Today I learned +

[Mannahnin]

Seeing Sinners on Saturday (which is incredible; go see it) put me in a huge blues mood, and when I got home I searched "Smokestack Lightning playlist" on YouTube and just let it play for hours. Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, BB King, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, Lightin' Hopkins, Sonny Boy Williamson, Freddie King...

One other thing I learned was that Russ had been in a band called Argent. I had heard OF Argent, but I wasn’t certain I’d heard anything BY Argent. I needed to do some investigating…

My mom was a big fan. Hold Your Head Up was definitely one of her theme songs.

 

[Mannahnin]

Darn it; I thought this was the "What are we listening to" thread.

 

[Ryujin]

Darn it; I thought this was the "What are we listening to" thread.

Well it's not a total loss. Today I think that I learned where CCR got the opening guitar riff from, for "Susie Q", thanks to your mis-aimed post.


EDIT - Though perhaps I should have said Dale Hawkins?

 

[Mannahnin]

Well it's not a total loss. Today I think that I learned where CCR got the opening guitar riff from, for "Susie Q", thanks to your mis-aimed post.

Thanks for the reminder! While I was on my blues session I also listened to Help Me, by Sonny Boy Williamson, and was trying to remember who had ripped off that distinctive riff/instrumental.

I just figured it out; it's Green Onions, by Booker T and the MGs, but Green Onions is actually a year older. So instead of them copying Williamson, it's him adding a vocal and harmonica, building on their song.

 

[Ryujin]

Thanks for the reminder! While I was on my blues session I also listened to Help Me, by Sonny Boy Williamson, and was trying to remember who had ripped off that distinctive riff/instrumental.

I just figured it out; it's Green Onions, by Booker T and the MGs, but Green Onions is actually a year older. So instead of them copying Williamson, it's him adding a vocal and harmonica, building on their song.

Thanks for that. This is the only version that I ever hard, as a kid.

 

[trappedslider]

TIL: At some point all threads merge into one

 

[Autumnal]

TIL: At some point all threads merge into one

They do? sigh well, might as well get to it. I’ll work up something to say about how dissociated mechanics were added at Lorraine Williams’ order because a cousin of her was a psychologist who hated the feel of sand in his drawers and who was also a trainspotters so that D&D would always be comfortable for him. Oh, and he was one of Those People, if you know what I mean and I think you do, which is why no sword & sorcery settings were published under Williams. Also disco.

 

[trappedslider]

They do? sigh well, might as well get to it. I’ll work up something to say about how dissociated mechanics were added at Lorraine Williams’ order because a cousin of her was a psychologist who hated the feel of sand in his drawers and who was also a trainspotters so that D&D would always be comfortable for him. Oh, and he was one of Those People, if you know what I mean and I think you do, which is why no sword & sorcery settings were published under Williams. Also disco.

you left out star wars

 

[MarkB]

you left out star wars

I think "hated the feel of sand" has that covered.

 

[Rabulias]

They do? sigh well, might as well get to it. I’ll work up something to say about how dissociated mechanics were added at Lorraine Williams’ order because a cousin of her was a psychologist who hated the feel of sand in his drawers and who was also a trainspotters so that D&D would always be comfortable for him. Oh, and he was one of Those People, if you know what I mean and I think you do, which is why no sword & sorcery settings were published under Williams. Also disco.

Well done! Though you left out AI.