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Blues Rules

The blues is coming to get ya

That's something that goes back to my early  school days in the mid sixtees and listening to the blues from England like, Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, The Rolling Stones was all that was available on the radio back then

On school there was a heavy battle going on, that split the yought in to two parties, there where the Beatles and the Stones, 
I really was getting in to that mission that I've brought on to myself of being a Stones fighter for life, the Rolling Stones had more blues in there songs than
the Beatles, little did I know that all the great songs they preform where from American Bluesman like Little Red Rooster [ Willie Dixon ],
I'm am a king bee [ Slim Harpo ] and songs from Big Bill Broonzy, Howling Wolf, Buddy Guy,those  where the song's that gave goosebumps all over my body in the beginning, later the songs like Rambling Man and more blues songs they made there own.

After Primairy school there was the LTS that is  a school where you can learn a profession like to be a Carpenter or Painter, it  was 3 years of struggeling on, to the third class and never got that diploma but I left school in the year 1969 because I wanted to be a sailor, and become a tuf guy, so I did, the first boat I was on, I did get laid and drunk, and I got the sack in Aberdeen, Thats Blues for ya. And still no tuf guy
Back in Holland 1970 Feyenoord won the European  Cup, I got work as a scaffolding builder, I did buy in 1972 a Harley Davidson  1200 cc Electricglide and so the seventies did get by.
And the eighties began. Feyenoord plays terrible, the Rolling Stones also.

Then there was Stevie Ray Vaughan. That was the salvation of the blues in those days, and I really got into the blues again.
Punk, HipHop, R & B, music that was not to my liking, no Elmore James , Bukka White, Sun House Robert Johnson, Skip James  those where the guy's. I was really digging into the blues also electric blues like the Vaughan Bross,. Ray Buccanan, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy, and many more, that’s my thing and still is my thing today !!!

Joe Bonamassa, Walter Trout, Hans Theessink and  BigBo, yes the list is endless and so is my hunger for the blues.

And  now I am bringing my passion for the blues to my hometown. By booking several blues artists for people to see and hear, perhaps they will catch that strange virus they call the BLUES