LIP RIPPER
50 posts
May 07, 2009
10:43 AM
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Thanks to my loving wife I have
1. Word on the street.
2. Living on the river.
3. Harlem Blues, Just got it.
4. Mr. Satans Apprentice. "Rare signed copy!"
Thanks to Adam I have Buskers Holiday.
I wanna know where Jason got his tee shirt.
LR
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jonsparrow
249 posts
May 07, 2009
11:30 AM
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so far i only have Mr. Satans Apprentice.
im hopeing adam an mr satan will sign it for me in philly. an ill be buyin a bunch of albums there too if there sellin them so ya.
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kudzurunner
418 posts
May 07, 2009
11:35 AM
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I'm bringing about 30 copies each of Harlem Blues and Word on the Street when we leave on our 7-gig tour. Philly is the 4th gig. Hopefully I'll have some left! I'll also have a few copies of Journeyman's Road.
Of course the first three albums are available at Amazon--at least two of them as CDs, all three in the form of digital downloads. And we DO get royalties from those sales, finally.
All four albums are available through this website, through the following link:
http://www.modernbluesharmonica.com/music_for_sale.html
If you purchase the Rounder CDs (HB, MM, LOTR) using the icons on that music-for-sale page, I get a few extra pennies as an Amazon affiliate.
Jason got his T-shirt from the #1 S&A fan, Tom Weston of Bensalem, PA. You can email him (harpnwillys@comcast.net) and maybe he'll sell you one through the mails. Tell him I sent ya. If that email doesn't work--well, we'll have some other t-shirts for sale on the gigs.
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RyanMortos
159 posts
May 07, 2009
12:12 PM
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I picked up the Mother Mojo CD within the last 2 weeks from Amazon. I was actually doing a bit of forum search to see if there was any historical discussion of the Satan & Adam CDs & I find none!
So what do you think Lip Ripper? My first impression is the Mother Mojo CD sounds more relaxed/calm/chill (grabbing for the right descriptive word & failing) then I first expected. I definately like it.
Are you going in June Jon? I got my tickets & ready to go! Perhaps Ill pick up another recording while Im there especially if there will be autographs :) . So excited!
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jonsparrow
252 posts
May 07, 2009
12:21 PM
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yep in june. your going to the one in philly too? i was debating either that or NY but Charlie Sayles is gonna be at the one in philly so a picked that one.
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RyanMortos
161 posts
May 07, 2009
12:38 PM
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Yeah, Im going to the one in Philly - World Cafe Live. I work in West Chester so its a short hour away. Perhaps Ill bump into you.
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jonsparrow
253 posts
May 07, 2009
12:41 PM
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...perhaps.
lol
ya im in central jersey so im like an hour away too. ill most likely be the guy with alot of tattoos in a fedora hat by him self.
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chromaticblues
63 posts
May 08, 2009
5:29 AM
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I have all three and I'm glad I do! The first two are similar(which is fine by me)! Mr. Satan's himself was better on those two, But living on the river is probably a better CD. If that makes sense? I think Adam himself was at his peek during the making of this. I saw them a few times and the show I saw at the king biscuit blues festival in 97' was some of the best 45 minutes of music I have and will ever hear in my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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LIP RIPPER
51 posts
May 08, 2009
6:44 AM
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Ryan, I don't have Mother Mojo yet so I couldn't give any input on those recordings. The first I CD I got was the Word On The Street collection, The recordings made on Adam's ghetto blaster. How apropos. They're raw and on the first listen I thought man, these are rough recordings and they are. After listening to them for a while I kind of blocked out the background noises, much like we do in everyday life. Now to me they're just great recordings. Years ago when I'd buy a new Neil Young release it wouldn't grab me at first but always did after having listened more than once. Then came living On The River. Studio quality recordings which I wasn't used to. Very different to listen to. On this Cd I really realized what Adam was doing, or adding to the music. He fills in the blanks. He's Mr. Satans Whole rhythm section. Like a group of horns would back up a band and then some. Incredible really, and on the money. I just got Harlem Blues so I can't give any feedback on it yet.
LR
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kudzurunner
420 posts
May 08, 2009
8:10 AM
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I'll give you a few of my own notes on the albums, so you'll have them for reference:
HARLEM BLUES: We recorded half this album in 1990 and the other half in 1991. "I Want You" and "CC Rider," for example, are from the first session; "Ride the Wind" and "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" are from the second. In both sessions I was using a Mouse in tandem with an Ampeg Rocket that had a 15" speaker, both of them cranked way up. Sterling was playing guitar through a pair of Mouses. This album is straight off the street, basically. We were drinking Stoly and by the end of both session had gotten a little crazy. Actually, we were pretty crazy all the way through. We recorded this album at Giant Sound, 1776 Broadway in NYC, around the corner and down the block from Carnegie Hall.
MOTHER MOJO. We recorded this entire album in one 4 hour session in Dec. 1992, I believe, just before flying off to Europe for a gig. It was recorded in midtown Manhattan, in the old BMG studios, which were torn down shortly after. As we entered the HUGE recording studio--the kind of place where they would record full orchestras--Larry Coryell was just unplugging from a session he'd been doing. Sterling used his Randall 50 watt solid state amps; I used my 1955 Bassman and another ugly old TV front Fender that I later sold to somebody. It had one 12' speaker. I don't particularly like the sound I got on the amped harp here; it's much too clean. The amps were too big. It's a quieter album, overall. Like the first album, it was mixed live to 2-track, meaning that if the vocals weren't loud enough--and on some songs they're not quite loud enough--you can't do anything about it later. Jason Ricci loves this album; I think it misses most of our wildness. But it does have "Watermelon Man," "Mr. Cantrell," and "Thunky Fing," plus "Silly Little Things You Do": none of them are 12-bar blues, but all of them extend the idea of blues harmonica in useful ways. The original take of "Mother Mojo" (the song) was 13 minutes long; we edited it way down.
LIVING ON THE RIVER: I co-produced this album with Frank Migliorelli of RaveOn records. I used my Premier Twin-8 in tandem with a 1954 Fender Deluxe, which was my gigging setup at the time. I also used a Boss DD-2 digital delay AND a Kendrick tube reverb tank--one device on each amp feed. On one cut, "Pick Up the Pieces of my Life," I used my Kay 703, cranked up; we put it in a stairwell outside the studio and stuck a mic in there. My inspiration was Little Walter; I thought we'd be crazy not to try new things and see what we could get. We also tried a few new things in terms of musicians--adding some backup singers and horns in post-production to "Rolling on the River." No big deal, but it gave critics a chance to say, "Satan and Adam have sold out!" My favorite cuts are "Unlucky in Love" (not a 12 bar blues, but extremely bluesy and a great locked-in groove part) and "I Got a Woman." I added some studio reverb to the harp in that latter cut. Ah, and one more thing: on "I'm a Girlwatcher," there was a documentary film crew around and the camera man was in the studio with us. It was a very small, cramped space. He'd been instructed to play fly on the wall and just stay put. Once we started playing, he started moving around. I got extremely pissed off. I played so hard on that solo, and at such length, because I was furious!
WORD ON THE STREET. This is a found album, one that shouldn't have existed. I made a bunch of tapes of Sterling and me playing on the street between 1987 and 1990. I put them all in a big bag and left them in a closet for 15 years. When I pulled them out and started listening to them, it was clear that some of them had incredible guitar stuff, and ambient street life, that needed to be heard. My feeling about the harp playing is that I hadn't quite arrived, tonally, in the way that I would only 6-12 months later after a long fall and early winter of playing before the first HARLEM BLUES session. But there was so much good stuff here, including some ridiculously good guitar playing on "C. C. Rider" and a couple of original blues, that I decided to issue it myself. I believe it does one thing extremely well: it puts you right on the street, time-warp fashion, as though you're actually strolling across 125th street in Harlem in 1989 and you suddenly come across us. In the history of recorded blues, there are actually very few albums recorded live in all-black contexts and virtually none recorded on the street in black communities. Part of what makes the album unusual is the interplay between Sterling and his community.
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Miles Dewar
339 posts
May 08, 2009
8:17 AM
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I got all mine on lala.com
-Harlem Blues
-Livin on the River
-Mother Mojo
I still need to get "Word on the Street". That is most likely going to be THE best album.
I have a few sniplets of Gussow Charlie and Nat on th street and those are my favorite songs..."Oh, Mr. Sunday driver....."
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Luiz
29 posts
May 08, 2009
12:05 PM
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I have 'Word on the street', 'Living on the river' and the book 'Mister Satan's Apprentice'.
Just yesterday I ordered 'Mother Mojo' and 'Harlem Blues'!
I love C.C. Rider on Word on the Street! It's awesome, sometimes I listen to it more than 5 times in a row!
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LIP RIPPER
52 posts
May 08, 2009
1:15 PM
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I think I've heard about everyone else's version of CC rider but that take is a one of a kind for sure.
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