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John Mayall is an English blues rock musician. Originally from Macclesfield, he began his career in 1963 when he moved to London and formed John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. The band's original lineup included Mayall on vocals, keyboards and harmonica, guitarist Bernie Watson, bassist John McVie and drummer Peter Ward.
30 mar 2021 · Con Pete Ward alla batteria e Bernie Watson alla chitarra nasce il primo embrione dei Blues Breakers; al basso arriva poi John McVie, che diventerà un grande del rock coi Fleetwood Mac. Il complesso inizia a esibirsi nei mitici locali di Londra, portando in giro il nuovo verbo del blues; oltre a suonare al Marquee e al Flamingo ...
4 mag 2018 · Mayall recruited Roger Dean to replace ex-Cyril Davies guitarist Bernie Watson. Both were accomplished players who could knock off some Chuck Berry or T-Bone Walker licks, but Dean was more comfortable as a country player, and neither could get to grips with that signature stinging, single-string blues guitar sound.
Bernie Watson – Guitar on "Mr. James" [6] Roger Dean – Guitar on "Blues City Shakedown" Eric Clapton – Lead guitar on "Stormy Monday" Peter Green – Lead guitar on tracks 4 to 8, 10, and steel guitar on "Picture on the Wall" Mick Taylor – Lead guitar on "Suspicions (Part Two)" John McVie – Bass guitar on tracks 1, 2, and 4 to 8.
- February 1963 – May 1969
- Blues
- August 1969
- Starting Out as A Musician
- Early 1960s
- Mid-1960S Through 1971
- 1970s
- Return of The Bluesbreakers
- Forty Below Records Period
Mayall was sent to Korea as part of his national service, and during a period of leave bought his first electric guitar in Japan. Back in England, he enrolled at Manchester College of Art and started playing with a semi-professional band, the Powerhouse Four. After graduation, he obtained a job as an art designer, but continued to play with local m...
In 1956, with college fellow Peter Ward, Mayall had founded the Powerhouse Four, which consisted of the two men and other local musicians with whom they played at local dances. In 1962 Mayall became a member of the Blues Syndicate. The band was formed by trumpeter John Rowlands and alto saxophonist Jack Massarik, who had seen the Alexis Korner band...
Eric Clapton as guitarist, 1965–1966
In 1965, with Eric Clapton as their new guitar player, the Bluesbreakers began attracting considerable attention. That summer the band cut a couple of tracks for a single, "I'm Your Witchdoctor" b/w "Telephone Blues" (released in October). In August, however, Clapton left for a jaunt to Greece with a bunch of relative musical amateurs calling themselves the 'Glands'. John Weider, John Slaughter, and Geoff Krivit attempted to fill in as Bluesbreaker guitarist but, finally, Peter Green took cha...
Peter Green as guitarist, 1966–1967
Mayall had to replace Clapton, and he succeeded in persuading Peter Green to come back. During the following year, with Green on guitar and various other sidemen, some 40 tracks were recorded. The album A Hard Road was released in February 1967. Today its expanded versions include most of this material, and the album itself also stands as a classic. In early 1967, Mayall released an EP recorded with American blues harpist Paul Butterfield. But Peter Green gave notice and soon started his own...
Mick Taylor as guitarist, 1967–1969
Mayall's first choice to replace Green was 18-year-old David O'List, guitarist from the Attack. O'List declined, however, and went on to form the Nice with organist Keith Emerson. Through both a "musicians wanted" ad in Melody Maker on 10 June and his own search, Mayall found three other potential guitarists for his Bluesbreakers, a black musician named Terry Edmonds, John Moorshead, and 18-year-old Mick Taylor. The last made the band quickly, but Mayall also decided to hire Edmonds as a rhyt...
By the start of the 1970s Mayall had relocated to the United States where he spent most of the next 15 years, recording with local musicians for various labels. In August 1971, Mayall produced a jazz-oriented session for bluesman Albert Kingand a few months later took on tour the musicians present in the studio. A live album Jazz Blues Fusion was r...
In 1982, Mayall was reunited with Mick Taylor, John McVie and Colin Allen, three musicians of his 1960s line-ups, for a two-year world tour from which a live album would emerge a decade later. In 1984, Mayall restored the name Bluesbreakers for a line-up comprising the two lead guitars of Walter Trout and Coco Montoya, bassist Bobby Haynes and drum...
In 2013, Mayall signed with producer Eric Corne's label, Forty Below Records. The two have produced four studio albums together, A Special Life featuring accordionist C.J. Chenier, Find a Way to Care, Talk About That featuring Joe Walsh and Nobody Told Me. Corne also re-mastered some live recordings from 1967 featuring Peter Green, John McVie and M...
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22 lug 2023 · Affectionately known as “ the Beano album ” (as it features Clapton reading the British comic on its jacket cover), 1966’s Bluesbreakers forever changed the landscape of rock music. In 1965 ...
