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Title: Seasick Steve
Post by: goddamn electric on January 29, 2008, 02:48:26 PM: anybody here a fan? saw him in birmingham over the weekend, he was brilliant, love his playing.
Title: Seasick Steve
Post by: TwilightOdyssey on January 29, 2008, 03:04:56 PM: Never heard of him/them.

Link?
Title: Seasick Steve
Post by: goddamn electric on January 29, 2008, 03:28:57 PM: just one guy, a hobo whos been travelling america playing blues since he was a teenager. his main guitar is a 3 stringed beater but he makes it sound great!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi_0k3hzNS4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNoPNC3ebYQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi_0k3hzNS4
Title: Seasick Steve
Post by: ToneMonkey on January 29, 2008, 03:43:24 PM: Yeah man, got the album, seen him live and shook hands with him. The guy's a dude.

Honest to god, it was the best gig I've ever been to. We were sat on the side of the stage about 3 meters from him. He was rather drunk :lol:

He wouldn't smoke any of my joint though, said he heart attack a few years back and gave up smoking.

If I could sort out photo's on this laptop, I'd show you my wife's Seasick Steve undies (honestly). :twisted:
Title: Seasick Steve
Post by: goddamn electric on January 29, 2008, 03:48:35 PM: haha yeah i met him and got a picture after the Brum gig, very cool guy, between blowing people away during his songs he just kinda wanders up and down the stage jokingly picking fights with people, basically like a drunk tramp! funny guy.
Title: Seasick Steve
Post by: _tom_ on January 29, 2008, 03:55:07 PM: What a legend :D Saw him on Jools Holland ages ago, I like some of his stuff.
Title: Seasick Steve
Post by: ToneMonkey on January 29, 2008, 04:32:33 PM: I think his best comment was "Hey, shut the f**k up, I'm trying to sing you to you about dying" just before he burst out laughng.
Title: Seasick Steve
Post by: Elliot on January 29, 2008, 04:56:32 PM: Love SSS - Its great to return to delta style blues after all the tedious SRV boogie stuff that has been going on for ever.

Son House anyone?
Title: Seasick Steve
Post by: indysmith on January 29, 2008, 05:27:50 PM: ARGH i was going to go - but my girlfriend was up for the weekend, and she wasn't diggin' the hobo blues! :cry:
Title: Seasick Steve
Post by: plastercaster on January 29, 2008, 06:41:29 PM: Seen him twice at reading fest and the oxford carling academy, and he's great. Best quote:
male audience member: "I want your babies!"
Steve: "well, ya aint exactly my first choice"

:lol:
Title: Seasick Steve
Post by: Simon D on January 29, 2008, 08:10:55 PM: Saw him on Jools Holland at new year. He was the best damn thing on the show by a country mile! Proper Delta blues, with loads of feel. You can tell he's lived it.
Title: Seasick Steve
Post by: indysmith on January 29, 2008, 08:16:58 PM: Well at £13 odd a ticket he won't be living it any longer.
I'm happy for him, but at the same time I feel like there's probably hundreds of hobos out there that are just as talented, but without the publicity.
Title: Seasick Steve
Post by: Elliot on January 29, 2008, 09:30:45 PM: You students eh, £13 a ticket expensive - are there any tickets cheaper or have I lived in London too long?

Sea Sick Steve stopped being a hobo in the 60s - I mean he was supporting Son House in 66 so he wasn't a hobo then - He now lives in Norway with his wife, which is why he's here alot.
Title: Seasick Steve
Post by: indysmith on January 29, 2008, 09:36:00 PM: Quote from: Elliot
You students eh, £13 a ticket expensive - are there any tickets cheaper or have I lived in London too long?

Sea Sick Steve stopped being a hobo in the 60s - I mean he was supporting Son House in 66 so he wasn't a hobo then - He now lives in Norway with his wife, which is why he's here alot.
haha well at the oxford academy I've never paid more than £8 to see a band :P and I've seen a LOT of bands there, many of whom actually use guitars with 6 strings, and manage to cover their expenses just fine! If he stopped being a hobo in the 60s why does he still dress and smell like one?
Title: Seasick Steve
Post by: Kilby on January 29, 2008, 10:38:25 PM: I think 13 quid is a decent price for seeing somebody who entertains me, considering when I left London in October it was 4 quid a pint (and more in Canary Wharf)

Unfortunitly the repeat of the Jools Holland sohow a couple of weeks ago they completely cut SS Steve from the show.

Strangely Mika impressed me (on that show) due to the fact that he spent most of the last song getting SST to sing (rather than pushing himself forward)
Title: Seasick Steve
Post by: Elliot on January 29, 2008, 10:53:49 PM: Young Mr I Smith, your logic is flawed, there are lots of people on public transport who dress and smell like hobos who walk into the well heeled offices of multinational corporations for their daily employment every day. In fact I have always advocated the creation of a special hygiene police with caustic soda bubble bath guns for such stinkos :D
Title: Seasick Steve
Post by: Tellboy on January 30, 2008, 11:19:54 AM: Like that bootik amp and custom shop guitar :lol: Even if you don't like that sort of music it shows what you can do with feel and enthusiasm.

Great stuff - even my wife started tapping her feet when we saw him on the Jools Holland NYE show - (she was pissed though)
Title: Seasick Steve
Post by: goddamn electric on January 30, 2008, 04:16:54 PM: i forgot to mention, at the Birmingham gig he had a drummer on stage with him, he was still using his "music box" but a drummer was jamming with him on a few songs, i wasnt aware he did this in concert, anybody else seen this?
Title: Seasick Steve
Post by: ToneMonkey on January 30, 2008, 04:32:45 PM: nope, just one man, a couple of guitars and a bottle of jack when I saw him.
Title: Seasick Steve
Post by: goddamn electric on January 30, 2008, 05:57:20 PM: thats what i was expecting, still he was a great drummer and the two of them together sounded awesome so im not complaining!