Dan’s Papers October 29, 2010 danshamptons.com Page 31
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by Susan M. Galardi There are a lot of great Halloween goings on this weekend, but if you need to duck out of the macabre, three fine musical events will bring you back to reality, in an escapist kind of way. On Friday, October 29 at the Bay Street Theater, some of the greatest rock bands and stars of our time will be on screen in Legends of Rock, Volume 2. Filmmaker Joe Lauro puts these amazing rockdocs together from his bottomless archive of clips from as far back as the 1950s. Joplin, Hendrix, The Doors, The Rolling Stones— this musical jog down memory lane will surely take you back to defining moments in your past. How scary is that? On Saturday night, there are two live concerts that stretch the limits of their styles. To hear music that will wake the dead, the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center (WHBPAC) is the place to go. Damn right they got the blues! Blues legend and five-time Grammy winner Buddy Guy, to be exact. Guitarist/singer Guy has transcended his own genre. Listening to his popular tune, “Damn Right I got the Blues,” I heard Hendrix and Clapton in his playing, and a little bit of Little Richard in his singing. But in reality, it was Clapton and Hendrix who heard Buddy Guy, and made him a part of their musical language. While he was a pioneer of the Chicago blues sound, Guy’s sensibility has embraced acid rock, jazz, fusion and heavy metal. In fact, like Bach was the link between baroque and classical, Guy has been called the bridge between blues (Muddy Waters) and rock & roll—Jeff Beck, Hendrix and Clapton, who called Guy “the best guitar player alive.” Give a listen to his recent versions of “Damn Right I Got the Blues” on Youtube. He sings the phrase “Stopped by my daughter’s house, was just trying to use the phone,” with the sweetest, lightest, most endearing quality. Then he repeats it like the big bad wolf, with a voice that could blow the house down. That approach is mirrored in the guitar work, which alternates between transparent and sometimes ethereal playing, and all out high pitched wailing. In 2003, Guy was awarded the National Medal
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sand that does have a permit to be there from the grains of sand that do not have permits. Unauthorized sand may have migrated from one of the neighboring Hampton beaches. You don’t know where the Southampton sand has been and the first thing it’ll want to do is form a wet bar and bring its decadent Southampton lifestyle with it. Tip: It’s easy to detect Southampton sand, it smells like lime and tequila. So, Sand Counters, put on your little red vests with crab insignias, and go for it.
Buddy Guy at WHBPAC
The Dead featured in Legends at Bay Street
of Arts; by 2004, he had 23 W.C. Handy Awards under his belt—the most of any musician ever. He was inducted into The Louisiana Music Hall
of Fame in 2008, and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005 by Eric Clapton and B.B. King. (continued on page 34)
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