Jeremy Spencer at Bamfest (WI)

[michelej1]

Jeremy will be a performer at the Belleville American Music Festival.

http://www.bamfest.net/

Belleville Chamber of Commerce & Beau Geste Productions present:

BamFest 08 July 11-12, 2008

Belleville Community Park, Belleville, Wisconsin

With

Larry McCray
Wayne Baker Brooks
Eric Sardinas & Big Motor
Sonny Landreth
Robben Ford
Jeremy Spencer from
the Original Fleetwood Mac


"Perhaps one of the coolest places in Dane County is the Belleville Community Park during the second weekend of July. That's when the Belleville American Music Festival is held."

[Bluecity]

Jeremy and his Norwegian band, Trond Ytterboe Band will perform also at "Beale on Brodway" in St.Louis the 10th of July.

19th of july at Suwalki Blues Festival in Poland (Europe)

Just to know...

[mzero]

Jeremy and his Norwegian band, Trond Ytterboe Band will perform also at "Beale on Brodway" in St.Louis the 10th of July.

19th of july at Suwalki Blues Festival in Poland (Europe)

Just to know...

thanks very much bc and michele. this is incredible. that jermey is playing with tyb makes it perfect. if only we could all be there. zero

[michelej1]

From a Sioux Falls Classic Rock Station

http://www.b1027.com/content/view/4059/74/


Former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Jeremy Spencer will tour the U-S for the first time since 1972. He has three dates scheduled for the Midwest next month -- July 10th in St. Louis; the 11th in Berwyn, Illinois; and the 12th in Belleville, Wisconsin at the American Music Festival.

[wetcamelfood]

Great! Please post here if anyone hears of any upcoming dates in New England, I'd love to see JS live. :)

John

[chiliD]

I hope the recent bout of flooding in the area doesn't affect the itinerary.

[kowk]

Jeremy and his Norwegian band, Trond Ytterboe Band will perform also at "Beale on Brodway" in St.Louis the 10th of July.

19th of july at Suwalki Blues Festival in Poland (Europe)

Just to know...

Here is the link to SUWALKI BLUES FESTIVAL http://www.rokis.suwalki.pl/SBF/SBF_eng_programme.htm

Krzysztof

[michelej1]

From Chicago Magazine:

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/June-2008/Festivals-Playlist/

BELLEVILLE AMERICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL (BAMFEST '08)
July 11-12

The Destination This local blues festival in Belleville, Wisconsin, just outside Madison, will likely draw a crowd in just its third year. bamfest.net Shade of Blue From the Louisiana slide guitar great Sonny Landreth to Chicago's Wayne Baker Brooks Gas Up 145 miles from downtown Chicago Pit Stop Swiss Historical Village, nine miles away in New Glarus, is a 14-building compound from 1845, redesigned to tell the story of dairy farming in the area. swisshistoricalvillage.org Don't Miss Slide guitarist Jeremy Spencer, a founder of Fleetwood Mac, who closes out the festival Saturday at 10 p.m.

[vivfox]

Saturday, June 21, 2008
Founding Fleetwood Mac Guitar Legend Jeremy Spencer To Play First US Dates In Over Three Decades

For the first time since the early 1970's, Jeremy Spencer, member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his founding role in Fleetwood Mac, will perform in the United States. Spencer, accompanied by his Norwegian band, will make appearances in St. Louis, a suburb of Chicago, and a festival near Madison, Wisconsin.

Spencer had been out of the spotlight for decades when, two years ago, the promoter of the Notodden Blues Festival in Norway, Jostein Forsberg, convinced Spencer to perform publicly again. He paired the Rock legend with some of the best musicians in Norway, most of whom had been playing together for twenty-five years. Their performance at the Festival was a huge success.

Completely taken by the sympathetic backing provided by the Norwegian musicians, Spencer used the group to record his first album in 27 years, Precious Little, on Blind Pig Records.

Of the upcoming tour, Spencer said, "Having not played 'live' in America since 1972 is already rather daunting, along with 'shipping coals to Newcastle' by playing Blues there with a group of Norwegian musicians! But it's exciting for us to be charting unfamiliar territory, and we want to give our best to the audiences."

The scheduled dates are:

July 10 St. Louis, Missouri Beale on Broadway
July 11 Berwyn, Illinois Fitzgerald's
July 12 Belleville, Wisconsin Belleville American Music Festival

http://nightwatchershouseofrock.blogspot.com/2008/06/founding-fleetwood-mac-guitar-legend.html

[zoork_1]

[...]..this is incredible. that jermey is playing with tyb makes it perfect. if only we could all be there. zero

Mentioned it before but it's wort mentioning again :-)
I visited Notodden Blues festival last year, spending one night in "Sliperihallen" with Jeremy Spencer and Trond Y Band. - Mr Spencer's singing and playing was as good as in the old days, perhaps even better. He really seemed to enjoy the gig and the show was great! (Songlist included "Stranger Blues", "Dr Brown" and "Shake Your Moneymaker")

/z

[zoork_1]

Forgot to tell, rumours say M Fleetwood Blues Band (w R Vito) will perform at Notodden Blues Festival this summer...

[vivfox]

Most people think of Motley Crue as having the wildest story in rock and roll, thanks mostly to their autobiography "The Dirt." But their sordid tales are no match for those of Fleetwood Mac. The band's history was already worthy of a blockbuster bio-pic long before they became the chart topping darlings of 70s AM radio.
The band's founder went from inspiring someone to add to the famous "Clapton Is God" graffiti on a UK wall with the line "Peter Green is Better Than God," to quitting the group and becoming a grave digger. Then when he was about to make a comeback, he refused to sign a record contract because he thought it was a deal with the Devil. (that's actually not far off).

Green's story is tame compared to how Jeremy Spencer left the group. The band was on tour and arrived in Los Angeles right after a major earthquake shook California. The band was scheduled to play the Whiskey A Go Go that night and a few hours before they were set to hit the stage, Jeremy stepped out to check out a local shop (a head shop by some accounts, bookstore by others) but he never returned. In fact, he went off and joined a cult! 36 long years have passed and Jeremy is back to his calling as a guitar god. With a new album under his belt, he has announced his plans to play in the U.S. for the first time since 1972.

Of the upcoming tour, Spencer said, "Having not played 'live' in America since 1972 is already rather daunting, along with 'shipping coals to Newcastle' by playing Blues there with a group of Norwegian musicians! But it's exciting for us to be charting unfamiliar territory, and we want to give our best to the audiences."

http://www.antimusic.com/news/08/june/23Legendary_Guitarist_Books_First_U.S._Shows_In_Over_3_Decades.shtml

[michelej1]

If there was a recording of BAM 2007, maybe there will be one for 2008 as well.

Isthmus, The Daily Page, Madison, Wisconsin

http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=23038

Austin-based guitarist Eric Tessmer and his two-man rhythm section plainly caught a contact high last year at the Belleville American Music Festival, as heard in the new live compilation album BAM Fest 2007. The youthful bluesman and his mates race through this breathless recording of "The Reverse" like a careening, nitro-fueled funny car, blistering the beat of the self-penned roadhouse shuffle and shredding its bare bones melody along the way.

That was surely a good thing in a live setting. After all, anyone who's plunked down his hard earned cash for a ticket to an outdoor music festival certainly doesn’t want to hear a bunch of sad sacks dragging ass on a moribund 12-bar blues. But in digital form, Tessmer's rapid-fire take on Stevie Ray Vaughan -- he even sings like the late Austin legend -- is almost too frantic. Aside from a few brief single-note guitar runs, the band’s blurted smear of a performance is strangely uninflected.

Don't get me wrong. Tessmer's energy level is often astounding, and it's a cinch that the assembled masses at BAM Fest's lovely lakeside site got off on him big time. But I wish he’d backed off the juice just a little and demonstrated what all those darting notes were actually saying.

An MP3 of the track is available in the related downloads at right. The third annual BAM Fest runs over the night of Friday, July 11 and all day on Saturday, July 12 at the Belleville Community Park in the small Dane County community to the south of Verona. This year's performers include Joel Pingitore & Livin' Will, Larry McCray, Wayne Baker Brooks, Eric Sardinas & Big Motor, Sonny Landreth, Robben Ford, and onetime Fleetwood Mac guitarist Jeremy Spencer, along with the local blues standouts the Jimmy Voegeli Band, Mud Angels, Queenie & the Bluecats, Aaron Williams & the Hoodoo, and The Crashers. The BAM Fest 2007 live album is a limited release of only 2,500 copies, and can be purchased at Capital Brewery as well as the Citgo gas station and Belle Bleu restaurant in Belleville.

[michelej1]

From Guitar Player

http://www.guitarplayer.com/article/legendary-fleetwood-mac/jun-08/85591

Legendary Fleetwood Mac guitarist and Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Famer Jeremy Spencer to tour U.S.
June, 2008


For the first time since the early 1970s, Jeremy Spencer, member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his founding role in Fleetwood Mac, will perform in the United States. Spencer, accompanied by his Norwegian band, will make appearances in St. Louis, a suburb of Chicago, and a festival near Madison, Wisconsin.

Spencer had been out of the spotlight for decades when, two years ago, the promoter of the Notodden Blues Festival in Norway, Jostein Forsberg, convinced Spencer to perform publicly again. He paired the rock legend with some of the best musicians in Norway, most of whom had been playing together for twenty-five years. Their performance at the Festival was a huge success.

Completely taken by the sympathetic backing provided by the Norwegian musicians, Spencer used the group to record his first album in 27 years, Precious Little, on Blind Pig Records, which Vintage Guitar magazine said “may well be the pop m usic comeback of the past several decades.”

Of the upcoming tour, Spencer said, "Having not played 'live' in America since 1972 is already rather daunting, along with 'shipping coals to Newcastle' by playing blues there with a group of Norwegian musicians! But it's exciting for us to be charting unfamiliar territory, and we want to give our best to the audiences."

Art Tipaldi, senior editor for Blues Revue and Blues Wax, said, "In the past two years, I've seen Jeremy Spencer perform four shows at the Notodden Blues Festival and I can tell you that each show was better than the previous. Jeremy has lost none of the fire from those Fleetwood Mac days. His slide guitar still send s chills. Every note I've heard Jeremy play showcases his great commitment to the blues. I've seen him ignite the stage with a mixture of classic Chicago blues and smart contemporary songs. This tour is the music rediscovery of 2008."

Scheduled dates:
July 10 St. Louis, MO Beale on Broadway
July 11 Berwyn, IL Fitzgerald's
July 12 Belleville, WI Belleville American Music Festival

[vivfox]

This is a link to a color page with a photo of modern day Jeremy Spencer promoting his up and coming July 11,2008 show.

http://opfmb.blogspot.com/2008/07/july-at-fitzgerald-mighty-fine.html

[zoork_1]

This is a link to a color page with a photo of modern day Jeremy Spencer promoting his up and coming July 11,2008 show.

http://opfmb.blogspot.com/2008/07/july-at-fitzgerald-mighty-fine.html

Nice pic, thanks vivfox...

/z

[vivfox]

This is for a show tonight in St. Louis

JEREMY SPENCER

8 p.m. at Beale on Broadway, 701 South Broadway. $35. 314-621-7880.

Before Fleetwood Mac joined the ranks of rock megastars, it was among the best blues bands in England. The original lineup included two distinctive guitarists, Peter Green and Jeremy Spencer. Spencer was known for his slide guitar skills and was adept at imitating the great Elmore James, both instrumentally and vocally. Spencer also contributed spot-on imitations of Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley to the group before he left in 1972. Two years ago, Spencer resurfaced with "Precious Little," his first album in 25 years, and a gentle, jazz-inflected blues style that builds on his work with Fleetwood Mac while sounding thoroughly fresh. (SP)

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/stories.nsf/visitstlouis/story/C0D6C7D2BA9E5FB186257480007B269C?OpenDocument

[vivfox]

A great musical journey
July 9, 2008

I had such a great experience last night. I went to Space, a new club in Evanston, and saw Jeremy Spencer, blues guitarist from England, formally of Fleetwood Mac, with his Norwegian back up band. He was joined by locals including blues legend Dave Specter. With roots in Africa to the delta, to Chicago, to England, to Norway, to Evanston, what a great hundred year musical journey!

--Gordon Munden

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/letters/chi-080709space_briefs,0,5330645.story

[vivfox]

Blues, hip-hop, 'musette' all on deck
Katjusa Cisar — 7/10/2008

There's so much going on this weekend, you're going to need a personal assistant and a limo to get you from event to event. Here are a few of the highlights:

Long known as the "UFO Capital of the World," Belleville is staking out another name for itself by fast becoming a yearly mecca for blues musicians and fans. The Belleville American Music Festival takes place Friday, July 11, and Saturday, July 12, at Belleville Community Park.

Only in its third year, the festival has attracted headliners like Louisiana slide guitarist Sonny Landreth and former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Jeremy Spencer. Spencer's appearance at the BAM Festival (10 p.m. Saturday) is one of only three in the United States; the night before, he'll be performing in Berwyn, Ill., and the night before that in St. Louis.

These three performances will be his first in the United States since the early 1970s, when he left Fleetwood Mac unexpectedly. Legend has it he told them he was going out to get a magazine at a nearby bookstore and never returned. Instead, he joined a Christian religious cult and has traveled around world since, performing only at select charity events.

A Norwegian promoter convinced Spencer to perform publicly again two years ago at the Notodden Blues Festival in Norway, backed by a group of Norwegian blues musicians. He's stuck with the same musicians for this tour and is plugging the 2006 album he recorded with them, "Precious Little," a mix of Spencer's trademark slide guitar blues and '50s rock'n'roll-tinged originals.

http://www.madison.com/tct/entertainment/295092

[michelej1]

Chicago Tribune http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/chi-concerts-recommended-0711jul11,0,7272461,print.story

Jeremy Spencer: It may be difficult to believe, but Fleetwood Mac was once a blues band, and a darn good one. Spencer, who flanked the legendary Peter Green in Mac's house-rocking '60s incarnation, is an Elmore James aficionado, and his slide playing on his first solo release in three decades, "Precious Little" (Blind Pig), makes one wonder why he stayed away for so long.

9 p.m. Friday at FitzGerald's, 6615 W. Roosevelt Rd., $20; 708-788-2118.

[kowk]

I've written an article for TWOJ BLUES Magazine to present Jeremy Spencer to Polish listeners before his gig in Poland. It is called Jeremy Spencer - the slide guitarist. Of course it is in Polish :). I interviewed Jeremy a little :). He's a very nice person and very good musician.
A piece of this article you can see on the site:
http://www.delta.art.pl/www/sec_blues.html

Best regards
Krzysztof

[doodyhead]

Hello out There,

did anyone get a chance to see jeremy Spencer Blues band last night?

fans want to know

doodyhead, mel and vinnie

[michelej1]

[Jeremy was very funny, sounds like his set was a long one]
Chicago Sun Times

Enigmatic Spencer emerges from the shadows
REVIEW | Fleetwood Mac dropout serves up tasteful blues set

July 13, 2008

BY JEFF JOHNSON jjohnson@suntimes.com
Jeremy Spencer just can't escape the shadows.

Nearly two hours into his tasteful blues set Friday night at FitzGerald's in Berwyn, somebody called out "Fleetwood Mac!" The chant picked up steam, so he announced, "They're not playing here tonight. And I assure you their tickets are a lot more."

The Fleetwood Mac that most casual fans know is the mid-'70s hit-making machine led by Buckingham-Nicks. Spencer had walked away from the group in 1971 before a Los Angeles gig, when a Christian cult called the Children of God swept him off the street.

And even in dropping out of society, he was overshadowed by wunderkind Mac co-founder Peter Green, he of the British megahits "Albatross" and "Black Magic Woman" (covered by Santana). Green's own burnout came first, and was more dramatic and highly publicized. Spencer appeared with the seminal British blues-rock outfit in January '71, when the band opened for Mountain at the Syndrome (the old Coliseum). His two Chicago area gigs last week were probably his first since that night.

He released a few solo albums in the 1970s to little fanfare, then basically disappeared until his 2006 Blind Pig album "Precious Little," which he drew heavily from at FitzGerald's. The week of his re-emergence, wouldn't you know it? Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett, rock's all-time burnout, stole his thunder with his demise.

The enigmatic Brit was backed by an enthusiastic Norwegian four-piece band called, yes, the Vikings, along with rock-solid Chicago drummer Marty Binder. Finally with a moment in the spotlight, Spencer made the most of it, playing syrupy-sweet slide guitar and singing standards by his heroes Elmore James and Otis Rush, along with well-crafted, timely original tunes that reflect his religious underpinnings.

Diminutive and professorial-looking, Spencer was the anti-cultist as he joked with the crowd, deferred to the Norwegian mates he met a few years ago at a blues festival and chugged "pharmaceutical-quality" H2O. His bluesman's braggadocio came out on "Dr. J" and "All Around Man," and his reading of Rush's "Double Trouble" was straight from the heart. A highlight was the achingly beautiful "Maria de Santiago," inspired by a visit to Mexico.

Let's hope that Spencer, who turned 60 on the Fourth of July, passes this way again sooner rather than later.

[kowk]

Jeremy and his Norwegian band, Trond Ytterboe Band will perform also at
19th of july at Suwalki Blues Festival in Poland (Europe)


Hi, you can see two pieces of Jeremy's gig in Suwalki - on Youtube:
http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=BAaTUJOCxXI&feature=related
http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu8mOGzQNnA&feature=related

It's a pity I wasn't there :(

Regards
Krzysztof