Monday, May 11, 2015

Muddy Waters at Goldsmiths 1968

This poster popped up recently on Twitter (@salvatorRosa) - legendary blues artist Muddy Waters playing at Goldsmiths College in New Cross, November 29 1968. Also featuring Otis Spann (playing with Waters), British blues guitarist Gordon Smith (who has played with Kevin Coyne among others) and Mike Kean's Dusty Blues Ensemble.



However, as somebody in comments has pointed out, the image in the poster appears to be John Lee Hooker rather than Muddy Waters! Awkward...

John Lee Hooker

Muddy Waters (left) as he actually looked in 1968
(pictured at Hammersmith Odeon)

4 comments:

RickB said...

Hilariously, that’s a picture of John Lee Hooker.

. said...

Lol, reckon you could be right. I was wondering because when I found some footage of Muddy Waters in 1968 he was looking a lot fitter!

Anonymous said...

I had a good laugh too.I played guitar in the support band 'Mike Kean's Dusty Blues ~Ensemble'.We were in fact 'The Dusty Blues Band'.The 'frontman' was Pete Keen.

Unknown said...

Not only has the promoter designed a large chunk of his poster to give his address as a ticket agent and added John Lee Hooker instead of Muddy Waters he goes for Bronze Silver and Gold medals in the How not to design a Poster competition by completely forgetting to add the date.
Still I remembered the date very swell as the backstage toilets were not working and I went to the FOH toilet and shook hands with the great Muddy (after washing our hands of course)