Static Live Magazine December 2020
STATIC LIVE Magazine is Central Florida’s premier publication dedicated to celebrating music and culture. STATIC LIVE provides extensive, detailed community information from fashion to art, entertainment to events through noteworthy interviews, sensational photography and in-depth editorial coverage. STATIC LIVE is the only publication of its kind in Central Florida and reaches all target markets through wide distribution channels. Our staff includes highly accomplished contributors with award-winning backgrounds in music and entertainment; we know how much business is captured from the entertainment market. Our free full color publication can be found throughout Central Florida at key retailers, hotels and restaurants in high traffic areas. Our mission is to highlight the incredible talent, culture and lifestyle in Central Florida. With eye-opening profiles and coverage of the music and art community, STATIC LIVE readers will be positively influenced by our topical content and trending advertisers. STATIC LIVE Magazine is the most effective tool for branding connectivity with consumers in our area.
STATIC LIVE Magazine is Central Florida’s premier publication dedicated to celebrating music and culture. STATIC LIVE provides extensive, detailed community information from fashion to art, entertainment to events through noteworthy interviews, sensational photography and in-depth editorial coverage. STATIC LIVE is the only publication of its kind in Central Florida and reaches all target markets through wide distribution channels. Our staff includes highly accomplished contributors with award-winning backgrounds in music and entertainment; we know how much business is captured from the entertainment market. Our free full color publication can be found throughout Central Florida at key retailers, hotels and restaurants in high traffic areas. Our mission is to highlight the incredible talent, culture and lifestyle in Central Florida. With eye-opening profiles and coverage of the music and art community, STATIC LIVE readers will be positively influenced by our topical content and trending advertisers. STATIC LIVE Magazine is the most effective tool for branding connectivity with consumers in our area.
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MUD ROOSTER’S BLUES<br />
By David Dequasie<br />
In this month’s installment, I’d like to dive right<br />
into some great renditions of blues tunes as done<br />
by legendary bands that are better known for<br />
their work in the hard rock realm. As a record<br />
buying teen in the 1970’s, little did I know that<br />
many of my favorite<br />
album cuts that the bands were<br />
rocking out on, were<br />
actually old blues<br />
standards.<br />
Foghat comes<br />
to mind. Willie<br />
Dixon’s ‘I Just<br />
Wanna<br />
make Love<br />
to You’,<br />
Chuck<br />
Willis’ ‘<br />
Feel so<br />
Bad’ and<br />
Robert<br />
Johnson’s<br />
Terraplane<br />
Blues’ are<br />
just a few<br />
tracks that<br />
are absolutely<br />
cranking.<br />
No horns or<br />
other acoustic<br />
instruments here, just<br />
blasting electric guitars<br />
and drums, and what a clever band name. Alter<br />
the letters in ‘Hogfat’ and you’ve got an amusing<br />
take on blues and barbecue.<br />
Steppenwolf was originally a modernized blues<br />
band. Everyone has heard their version of<br />
‘The Pusher’ but ‘Forty days and Forty Nights’<br />
and ‘Hoochie Coochie Man’ are much heavier<br />
remakes.<br />
The first time that I heard the Aerosmith song<br />
‘Walking the Dog’, I just assumed that it was<br />
one of their own compositions. Not many groups<br />
would think to turn a blues tune into a hard rock<br />
jam and then add a wood flute section in the<br />
middle.<br />
Probably my favorite take on Howlin’<br />
Wolf’s ‘Evil’ is the downright nasty<br />
version that Cactus played. It’s<br />
interesting to note that they<br />
pumped up the second<br />
(psychedelic) version that the<br />
Wolf recorded. This being the<br />
version that he hated. It’s so<br />
fired up and loud that it<br />
reminds me of Black Sabbath’s<br />
remake of ‘Warning’ or Led<br />
Zeppelin’s version of ‘How<br />
Many more Times’.<br />
The Rolling Stones have an<br />
impressive catalog of blues<br />
standards such as ‘Stop Breaking<br />
Down’ but give a listen to what<br />
The White Stripes did with that<br />
one. It’s totally frantic.<br />
When it comes to great guitar riffs that<br />
are used to support blues classics, check<br />
out Damon Fowler’s take on Johnny Winter’s<br />
‘TV Mama’, Albert King’s ‘The Hunter’ as played<br />
by Free, ‘Crossroads’ by Cream, ‘Wang Dang<br />
Doodle’ by Savoy Brown, or ‘Sugar Mama’ by<br />
Taste to name a few.<br />
In closing, with one of today’s greatest tools<br />
being the internet, it’s never been easier to<br />
discover obscure artists from years past. Why<br />
have I never been turned on to Chicken Shack?<br />
What a great blues band disguised as a hard rock<br />
band.
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