Jeremy Spencer at Bamfest (WI)

[zoork_1]

Originally Posted by 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

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/ent...C?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/o...,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/entert...61,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 [email protected]
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]

Originally Posted by Bluecity

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=BAaTUJ...eature=related
http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu8mOG...eature=related

It's a pity I wasn't there

Regards
Krzysztof