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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES- OCTOBER 21, 2019…HAPPY 77TH BIRTHDAY TO GUITARIST ELVIN BISHOP. BISHOP FIRST GAINED RECOGNITION AS AN ORIGINAL MEMBER OF ‘THE PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND.’ AFTER RECORDING THREE ALBUMS WITH ‘TPBBB,’ BISHOP PACKED HIS BAGS AND MOVED TO THE BAY AREA. HE BECAME A REGULAR AT THE FILLMORE, JAMMING WITH THE LIKES OF HENDRIX, CLAPTON, AND B.B KING BEFORE EMBARKING ON A SOLO CAREER. IN 1975 HE HIT IT BIG WITH THE SONG ‘FOOLED AROUND AND FELL IN LOVE.’ BISHOP WAS INDUCTED INTO THE “ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME” AS A MEMBER OF OF ‘THE PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND’ IN 2015 AND WAS INDUCTED INTO THE “BLUES HALL OF FAME” AS A SOLO ARTIST IN 2016.
THIS IS LIVE FROM “THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL” FROM 1976, ELVIN BISHOP WITH MICKEY THOMAS ON LEAD VOCALS WITH ‘FOOLED AROUND AND FELL IN LOVE’ (AND MICKEY IS SPORTING A CLASSIC 70’S JEAN JUMPSUIT MAY I ADD) !!
