Failure works for British Invasion Plan

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Always good to visit Al Compas. Jim Haas's music fiestra. Recently, his take on British Rock led me to create a small addendum. "Failure works for British Invasion Plan" ... 

Failure to exactly recreate American Blues. This I learned. It was pandemic time and I wiled away the hours on YouTube. I learned that Paul Jones was childhood friends with Brian Jones - who invited him to move to London with him to start a band - said Paul, Nah – Later, ok he said I will go to London to jam the blues with some art schoolers – the Manfreds - happily end up reinvigorating Brill Bldg wall of sounders like sha la la and do wah diddy [with connection to American jive or cockney patois - where you fill in the space with nonsensical syllables......The Kinks [Drummer Mick Avory spend a short week as Stones drummer] discovered their sound, as they realized they couldn't  or shouldn't just duplicate Big Bill Broonzy - also took the sound forward in big dark smoggy air...found Raveup on records such as the broken amplifier speaker of Link Wray Rumble-- same with the Who who failed efforts at Ultimate RandB such as  at Vandellas re-do's - the Animals like others heard Nina Simone – and rendered their renditions - jazz and blues were the same to them... Yardbirds owed homage to Bo Diddley and Billy Boy Arnold  ... who started on streets not without  connection to skiffle ethos – and set the RaveUp amplitude to 11 - I wish you would - Im a Man - Zombies were musicians...yes rockn roll and rand b and popsters...but jazzazssy key board riffs  came out of a Ray Charles e-lelctric Wurlitzer piano ... it was inside and it had to comerout... Ray Charles also was the channel for Stevie Winwood of Spenser Davis group - surrounded by organ based gospel emanation...really cranked up eventually - When i was in the covid den...i watched a gazillion youtube vids about British Group history... thanks to BBC scene of history.... I. football couch potato - they were all interconnected I found. e princes - many in manors - they could groove – think big thoughts and take long tokes - princes of the new art. good blokes. 

All went on to pretty weird phase as looked beyond blues and jazz. Bill Wyman’s In Another Land pointed the way. This was an ad hoc creation of Stones' Bill Wyman, a pivotal blast in the shift to really arty psychedelicized records that ruled for 18 months. The musicians joining Wyman on the song show how the scene cross pollinated, with both Ronnie Lane and Steve Marriott of the Small Faces on guitar and backing vocals, Nicky Hopkins on keyboards, Charlie Watts on drums. - JV

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Another_Land