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 Bob Stroger's Profile |
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Chicago Blues Legend... |
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| Location: | CHICAGO, Illinois |
| Country: |  United States |
| Last Login: | Mar 18, 2008 (163 days back) |
About Me |
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| Have Bass Will Travel I was born in South East Missouri in a small town Haiti, where I lived on a farm. I moved to Chicago in 1955. I lived in the back of a night club on the West Side, where Howling Wolf and Muddy Waters played. It looked like they were having a lot of fun and I made up my mind that what I wanted to do was play music. I got married at an early age and I used to watch my brother-in-law play music. His name was Johnny Ferguson and he and JB Hutto had a band they called the Twisters. They were working on 39'th and State Street in Chicago and I would carry them to work every night and watch them. Then at home I would try to teach myself to play. My cousin Ralph Ramey said that we should start a band and we did just that. We got my brother (John Stroger), who played the drums, to learn the songs we knew and in four months we were making some noise. We went to a club and played two songs and the man said we had a job. It was one of the better clubs, where musicians like Memphis Slim worked. The owner wanted us to wear uniforms but we had no money to buy them, so we got black tams and put a red circle in the top and called the band the Red Tops and that was the way it started. We got so good that they wanted the band to travel, but Ralph's wife did not wont him to travel. so my brother formed a band with Willie Kent and myself and called it Joe Russel and the Blues Hustlers. We played together for a while,but eventually I decided to move on, because i wanted to travel more and see the world and I found out you can make money doing this. I joined a jazz band and played with Rufus Forman for about 3 years, but we were doing very little work. Then I met Eddie King and we talked. I told him I was in a jazz band and we needed a guitar player that could play blues. He sead OK and joined our groop, and we started playing blues and RB and things took off. We called the band Eddie King and King Men, and we stayed together for 15 years. Then we split up for about 2 years and later we started the band up as Eddie King and Babee May and the Blues Machine and we stayed together until Eddie King moved out of town. I quit playing for 2 years becouse we were so close I did not want to play with anyone but Eddie. Then I met Jessie Grean when I was playing with Morris Pejo and he liked the way I played bass and one night Otis Rush need a bass player, so Jessie said come and work with him. The rest is history. I have been playing music for 39 years and I am still having fun. | |
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Music:Member Since: 8/15/2006Band Website: bobstroger.com Band Members: Sounds Like: Dating & Relationship Advice MySpace Layouts Record Label: Airway Records Type of Label: Indie |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Blues) |
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My Blog |
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On the road in Norway |
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| This trip was one to remember. We, Billy Boy Arnold, Jody Williams, Kenny Smith, Billy Flynn and myself took a flight from O'Hare to Amsterdam then from Amsterdam to Norway. Then, hoping to get in and... Posted by Bob Stroger on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:34:00 PST |
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| To All of my friend i have up New Dates. i may Be in your town Check Out my Dates if in your town come on down and say hello i would Love to see you. Posted by Bob Stroger on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 03:01:00 PST |
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My Friends |
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Lauren, Karen, James Wheeler, Willie Big Eyes Smith, Little Frank & the Premiers, steve, Charlie, MUD MORGANFIELD, Twist Turner, Steve Arvey, Bob, Kim Danielson, Pinetop Perkins, Tom Holland & the Shuffle Kings, Chef, Mudcat, Fred PG, Uncle Jessie White and the 29th Street Band, Steve Ditzell & Blue Lightning Band w/Junior Wells, Steve Kolbus, Dick Deluxe, Paul, BIG ROCKIN DADDY, Thomas, Ice B, Roger Walls, TONY CAGGIANO ( Sr. & Jr.), BlackCaps, Zan Lenè, The Wolfpack Revival, Dreamcatcher Annie, Carl, RJ Mischo, Scott Cable, Shanthi, Calvin Jones, Rob's Blues Blog, Queen Bee Zamagni, Bill Lauderbach - Songwriter, Dwight S. Huggins, Roberto Donati, Mississippi Blue, Little Bobby & The Storm, Manuel Pestrin, Sherab Dorje, Diamond Bob & The Alley Sneakers, Bruno Marinucci, THEE Ruthie, Michael, claudio campesi, Tony Cerqua (TCGang), Jess Hoggard Band, Robbie Mackay, Joe Likely, Monise, maurizio bestetti, Joe Caruso, churchboye, RJ Howson, doghouse dom, rick giuliani.
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