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Mike

Hello from Kharkov

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Apr 18 06 5:08 AM

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Hello there everyone!
My name is Mike, I'm from Kharkov, Ukraine.
I'm playing guitar. Planning to create a bluesband

Any questions are welcome.

"Blues is the healer. It healed me it can heal you." John Lee Hooker

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bukka

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Apr 18 06 5:38 AM

Welcome

Please tell us about the blues scene in Ukraine!

Actually, the only guitar player I know from your country is Enver Izmailov; he doesn't play the blues, but has to be seen to be believed. I usually don't collect autographs, but I have his...

Andres Roots

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Mike

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Apr 18 06 5:50 AM

Hello, Bukka!
Actually until last year I didn't know that there are people in Ukraine who play blues:) Didn't know until I met one guy who plays harp. He introduced me to Kharkov Blues. So, Kharkov bluesbands are: Banderas Blues Band, Jivin' Bo, Dojd (The Rain, if translated:)), Dream West, Rusty Nails. There are couple of other bands but I don't know their "names"

About a month ago Chris Rea was in Kiev wit his last tour. But, unfortunately, tickets were too expencive for me to go to Kiev to see and to listen to this Guitar Master:(
And unfortunately all bands are playing in clubs, and a lot of people in Ukraine even don't know who is Jimi Hendrix, or who is John Lee Hooker. For them the Blues is only Gary Moore and Eric Clapton, cause they (people) don't know anyone else...
That's how we're doing here in Ukraine

"Blues is the healer. It healed me it can heal you." John Lee Hooker

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bukka

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Apr 18 06 7:46 AM

Well, if you can name that many bands, the blues must be all right in Kharkov

It's pretty much the same here, except in addition to Clapton and Moore, people tend to name Janis Joplin & Led Zeppelin when asked about the blues

and all the guitar players know is SRV. But they're all learning

I'm sorry you missed Chris Rea - he played Tallinn, too, but I didn't have the time nor the money to attend. Those of my friends who went were really impressed with the show, and genuinely surprised - they say he played nothing but the blues.

Andres Roots

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FishFeathersMacTeeth

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Apr 18 06 9:31 AM

...good luck with forming your band Mike...!

..and welcome to the BBF...it's a great place to hang out..!!

Fish Feathers MacTeeth - All the way from Luthermuir, Scotland

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Stevo

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Apr 18 06 9:31 AM

Welcome Mike

No note too small

My Space

Truckbody Jones

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Muddylives

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Deepest Blue

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Apr 18 06 9:32 AM

Welcome, Mike!

You also might be interested in this board run by the blues community in Moscow:

http://www.blues.ru/forum/

Muddy

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jaycee

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Apr 18 06 9:45 AM

welcome to the forum mike.

work is the curse of the drinking classes

www.myspace.com/earlybluesman

human beings have two terminal conditions hope and death

www.twitter.com@birstallblue

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Sassie

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Apr 18 06 12:34 PM

Hello, Mike. Welcome and enjoy the BBF!

Never put off til tomorrow what you can do the day after.

Colorado, USA

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Tom 1960

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Deepest Blue

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Apr 18 06 5:40 PM

Welome Mike. Please drop by whenever you have the time. This is one great informative, fun place.

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Poppa Dawg

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Apr 18 06 10:41 PM

Come on in Mike! Have a good time posting here.

PD

If ya luv the Blues, spread the news!

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7844473

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Apr 18 06 10:49 PM

Welcome to the Blindman's Mike.
The way I see it, if you put up that blues band , you'll have a highway ahead of you to educate your fellow Kharkovians in the blues !
So it's a good thing in a way, isn't it ?

Rene
Paris, France.

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Mike

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Apr 19 06 5:12 AM

Bukka, FishFeathersMacTeeth, Stevo, Muddylives, Jaycee, Sassie, Tom 1960, Poppa Dawg, Renemalin, thank you guys!
And Renemalin you're right

I wish only some Blues Greats to come and play here in Ukraine... But it seems to me right now it is not real...
Anyway, thank you all again:)
See you all at forum;)

"Blues is the healer. It healed me it can heal you." John Lee Hooker

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7844473

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Deepest Blue

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Apr 19 06 7:41 AM

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I wish only some Blues Greats to come and play here in Ukraine... But it seems to me right now it is not real...

Maybe it will become real when someone you have educated in the blues by playing with your band will book them.
So be optimistic and keep up the good job !

Rene
Paris, France.

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Mike

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Apr 19 06 8:52 AM

Renemalin, thanks man:) I'll keep it up:)
By the way, today I've learned Eric Clapton and Robert Cray are coming to Moscow this summer... I have to get there anyhow...

"Blues is the healer. It healed me it can heal you." John Lee Hooker

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dahlonega

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Apr 19 06 2:21 PM

Good job Mike, keep spreading the Blues !

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Mike

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Apr 20 06 5:28 AM

Dahlonega, thanks:) I'll keep on doing it;)
Muddylives, thank you for posting link to blues.ru
I was on the index page and musicians page, but in some reason I've never been at the forum:) So thank you, cause else I wouldn't have learned about EC tour with Robert Cray Band:)

"Blues is the healer. It healed me it can heal you." John Lee Hooker

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ToneDeaf

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Apr 20 06 11:24 AM

Gr eetings from the Great White North.Like it is said in the movie
If you play it they will come!

Lost in the Blues,driftin thru the dawn.

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jitters

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Apr 20 06 4:56 PM

Welcome and enjoy your stay!

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Mike

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Apr 21 06 5:49 AM

The day before yesterday I was at the small concert. At the break my friend who played in this band, came to me and said: "So, will we play?" And I said:"Ok! Let's do it!" I borrowed a guitar and we played two songs: Key to the Highway and Checkin' On My Baby. Though I was very nervous, cause it was my second experience on the stage, I asked my friend to play one more song. He said: "Alright, you still got time". So I played SRV's "Lenny" and though I forgot most part of his solo I've let my feelings go through my fingers and come out as music. It was nice of people who were there to applause. So it was nice:) Cause the first time a came onto the stage, the people in the club were not very kind, most of them were drunk and wanted to hear rock. And me and Andrew (harper) we played a real acoustic blues, you know like, from Delta... We played Big Bill Broonzy, John Lee Hooker and Robert Johnson. But most of the audience even didn't know who are these Greats... Damn...
Anyway, check this out. This version I've recorded about two months ago at home:
http://bluestabs.narod.ru/Walking_Blues.mp3
it's about 2 Mb.

"Blues is the healer. It healed me it can heal you." John Lee Hooker

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leftyjm

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