Members Virgman Posted November 19, 2007 Members Posted November 19, 2007 Here's a neat audio clip of the great blues artist Howlin' Wolf in the Chess studios many years ago. I think you'll enjoy it! http://www.esnips.com/doc/53a0afbc-5982-4de7-9e59-ca2221830bd3/Wolf-in-the-Chess-Studio
Members MalusAranea Posted November 20, 2007 Members Posted November 20, 2007 Great interview. Chess records has a very interesting history that needs to be documented. - spidey
Members DaveH Posted November 20, 2007 Members Posted November 20, 2007 You mean how they took advantage of the ignorant blues artists? Marshall Chess is an aquaintance of mine, and he told me once that he came home from school one day, to find Muddy Waters painting the bathroom at the Chess Studio. Muddy had used up his stipend and needed some money to live on. This was apparently a comon theme around the Chess Studio. I also know a guy named Joel Rubin, who is a lawyer that sues the likes of the Chess people to get reperations for the families of some of the fallen blues legends. I'd like to ba a fly on the wall in a room with Marshall and Joel.
Members Virgman Posted November 20, 2007 Author Members Posted November 20, 2007 You mean how they took advantage of the ignorant blues artists? Marshall Chess is an aquaintance of mine, and he told me once that he came home from school one day, to find Muddy Waters painting the bathroom at the Chess Studio. Muddy had used up his stipend and needed some money to live on. This was apparently a comon theme around the Chess Studio. I also know a guy named Joel Rubin, who is a lawyer that sues the likes of the Chess people to get reperations for the families of some of the fallen blues legends. I'd like to ba a fly on the wall in a room with Marshall and Joel. That's not true. Marshall Chess has publicly stated that is total BS. He says there is no way Muddy Waters would ever have done that anyway. Muddy Waters had too much pride to ever do that. However if it were true so what. Keith Richards started that rumor by the way.
Members Virgman Posted November 20, 2007 Author Members Posted November 20, 2007 Great interview. Chess records has a very interesting history that needs to be documented. - spidey It has been documented. I've read them. Here you go: http://www.amazon.com/Spinning-Blues-into-Gold-Legendary/dp/0312284942/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195569698&sr=1-1 http://www.amazon.com/CANT-SATISFIED-Times-Muddy-Waters/dp/B00008RWAP/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195569893&sr=1-2
Members DaveH Posted November 20, 2007 Members Posted November 20, 2007 That's not true. Marshall Chess has publicly stated that is total BS. He says there is no way Muddy Waters would ever have done that anyway. Muddy Waters had too much pride to ever do that. However if it were true so what. Keith Richards started that rumor by the way. Marshall told me that himself. Face-to-face.
Members Virgman Posted November 20, 2007 Author Members Posted November 20, 2007 This is the Richards interview that Marshall Chess disputed. Chess refuted Richards claim on a recorded video intervew. Muddy's daughter also stated it never happened. Next time you see him ask him about it. He's a liar if he told you otherwise since he claimed Richards didn't know what he was talking about. http://www.geocities.com/abexile/keithintgpl.htm Keith Richards interview: Q: Like Muddy Waters, you approach rhythm guitar with the primal energy of a sex drive. R: Well, that's a compliment. Thank you. Q: Do you feel that way? R: Yeah! He's my man. He's the guy I listened to. Maybe I just picked it up off of him. I recognized it. It was just the same as my drive. I felt an immediate affinity when I heard Muddy go (picks up guitar and plays the opening lick from "Rollin'Stone"). You can't be harder than that, man. He said it all right there. So all I want to do is be able to do that. I have several memories of Muddy Waters. The weirdest one is when we first went into Chess Studios in'64, the first time we came here. Went to Chicago to record most of the second or third album at Chess, and we walked in. There's Phil Chess and there's Ron Malo, the engineer, and this guy in white overalls painting the ceiling. As we walked by into the studio, somebody said, "Oh, by the way, this is Muddy Waters, and he's painting the ceiling." He wasn't selling records at the time, and this is the way he got treated. My first meeting with Muddy Waters is over the paintbrush, dripping, covered in white paint. "This is Muddy Waters." I'm dying, right? I get to meet The Man - he's my {censored}ing god, right-and he's painting the ceiling! And I'm gonna work in his studio. Ouch! Oh, this is the record business, right? Mmmmm. The highs with the lows! Ooh, boy. In that one little meeting, in those few seconds, Muddy taught me more... [imitates Muddy speaking in a gentle voice] "It's a pleasure to meet you." And the look in the eye was saying, "Well, you can be painting the ceiling next year!" Because he had no idea that we revered him or anything. We were just another bunch of creeps.
Members DaveH Posted November 20, 2007 Members Posted November 20, 2007 OK, I'll tell Marshall he's a liar. Do you think he would publicly confirm or admit to something like that, even though it was most likely his uncle Phil who had Muddy painting? OK, I read the interview, and judging by KR's responses, I have a feeling KR may have 'made the story his own', and MC called him on it. Did you know that MC was the Stones biz manager from Exile on Mainstreet, on up through Sticky Fingers (and possibly after)?
Members Virgman Posted November 20, 2007 Author Members Posted November 20, 2007 It makes a good story. All I'm telling you is that Marshall and Muddy's daughter said it wasn't true. I don't see what difference it would make if it were true or not so I'm not clear what his motives would be. Chuck Berry was a painter too for extra money. Ask him why he said that. I'd be curious to know.
Members DaveH Posted November 20, 2007 Members Posted November 20, 2007 Hey, for all I know, maybe he was BS'ing me. I just have the tendency to believe things from the horse's mouth.
Members MalusAranea Posted November 20, 2007 Members Posted November 20, 2007 "There's only one song in the world, and Adam and Eve wrote it. And the rest of them's variations." - Keith Richards Profound. - spidey
Members Virgman Posted November 21, 2007 Author Members Posted November 21, 2007 Hey, for all I know, maybe he was BS'ing me. I just have the tendency to believe things from the horse's mouth. Hey, no problem. Peace.
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