Demian Bell & The Maypole Blues Band

Link to our preview site of the new CD "Falling Angels"

coming in June on Gear Fab Records.

www.myspace.com/maypolebluesband

Read Some of Our Reviews At This Link

http://www.theirmusic.com/maypole/reviews

"Love your songs. The way you did Hoochie Coochie man.

"I checked out your new live songs. B.B. would be proud....not too many people can pull that one off!"

Alex Dixon...Grandson of Willie Dixon

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"Hey Demian, You gotta tell me where you all play so maybe I can come check you out when I'm in your part of the world. rock on" - Chris Duarte

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"Thanks for your friendship Demian Great music and Great band" Paul Westmoreland...Drummer for The Mick Rutherford Band

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"A big Hi from the UK all the way to the USA.
Love your style of blues my man, keep on doin' what your doin'.
Oh and 'Chicago is my kind of town"Keep the faith Peace"

Mick of The Mick Rutherford Band-ex Alexis Korner,Bluesology

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"Demian, You take great blues music and bring it into the 21st century. Your guitar speaks Texan and we are glad to have you on board". Cowdog-Texas Blues Cafe Radio

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Demian
"You should turn some ears while on tour here in the states".

"Hope to see you in the great state of Michigan home of Motown.Keep in touch."
Felix Ybarra
Contributing writer
Big City Rhythm and Blues Magazine
Detroit Michigan USA

Demian,Man you still got it.You have always been one of my favorite and creative artists. would be a dream to work with you again..cheers...gary vandy www. garyvandy. com
Gary Vandy-Platinum and Gold Producer and Engineer
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“Demian Bell and The Maypole Blues Band" – Blue Feeling A review by David Mclean

DB & TMBB play what is simultaneously traditional blues rock and a more advanced jazz-influenced rocking blues. The guitar work, as one would expect of a man who has basically had an axe in his hands most of the time for four decades, is delicately crafted and very precise. Not so exaggeratedly precise, however, that the feeling falls asleep, as is unfortunately so often the case with players who spend too much time.

Take “Flip Flop Fly”, a cover of a Big Joe Turner classic. It's excellent and maybe not a song everyone knows, but it's absolutely perfect R&B, when “R&B meant R&B, not whatever it is that they say nowadays. The reason I would say that you need Demian Bell and his band in addition to the older classic white blues acts like The Yardbirds, is that the music sounds so much better and more modernly done. I don't mind listening to snap crackle and pop when I'm listening to Leadbelly, but not 60s records. If there's anything worse than snap crackle and pop, it's the obvious absence of it on a doctored recording. The Maypole's music is the real thing à la 2000s.

Clapton is probably a better guitarist now than he was in 1965, but so is Demian Bell, but the difference is that Clapton doesn't hold himself so closely to the original sources of inspiration, the crazy old black men who invented the blues all those years ago. Obviously they don't sound like the Yardbirds did then, otherwise I wouldn't advise you to buy or download their music. They sound better. Bell has been compared with many other players, and, if you want to play that game, I would say Carlos Santana. But though that gives some feel of the music, I might also say George Thorogood – take a listen to “Texas Politician” – a nod in the direction of Cream, obviously, but a cool funny hard record. Or listen to “Can't Hit Back” – hard lively rock-blues that definitely can hit back (and that's a fact). “When You Can't Feel Nothing” is my favorite on the album however, classic slow blues that could have been done in the twenties, if they'd had the equipment then, that's how authentic the feeling is.

So, basically, Bell and his band are the real thing. a true delight in this day and age and absolutely worth sitting next to your First and Second Wave blues albums. Maybe it's time for a new wave blues? If it is then this is the sort of stuff that should break first.
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Demian Bell-Born in Chicago.He grew up in Maryland,Ohio, England and California.He was Classically trained on piano starting at age 7 and studied under Joseph Fasano ,who studied under Arturo Toscanini. Switching to guitar at age 13, Demian was professional by age 16 with his own band starting in California. A well known guitarist in Europe for many years. Demian has been playing music live throughout Europe for the last 28 years, with appearances in Holland, England, Germany, Spain, Jamaica, France, and Switzerland as well as extensively in his native United States. He has played with Van Morrison, Moulty & The Barbarians,Los Bravos,The Maypole of which he was an original founder and principle writer. He has recorded with Deodato,Teddy Pendergrass,Frank Cornelious, and many other artists. His musical compositions range from all genres and interests, and writes prolifically.
No stranger to hard times,heartbreak and struggle, Demian's real talent is his "natural" improvisation and his hard earned "Feeling" for the Blues.When he plays "Black Beauty" his guitar, it is with High Energy with pure emotion and he never plays the same thing twice. Each performance is in "The Moment". Demian can surely be called a "Music Gypsy", always ready to go off on some new musical adventure in some new State or Country. Demian has shared the stage in recent years with guitar legends Albert Lee, Lulo Rheinhardt.(nephew of Django Rheinhardt) of Germany and Diego Cortez of Spain.More recently November 17,2007 with Tony Sheridan, the legendary rocker who had the Beatles as his backing band in the early 60's and many hits. Including My Bonnie and Skinny Minnie.
The songs on this site are changed often, and Demian has a very large catalog of original songs that he will start putting up, so check back often. At the present time he occasionally works as a duo with "Lulo Reinhardt", a close friend and nephew of "Django Reinhardt" with their "Gypsy Blues Project".
He has recorded for Colossus, Laurie Records, Pandisc Records, Streetbeat Records,Nouveaux Records, Earthtone Records, Avex Records in Japan. Demian is also a keyboardist with many recordings,original film scores and documentaries to his credit. He has a catalog of aprox. 400 recorded pieces of music in every imaginable musical style. The Maypole Lp is now making a comeback with the re- release of the original album on CD on Gear Gab Records, Denver,Colorado and clear Vinyl on Anopheles Records, San Francisco, California in 2006 and now the next Maypole album"Falling Angels" will be released in June 2008, featuring music from the mid 1970's also on the Gear Fab Record label.
Thanks for stopping by!! Please Join us At The Maypole.
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Diese seite widme ich meiner mutter,Faye Mckeldin, die im may 2006
verstarb. sie war ein opfer falscher aerzte und eines maroden medizinischen
systems, dass sie noch 8 monate lang leiden liess.sie war immer ein
fels in meinem leben und ein w underbarer mensch. mama, dies ist fü Demian Bell wurde in Chicago geboren und wuchs in Maryland, Ohio, England und Kalifornien auf. Ein in Europa weit bekannter Gitarrist der
den Sound des Blues zur Verbreitung und Geltung brachte.
Im laufe von 28 jahren lebte und spielte er in Holland,England,Deutschland,Spanien,Jamaica,Frankreich und der Schweiz, sowie in den USA. Kein Tiefpunkt konnte seine Arbeit
stoppen, Er gab niemals sein Talent, sein natürliches Improvisieren und sein hart verdientes
Gefühl für den blues auf. Wenn er seine "Black Beauty", seine
Guitarre spielt, tut er dies mit einem gefühl reiner Emotion und
Energie. Nie spielt er die stücke im gleichen Stil. Jede Aufführungen
sind ein Unikat. Seine Musik ist direkt, unverfälscht und kommt aus dem
bauch. Man kann Demian mit einem Zigeuner vergleichen, jederzeit bereit
das Land zu wechseln und in fremden Ländern, Abenteuer in Sachen Musik
zu suchen. Demian teilte die Bühne mit solchen Grösen wie "Albert
Lee,Lulo Reinhardt, (Neffe des legendären Django Reinhardt) Zigeuner
blues Gitarrist und sänger der 20.er jahre und Diego Cortez aus Spanien. Neulich (Nov.2007) stand er sogar mit Tony Sheridan auf der Bühne,
dem legendaeren Rocker der mit den Beatles als begleitband in den
fruehen 60ern viele hits hatte (My Bonney/Skinny Minni).
Jetzt nach vielen Jahren kommt er zurück auf die Bretter, die die Welt
bedeuten. um mit Volldampf den Blues noch einmal zu wecken und zu
erneuern. Besser als je zuvor....

Danach kam es zu dem Höhepunkt des Abend: Dem Auftritte von Tony Sheridan und Band. Mit seinem außergewöhnlichen Groove und der Interpretation seiner eigenen Songs brachte er das Publikum zum kochen. Auch sein spontaner Auftritt mit dem Gastmusiker Demian Bell, der zufällig unter den Publikum verweilte, zeigte mal wieder, wie zwei Weltklasse-Musiker in der Lage sind, sich direkt aufeinander einzustellen und in Ihrer Spiellaune das gesamte Publikum in Ihren Bann zu ziehen.
The New Upcoming re-issue of "Falling Angels" on Gear Fab Records, release date is June 2008.For a preview of the CD copy the link below.
www.myspace.com/maypolebluesband
Demian Bell & The Maypole Blues Band
Blue Feeling
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Booking in Holland & other parts of Europe is handled by Martin Mastenbroek at
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In The states of Maryland,Virginia,Washington.DC,Delaware & New Jersey

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