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Magic Sam in the studio

Sweet Holy Moses, is this a sweet awesome clip! Let me explain why…

You see in in the 50’s this guy named Leonard Chess heard this music being played by black musicians all over Chicago. He loved it, and got the bright idea to start recording it. Well it turned out that other people loved the music too. The records sold like hot cakes, and they called this music “Blues”. White kids (aka Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis) started copying it and they called that “Rock and Roll”.

British folk REALLY loved these musicians. So much that in the 60’s they started flying them to England to record and broadcast them on English television. So this TV studio gives them really nice amps to play through, and it’s amazing how much they sound like Led Zeppelin before Led Zeppelin even exists. It’s hilarious…

The clip is actually two songs.

Who can name all the gear in the clip?

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