[Dixielandjazz] Guitar Based / Horn Based - The pendulum effect

[Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis]

Were Red McKenzie and Eddie Condon to blame for guitar based bands?
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No.  I would say the masses have never heard of them but Elvis, Bill Haley, 
The Beatles Buddy Holly and dozens more - yes  If you want to (?) blame 
anyone try Les Paul for his pioneering and inventiveness on the electric 
guitar.
Larry
StL
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen G Barbone" <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
To: "Larry Walton" <larrys.bands at charter.net>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 2:34 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Guitar Based / Horn Based - The pendulum effect


> The music goes round and round. As a cyber buddy pointed out to me,  The 
> Mound City Blue Blowers in the late 1920s did quite a bit of  guitar based 
> band music. Note the below quote:
>
> "In April 1930, the Mound City Blue Blowers appeared in their last 
> Vitaphone short, entitled "Nine O'Clock Folks." Red McKenzie played  his 
> hot comb, amplified by a large megaphone. Both Jack Bland and  Eddie 
> Condon played 4-string, cello-bodied guitars, while Josh  Billings played 
> the suitcase."
>
> Were Red McKenzie and Eddie Condon to blame for guitar based bands?   Did 
> Bechet help by going into Nick's circa 1940 with a quartet  featuring 2 
> amplified guitars?
>
> Is music like a pendulum? Swinging back and forth between horns and 
> guitars? Certainly is a lot of horn based N.O. Brass Band music out  there 
> today. And who knows,  maybe we'll see some more suitcase  players out 
> there among the young.  <grin>
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
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