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HPI BLUES CHAT
Presents
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Part One: The Chat Transcript Hippielady: Good evening, everyone, and welcome to Blues Chat, with our VERY special guest tonight, Delaney Bramlett! I’m your host, Beverly Howell. Thanks for joining us, this is gonna be a great one! Welcome to Blues Chat, Delaney, it's so great to have you with us! DelaneyBramlett: (Delaney is fixing his hair to be ready to go on air! ) Hippielady: hehehe! Hope he puts on a tie. This is a FORMAL thang, after all! DelaneyBramlett: I did! I also have a t-shirt on! hehe! Hippielady: I'm betting the tie's around his head....all good ole hippies wear em that way...hehe! OK, Delaney, now that your hair’s combed, and you got on the tie, you with me? DelaneyBramlett: Heck yeah! I'm nekkid, cept for the tshirt and tie. I'm just jokin' but it's hot enough here! hehe Hippielady: hehe! Well, since this is the last Blues Chat tonight, we might as well host it nekked...I hear there's a nekked blues festival out there now, might as well be a nekked blues chat! DelaneyBramlett: hehe! Hippielady: Delaney, we caught you at home tonight. Where’s home? DelaneyBramlett: I live in a community called Shadow Hills, about 25 or 30 miles north of Hollywood, CA. It's horse country out here. I have horses and chickens and all that crap! I have the miniature Ponderosa Ranch here! I just got through mowin' two paddocks. I love my tractor! As a matter of fact I was singin' out there louder than the tractor! I just wrote another one on the tractor, called "I'm Outta Here"! Hippielady: If you were cutting the grass, shouldn’t it be called "I Don’t Love You No Mow?" DelaneyBramlett: hehehe! Well hell yeah, I'll put that sucker in there! DelaneyBramlett: I cut two roses, one for each of you ladies - they're the sweetest smelling roses... I'm a rose FREAK, I have a beautiful rose garden! Hippielady: Well, thats a first, we never got flowers from a chat guest before...thank you! Hippielady: Hey Delaney, you have a lot of questions waiting from a lot of fans, you ready to get on with it? DelaneyBramlett: Okay, Lay 'em on me! MBlues: Albert King wouldn’t start a gig in LA without first asking the crowd if Mamo was there. Was "Mamo" his nickname for you? DelaneyBramlett: No, that's my mom! Yeah, that's true, that's my mom. I have a studio here at my home that he'd rehearse at with musicians, sometimes he didn't know. Sometimes he'd use oddball musicians, but usually he'd use my band. My mom would make him Mississippi stew! So he fell in love with her, and wherever he played, he'd ask "Where's Mamo?" She has arthritis in her legs and she'd stand up slow and he'd say he wouldn't play a lick until Mamo stood up and showed him she was there! He's the Godfather of my youngest daughter, she's got so much talent it scares me to death - she frightens everybody - she's going to be a big star this year! I'm writing a song with her and wrote one with her a Billy Joel and I'm real proud of that! GregMartin: This is Greg Martin, hello to you and Kim! Ruth, Erik and I look forward to hooking up with you, Kim, and Ed in November for another 'Kid's First' benefit. God willing, we want to have you down to the studio in Glasgow for a gospel/blues jam. Tell everyone about the Delaney & Bonnie English tour with Eric Clapton. At one point you had Eric, George Harrison, Dave Mason, and yourself on guitars! If I'm not mistaken, didn't Ginger Baker want to be in the band as well? DelaneyBramlett: That's true! What happened was when Eric asked me if he could be in the band we came down and did the Royal Albert Hall, and the Beatles were all there, that's when I met them. George Harrison said since Eric is in the band and Dave is in the band, can I be too? So I said yes, and Ginger Baker got REALLY mad and asked why he couldn't be in the band, and he ended up getting real pissed off at me 'cause I had no where to put him! Ginger Baker was a TERRIFIC drummer but I already had two of 'em, so there was nothing I could do! I think he finally forgave me! hehe. And Hi to Greg - I love YOUR music too! MistyBlue: Did you record with Ike and Tina Turner? DelaneyBramlett: I recorded the last two albums that they did together, Ike asked me to come down and help them. They had a contract with United Artists they were trying to get out of. Ike asked me to come down, they had a deadline and so I played bass and guitar and I wrote the horn lines. |