Second installment of our extended tribute to the greatest of The Yardbirds, dead two months ago at age 78. In our conclusion, he follows up the invention of sci-fi R&B with heavy metal.
Good article. Also, nice shout out to Mike Bloomfield, whose music I was not overly familiar with. But I dig his stuff.
Thanks, Ron. Yeah, Bloomfield was probably the Sixties' first proper guitar hero, but he's just about forgotten. I did an extended riff on him for The Austin Chronicle a few years back, when an Ed Ward biography of him was released. Check it out here: https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2016-09-16/austin-author-ed-ward-revisits-rocks-first-guitar-hero-michael-bloomfield/
Good article. Also, nice shout out to Mike Bloomfield, whose music I was not overly familiar with. But I dig his stuff.
Thanks, Ron. Yeah, Bloomfield was probably the Sixties' first proper guitar hero, but he's just about forgotten. I did an extended riff on him for The Austin Chronicle a few years back, when an Ed Ward biography of him was released. Check it out here: https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2016-09-16/austin-author-ed-ward-revisits-rocks-first-guitar-hero-michael-bloomfield/