Seasick Steve at the Olympia Liverpool 20/11/2018

SlopeSoarer

He may be a fake but he is entertaining: )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDKpdqdjE5I

Mike58

What's with the fake chat? I think he is great, what do you know about the fake aspects ? Is he like a civil servant in real life , living in a semi in Middlesbrough ?
seen him live about 4 times, fantastic.

roberty

@Mike58 ;

Session musician and producer (did most of Modest Mouse's stuff in the 90s)

https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/sep/29/seasick-steve-session-musician-ramblin-man-book

SlopeSoarer

I think he's great to but just don't get why people bullshit about themselves. I thinks he is a very talented, entertaining geezer who doesn't need to make stuff up about himself. 

Didn't stop me having a great night: )

Lewy

SlopeSoarer said:

I think he's great to but just don't get why people bullshit about themselves. I thinks he is a very talented, entertaining geezer who doesn't need to make stuff up about himself. 

Didn't stop me having a great night: )

He would have got nowhere without the hobo persona and all that bullshit. That’s what the Jools Holland/Glasto audience latched onto. 

I don’t have any great moral or philosophical objection to it, except ... he might have found it in his heart to direct some of his audience towards the north Mississippi hill country artists who’s music he was ripping off, and who were for the most part still alive but skint at the time he was all over mainstream media. People like the North Mississippi Allstars and Jon Spencer went to great lengths to make sure people knew about he original artists and the tradition they were drawing on. But not old Steve. He was all “uh...yeah....dis mah doghouse boogie music” or some stupid shit. Is it now, Stephen Wold whose spent most of his time as a record producer in fucking Sweden or somewhere? Is it really?