John L Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 to save the neck of a certain Chuck Nessa. So tell the liner notes of a just released "Junior Wells Live at Theresa's 1975" on Delmark. Is that right, Chuck? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 (edited) Yup. Ann was there too - table right in front of the stage. Must have been around 1968. Edited December 21, 2006 by Chuck Nessa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spontooneous Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 Don't go messin' with the kid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 to save the neck of a certain Chuck Nessa. So tell the liner notes of a just released "Junior Wells Live at Theresa's 1975" on Delmark. Is that right, Chuck? How's that CD, John? The Otis Rush live performance they rescued from the archives was really good, so I'm wondering about this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 If Delmark ever issues a Howlin' Wolf cd Bob may tell of Wolf saving us again. He'll never tell of the guy with a gun at Turner's during a JB Hutto gig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John L Posted December 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 Don't mess with Southside Chuck! Sounds like you were trouble back then. Dan: I think that the new Junior Wells release is an excellent documentation of vintage blues in a Chicago club in good sound. The ambiance is great. The music is raw, but right. Good stuff. Musically, I wouldn't say that it reaches the artistic heights of the recent Otis Rush (live at Wise Fools Pub) or Junior's earlier live recordings from Pepper's Lounge (available on "It's My Life"). But it doesn't need to. It is just authentic, highly satisfying, and unpretentious Chicago blues being played the right way on its home turf. As time goes by, the value of this record will only grow as a historical document (IMO). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 for tyhose of us who dont knoiw the story can one of u recount it??!?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 Thanks for the report, John. That one is definitely on my radar for the New Year. Maybe if I'm lucky I'll stumble across it when I've got one or two of those Border's gift cards in hand after Monday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 (edited) the story I read was that there was a gun battle between Chuck Nessa and Larry Kart - seems they were fighting over the free peanuts at the bar - Larry likes 'em salted, Chuck prefers the candy-coated - so Larry questioned his manhood and that was that. In collector's circles it's know as the "Saturday night peanut fight." Edited December 21, 2006 by AllenLowe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robviti Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 good thing junior stepped in between the two. it was about to get ugly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 (edited) but not as bad as the nude wrestling match between Kart and Neil Tesser. Eventually John Litweiler and Art Lange joined in for the tag-team event, and it was not pretty. For years this was cited as a key moment in the seismic shift of Chicago jazz criticism, from its prior Dixieland worship to the new cult of Dick the Bruiser - (email me for pics)- Edited December 21, 2006 by AllenLowe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDK Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 and still not as bad as the night Bob Koester came into the club and caught Rocky Boyd nuzzling Koester's pet chicken Rudy at a table in the back - feathers flew - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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