Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Teufelhund auf meinem Endstück

Apropos of nothing: One of the funniest little bits of this magnificent DVD series is the old interview footage they roll out of European journalists interviewing the likes of Willie Dixon, Memphis Slim and such. One interview in particular has always stuck in my mind:John Lee Hooker explaining how he learnt to play slide by running bottlenecks along old steel cables in his thick, slurring Delta patois (strong enough to give me trouble), with subtitles in German. I don't know how well the subtitler did, but he must've had a headache by the time he was finished.

1 comment:

Frank said...

Welcome back - you've been away too long.