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From: Ken Ficara
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 11:53:31 -0500
Subject: Re: Whammer Jammer

The one time I saw Bluestime live, Magic Dick kept getting requests for
Whammer Jammer, and he finally played it, and I was really excited to hear
what it would sound like But I was bitterly disappointed to hear a version
so close to the original as to be indistinguishable. It was sort of sad.
Here he is, twenty years later, and he's still playing the song 90% the
same as it was on =Full House=. And I know, because I took that song apart
some years ago and learned a lot of it, and much of it was note-for-note
identical.

Meanwhile, if you listen to the first cut on the great =Blues With a
Feeling= collection of Little Walter outtakes, you hear another version of
"Juke" recorded *the same day as* the original -- and it's practically a
different song.

Ken


At 22:05 -0800 1/16/98, don d. wrote:
>> From: Pat Missin
>>
>
>> (Although, thinking about this I wonder if "Whammer Jammer" and "Juke" are
>> actually examples of two different kinds of tunes. Although LW seemed to
>> play "Juke" differently every time, I think (but I am willing to be
>> corrected if I am wrong) that "Whammer Jammer" is pretty much a set piece,
>> one that Magic Dick played pretty much the same each time he did it.
>
>Actually there are some slight differences between the live version on
>"Full House" and Dicks studio version on "The Morning After." I
>remember seeing J. Geils in concert once and Magic Dick doing a slightly
>different ending on the tune than either of those recorded versions.
>All in all though, the basic arrangement of the song stays the same.
>
>Don D.
>
>------------------------------


=====================================================================Ken Ficara fica~cm.org
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. Junior Wells, 1934-1998

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