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  • Even though Mayall is well known amongst blues rock aficionados, he is still, IMO. criminally underrated.  Not to mention that without him, a lot of first chair guitarists like Mick Taylor, Walter Trout, Carlos Montoya, Jon Mark, Harvey Mandel, Buddy Whittington and perhaps even Clapton and Green might have flown completely under the radar.
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13 hours ago, Dave James said:
  • Even though Mayall is well known amongst blues rock aficionados, he is still, IMO. criminally underrated.  Not to mention that without him, a lot of first chair guitarists like Mick Taylor, Walter Trout, Carlos Montoya, Jon Mark, Harvey Mandel, Buddy Whittington and perhaps even Clapton and Green might have flown completely under the radar.

Understand your point in general, but as for Clapton, he had already been with the Yardbirds, and was already well-known, and Mandel had already been with Canned Heat.

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I'm glad this doesn't have the show that I attended (with Blue Mitchell in the band) when at the University of Chicago, a show taped for TV broadcast on "The Midnight Special." At one end of the hall was The Ohio Players, on the other John Mayall. What a night! If it were in the set I might have to buy the darned thing.

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7 hours ago, jazzbo said:

I'm glad this doesn't have the show that I attended (with Blue Mitchell in the band) when at the University of Chicago, a show taped for TV broadcast on "The Midnight Special." At one end of the hall was The Ohio Players, on the other John Mayall. What a night! If it were in the set I might have to buy the darned thing.

Would that have been Midnight Special or Rock Concert? Hate to send anybody off on a wild goose chase looking for footage. :g

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Maybe it was Rock Concert. Can't remember. Never watched TV in that decade to be honest and so I never saw it and only the memory of the event remains. My late first wife was there. . . with someone else who beat me to the punch asking her to go. That has my memory jolted into place. . . I was jealous but the music got me over it. The next month I got to take her out on a major date and that was the ticket that took me to our romance. . . sixteen years later! 

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