… and Rock! Take a look at the
influence John Mayall has had. The
connections. The influences. The great
music that came out of his influence.
It’s almost unbelievable. The
diagram just depicts the most obvious connections. The ones that could fit on a page. It’s missing the Yardbirds-Page-Zeppelin
link. It obscenely abridges Clapton’s
reach. It skips the whole Dylan universe
outside the Willburys. It doesn’t even
try to show who Phil Collins has touched, which is, like, everybody.
Was John Mayall as influential as Lennon, Dylan, Jagger, Hendrix or
Page? Maybe not, but when you think
about who he’s played with – and who they
played with, he’s touched just about everything. Mayall is one important cat.
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