I'd like to meet:
My Name is Martin I live in The Netherlands at Schiedam my HomeTown, being born and raist there, here is the story in a nutshell. The blues is coming to get ya. Thats someting that goos back to my early schoolday's in the mid sixtees and I was listening to the blues from England like, Peter Greens Fleedwood Mac, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, The Rolling Stones and all that was availeble on the radio back then. In school there was a heavy battle going on, that split the yought in to two parties, there where the Beatles and the Stones. I really was getting in to that mission that I've brought on to myself of being a Stones fighter for life, the Rolling Stones had more blues in there songs than the Beatles, little did I know that all the great songs they preform where from American Bluesman, like Little Red Rooster [ Willie Dixon ], I am a king bee [ Slim Harpo ] and songs from Big Bill Broonzy, Howling Wolf, Buddy Guy,those where the song's that gave goosebumps all over my body in the beginning, later the songs like Midnight Rambler and more blues songs they made there own. After Primairy school there was the LTS that is a school where you can learn a profession, like how to be a Carpenter or Painter, it was 3 years struggeling on never like't school that much, then up to the third class and never got that diploma, but I left school in the year 1969 because I wanted to be a sailor, and become a tuf guy, so I did, the first boat I was on, I did get laid and drunk, and I got the sack in Aberdeen Scotland, Thats Blues for ya. And still was no tuf guy Back in Holland 1970 Feyenoord[soccor] won the Europian Cup, I got work as a scoffeldig builder, I did buy in 1972 a Harley Davidson 1200 cc Electricglide and so the seventees did get by. And the eaghties begun. Feyenoord play't terrible, the Rolling Stones also. Then there was Stevie Ray Vaughan. That was the salvation of the blues in those days, and I really got into the blues again. Punk, HipHop, R&B, music that was not to my liking, no Elmore James , Bukka White, Sun House Robert Jonson, those where the guy's. And I was really digging into the blues, also electric blues like the Vaughan Bross, Roy Buccanan, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy, and many more, that’s my thing and it still my thing today. Joe Bonamassa, Walter Trout, Hans Theessink and BigBo, yes the list is endless and so is my hunger for the blues. And now I am bringing my passion for the blues to my hometown. By bringing the bluesartist to the stagefloor for people to listen too and mayby they are getting cought by that strange virus they call the BLUESMartin
Music:
Blues, BluesRock, SwampBlues by Tony Joe White some Folk and Rock yes some Country music
Movies:
Black snake moan / the Doors with Val Kilmer / Walk the Line that sort off films I like and Documantaries about music atists
Television:
Documantaries off music and According to Jim /Belushy
Books:
Dont read books only magazin's about the Blues and Guitars
Heroes:
My Father {RIP} just fore what he was Alan Lomacks {RIP} fore his drive to tape the songs Skip James {RIP}fore the Bluessong Hard Times Killing Floor