beginning...
It started out with a mail from a guy from my town who had seen my bluessolo post on youtube and asked me if I was interested in playing some blues with him and two other guys. My first thought was, YEAH!! cause it's been like 2 years since i played in a band, and the first time in a strictly Blues-band
So after some conversation we decided to meet today. With all my gear packed I decided meet the guys, it turned out that everyone of them (3) was in their late 40s So we started jamming and decided that we should start on some covers first to start out. So we played covers of some songs like stop breakin down by Jeff healey and done someone wrong with The allman brothers band.. it was AWESOOOME!!
So we decided that we were going to continue playing and scheduled our next rehearsal on tuesday next week.. So we agreed that we would bring some examples of songs we wanted to play, my first thought was Lazy with Deep Purple, Hey Joe might also be an awesome song to play, but i need a few more. So does anybody of you guys have some ideas on cool bluessongs to play?

if you're interested in the video that made this all happen, take a look a few lines down

Posted by: Staffy Jan 21 2010, 11:33 PM

Hey! Congrats Patrik! I must know some of these guy's, since they are old-timers like me !!!
Well, there's a lot of blues songs to cover.....

But I will say the standards are really "Sweet home Chicago", "Dust my Broom", "Thrill is gone" amongst others...
Yeah, and Clapton made a whole record with just blues-covers, hmmm, I dont remember the name now....
Then there are some Robben Ford cover-stuff, "Talk to Your Daughter", "Help the poor", "Wild bout You baby".....
Also check out Bonamassas covers as well as what Gary Moore does nowadays..... There's just plenty of good songs...

//Staffay

Posted by: MickeM Jan 22 2010, 12:25 AM

Congrats on the new band
Cool way to get picked up through youtube

Welllllll... I'll drop a couple of unexpected songs
Riot in cell block no 9, Johnny Winter made a great cover you could listen to. Don't know who made the original.
and then probably one of the coolest songs in the world through out all times - Milk and Alcohol

Surprise the guys with - Warren Zevon, Boom boom Mancini


Your bandmates must carry tons of material, I'm positive you'll pick up a lot of "new" music

Posted by: JamesT Jan 22 2010, 03:56 AM

That's a really nice video man. Nice work!

Posted by: kahall Jan 22 2010, 07:10 AM

I love that story and the video. Sounds like a great time.

Posted by: Patrik Jezierski Jan 22 2010, 03:46 PM

Thanks for the congrats Staffy hehe it's not impossible, they're some old time blues fellas like you

The songs you presenter were all good, thanks a lot for the tips. I liked Help the Poor, Sweet home chicago the best, Claptons versions were awesome!! And Joe bonamassas version of wild about you baby was coool
I think these examples will leave me a good reference to some potential songs to play.



Hehe cool indeed, i was really surpriced myself to say the least.

Riot in cell block no 9 is definately a song i will present for the "oldtimers". Couldn't find any great versions of milk and alcohol though. I'm sure it's a great song.

Do you mean the acoustic song boom boom mancini with warren zevon?

Thanks for the tips Micke, really appreciate it



Thanks



hehe, it's a cool story to say the least thanks man

Posted by: Pedja Simovic Jan 22 2010, 05:13 PM

Well done Patrik, I am very happy to hear you found people to jam and form a band eventually. Cool stuff man, video is great!

Posted by: Staffy Jan 22 2010, 06:20 PM

Cool Patrik! I'm glad You liked the songs! Please post if You have any gigs around, and I will for sure come and watch You guys!!!
I'm not out that much nowadays since I have my kids, but I would very much like to attend a gig of Yours!

//Staffay

Posted by: Vasilije Vukmirovic Jan 23 2010, 11:48 AM

Nice work!

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Jan 23 2010, 04:26 PM

Very cool blues playing, I like it! Regarding the songs, I can recommend some: Born under a bad sign, Red House, When love comes to town, Three O'clock blues, boom boom, Killing floor, Sitting on top of the world, Crossroads blues, Pride and Joy...

Posted by: Patrik Jezierski Jan 24 2010, 01:32 AM

Thanks pedja



I'll sure keep you updated on our upcoming gigs, nothing planned atm, but we talked a bit on booking some gigs on local pubs this summer, maybe even in the blues-tent at the Malmö Festival who knows.
Do you by any chance happen to know somebody who's good on playing keyboard? and might be interessted in playing?



Thanks



Thanks alot Ivan!
Red house is definately a great song to cover, pride and joy aswell
Great examples there Ivan, I really liked crossroads blues and boom boom.

Posted by: Daniel Realpe Feb 4 2010, 03:54 PM

really nice tone and feel, great vid