3 chords are fine, just one chord is better!!!
John Lee Hooker does most of his guitar boogies with just one chord.
most famous one chord riff must be this one:
Howlin' Wolf Smokestack Lightning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1FK620bS7A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeE7QJmcI3U&ob=av2n
and another one chord killer:
I Wish You Would - Billy Boy Arnold
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUwTONWZKtY
Last edited by Hard Bop Hank (2012-02-25 05:16:20)
and another Bo fave, his 2nd single, b-side to "Diddley Daddy"
Bo Diddley- She's Mine She's Fine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENdozG_Me6w
with Billy Boy on harp
Last edited by Hard Bop Hank (2012-02-25 05:18:18)
Elton Anderson - I Love You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2msxPt-2ts
Harold Burrage - She Knocks Me Out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2uoo1aEkq0
talk about seriality...
Harold Burrage - She KO'd Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHberqQ4fDA
Elton Anderson-I Love You So
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1XEniyS1gI
Last edited by Drink (2012-02-25 15:13:03)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zXfFF1waiw
Art Pepper - Mambo De La Pinta
(No idea what a picture of Snowboy is doing on the video)
Following on from Hank's early stuff.
Eddie Holland - A little bit of loving
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzwdmFl2lMQ
Billy Watkins - I'm tired
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdqj5eVWBTs
Larks - Lost my love yesterday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htD3I6soGug&feature=related
All you blues gentlemen are going to love this
Maxwell st. circa 1964 from 'And This is Free' film. Robert sings his song Eli's Place/Murdering Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oypAbJj-fEs&feature=player_embedded
The Wasp.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yogw44ehpOk
My favourite Doors album.
Found it Hep... it was Charlie Mingus' vocal version of Faubus Fables...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtwxJJkMUF8
Getting phunky with The Pharaohs, and their 'Great House'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUxw9UfJf6M&feature=related
Here's brilliant high quality video of Monk quartet going 3 well known songs in 1966.
1. Epistrophy
2. Round Midnight
3. Lulu's Back In Town
Thelonious Monk - piano
Charles Rouse - tenor
Lawrence Gales - bass
Benjamin Riley - drums
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxmOzYnXeBY&feature=related
Turrentine!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHG6tnqUknw
You'd probably have to have been 13 years old in 1993/4 to like this.
Jamalski - Texas Rumpus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxffSEbeuwo