Funkin' on 4-TREY…DNA Blues!

Over the  weekend of the Blues Fest in Chicago … 

I've been time traveling through some of my Blues memories…& flashbacks...

Flashbacks of 4-Trey (43rd St.)...

Tonight  I've been listening 2 some industrial 
Blues~Funk I played back in the day…
when I was jammin' with guitar player,  

Dale Williams …😎

We had been hanging out and playing with Dizz  

(Lefty Dizz) 
up at the original Checkerboard 
on 43rd St. 
(Muddy Waters Drive)

and we hadn't gotten our fill…

After playing with 

Dizz  

we were all upbeat and craZY...

So we stopped at my house...

I turned on my drum machine…  

and we kicked out some Chi -Town Blues grooves…

I was zooming on my Juno 60 synth..🎹🎹😎

and Dale was on his gee-tar….😎 
and we were gone…

There were a few Prince & Dizz riffs floating in there…

BUT it was really all about 

some serious Cosmic  CHICAGO Funk!

     ~♪♫•*¨*•¸¸*¸.•*¨*•♫♪  ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸*¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪~

We were playing some serious pocket! 

with some chords that were flying  around..

all Atonal and Free….♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸ ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪

some of 'dat straight up  Chicago free Jazz~Funk...   
We were sprinkling in some SUN RA 'cause Dale used to play in RA's band...

and MOI… 

I was just kicking a flurry  of colors & grooves… 
A combination of techno FUNK  Rhythms and some industrial and indigenous 
Akisan TribaL  Funk!

And Once again we were…

Funkin' on the 4-TREY!

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Blues on Muddy Waters Drive...43rd St.

The Checkerboard Blues Club on 43rd St.- Chicago

James Cotton , Lefty Dizz and a bluesman

in front of the Checkerboard Lounge on East 43rd St. Chicago

In the 80's the Name changed from 43rd St..... 2 Muddy Waters Drive.

It all started on 43rd St. The Blues that is.

Gut-bucket, and greasy like some Rip tips with no napkins.

4-Trey didn't play when it came 2 the Blues!

At the Checkerboard Lounge? Please!!

Out front here’s Lefty Dizz, James Cotton and another

bluesman chatting up - maybe the next set.

They could be talking about the card game

that went on daily.... or they could be talking about the Blues.

LC or Buddy Guy could be inside setting up the bar and the stage.

Pepper’s Lounge was on 43rd and Vincennes

about a block west of the Checkerboard

and Theresa’s wasn’t that far away.

All up in Bronzeville you could stay up all night listening 2 the blues.

It looks to be in the the 1970’s.

Dizz has on his dashiki with a cool ‘fro so

everything was still copesectic about that time.

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