John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton (Japan Deluxe SHM-CD) (FLAC) (2008)
EAC Rip | Flac(tracks) - cue - log | 1009 MB | 2 CD | Full Scans Genre: Rock
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers And Friends: 70th Birthday Concert (2003) 720p Blu-ray
Video: MKV 1280x720 at 29.97 fps, x264, ~7800 Kbps avg
Audio#1: English: 48 kHz, DTS, 3/2 (L,C,R,l,r) + LFE ch, ~768.00 kbps avg
Audio#2: English: 48 kHz, AC3 , 3/2 (L,C,R,l,r) + LFE ch, ~640.00 kbps avg
Genre: Music Video, Rock, blues, blues-rock | Size: 8.02 GB
Liverpool's King's Dock on July 19, 2003 was the venue for a long awaited and much anticipated reunion between Eric Clapton and John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers.
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - Cookin' Down Under (DVD)
DVD Video | DVD-5 | MPEG-2 Video, NTSC 4:3 (720x480) VBR | LPCM, 2ch, 1536 Kpps | 4.20 Gb Genre: Music Video, Blues, Blues-Rock
As the elder statesman of British blues, it is John Mayall's lot to be more renowned as a bandleader and mentor than as a performer in his own right. Throughout the '60s, his band, the Bluesbreakers, acted as a finishing school for the leading British blues-rock musicians of the era. Guitarists Eric Clapton, Peter Green, and Mick Taylor joined his band in a remarkable succession in the mid-'60s, honing their chops with Mayall before going on to join Cream, Fleetwood Mac, and the Rolling Stones, respectively. John McVie and Mick Fleetwood, Jack Bruce, Aynsley Dunbar, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Andy Fraser (of Free), John Almond, and Jon Mark also played and recorded with Mayall for varying lengths of times in the '60s.
John Mayall - The Bluesbreakers and Friends (2003)
PAL DVD | English | 137 minutes | 720x576 | MPEG-2 @9800kbps | AC3 @448kbps | 4.1 GB Genre: Pop Rock
Not all that many blues musicians (or any other kind, for that matter) live to 70, so British bandleader John Mayall had good reason to celebrate when he reached that milestone in 2003--and celebrate he did, with the admirable, 137-minute John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers: 70th Birthday Concert to show for it. Mayall, a capable if not exactly stellar singer and multi-instrumentalist, is best known for the many fine players who passed through his band over the years, and Eric Clapton, the most renowned of the lot, is on hand here, as is former Mayall/Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor. Clapton sings several tunes in addition to playing his trademark stinging solos on "Hideaway" and "All Your Love" (two of the tunes most responsible for the "Clapton is God" graffiti seen around London in the '60s), while Taylor is mostly impressive as well. But arguably the best guitarist on the Liverpool stage this night is current Bluesbreaker Buddy Whittington, who more than holds his own in the company of his more esteemed predecessors (check out Whittington's superb solos, informed by both Buddy Guy and jazz, on "Blues for the Lost Days" and the 17-minute "Have You Heard"). Indeed, this may well be Mayall's best and most versatile band ever--no mean feat for a guy now in his fifth decade on the scene. A Mayall interview is the disc's sole bonus feature.
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers - Jammin' With the Blues Greats (2005)
DVDRip | 512x384 | AVI | DX50 780 kbps | 29.97 fps | Aspect ratio: 4:3 | MP3 128 kpbs | 748 MB
Actors: John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers | Studio: Hybrid Recordings | Run Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: January 25, 2005
It was a night when the legends played, when English Blues met Chicago & Memphis Blues, and something magical happened. One hot night in June 1982 at New Jersey's Capitol Theater, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, featuring Mick Taylor (Rolling Stones) on lead guitar, John McVie (Fleetwood Mac) on bass, and Colin Allen (of Rod Stewart's band) on drums, paid homage to and were joined by five blues immortals: Albert King, Etta James, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, and the 83-year-old Sippie Wallace. Each of the blues greats were backed by the Bluesbreakers, resulting in some amazing musical moments. Awesome is the only word to describe the guitar jams among Albert King, Buddy Guy, and Mick Taylor.
