T-Bone Walker

Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker (May 28, 1910 — March 16, 1975) was a critically acclaimed American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who was one of the most influential pioneers and innovators of the jump blues and electric blues sound. He is the first musician recorded playing blues with the electric guitar.In September 2003, Rolling Stone ranked him at #47 in their list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".T-Bone Walker is the stage name for Aaron Thibeaux Walker[4] was born in Linden, Texas, of African American and Cherokee descent.[4] Walker's parents, Movelia Jimerson and Rance Walker, were both musicians. His stepfather, Marco Washington, taught him to play the guitar, ukulele, banjo, violin, mandolin, and piano.Early in the 1920s, the teenage Walker learned his craft amongst the street-strolling string bands of Dallas.His mother and stepfather, (member of the Dallas String Band) were musicians, and family friend Blind Lemon Jefferson sometimes joined the family for dinner.Walker had left school at age 10, and by 15,he was a professional performer on the blues circuit, with famed performer Charlie Christian as his mentor.Initially, he was Jefferson's protégé and would guide him around town for his gigs.In 1929, Walker made his recording debut with a single for Columbia Records, "Wichita Falls Blues"/"Trinity River Blues," billed as Oak Cliff T-Bone.Oak Cliff was the community he lived in at the time and T-Bone a corruption of his middle name. Pianist Douglas Fernell was his musical partner for the record.Walker married Vida Lee in 1935 and the couple had three children. By the age of 26 he was working the clubs in Los Angeles' Central Avenue; sometimes as the featured singer and guitarist with Les Hite's orchestra.By 1942, with his second album release, Walker's new-found musical maturity and ability had advanced to the point that Rolling Stone claimed that he "shocked everyone" with his newly developed distinctive song upon the release of his first single "Mean Old World", on the Capitol Records label.[3] Much of his output was recorded from 1946–1948 on Black & White Records, including his most famous song, 1947's "Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)".Other notable songs he recorded during this period were "Bobby Sox Blues" (a #3 R&B hit in 1946), and "West Side Baby" (#8 on the R&B singles charts in 1948).Throughout his career Walker worked with top notch musicians, including trumpeter Teddy Buckner, pianist Lloyd Glenn, Billy Hadnott (bass), and tenor saxophonist Jack McVea.Following his work with Black & White, he recorded from 1950-54 for Imperial Records (backed by Dave Bartholomew). Walker's only record in the next five years was T-Bone Blues, recorded over three widely separated sessions in 1955, 1956 and 1959, and finally released by Atlantic Records in 1960.By the early 1960s, Walker's career had slowed down, in spite of a hyped appearance at the American Folk Blues Festival in 1962 with Memphis Slim and prolific writer and musician, Willie Dixon, among others.Several critically acclaimed albums followed, such as I Want a Little Girl (recorded for Delmark Records in 1968). Walker recorded in his last years, from 1968–1975, for Robin Hemingway's Jitney Jane Songs music publishing company, and he won a Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording in 1971 for Good Feelin', while signed by Polydor Records, produced by Hemingway,followed by another album produced by Hemmingway; Walker's Fly Walker Airlines which was released in 1973.T-Bone Walker at the American Folk Blues Festival in Hamburg, Märch 1972
Persistent stomach woes and a 1974 stroke slowed Walker's career down to a crawl. He died of bronchial pneumonia following another stroke in March 1975, at the age of 64. Walker was interred in the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California.

Muddy Water

McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 – April 30, 1983), known as Muddy Waters , was an American blues musician, generally considered the Father of modern Chicago blues. Blues musicians Big Bill Morganfield and Larry "Mud Morganfield" Williams are his sons. A major inspiration for the British blues explosion in the 1960s, Muddy was ranked #17 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.Although in his later years Muddy usually said that he was born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi in 1915, he was actually born at Jug's Corner in neighboring Issaquena County, Mississippi in 1913.Recent research has uncovered documentation showing that in the 1930s and 1940s he reported his birth year as 1913 on both his marriage license and musicians' union card. He did this to appear younger for recording companies. A 1955 interview in the Chicago Defender is the earliest claim of 1915 as his year of birth, which he continued to use in interviews from that point onward. The 1920 census lists him as five years old as of March 6, 1920, suggesting that his birth year may have been 1914. The Social Security Death Index, relying on the Social Security card application submitted after his move to Chicago in the mid '40s, lists him as being born April 4, 1915. Muddy's gravestone lists his birth year as 1915.
His grandmother Della Grant raised him after his mother died shortly after his birth. His fondness for playing in mud earned him the nickname "Muddy" at an early age. He then changed it to "Muddy Water" and finally "Muddy Waters".He started out on harmonica but by age seventeen he was playing the guitar at parties emulating two blues artists who were extremely popular in the south, Son House and Robert Johnson. "His thick heavy voice, the dark coloration of his tone and his firm, almost solid, personality were all clearly derived from House," wrote music critic Peter Guralnick in Feel Like Going Home, "but the embellishments which he added, the imaginative slide technique and more agile rhythms, were closer to Johnson.
On November 20, 1932 Muddy married Mabel Berry; Robert Nighthawk played guitar at the wedding, and the party reportedly got so wild the floor fell in.[citation needed] Mabel left Muddy three years later when Muddy's first child was born; the child's mother was Leola Spain, sixteen years old, (Leola later used her maiden name Brown), "married to a man named Steven" and "going with a guy named Tucker". Leola was the only one of his girlfriends with whom Muddy would stay in touch throughout his life; they never married. By the time he finally cut out for Chicago in 1943, there was another Mrs. Morganfield left behind, a girl called Sallie Ann.
In 1940, Muddy moved to Chicago for the first time. He played with Silas Green a year later, and then returned to Mississippi. In the early part of the decade he ran a juke joint, complete with gambling, moonshine and a jukebox; he also performed music there himself. In the summer of 1941 Alan Lomax went to Stovall, Mississippi, on behalf of the Library of Congress to record various country blues musicians. "He brought his stuff down and recorded me right in my house," Muddy recalled in Rolling Stone, "and when he played back the first song I sounded just like anybody's records. Man, you don't know how I felt that Saturday afternoon when I heard that voice and it was my own voice. Later on he sent me two copies of the pressing and a check for twenty bucks, and I carried that record up to the corner and put it on the jukebox. Just played it and played it and said, 'I can do it, I can do it.'" Lomax came back in July 1942 to record Muddy again. Both sessions were eventually released as Down On Stovall's Plantation on the Testament label.
In 1943, Muddy headed back to Chicago with the hope of becoming a full-time professional musician. He lived with a relative for a short period while driving a truck and working in a factory by day and performing at night. Big Bill Broonzy, one of the leading bluesmen in Chicago at the time, helped Muddy break into the very competitive market by allowing him to open for his shows in the rowdy clubs.[8] In 1945, Muddy's uncle Joe Grant gave him his first electric guitar which enabled him to be heard above the noisy crowds.
In 1946, he recorded some tunes for Mayo Williams at Columbia but they weren't released at the time. Later that year he began recording for Aristocrat Records, a newly-formed label run by two brothers, Leonard and Phil Chess. In 1947, he played guitar with Sunnyland Slim on piano on the cuts "Gypsy Woman" and "Little Anna Mae." These were also shelved, but in 1948 "I Can't Be Satisfied" and "I Feel Like Going Home" became big hits and his popularity in clubs began to take off. Soon after, Aristocrat changed their label name to Chess Records and Muddy's signature tune "Rollin' Stone" also became a smash hit.
Initially, the Chess brothers would not allow Muddy to use his own musicians in the recording studio; instead he was provided with a backing bass by Ernest "Big" Crawford, or by musicians assembled specifically for the recording session, including "Baby Face" Leroy Foster and Johnny Jones. Gradually Chess relented, and by September 1953 he was recording with one of the most acclaimed blues groups in history: Little Walter Jacobs on harmonica; Jimmy Rogers on guitar; Elga Edmonds (a.k.a. Elgin Evans) on drums; Otis Spann on piano. The band recorded a series of blues classics during the early 1950s, some with the help of bassist/songwriter Willie Dixon, including "Hoochie Coochie Man" (Number 8 on the R&B charts), "I Just Want to Make Love to You" (Number 4), and "I'm Ready". These three were "the most macho songs in his repertoire," wrote Robert Palmer in Rolling Stone. "Muddy would never have composed anything so unsubtle. But they gave him a succession of showstoppers and an image, which were important for a bluesman trying to break out of the grind of local gigs into national prominence.
Muddy, along with his former harmonica player Little Walter Jacobs and recent southern transplant Howlin' Wolf, reigned over the early 1950s Chicago blues scene, his band becoming a proving ground for some of the city's best blues talent. While Little Walter continued a collaborative relationship long after he left Muddy's band in 1952, appearing on most of Muddy's classic recordings throughout the 1950s, Muddy developed a long-running, generally good-natured rivalry with Wolf. The success of Muddy's ensemble paved the way for others in his group to break away and enjoy their own solo careers. In 1952 Little Walter left when his single "Juke" became a hit, and in 1955 Rogers quit to work exclusively with his own band, which had been a sideline until that time. Although he continued working with Muddy's band, Otis Spann enjoyed a solo career and many releases under his own name beginning in the mid-1950s.
Muddy headed to England in 1958 and shocked audiences (whose only previous exposure to blues had come via the acoustic folk/blues sounds of acts such as Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee and Big Bill Broonzy) with his loud, amplified electric guitar and thunderous beat. His performance at the 1960 Newport Jazz Festival, recorded and released as his first live album, At Newport 1960, helped turn on a whole new generation to Muddy's sound. He expressed dismay when he realized that members of his own race were turning their backs on the genre while a white audience had shown increasing respect for the blues.
However, for the better part of twenty years (since his last big hit in 1956, "I'm Ready") Muddy was put on the back shelf by the Chess label and recorded albums with various "popular" themes: Brass And The Blues, Electric Mud, etc. In 1967, he joined forces with Bo Diddley, Little Walter and Howlin' Wolf to record the Super Blues and The Super Super Blues Band pair of albums of Chess blues standards. In 1972 he went back to England to record The London Muddy Waters Sessions with Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts — but their playing was not up to his standards. "These boys are top musicians, they can play with me, put the book before 'em and play it, you know," he told Guralnick. "But that ain't what I need to sell my people, it ain't the Muddy Waters sound. An' if you change my sound, then you gonna change the whole man."
Muddy's sound was basically Delta blues electrified, but his use of microtones, in both his vocals and slide playing, made it extremely difficult to duplicate and follow correctly.[citation needed] "When I play on the stage with my band, I have to get in there with my guitar and try to bring the sound down to me. But no sooner than I quit playing, it goes back to another, different sound. My blues look so simple, so easy to do, but it's not. They say my blues is the hardest blues in the world to play.
Muddy's long-time wife Geneva died of cancer on March 15, 1973. A devastated Muddy was taken to a doctor and told to quit smoking, which he did. Gaining custody of some of his "outside kids", he moved them into his home, eventually buying a new house in Westmont, Illinois. Another teenage daughter turned up while on tour in New Orleans; Big Bill Morganfield was introduced to his Dad after a gig in Florida. Florida was also where Muddy met his future wife, the 19-year-old Marva Jean Brooks whom he nicknamed "Sunshine''.
On November 25, 1976, Muddy Waters performed at The Band's farewell concert at Winterland in San Francisco. The concert was released as both a record and a film, The Last Waltz, featuring a performance of "Mannish Boy" with Paul Butterfield on harmonica.
In 1977 Johnny Winter convinced his label, Blue Sky, to sign Muddy, the beginning of a fruitful partnership. His "comeback" LP, Hard Again, was recorded in just two days and was a return to the original Chicago sound he had created 25 years earlier, thanks to Winter's production. Former sideman James Cotton contributed harmonica on the Grammy Award-winning album and a brief but well-received tour followed.
The Muddy Waters Blues Band at the time included guitarists Sammy Lawhorn, Bob Margolin and Luther Johnson, pianist Pinetop Perkins, harmonica player Jerry Portnoy, bassist Calvin "Fuzz" Jones and drummer Willie "Big Eyes" Smith. On "Hard Again", Winter played guitar in addition to producing; Muddy asked James Cotton to play harp on the session, and Cotton brought his own bassist Charles Calmese. According to Margolin's liner notes, Muddy did not play guitar during these sessions. The album covers a broad spectrum of styles, from the opening of "Mannish Boy", with shouts and hollers throughout, to the old-style Delta blues of "I Can't Be Satisfied", with a National Steel solo by Winter, to Cotton's screeching intro to "The Blues Had a Baby", to the moaning closer "Little Girl". Its live feel harks back to the Chess Records days, and it evokes a feeling of intimacy and cooperative musicianship. The expanded reissue includes one bonus track, a remake of the 1950s single "Walking Through the Park". The other outtakes from the album sessions appear on King Bee. Margolin's notes state that the reissued album was remastered but that remixing was not considered to be necessary. Hard Again was the first studio collaboration between Waters and Winter, who produced his final four albums, the others being I'm Ready, King Bee, and Muddy "Mississippi" Waters - Live, for Blue Sky, a Columbia Records subsidiary.
In 1978 Winter recruited two of Muddy's cohorts from the early '50s, Big Walter Horton and Jimmy Rogers, and brought in the rest of his touring band at the time (harmonica player Jerry Portnoy, guitarist Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson, and bassist Calvin Jones) to record Waters' I'm Ready LP, which came close to the critical and commercial success of Hard Again.
The comeback continued in 1979 with the lauded LP Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live. "Muddy was loose for this one," wrote Jas Obrecht in Guitar Player, "and the result is the next best thing to being ringside at one of his foot-thumping, head-nodding, downhome blues shows." On the album, Muddy is accompanied by his touring band, augmented by Johnny Winter on guitar. The set list contains most of his biggest hits, and the album has an energetic feel. King Bee the following year concluded Waters' reign at Blue Sky, and these last four LPs turned out to be his biggest-selling albums ever. King Bee was the last album Muddy Waters recorded. Coming last in a trio of studio outings produced by Johnny Winter, it is also a mixed bag. During the sessions for King Bee, Waters, his manager, and his band were involved in a dispute over money. According to the liner notes by Bob Margolin, the conflict arose from Waters' health being on the wane and consequently playing fewer engagements. The bandmembers wanted more money for each of the fewer gigs they did play in order to make ends meet. Ultimately a split occurred and the entire band quit. Because of the tensions in the studio preceding the split, Winter felt the sessions had not produced enough solid material to yield an entire album. He subsequently filled out King Bee with outtakes from earlier Blue Sky sessions and the cover photograph was by David Michael Kennedy. For the listener, King Bee is a leaner and meaner record. Less of the good-time exuberance present on the previous two outings is present here. The title track, "Mean Old Frisco", "Sad Sad Day", and "I Feel Like Going Home", are all blues with ensemble work. The Sony Legacy issue features completely remastered sound and Margolin's notes, and also hosts two bonus tracks from the King Bee sessions that Winter didn't see fit to release the first time.
In 1981, Waters was invited to perform at ChicagoFest, the city's top outdoor music festival. He was joined onstage by Johnny Winter who had successfully produced Waters’ most recent albums and played classics like “Mannish Boy,” “Trouble No More” and “Mojo Working” to a new generation of fans. This historic performance was made available on DVD in 2009 by Shout! Factory.
In 1982, declining health dramatically curtailed Muddy's performance schedule. Muddy Waters' last public performance took place when he sat in with Eric Clapton's band at a Clapton concert in Florida in autumn of 1982.
His influence is tremendous, over a variety of music genres: blues, rhythm and blues, rock 'n' roll, hard rock, folk, jazz, and country. He also helped Chuck Berry get his first record contract.
His 1958 tour of England marked possibly the first time amplified, modern urban blues was heard there, although on his first tour he was the only one amplified. His backing was provided by Englishman Chris Barber's trad jazz group. (One critic retreated to the toilets to write his review because he found the band so loud).
The Rolling Stones named themselves after his 1950 song "Rollin' Stone", (also known as "Catfish Blues", which Jimi Hendrix covered as well). Hendrix recalled "the first guitar player I was aware of was Muddy Waters. I first heard him as a little boy and it scared me to death". Cream covered "Rollin' and Tumblin'" on their 1966 debut album Fresh Cream, as Eric Clapton was a big fan of Muddy Waters when he was growing up, and his music influenced Clapton's music career. The song was also covered by Canned Heat at the legendary Monterey Pop Festival and later adapted by Bob Dylan on the album Modern Times. One of Led Zeppelin's biggest hits, "Whole Lotta Love", is lyrically based upon the Muddy Waters hit "You Need Love", written by Willie Dixon. Dixon wrote some of Muddy Waters' most famous songs, including "I Just Want to Make Love to You" (a big radio hit for Etta James, as well as the 1970s rock band Foghat), "Hoochie Coochie Man", which The Allman Brothers Band famously covered, and "I'm Ready", which was covered by Humble Pie. In 1993, Paul Rodgers released the album Muddy Water Blues: A Tribute to Muddy Waters, on which he covered a number of Muddy Waters songs, including "Louisiana Blues", "Rollin' Stone", "Hoochie Coochie Man" and "I'm Ready" (among others) in collaboration with a number of famous guitarists such as Brian May and Jeff Beck.
Angus Young of the rock group AC/DC has cited Muddy Waters as one of his influences. The song title "You Shook Me All Night Long" came from lyrics of the Muddy Waters song "You Shook Me", written by Willie Dixon and J. B. Lenoir. Earl Hooker first recorded it as an instrumental which was then overdubbed with vocals by Muddy Waters in 1962. Led Zeppelin also covered this song on their debut album Led Zeppelin.
Muddy Waters' songs have been featured in long-time fan's Martin Scorsese's movies, including The Color of Money, Casino and Goodfellas. Muddy Waters' 1970s recording of his mid-'50s hit "Mannish Boy" (a.k.a. "I'm A Man") was used in Goodfellas and the hit film Risky Business, and also features in the rockumentary The Last Waltz.
In 1969, The Beatles released Abbey Road the opening song Come Together referenced Muddy Waters. "He roller coaster, he got Muddy Waters".
The 2006 Family Guy episode "Saving Private Brian" includes a parody of Muddy Waters trying to pass a kidney stone; his screams of pain form a call and response with the Chicago blues band in his bathroom.
In 2008, Jeffrey Wright portrayed Muddy in the biopic Cadillac Records, a film about the rise and fall of Chess Records and the lives of its recording artists. A second 2008 film about Leonard Chess and Chess Records, Who Do You Love, also covers Muddy's time at Chess Records.
In the 2009 film The Boat that Rocked about pirate radio in the UK, the cryptic message that late night DJ Bob gives to Carl to give to Carl's mother is "Muddy Waters Rocks."
In 1990, the television show Doogie Howser, M.D. showed an episode called "Doogie Sings the Blues" with the main character, Blind Otis Lemon based on Muddy Waters, with references of his influence on the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin, along with the performance of "Got My Mojo Working" by Blind Otis Lemon. He is also referred to as the original "Hoochie Coochie Man"
On April 30, 1983 Muddy Waters died in his sleep from heart failure, at his home in Westmont, Illinois. At his funeral at Restvale Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois, throngs of blues musicians and fans showed up to pay tribute to one of the true originals of the art form. "Muddy was a master of just the right notes," John P. Hammond, told Guitar World magazine. "It was profound guitar playing, deep and simple... more country blues transposed to the electric guitar, the kind of playing that enhanced the lyrics, gave profundity to the words themselves." Two years after his death, Chicago honored him by designating the one-block section between 900 and 1000 E. 43rd Street near his former home on the south side "Honorary Muddy Waters Drive" More recently, the Chicago suburb of Westmont, where Waters lived the last decade of his life, named a section of Cass Avenue near his home "Honorary Muddy Waters Way".Following Waters' death, fellow blues musician B.B. King (who was hugely influenced by Waters) told Guitar World, "It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music". Attesting to the historic place of Muddy Waters in the development of the blues in Mississippi, a Mississippi Blues Trail marker has been placed in Clarksdale, Mississippi by the Mississippi Blues Commission designating the site of Muddy Waters' cabin to commemorate his importance.

GARY MOORE

Robert William Gary Moore (4 April 1952 – 6 February 2011), better known simply as Gary Moore, was a musician from Belfast, Northern Ireland, best recognised as a blues rock guitarist and singer.Moore started performing at a young age, having picked up a battered acoustic guitar (a Framus guitar) at the age of eight. He got his first quality guitar at the age of 14, learning to play the right-handed instrument in the standard way despite being left-handed. He moved to Dublin in 1968 at the age of 16. His early musical influences were artists such as Albert King, Elvis Presley, The Shadows and The Beatles. Later, having seen Jimi Hendrix and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers in his home town of Belfast, his own style was developing into a blues-rock sound that would be the dominant form of his career in music.
Moore's greatest influence in the early days was guitarist Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac who was a mentor to Moore when performing in Dublin. Green's continued influence on Moore was later repaid as a tribute to Green on his 1995 album Blues for Greeny, an album consisting entirely of Green compositions. On this tribute album Moore played Green's 1959 Les Paul Standard guitar which Green had lent to Moore after leaving Fleetwood Mac. Moore ultimately purchased the guitar, at Green's request, so that "it would have a good home".
Moore performing at the Manchester Apollo, 1985
While less popular in the US, Moore's work "brought substantial acclaim and commercial success in most other parts of the world – especially in Europe" Throughout his career, Moore was recognised as an influence by many notable guitarists including Vivian Campbell,Patrick Rondat,John Norum, Joe Bonamassa, Adrian Smith, Zakk Wylde,Randy Rhoads, John Sykes and Kirk Hammett
He collaborated with a broad range of artists including George Harrison, Trilok Gurtu, Dr. Strangely Strange, Colosseum II, Travelling Wilburys, Albert Collins, Jimmy Nail, Mo Foster, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, Jim Capaldi, B.B. King, Bob Dylan, Vicki Brown, Cozy Powell, Rod Argent, the Beach Boys, Ozzy Osbourne, Paul Rodgers, Keith Emerson, Roger Daltrey, Albert King and together with Colosseum II with Andrew Lloyd Webber on the composer's Variations album in 1978. He experimented with many musical genres, including rock, jazz, blues, country, electric blues, hard rock and heavy metal.
In 1968, aged 16, Moore moved to Dublin to join the group Skid Row with Noel Bridgeman and Brendan "Brush" Shiels. It was with this group that he earned a reputation in the music industry, and his association with Phil Lynott began.Solo career
Moore released his first solo album in 1973, Grinding Stone (billed as "the Gary Moore Band"). 'Grinding Stone' was issued in North America on Neil Kempfer-Stocker's fledgling record label imprint Cosmos. It received 'Album of the Year' accolades on KTAC-FM/Seattle-Tacoma, Washington in 1974. In 1978 his solo career continued with help from Phil Lynott. The combination of Moore's blues-based guitar and Lynott's voice produced "Parisienne Walkways", which reached the Top Ten in the UK Singles Chart in April 1979 and the Thin Lizzy album Black Rose: A Rock Legend which reached number two in the UK album chart. Moore appears in the videos for Waiting for an Alibi and Do Anything You Want To.
In 1987, he collaborated on the UK charity record "Let It Be", a cover of the Beatles track. He performed a guitar solo for inclusion on the recording, which was released under the group-name of 'Ferry Aid'. The record raised substantial funds for the survivors of the MS Herald of Free Enterprise disaster.
In 1993, he was included on a cassette called Rock Classics Vol. 1 with "Run to Your Mama", and "Dark Side of the Moog".
Moore performing, 23 October 2010
After a series of rock records, Moore returned to blues music with Still Got the Blues, with contributions from Albert King, Albert Collins and George Harrison. The album was well received by fans. He stayed with the blues format until 1997, when he decided to experiment with modern dance beats on Dark Days in Paradise; this left many fans, as well as the music press, confused. He also contributed guitar sections to Richard Blackwood's 2000 album, You'll Love to Hate This.
With Back to the Blues, Moore return to his tried and tested blues format in 2001: he continued with this style on Power of the Blues (2004), Old New Ballads Blues (2006), Close As You Get (2007) and Bad For You Baby (2008).
In January 2005, Moore joined the One World Project, which recorded a song for the 2004 Asian Tsunami relief effort. The group featured Russell Watson, Boy George, Steve Winwood, Barry Gibb, Brian Wilson, Cliff Richard, Dewey Bunnell, Gerry Beckley and Robin Gibb on vocals (in their order of appearance), and featured a guitar solo by Moore. The song, entitled "Grief Never Grows Old", was released in February 2005, reaching #4 on the UK Singles Chart.
In what has been described as "a brave and principled stand", Gary declared his support for the cultural boycott of Israel. At a press conference in Russia he announced that he would not visit the ‘criminal state’ of Israel ‘because of its racist policies against the Palestinian people’.
He also took part in a comedy skit entitled "The Easy Guitar Book Sketch" with comedian Rowland Rivron and fellow musicians Mark Knopfler, Lemmy from Motorhead, Mark King from Level 42, and David Gilmour.
Moore grew up on Castleview Road opposite Stormont's Parliament Buildings, off the Upper Newtownards Road in east Belfast, as one of five children of a promoter named Bobby and housewife, Winnie, but he left the city as a teenager, because all was not well in their household. His parents parted a year later. He left just as The Troubles were starting in Northern Ireland.
Aiming to become a musician he moved to Dublin at the age of 16 and joined Skid Row, a band that then included Phil Lynott. Moore would later join Lynott again in 1973 when he first joined Thin Lizzy, after the departure of founding member Eric Bell and again in 1977. He moved to England in 1970 and remained there, apart from two short periods in America. In 2002 he bought a five-bedroom detached Edwardian house in Hove, just west of Brighton, Sussex, to be near his locally-residing sons, Jack and Gus, from his former marriage which had lasted from 1985 to 1993. Since 1997 he was living with his partner, an artist named Jo, and their daughter Lily (b. 1999) and Saoirse.His residence was reported to be on Vallance Gardens in Hove, East Sussex.
Gary Moore died of a suspected heart attack, at the age of 58 during the early hours of 6 February 2011. At the time, he was on holiday at the Kempinski Hotel in Estepona, Spain, with his girlfriend, who raised the alarm at 4:00 am. His death was confirmed by Thin Lizzy's manager Adam Parsons.
Since his death, many fellow musicians have commented on Gary Moore's talents including Ozzy Osbourne,Tony Iommi, Bob Geldof, Roger Taylor,Brian Downey,Andy DiGelsomina, Ricky Warwick, Glenn Hughes, Bryan Adams, Henry Rollins, Scott Gorham, Ignacio Garay, Mikael Åkerfeldt. In March 2011 Guitarist produced their tribute special with unreleased footage from 2009. Musicians including Former Thin Lizzy Guitarist Eric Bell, Silverbird and Mick and Dave Pyro from the Republic of Loose on the 18 April for a tribute concert in Whelans bar in Dublin, Ireland entitled 'The Gig For Gary'.
Fans have called for popular magazines such as Classic Rock, Guitarist and Total Guitar to do tributes. Twitter was flooded with tributes from fans for several days after the news was revealed.

ERIC CLAPTON

Eric Patrick Clapton CBE (born in Ripley, Surrey, England, March 30, 1945, age 66 years), nicknamed "Slowhand", is a guitarist, singer, songwriter, and a British composer who never won a Grammy Award. As one of the most successful musician in the 20th century and the 21st century, its name immortalized in the museum of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 3 times (as members of The Yardbirds, Cream, and as a solo career.) Flattering fans and music critics as the greatest guitarist along zaman.menempati order to-4 in the list of Greatest Guitarist of All Time Rolling Stone.Selain announced it, his name is also included in the list "100 Greatest Artists Throughout the Ages" (The Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time) which was published the same magazine. Throughout his career, Clapton is known to have a very varied musical styles, but all rooted in the blues. In addition, the name Clapton recorded in music history as the originator of the flow of blues-rock (with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers and The Yardbirds) and psychedelic rock (as with the band Cream). Not only that, the songs Clapton's success in the charts various schools, ranging from Delta blues (Me and Mr. Johnson) to the category of pop music ("Change the World") and reggae (while singing a song of Bob Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff "). Clapton is also famous with the song "Layla" when joined together band Derek and the dominos.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Stevie Ray Vaughan 3 October 1954 and was born August 27, 1990, was born in Dallas, Texas, was a blues guitarist from the United States, but I can not explain the full profile but I can only tell you about his guitar. In 1980, Stevie Ray Vaughan Fender guitar found 1965 Stratocaster in pawn shops in Austin, Texas, and immediately fell in love with this ancient instrument. Unfortunately, at that time she did not have the money $ 350, according to the desired price. Finally, Lenora, wife of Stevie helped by collecting $ 50 from their seven closest friends and eventually bought the guitar for her birthday Stevie. Once terpesonanya Stevie until finally he had not slept all night and write songs, and when Lenora "Lenny" woke up, she played the song "Lenny" on the guitar to his beloved wife.

BB.king

Riley B. KingDelta, is a leading blues musician who was born in Mississippi / 16 September 1925.BB Kilmicheal King grew up on a farm in Mississippi. From the results of the operation as a tractor driver, King bought his first guitar for $ 2.50. Due to the birth of a religious family, King's introduction to music began from the church in his hometown where he played as an accompanist and singer of a vocal group. Bored with farm life, King had decided to move to Memphis to meet with his cousin. In Memphis, Tennessee, King met with his cousin, Go White. Some sources believe that his cousin that has shaped the style of game from a BB King. King's musical career started from his appearance as a singer and guitarist of an advertising jingle on the radio. Due to the jingle of cathy, owner of the radio where he worked also promotes King to work with local DJs in a special segment that plays the songs of black artists. There, he plays guitar and sings on the basis of requests from listeners. King chose the name "Blues Boy King" as his radio name. Eventually the name "Blues Boy King" shortened it to "stage name" her until recently, BB King. Because of her popularity at the local level, eventually King was contracted by the Modern Records which lasted for 10. King singles also appeared on the market. Some of the first single King, among others: "BB Boogie" and "Three O'Clock Blues." "BB Bogie" makes the King a superstar at the local level. But the single "Three O'Clock Blues" meroketkan King name nationally as a blues guitarist. King was hired by Universal Artist in 1952. King also started its first American tour in 1952 and everyone was able to predict if he is one of the best in the music industry at that time. In 1965, the wall of racism in America began to collapse and the King's music began to be accepted by the public until now.

JIMI HENDRIX

He is the only person who could inspire almost everyone who admit skilled guitarist. sometimes a guitarist many see it tested his ability to play one song from jimmy, and even then prevailing in almost all countries. knows what the word should in pinned on the figure of the god of guitar itu.Perjalanan very short career, but his name has a very long reverberations. Even to this day. He is Jimi Hendrix. He was not until 28 years old, but still revered despite 30 years of his death. Born at King Country Hospital, Seattle, Washington on November 27, 1942. With the name Johnny Allen Hendricks. He was the eldest son Alex Hendricks pair of African-American Mexico and Lucille, a Cherokee Indian. The name is given by his mother, who later changed by the father to be James Marshall Hendrix Hendricks at the 4-year-old minor. His parents later split up when Jimi was three years old.
Alex, who works as a sweeper, his family hard. Little Jimi would often help his father sweep, and with a broom that he first styled like a guitarist. He often imitating the style of Chuck Berry duckwalk typical. The father was often noticed the attitude of his son.
In 1952, when Jimi was 10 years old, his mother died. This makes Jimi was devastated and became a moody child. Alex as a devout religious believers, taught him to be steadfast. He often took Jimi to church and participate in the choir. But that apparently was not enough to entertain Jimi.
Because sorry to see Jimi that never stopped grieving, his father bought Jimi a acoustic guitar as a birthday gift to the 12th. Guitar was bought from a friend of his father's $ 5. Guitar strings arrangement was later reversed by Jimi left-handed, so he can play his guitar with his left hand pluck the strings, while the right dance on the fretboard.
 By playing the guitar, Jimi began to forget the pain left by her mother. Moreover, three months later, Jimi bought again a Supro Ozark 160S electric guitar by Alex. Exploration of the music became more widespread with the guitar and Jimi formed the first band Velvetone.
  Throughout adolescence that continue to practice playing the guitar Jimi. He was expelled from his school Garfield High School because of its ceweq kebandelannya disturbing. After dropping out of school, he could even be more concerned to help his father. And of course he has more time to mengulik guitar.
 Jimi had a penchant for listening to the album's well-known blues musicians like BB King, Elmore James and Muddy Waters, or the rock n 'rollers like Chuck Berry and Eddie Cochran. The song "Rock And Roll Music 'from Chuck Berry, including the songs most frequently performed by Hendrix. Even then B.B. King pay homage to him with perpetuating the name of Hendrix's mother, Lucille on guitar Gibsonnya.

Military Entrance
  Jimi began a career in music in 1960, when he became a member of a band called Rocking Kings and began to frequent gigs at concert venues around Seattle. Although it has begun to attract the attention of music lovers, he apparently can not indicate its totality because a year later he even got drafted and joined the army at Fort Ord, California.

Then he placed 101st Airborne Paratroopers at Fort Campbell, Kentucky as an army parachutist. This is when he met with Billy Cox, a black bass player who was well respected among blues musicians at the time. They had time to play in band class.
Due to an ankle injury while jumping is the 26th time, Hendrix was then asked to leave the force. Lessons from this event as later stated Hendrix --- --- is he so does not need to participate in the Vietnam war that erupted a few years later. That's when he re-joined former friends and formed his band Bob Fisher & The Barnevilles. They later became the band opening for some musicians to tour the U.S. before Hendrix then moved to Vancouver, Canada.

In 1963, Hendrix moved to Tennessee, and Elvis Presley in his village, he played with the time line of top name like Little Richard, Hank Ballard and The Supremes. He also follow in his two singles Lonnie Youngblood. Unfortunately, he did not have time to make cooperation with Elvis. But he often featuring hits from the king, the 'Hound Dog' and even had time to also record it. Of course, with his own version of a full scream and growl, especially on the chorus.
Feel less able to develop his career, Hendrix moved again and this time to New York. In the city the Big Apple, he played with the Isley Brothers, throughout 1964, including to his recordings in the studio. He also collaborated with soul singer Curtis Knight . Knight later wrote the song 'Ballad Of Jimi' he wrote in 1965, after Jimi told him that he (Jimi) would be dead in five years. That year was also a member of the band companion Hendrix Little Richard and often traveled in stages around New York, one of which is the Paramount Theater.

As a musician supporters, of course, not to expose Hendrix guitar playing abilities to the fullest. Even Little Richard once told him to remove his clothes which was considered too flashy. And replace it with clothes that had been prepared for the musician accompaniment.
. Being the second person of course is not expectations Hendrix. Can not self-assertive and depressed with a small fee. Once when he was walking with his girlfriend Jeannette Jacobs, he pointed to good clothes in the window of a shop. He said the Jeannette, "If I'm famous, I'll buy you a dress like that." Jeannette smiled, not sure it will come true. Since that time Jimi itself only has two shirts, two pants and a pair of battered shoes.

The following year, 1966, Hendrix began to find out who he really is. He built his own band, Jimmy James & The Blue Flames. When playing at the Café Wha! in Greenwich Village, New York in June, his performance was admired by Linda Keith. Linda is a girlfriend of Rolling Stones guitarist, Keith Richards, it was soon bringing in bassist British group The Animals, Chas Chandler. Chandler also is proposing to change the name Hendricks became Hendrix. He then invited Hendrix to develop his career in London.
. To England? Place the warlords that guitar? Hendrix had hesitated. Besides Keith Richards, the British entrenched the great guitarists like George Harrison (The Beatles), Pete Townsend (The Who) and three dropout Yardbirds guitarists: Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton (Cream). Hendrix minder to meet with Richards and others. But Chandler told he wanted to also meet with Clapton.

"There is no problem with Richards," said Chandler. "Her boyfriend himself who recommended you," he added. "And if Clapton listen to your game, then he was the one who wants to meet you." Chandler convinced Hendrix. And although it takes five weeks to think, he finally agreed. So, after taking care of a variety of purposes, both went to London.

Arriving in London on September 24, 1966, Hendrix is ​​actually still in doubt, asked Chandler to cafes Zoot Money. In the cafe, which is where the musicians hang out, Hendrix had a chance to jam session with local musicians. Finally --- after playing about two hours --- Hendrix finds her confidence and felt it would be suitable career in England.

Chandler then took Hendrix around from one place to another place. He is quite popular with The Animals, many familiar with the musicians and club owners. This helps a lot Jimi get a chance to gig. At the club where Hendrix played Blaises, he viewed by Johnny Hallyday who was then a top singer in France. He then negotiated with the Chandler discuss possible cooperation. Finally found a deal that is, Hendrix will open the concert Johnny. But Hendrix had to have his own band.

In London, Chandler and Hendrix to find two 'bodyguards' tough on drums and bass positions. He heard that drummer Mitch Mitchell (born John Mitchell, June 9, 1947) out of Georgie Fame's Blue Flames. So direkrutlah Mitchell fill the position. Stay pembetot position bass that are still vacant.

When it is, Noel Redding (born David Redding, December 25, 1945) who auditioned for a guitarist for The Animals, was offered a bass player with Hendrix. Because the position of guitarist in The Animals have been filled, and realize the competition is too tight as a guitar player, he agreed to be a bass player and accept the offer.

Mitchell was a child actor to TV advertising, before deciding to become a musician as a teenager. He really liked the drumming of Buddy Rich and Gene Kruppa. While Redding that art school dropout, never played with the Modern Jazz Group and the Loving Kind. In September this is just follow Hendrix actually changed his name from Jimmy to be more modest, Jimi.
That legend was born
 
            The three of them made the band the Jimi Hendrix Experience and then legend. It happened in October 1966. While Hendrix's where the real career started. Their first appearance was when the opening band of French singer Johnny Hallyday who gig at the Paris Olympia on the 18th the same month
. But for the sake of appearances in Paris, Hendrix requires more powerful equipment. He needs a bigger amp with a stronger power. So, Chandler also sell two of his bass --- Fender Precision and Gibson EB --- to buy Marshall Supro who later became his trademark Hendrix.

A month later they were --- for the first time since bertrio --- into the studio. They recorded the song 'Stone Free' and the creation of Hendrix 'Hey Joe' by Billy Roberts and never sung by Tim Rose. Both songs are worked out at De Lane Lea Studios, London.
Unfortunately when they were still quiet gig bid. While they have to pay for live and studio rental. Once again, Chandler had to give up his bass collection. This time a Fender Jazz Bass and a Fender Precision dilego. He was determined, this sacrifice should result in something great in the future.
Hope it little by little began to materialize. In November they played over four days in the Big Apple Club, Munich, Germany. Gets paid 300 pounds, they began to make a living. And Chandler continue trying for Jimi Hendrix Experience could be covered by the press.

Hendrix cs. had the opportunity first press conference on the 25th month. Located in the club Bag O 'Nails, London, they show their usual repertoire bring. Including, of course, 'Hey Joe' and 'Stonefree'. Members of the press to respond positively to their appearance.

 
 Entering December, Hendrix signed a four-year contract with Yameta Company, an artist management company. Finally the first single 'Hey Joe' was released by Polydor after previously rejected by Decca. The three of them then appear on a TV show for the first time at the end of 1966 it.
Unfortunately on New Year's Eve 1967, they did not get the bid stage. Fortunately, Redding has a good idea. He invited Hendrix and Mitchell playing in his hometown, Folkestone, a small town near London. And he who has many relatives in the city without much difficulty getting a job.
They departed on the train in the cold weather. But that does not freeze the spirit they were featured at the cafe Tofts. Moreover, parents Noel also provide lodging for them plus the manager. Their appearance at the cafe Tofts was at least enough to entertain themselves.


Being Great

Entering January 1967 things were getting better. Although it had 'forced' to play in small clubs such as the Ram Jam and Ricky Tick, they still often get the chance to appear at the Scotch of St.Thomas and 7 ½ Club. Even sometimes in clubs located in White Horse Street, Mayfair, London, to the appearance watched by famous musicians such as Paul McCartney, Pete Townsend and Mick Jagger.
Top stars turned out to be like him. They often tell the press, that they were amazed at the appearance of Hendrix. And it certainly is a big advantage for Hendrix's publications and two sohibnya. Because at that time, the revelation of the Beatles, The Who and Rolling Stones are 'mandatory meal' which must be believed by music lovers around the world.

  Late last month, the Jimi Hendrix Experience performed at the Saville Theater, London as the opening group The Who. This opportunity is available also at the request of Townsend. Of course this is not wasted. And Hendrix was proved that they indeed deserve to be taken into account.

Pete Townsend who was then a guitarist with a great stage act, the evening got 'arch-rivals'. Knew that Townsend will perform his trademark attractions such as play guitar in the air, Hendrix perform a more powerful attraction. Stay with characteristics such as picking the strings with teeth, scrape the strings to the back or kicking guitar. But this time with more aggressive style.

  In February, the single 'Hey Joe' climbing at number six on the UK charts. Hendrix was more popular with a wild style.
The press also often expose it. Meanwhile, three of them into the studio again to complete the cultivation of the full album. The album was done at Olympic Studios, Barnes, London.
Throughout the month of March of that year, they held a European tour. Dimula at the Twenty Club in Mouscron, Belgium and 20 Club, Lille, France and then proceed to the legendary clubs that also gave birth to the Beatles, the Star Club in Hamburg, Germany.

  Back to the UK, the Jimi Hendrix Experience appeared on the show "Top Of The Pops" on BBC1-TV. As Kelling UK tour, they had stage with Cat Stevens, the Walker Brothers and Engelbert Humperdinck. Jimi aggressive style had made him wretched. When he set fire to his guitar, his follow-up on fire. He was rushed to the hospital.

Another unpleasant incident was when they finished playing at New Century Hall, Manchester. They become victims of misdirected from the local police raided a child who was under age. When going into a club, they were rejected. Noel and Mitch had withdrawn the police, they fight and get a few punches. Jimi spared from such treatment because they show the American passport. Fortunately, the situation can be overcome because the manager intervened.
 
Not long after recovering from the burn Hendrix in May, the single 'Purple Haze' released to the market. Had time to occupy third place on the chart, the single was soon followed by his first album, Are You Experience? The album was immediately seized the attention of music lovers the world and perched in second position on the chart for 33 weeks.

Jimi Hendrix Experience toured Europe starting in the Neue Welt, Berlin, Germany. Although the audience was surprised to Germany as a cool response, they were impressed with the German public knowledge about them. And the tour also continues to Denmark, the Netherlands, France and Scandinavian countries.