Saturday 15 September 2007

C16

now this is funny ... it had me p##sing my pants for a good 10 minutes ....

let me tell you a story ...

last year i was watching the legend that is mr jools holland and his hootnanney festive cracker. he introduced an artist that just blew my very weighty socks off .. one man, one guitar and a phat phat sound. the last feedback squeals die down and '... thank you c16'. i catch the name and make a mental note to check him out on google when i'm sober. a week or so later i plug in C16 to google ... nothing, apart from a christian rock band on myspace... jeees i wasn't that drunk was i? a few search variations later and still nothing, oh well he must be pretty underground, i'll keep my ears and eyes open and see what i can pick up.

>> fast forward to glastonbury 2007 and i'm sitting on the sofa, just watched iggy fill up the stage with stoned punks, feeling a bit smug that ive just seen a lil bit of cult history .. when smack! theres my man c16 in the shack/tent/tree house affair doing a turn for jo whiley, he's just as awesome, nasty and powerful as i recalled. the last feedback squeals die down and '... thank you c16'. so off i piss the the PC and search for him again .. still jack s##t ... think to myself, this guys a bit of a low key character and leave it, until tonight that is.

>> the mystery has just got too much, ive just spent 2 hrs searching for c16 the 'blues fuzz guitar singer with a battered baseball cap and overalls' and so on.

ive finally found the fucker. why am i laughing?

his name?

seasick steve

twat

ive picked up a few tasty morsels about the guy tonight on my weave around the www. he was at Haight Ashbury in 1967 getting some free love, all by chance, having lived the hobo life for many years. He later lived below kurt cobain, in olympia near seattle and went to the first gig dave grohl played with nirvanna, he was one of the last people to speak to kurt and i quote "He was a nice boy... I would have killed myself to if I was married to that chick he had (Courtney Love)! She was ugly, and she was nasty as can be man..." he has a long player avaiable right now called 'dog house music' and its hard as nails...

take a peep at the vid above an see why he got under my skin for the best part of a year....

see you in the next life

34 comments:

Mondo said...

For more of this 1 string shennanigans Tty MR T Model Ford diddnt learn pick up a geetr until he was 50 scuse sspelling been on a wolf blass buzz *hic*

Yucca bugs said...

Heheheh did exactly the same thing, went looking for c16.....eeeesh

hendrixreborn said...

Hey Dude, OMG i hav had that EXACT same problem i must have caught him 2 or 3 times on Jools Holland and other shows and caught him again on the 2008 New Years Hootenanny, and i missed his name and searched c16 because thats what i believe i heard!! and i type it in google and low and behold you have had the same problem, you my friend are a legend cheers for the name "Seasick Steve" hes amazing!!!!! my e-mail is mad_man_mark1@hotmail.com add me on msn too, and we can chat about great music you sound as if you know a thing or two. ~Xx peace xX~

jakeblues68 said...

OMFG

you found him :-)

I drink to you buddy

bleecher said...

Now that makes me feel a bit better ... i'm not deaf/stupid/alchoholic then .. or does that just make 4 of us ???

glad to be of service gents

Anonymous said...

...hey! make that 6 of us! He's class is'nt he...an inspiration.Class! Cheers like.

Anonymous said...

make me number 7. Picked up what I thought was the name C16 from the (BBC) 6 music breakfast show. I think he's the featured artist this week.

bleecher said...

Sea sick steve has just been on shaun keavenys 6 music breakfast show (2 legends in one room! great session!) Looks like im providing quite a service here too.....

Anonymous said...

just spent last halfhour searching for C16 until i came across this blog must have been just as pissed lol looks like this is a growing band of followers hic make mine a large one lol

marmiteboy said...

Most excellent story Bleech.

Just about stopped laughing.

motto said...

me too, me too! today.
heard the track on the radio and went looking for C16. he he he he

Anonymous said...

Thank You.

I too found the episode I've just had veeerry funny. Perhaps he should change his name!

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Anonymous said...

Omg, my dad (who is completely ignorant to the ways of the internet) just got me to google C16 and I was looking for ages.
Gah, thank youuu!

Ed said...

And thanks from me too, after C16 featuring on Radio 2 last night ( expect more hits in a few weeks when he does a studio appearance for Radcliff & Maconie)!

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Anonymous said...

haha Classic, I was just searching for "C16" as well.(saw him on top gear) Thanks for saving me the 2 hours you spent searching.

Caz H said...

This is so strange!! I've literally just made it back from a foo fighters gig tonight where they introduced the bassist from Led Zep and c16....or so I thought. I had to search for him as he reminded me a lot of Clutch and now I realise he's sea sick Steve so you also saved me hours of searching!! Thanks :-)

Anonymous said...

Spent the sailing season listening to various people talking about C16, made a mental note to check out on tinternet, lo and behold, your blog saved the day.... Top find, your words of wisdom! Drew

Jake said...

Another story of "C16" - met a man from Alabama in Costa Rica who turned me onto this guy. We were talking about Gary Clark Jr and he mentioned how much C16 sounded like him.

I sit to looking him up, and nothing's happening. Thankfully I found your blog post. SEASICK STEVE. Is it a sick insider's joke that everyone pronounces it Sea Sixteen?

Thanks, brother.

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