^ Sam
Funny you should mention John Mayall. First gig I ever went to see was the Bluesbreakers at the Albert Hall, with none other than Peter Green's Splinter Group opening for them. Green was sadly suffering the same sort of muppet-in-the-headlights state of mind that Brian Wilson has these days, but even so both bands played an absolute blinder of a set.

However: a lot of his critics have said this, and I'm inclined to agree - whilst his music his great...has he really got the right voice for the blues?

(This question became most apparent to me on a couple of the tracks from Padlock on the Blues, where the late John Lee Hooker is playing second guitar - surely you'd have got Hooker to sing those songs instead?)
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 20:05, Reply)