Talk:John Mayall

Congrats

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This article has come a long way. Thanks to whoever showed it some love! 71.194.163.223 11:37, 9 July 2007 (UTC) The book "John Mayall: BLues Crusader" has all the info anyone would ever need on the topic. I played with John's Bluesbreakers in 1974, and spoke to the author who researched John's entire career.

Help rewrite

Most work was on the discography, which is the important thing. Planning to rewrite the bio. Four parts: early years up to '65; the late sixties which would be the bulk of the article; the next fifteen years of little interest; the return of the Bluesbreakers since the mid '90s. And expecting native speakers to correct language. (Removed the name of Kal David which appeared totally out of context. And a compilation from the discography)al 22:00, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Original Albums

The distinction between 'Original' albums and other types of release is made tenuous by the art of repackaging but I believe it is still valid. Imho 'Original albums' contain mostly previously unreleased music and/or supposedly embody some artistic intention. Compilations, in contrast, have a purely commercial aim. Of course 'unreleased' is relative: on both sides of the Atlantic and on the Continent cases differ, but 'original' says enough. So I removed 'Looking back' 'Thru the years' and 'Down the line' from the discography and here is why. The first two appeared only when Mayall's previous recording contract expired; both contained tracks from singles and unused material from old sessions. They were issued apparently with his approval but that did not make them look genuine or 'original', at least not back in the '70s. (Today the unreleased tracks with P.Green are included in the extended A Hard Road ). 'Down the Line' is plainly a compilation; to present it as a belated US 2LP release of the first album 'Mayall plays Mayall' plus newer material would be just a spin. al 09:25, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Something I've been wondering for years

• Is realated to Rik Mayall, the star of the Young Ones and Drop Dead Fred? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hailey C. Shannon (talk • contribs) 20:38, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Banner

We really need a banner made for John Mayall (and the Bluesbreakers) listing the different people he performed with and the albums and recordings that involve him. Can someone notify the folks who do such things?--Leahtwosaints (talk) 02:40, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

w/ a little help... from France ?

I’m a French guy, passionate enough to have been a researcher about the history of rock music for more than 30 years and a ‘young’ contributor and proofreader for a few months on French wp (under the same nick), also with various contributions on some British wp features, still on this topic.

Realising the 50-year career of such a giant as Mayall is much too short and insufficiently researched, I’d deeply like to help to seriously improve this feature, whatever the time it will require.

Somewhere around the middle of Late 1960s through 1970s chapter, I take the liberty to guess the word squitters was intended to mean squatters. Should I be right… or not, this (ridiculous) term being quite inappropriate (either w/humour or not), I’ll soon replace it, be sure of that.

Please forgive my poor English and… I DO need some British help, pleeeease, especially for any source about several quoted musicians who were granted with an audition throughout Mayall's first ten years.

@ Leahtwosaints : I’m preparing a list of these musicians but it should be well over 50-name long…

Thanks a lot in advance --Polofrfr (talk) 03:25, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

imho the article is already crammed to the brim with names & data; a great deal is owed to The History of John Mayall, Part 1by Martin "Jet" Celmins and Jeff Watt, which was somewhere on the net. Just made some minor amendments91.92.179.172 (talk) 19:18, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

mmm.... Thanks a loooot for all your amendments, aptly placed and written, and for the (re)source :-) Now, perfectionist and precise as I am, I'll need several... months to expand the whole article, first of all after sourcing every name amongst this 'brim' :-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Polofrfr (talk • contribs) 17:40, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Smokin' Blues

Would s'dy be kind enough to help a French guy to solve a dilemna regarding this album, as explained in Talk:Smokin' Blues ?

Thanks in advance --Bibliorock (talk) 22:22, 15 April 2013 (UTC)