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]

Originally Posted by 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...

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]

Originally Posted by 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...

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-Ma...vals-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.blog...ar-legend.html

[zoork_1]

Originally Posted by mzero

[...]..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/jun..._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/ar...?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/...c/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/ju...ghty-fine.html