John Mayall - The Lost Broadcasts (1970-71)

The Lost Broadcasts are a series of DVDs featuring performances that have rarely been seen since the original transmission on German television, in some cases more than forty years ago. Some of the artists featured within the series are legendary and these “Lost” performances will be a fine addition to any music fans collection. John Mayall is a British blues legend who is universally known as “The Godfather of British Blues”. His career stretches back more than fifty years and with his band the Bluesbreakers has been responsible for bringing attention to some of the world’s finest guitarists including Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Mick Taylor and Walter Trout to name just a few. Other major musicians to have passed through the ranks of John Mayall’s band have been John McVie (Fleetwood Mac) Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood Mac), Andy Fraser (Free), Aynsley Dunbar (Frank Zappa, Journey and Jefferson Starship), John Hiseman (Colosseum), Keef Hartley. The performances featured on this DVD are drawn from two sessions filmed just over a year apart. The first session from January 1970 saw John pioneering a line up without a drummer. The then current album was Turning Point and featured Jon Mark on guitar and John Almond on sax. Holding down the bottom end was bassist Steve Thompson who left shortly before this session was filmed and would eventually join Stone The Crows. The bassist featured here was Thompson’s short lived replacement Alex Dmochowski. Two tracks were performed live in the studio one of which would be familiar to those people owning the Turning Point album as I’m Gonna Fight For You JB featured on that live album. The second track is the extended workout of The Train. The next session was filmed in February 1971 by which time John Mayall had formed another band, this time featuring American musicians including Don “Sugarcane” Harris, Paul Lagos, Larry Taylor and Harvey Mandel the latter two musicians had previously been with American blues band Canned Heat. The two tracks featured here My Pretty Girl and Deep Blue Sea would feature on the USA Union album which had been released in late 1970. John Mayall continues to record and tour regularly and in 2005 was awarded the OBE in the Honours List.

Tracks:
1. I'm Gonna Fight For You J.B. - 4:32
2. The Train - 7:38
3. My Pretty Girl - 5:13
4. Deep Blue Sea - 5:18

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the Lost Broadcasts series on my blog