I bought 'Mickey Baker's Complete Course in Jazz Guitar' 60 years ago! I didn't even know a G, C, or D chord. That book taught me to play guitar. No teacher and no recordings: just that book. I didn't even know about using a pick so I only played fingerstyle. Wow!
@@fiddlerJohn I just picked it up, played a few chords, and found this video :) Memphis Slim I saw in Alaska round 1980, but Mickey Baker I never heard of......till today :) I think I'll keep going with his book, with your afirmation, sir.
Yeah ! I savvy that ! Was one of the chord shapes in the black and yellow book. Or, was it, say G7+9 full across, 4 stretched to the Bb and F ? ! Yes, I too loved that little book and grew from there.
I met memphis slim back in 1984 in a blues club in st paul when I was with Willie Dixon he opened for us he was great. I had no idea that I would meet such great people being with Dixon-google Mike Morrison blues revue# thanks .
I was trying to learn some Who songs. Townshend wrote that he learned jazzy chords and how to draw chord diagrams from Mickey Baker's books. Which I later found in used bookstores. And then I got Wildest Guitar on tape. Endlessly rewarding.
Memphis Slliin's voice and singing had to be about the best a man do - he would have been great with Count Basis. Too bad Willie Dixon wasn't around for this session.
A lot of black slave girls had children from their 'owners'; they didn't have much choice. (One US president was rumoured to have fathered a quite white child with his servant.) In Mickey's case, I think his story is that his mother was a 'street courtesan', if there's such a thing - black women had to live by their wits. He never met his father, and was put in an orphanage at age 11 - he kept running away. Anyway, it's quite possible that his unknown father was Jewish.
@@dougthompson8226 Well that could make sense. Though I thought his father was unknown - wasn't his mum a courtesan/street girl? Wikipedia just says he was 'believed to be white'; I think I got that other info from an interview - aah, here it's said it was his auntie who was 'turning tricks' ...: th-cam.com/video/Z6-UZP3_idA/w-d-xo.html
After 56 years working his tuition books , I finally hear what Mickey Baker sounds like in live performance. Not Bad Mickey.
I bought 'Mickey Baker's Complete Course in Jazz Guitar' 60 years ago! I didn't even know a G, C, or D chord. That book taught me to play guitar. No teacher and no recordings: just that book. I didn't even know about using a pick so I only played fingerstyle. Wow!
Me too!
Me too. I owe him a lot.
Love is strange.
@@fiddlerJohn I just picked it up, played a few chords, and found this video :) Memphis Slim I saw in Alaska round 1980, but Mickey Baker I never heard of......till today :) I think I'll keep going with his book, with your afirmation, sir.
That there is a true musician.
Two true musicians?
Two of the Cooolest Cats!
That 4th finger!!!!
what a gem my mum used to listen Memphis every sunday i grew up whit him
Class as always from Memphis Slim
Was hoping to see him play that 13b5b9 chord :)
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Yeah ! I savvy that ! Was one of the chord shapes in the black and yellow book.
Or, was it, say G7+9 full across, 4 stretched to the Bb and F ? ! Yes, I too loved that little book and grew from there.
it`s also a 7 #9 :)
@@dougthompson8226 tritone sub!
I met memphis slim back in 1984 in a blues club in st paul when I was with Willie Dixon he opened for us he was great. I had no idea that I would meet such great people being with Dixon-google Mike Morrison blues revue# thanks
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Hidden music treasures! That's what I love on youtube!
TH-cam est une merveille, malheureusement gâchée par l'avidité de Google et la stupidité des ayants-droits.
Incredible groove!
I been looking for this video for years
Glad you found it!
Very very good
Thank you! This is a gem with many facets!
Amazing
They don't make music like this anymore 😎✌
Amazing!!!
Excellent !!!!
Cool blues!
very nice
Just read Mickey was a favourite for Poison Ivy. I came here for that.
great
Damn!!Slim is Rockin’ that ivory!!!
The same Mickey Baker who wrote the jazz guitar books? Must be.
That's him
... and the same Mickey Baker that wrote 'Love is Strange' (as Mickey & Syvia), later covered and made a hit by the Everly Brothers.
the books that Randy Bachman learned the chords for "She's Come Undone" th-cam.com/video/uHjozb7QPY0/w-d-xo.html
Baker was also one half the duo Mickey & Sylvia with Sylvia Robinson.
I was trying to learn some Who songs. Townshend wrote that he learned jazzy chords and how to draw chord diagrams from Mickey Baker's books. Which I later found in used bookstores. And then I got Wildest Guitar on tape. Endlessly rewarding.
Memphis Slliin's voice and singing had to be about the best a man do - he would have been great with Count Basis. Too bad Willie Dixon wasn't around for this session.
horatio sanz at 2:30
Ummm dessert.......
Mickey looks like an old Jewish man.
A lot of black slave girls had children from their 'owners'; they didn't have much choice. (One US president was rumoured to have fathered a quite white child with his servant.) In Mickey's case, I think his story is that his mother was a 'street courtesan', if there's such a thing - black women had to live by their wits. He never met his father, and was put in an orphanage at age 11 - he kept running away. Anyway, it's quite possible that his unknown father was Jewish.
@@GazelyGaze his father was Scots Irish hence Mick
@@dougthompson8226 Well that could make sense. Though I thought his father was unknown - wasn't his mum a courtesan/street girl? Wikipedia just says he was 'believed to be white'; I think I got that other info from an interview - aah, here it's said it was his auntie who was 'turning tricks' ...: th-cam.com/video/Z6-UZP3_idA/w-d-xo.html
@@GazelyGaze his mother was a 12 year old african american prostitute working in her mother`s brothel..his father was a traveling piano player