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Little Walter's induction into the R & R Hall of Fame



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Chicago blues icon Little Walter was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Monday, March 10th, 2008. This is the complete induction ceremony: the 2:00 minute Tribute to Little Walter film, followed by musician Ben Harper's induction speech, then James Cotton performing both of Little Walter's #1 hits, "Juke" and "My Babe", accompanied by Paul Schaffer's Late Night Band, and featuring Ben Harper on "My Babe".


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Couldnt agree more, ... ( 2 months ago by colne05)
Couldnt agree more,what a mess! There are so many great blues musicians in the USA who could have done justice to the occasion,and they need the work.Same old story again,you either got it or you aint.Its even worse in the UK,take it from me i know.God bless Little Walter.
I love how Cotton ... ( 2 months ago by happachu)
I love how Cotton looks at the corny vocalist with a "WTF" look when he started singing it his "way". Poor Marion Jacob must be rolling in his grave about this.
check canada man if ... ( 2 months ago by shrimpdaddy)
check canada man if you want to find it Bharath and the rythm four.
no way i could ever ... ( 2 months ago by JJ4POPE)
no way i could ever watch this video again..
At first I thought ... ( 2 months ago by scatteredfrog)
At first I thought everybody was just being whiny because it wasn't exact...but I listened to it a second time, and "Juke," at least, was kind of a train wreck...seems Mr. Cotton got totally lost, and completely blew the last verse he performed. It sounds like the band just wanted to jump straight to the end to put everybody out of their misery.
At the same time, ... ( 2 months ago by scatteredfrog)
At the same time, however, can you really take an induction tribute seriously? As for Paul Shaffer...the guy is in high demand, and he has impeccable taste in music...not worthy of playing Little Walter? Well, they gotta play what they're told to play. And who says that James Cotton was their first choice, anyway??
That backing band ... ( 1 month ago by bladesman34)
That backing band was a total disgrace. They didn't even know they were out! the only one who knew was Cotton.
Cotton wasn't lost, ... ( 1 month ago by checker764)
Cotton wasn't lost, he knew EXACTLY what he was doing. The band mangled this - they didn't follow the front man, one of the first rules of blues playing. Cotton played a perfect 8 bar intro, and then played the rest of the song exactly like the record, with perfect timing. If the band didn't know the song, or how to follow Cotton, it wasn't Cotton's fault. And rather than listen to Cotton to find their place, they compounded the problem by bailing out in the middle of the song. Disgraceful.
Walter was an ... ( 1 month ago by tjjtaylor)
Walter was an improvisational master, Cotton's no slouch either. The rest of those t.v. jerkoffs could'nt improvise a fart after a ham and been dinner.
O.K I get it!!!!!!! ... ( 1 month ago by whest)
O.K I get it!!!!!!!!
Cotton screws up and we all get together and blame the band.Makes perfect sense,particularly as Cotton is a venerable old codger .Never mind that the band were told it was a twelve bar and that if one of them had broken rank and tried to follow Cotton there would have been an even bigger cock up!Can you imagine the reaction if a white harp blower had done like Cotton-all you apologists would have crucified him!None of the musicians were suitable Cotton included!!!!!!
No, you obviously ... ( 1 month ago by checker764)
No, you obviously don't get it. Cotton was right BECAUSE HE'S JAMES COTTON. This is HIS music, and he was playing it the way it's supposed to be played, and the knuckleheads backing him weren't, and that's the end of it.
You are responding ... ( 1 month ago by whest)
You are responding with your heart not your head!I love Cotton (particularly circa '66) as much as anyone,but blaming others for his 'eccentricities'is sentiment gone mad.Muddy would have kicked his arse.You may have emotion on your side,but I have reason on mine.
No, you have a ... ( 1 month ago by checker764)
No, you have a technical argument on your side. If blues was about technical perfection, you'd have a case, but Little Walter's music wasn't, James Cotton's music isn't, and the blues has never been about technical perfection. If Cotton was playing from of sheet music and got it wrong, then he'd be wrong. But that's not what he does, and whoever hired him for this gig knows it, so saddling him with a bunch of studio musicians who ONLY play "technically accurate" music was the REAL mistake.
Additionally, I ... ( 1 month ago by checker764)
Additionally, I don't know how it's done elsewhere, but here in Chicago, Juke is COMMONLY played with an 8 bar intro, exactly as Cotton played it. He's done it that way hundreds of times, Billy Branch does it that way, and others do as well. The average amatuer blues band in Chicago, even if they'd never heard the song, would have picked up on what the front man was doing and adjusted appropriately. The fact that these musical technicians were unable to is shameful.
Some people need to ... ( 1 month ago by StevenAtkins)
Some people need to chill.
Some people need to calm down.
Most of all, some people need to listen to the original recording by Little Walter from 1952.
If they did, and listened carefully, they would know that Little Walter isn't in the same groove as the band. Just like Cotton and The Letterman Band here. It's simply how the song goes. They're playing it the way Little Walter recorded it Perhaps, it is even being done ON PURPOSE, this being
a TRIBUTE TO LITTLE WALTER and all.
After telling Joe ... ( 1 month ago by KudzuRunner)
After telling Joe Filisko about this fiasco earlier this week, I had to go back and make sure I was right. (I argued w/my buddy Trip H. about it too.) Look, folks: anybody who knows the slightest thing about "Juke" and also knows anything about Cotton's playing knows exactly what Cotton is doing when he cuts into the bar 9 riff at the beginning of bar 5. He's not trying to f--k up the band, even though the band does indeed f--k up. He's playing "Juke." He's making an obvious....
...predictable edit ... ( 1 month ago by KudzuRunner)
...predictable edit. It's nothing fancy. Cotton hasn't "screwed up." That's an idiot's comment. And when Cotton follows his V/IV riff with the cadence (2 d, 34d, 14b....) leading to the turnaround, there isn't a blues musician in the world who doesn't know exactly where Cotton is. So where is Paul Schaefer? Assuming he can hear Cotton--and he surely can--then he surely knows what is going on. Eight bars into this song, he knows that Cotton is four bars ahead of the band....
(Part III)..and yet ... ( 1 month ago by KudzuRunner)
(Part III)..and yet he chooses to let the train wreck continue. (Please note that I'm relaxed as I point all this out.) It seems to me that any bandleader charged with this sort of gig should have been prepared for the obvious challenges. We're not talking about trying to accompany a guy like Honeyboy Edwards, who makes changes whenever he feels like it. Cotton is playing straight ahead 12 bar blues. He just dropped 4 bars from the intro, in an incredibly obvious and straightforward way....
(Part 4)...Let's ... ( 1 month ago by KudzuRunner)
(Part 4)...Let's restate the obvious: 1) Cotton, the headliner, did nothing wrong; nothing that a competent blues band couldn't have followed; 2) Had Kim Wilson and the band, or Pinetop Perkins's band, or Jimmy Thackery and his band, or Darrell Nulisch & friends, or any of a hundred different working blues bands, been backing Cotton, the train wreck would have been averted. This is all painfully obvious to anybody who plays and knows this music.
If you could remove ... ( 1 month ago by whest)
If you could remove your head from your backside and desist from name dropping (six instances!)perhaps you could finally address the issue that the band were told it was a twelve bar.A regular blues band would have stumbled along just like the house band in spite of the urban myth to the contary.What exactly would you have had the conductor done?
Actually please don't answer that-enough is enough!
"...the band were ... ( 1 month ago by checker764)
"...the band were told it was a twelve bar."
Are you in the band? That would certainly explain your reluctance to admit they screwed up.
I think the real problem, as originally stated near the beginning of these comments, is that the band probably ASSUMED that the song would be played as 'just 12 bar blues', and didn't bother to rehearse it. If they had, they'd have known that Cotton plays it with an 8 bar intro. Or at least understood that they might have to listen to and follow him.
No man,I ain't in ... ( 1 month ago by whest)
No man,I ain't in the band (lol) and have absolutely no connection with anyone who is!
I am simply amused by the knee jerk reaction of the blues community to convict the band of a crime they did not commit.They may not have been Lockwood or Myers but they would have bashed through it.They did right to hang together rather than breaking rank to try and cover up.That would have been even worse and may even have caused them to abort!
The band SUCKS. The ... ( 1 month ago by mmowoa)
The band SUCKS. The band doesn't know to play blues. Cotton is great. A living legend. Cotton is a living part of the blues 'himself'.
Ok so you have to ... ( 2 days ago by michaelenos)
Ok so you have to listen to Walter's originals because a lot of the post war stuff was done on a 4-track recorder with one take. A lot of the blues purists I played with would play the "mistake" because it was a tribute to the roots of the music. They did the best with what they could....Schaeffer and his band are not "blues" guys but nice tribute. Ben Harper should have backed off on that solo...a little over the top



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