Late Night Music Club with Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers
By Andy K Thursday Sep 04, 2008 1:00am
Taylor's Rock (live in Ann Arbor, 1973) Just awesome!
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Taylor's Rock (live in Ann Arbor, 1973) Just awesome!
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Awesome music indeed. He was having a lot of fun playing it too. Thanks, A!
This clip took me back to College. I had this Hound Dog Taylor album that I must have listened to a hundred times. "Taylor's Rock" was my second favorite song on the album, and "Give Me Back My Wig" was my favorite. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdgHWT3S-Hg But "Walking the Ceiling" was up there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZdMO4MXkMY . No one ever played slide electric blues guitar better. So cool to see it played live. Thanks for posting this.
"Gimme back my wig, now honey let your head go bald"
Unbelievable...As "Gut Bucket" blues as it gets. Get any Hound Dog Taylor on Alligator records. There is a live one called "Beware of the Dog" or something that is unreal. It sounds like the Fat Possum stuff. Hezekiah Early and Elmo Williams, Junior Kimbrough...Shore..nuffff
OH man.... Hound Dog Taylor. Gonna have to dig out them old blues albums now. :)
Oh a little bit of trivia....
If I'm not mistaken, Hound Dog has a sixth finger on each hand.
And the bassist plays bass lines on a guitar, not an electric bass.
oops i mean left hand only.
Yes, he DID have second pinkys....on BOTH hands.
His sister had six toes on each foot....his mom had three breasts....NOT a third nipple...that's more common...she had a FULL Middle boob....big ones too I bet...MMMMM Yummy!
Look...He cut the 6th finger OFF of his right hand.
I read it was WITH A RAZOR BLADE IN A CLUB while drunk
and angry that it got in his way....I don't doubt that...
This story is a close second to the story of Roger Waters shaving his nipples off in a hotel once upon a time....rent the live in Berlin The Wall show...his shirt flaps open and you can SEE his Nipple - less chest...it's freaki-er looking then extra fingers ANY day.
we should dig his family up and clone them....and procreate with the clones as to agressively add 6th fingers to the norm of the human race....hell...let's aim for 12 fingers AND 12 toes AND three boobs for every woman....sounds like a fun Harem to me.
Speechless. Thanks for turning me on! That's amazing.
Does anyone know if his old lp's are out on cd?
Yes Nitehawk, his old stuff on Alligator is still available on CD. Hound Dog Taylor was the very first release on Alligator back in the very early 70s. A good friend of mine, who now lives in Fort Worth--Wes Race--worked at the same record distributor as Bruce Iglauer, and talked Bruce into using a little money he had saved up into putting out an LP on Hound Dog.
That started the ball rolling, and it is still rolling today, as Alligator has been the largest indi blues label for decades now.
Knew about Alligator, but since the local music store sold out due to Wal-mart wasn't sure if they were still in business. Thanks.
I think I remember reading somewhere that he said his epitaph should be "He couldn't play for shit but he sure did make it sound good."
One of my all-time favorites. Amazing what you can do with twelve fingers.
I've been into the Dog since grade 11 he's great.
This poor kid only had ten ... :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHnWJHCPfXI
Right on! I was in high school and had found an Alligator 20th Anniversary album, when I first heard heard Hound Dog. The raw gritty sound instantly took me in.
*Goes and finds his hound dog recordings...
Saw Hounddog several times here in Omaha in the early 70's right after I got out of the Navy. Shook his hand. Played in a bar called Farquar's downtown and we would stand ten feet away from him and the band upstairs. If you didn't know who he was and didn't see him live around here back then, you were missin out. (we could "smoke" up there and nothing was said). Man this brings back some memories...whew!
Only 12 fingers? Fabulous and thanks. Off to buy.
He wasn't the greatest player, but FUN, FUN, FUN! He and everyone in the room had BIGTIME FUNTIMES! What a blast!
What a treat! I didn't know there were any videos of the Dog, so this is great news, and something to search for. I've loved him since a friend turned me on to him shortly after his death. He described him as "punk blues." The Hound Dog tribute CD is really great; especially check out the Elvin Bishop version of "Let's Get Funky," wherein he tells his story about playing with him as a teenager.
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