Saturday Matinee – The Raveonettes, Fred & the Healers, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers

Award winning indie retro post-punk noise rock duo from Denmark channels Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound. The Raveonettes are Sune Rose Wagner on guitar, instruments and vocals, and Sharin Foo on bass, guitar and vocals. From the album Chain Gang of Love, the lineup includes Manoj Ramdas on guitar and Jakob Hoyer on drums.

Belgian blues band Fred & the Healers cover Junior Wells‘ classic from 1960. Current lineup is Frédéric Lani / guitar and vocals; Bertrand Lani / bass; Nicolas Sand / drums.

John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers performed at Mayall’s 70th Birthday Concert, Liverpool, England ,on 19 July 2003. Dubbed the Godfather of British Blues, Mayall passed away on 22 July 2024 at the age of 90.

Anyone watching the Olympics? If so, keep it to yourselves because I’m not interested. Tomorrow’s porch time shall commence promptly at whenever so see you then.

Saturday Matinee – The Archers of Loaf, The Axis of Awesome, Zappa & Santana

Archers of Loaf. Great 3-chord rock. According to Wiki, they disbanded, reformed, broke up and now reorganized before disappearing completely.

In 2009, The Axis of Awesome discovered the secret 4-chord progression required to make a hit record.

https://youtu.be/xvKrBoywZFY

Zappa’s “Variations on the Carlos Santana Secret Chord Progression” is a classic. Unfortunately the video is not an actual performance, but a compilation of images pasted over the music. So what. I still like it. We’ll let Carlos Santana have the last word.

https://youtu.be/AqZceAQSJvc

Woodstock put Carlos Santana on the map in 1969. Great jam.

Have a great weekend, folks. See you back here tomorrow and we’ll mess around with stuff.