MIE MUSIC

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27/09/2024

27/09/2024

Mick Jagger: I first wrote songs in the blues idiom. And most of the writers that I learned form were blues writers – John Lee Ho**er, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Howlin’ Wolf, Willie Dixon – they were all in their forties when those songs were written. Those guys were not particularly young or particularly old . . . they just wrote as they felt it.
James Brown was a big favorite, and a different kind of music than I played at that time, which was mostly Chicago-style blues and rock. In those days, he did a lot of ballads, and also did super-fast stuff like “Night Train.” All these songs were on this huge-selling album, where you kind of lived the James Brown show without actually seeing it, so I was very familiar with it. When I first went to America, I met James at the Apollo, and he let me hang out with him. I was just a kid, really. He was, like, ten years older than me or something, but he’d been doing it for so long, and he had it down so much. He was kind to let me hang out, and I watched the shows. They did, like, four or five shows a day. Not all with the same intensity, obviously. It’s not possible. So I watched him there at the Apollo, we hung out some, and then I met him various times, we crossed paths on tours and so forth. I went on stage with him at the Apollo in the seventies. He called me up on stage with him. It was kind of a cringy moment for me, because English people don’t really…(laughs)…I just wanted to watch the show. I wasn’t there to be called up to dance with James Brown. But of course, you had to. That was the first time I was on stage at the Apollo, funny enough. James was always very nice to me, always giving me advice.

Photo: Peter Webb

26/09/2024

1982 AVRI boutique Hand wound pickups. Built in my small USA Shop and done the old school way. All by hand , I build the Flatware with a hand Arbor press, then I lacquer the Flatware ( BOBBIN) and wind to Vintage specs. Then I wax the pickup. Available at reverb.com, eBay , Etsy and my website www.miemusic.com

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I hope you enjoy.. Full version demos available on YouTube.
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26/09/2024

This is Rosie one of my favorite builds. M.I.E. Music Boutique Hand Wound pickups. I build the Flatware on a hand Arbor press., then Lacquer dip the bobbin before winding. Then I wind to Vintage specs. Available at reverb.com , eBay , Etsy and my website www.miemusic.com .

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06/09/2024

1963’s are selling great on all 4 of my selling sites.. It’s easy to google that the 63 was “Jimi’s “ favorite studio guitar . Pre-CBS and the highest output of the era .. Available on eBay , Reverb , Etsy and my website..

06/09/2024

Remembering the great Jimmy Reed (September 6, 1925 – August 29, 1976)
The success of Jimmy Reed is one of the most fascinating in American roots music. At first listen, his lazy vocals and squeaky harmonica solos might not seem like a sound particularly suited to mainstream taste. Yet, for the better part of a decade, in the 50s and early 60s, Reed’s songs, such as “Honest I Do” and “Baby What You Want Me to Do,” made regular appearances on both the Billboard R&B and pop charts, even cracking the Top 40 on a few occasions.
Born Mathis (or Matcher) James Reed in Leland, Mississippi, in 1925, Reed learned the rudiments of guitar from his friend Eddie Taylor, a far more accomplished guitarist who would serve as Reed’s accompanist for much of his career. After being discharged from the US Navy in 1945, he followed the migration of many Southern African-Americans to Chicago, where he worked first in the steel industry, at Wisconsin Steel Works and the Valley Mold Iron Company, and then at the Armour Packing Company. In Chicago, Reed began taking his music seriously, hitting upon the idea of playing guitar and harmonica simultaneously, and fashioning a harmonica holder from a coat hanger.
His sound changed little throughout his career, but it was a formula that worked. Like many great blues artists – think of Elmore James or Muddy Waters – there could be no mistake that one was listening to Jimmy Reed, with the gentle force of his personality, his “lump-de-lump” rhythm, and his high harmonica sound creating an indelible impression. He also had the advantage of recording with the legendary engineer Bill Putnam at Chicago’s Universal Recording Corporation. Putnam was a pioneer in developing reverb and echo effects that he used to subtle advantage on Reed’s records, and his drum sounds – especially Earl Phillips’ snare – are breathtaking even today.

By Scott Billington / Udiscover