Blues Society on Taiwan
Promoting an appreciation of the Blues in Asia.Check out our FaceBook pagehttp://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=88409850452See More
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DC Rapier
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Blues, the original World Music!
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Blues in Asia
A cracker barrel/watering hole/gathering place for Blues musicians, organizers and fans living in Asia.
Indah Winar joined DC Rapier's group
Blues in Asia
A cracker barrel/watering hole/gathering place for Blues musicians, organizers and fans living in Asia.
Hidenobu Kiyasu joined DC Rapier's group
Blues in Asia
A cracker barrel/watering hole/gathering place for Blues musicians, organizers and fans living in Asia.
Brian Brazil joined DC Rapier's group
Blues Society on Taiwan
Promoting an appreciation of the Blues in Asia.Check out our FaceBook pagehttp://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=88409850452See More
Voodoo Highway joined DC Rapier's group
Blues in Asia
A cracker barrel/watering hole/gathering place for Blues musicians, organizers and fans living in Asia.
Voodoo Highway joined DC Rapier's group
Blues Society on Taiwan
Promoting an appreciation of the Blues in Asia.Check out our FaceBook pagehttp://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=88409850452See More
Homesick Joe joined DC Rapier's group
Blues in Asia
A cracker barrel/watering hole/gathering place for Blues musicians, organizers and fans living in Asia.
Chicago Blues: A Living History joined DC Rapier's group
Profile Information
- About Me:
- DC Rapier was born in a little log cabin he helped his father build in Kankakee, Illinois. Soon after, he whittled a diddley-bo out of firewood and taught himself to play Blues tunes he learned listening to the Yardbirds and other British cats.
Reading the names 'M Morganfield', 'W. Dixon' and 'E. McDaniels' on the record labels, he realized that none of these cats were in the bands that made up the British Invasion and the re-introduction of American Blues to the American public. From thence he began a life-long process of schooling himself about the Blues.
After years of professional starvation as a 'working musician', DC found his way to Taiwan where he has lived and taught English as a foreign language for 19 years - fifteen of them married blissfully to Yashan 'Linda' Huang.
Seeing that there was a totally despicable dearth of awareness about the Blues amongst the people of Taiwan, DC decided to step in, step up and rectify the situation.
He started by hosting a radio show, 'The Blues Power Hour' dedicated to shamelessly proselytizing and preaching the gospel of the Blues for which he was assigned the sobriquet of 'deacon'.
After being inspired by Taiwan-based jug-band troupe, David Chen and the Muddy Basin Ramblers, DC then took the extra step and formed an electric Blues band which after several transformations became 'BoPoMoFo', a Chicago-style Blues quintet.
www.bopomofo-blues.com
And as if that sort of mid-life-crisis craziness wasn't enough, DC founded the Blues Society on Taiwan, an affiliate of the Blues Foundation and took up the call to action from Jim Nestor to nominate South Florida's R&B treasure, Joey Gilmore for the IBC.
Crazy, baby! Better than a movie - cuz Joey won the IBC; first in 2005 (but was disqualified on a minor technicality) and then again the following year.
In the meantime - with lots of help from a bunch of even crazier friends - DC gave birth to an annual Blues festival, the Blues Bash, in order to better spread the gospel of the Blues by inviting international Blues players to manifest, in the flesh, the power of the Blues to the growing audience of Blues fans on Ilha Formosa. The baby was born on a blustery day in March, 2005 and now DC has photos of 5 festivals in his scrap-book. The biggest pay off is that all of the guests artists to have come to Taiwan and share in the fun of the Blues Bashes want to come back for more!
www.bsot-bluesbash.com
And that's about where the story has come so far...
- Favorite Blues Artists and Bands
- Muddy Waters, Shun Kikuta, Koko Taylor, Frank Zappa, Beatles, Louis Jordan, Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, Little Walter, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles David, Johnny Hartman, Etta James, Joey Gilmore, the list goes on and on and on...
- Your Website Address
- http://bopomofo-blues.com
- Are you a:
- Artist, Fan, Blues Club/Association
DC Rapier's Videos
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BoPoMoFo at BeatClub # 06
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BoPoMoFo at BeatClub # 05
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BoPoMoFo at BeatClub # 04
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DC Rapier's Blog
Claiming Our Oyster: BoPoMoFo's (brief) Tour of Japan
The time has come the Walrus said…
Not to talk of sealing wax but rather to wax on about BoPoMoFo’s ‘Claiming Our Oyster’ tour of Japan.
The tour title might at first blush appear to over-state the case a bit but as this was BoPoMoFo’s first sojourn to the Land of the Rising Shun to preach the gospel of the Blues, it could be said that this trip was an historic one and so deserves a grandiose title. We’re talking personal history, here, naturally but every little story is a part of… Continue
Not to talk of sealing wax but rather to wax on about BoPoMoFo’s ‘Claiming Our Oyster’ tour of Japan.
The tour title might at first blush appear to over-state the case a bit but as this was BoPoMoFo’s first sojourn to the Land of the Rising Shun to preach the gospel of the Blues, it could be said that this trip was an historic one and so deserves a grandiose title. We’re talking personal history, here, naturally but every little story is a part of… Continue
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It's an honor to be on this journey with you. ..and a pleasure to be your friend. Thank you for allowing me to be a member of the community.
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I knew him on internet. I'm sorry that I couldn't come your live in Tokyo.
BTW I run into Mr. Oh Yeah yesterday. LOL
Hey now....it's cold in San Francisco !!! Hope that your well my friend. All the best to you for a Merry Christmas and a really great New Year !! Yer pal,
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thank you for adding me. it is a pleasure to listen to your songs. You really make my ulcer bleed. Also the blues version of the Beatles song is unbelievable super. Long live Taiwan´s blues. Hope to see Formosa again.
say big hello to Linda and BoPoMoFo
Bonzo
Very cool site with some very nice down home folks!!!!
I hope to meet many more !!!!!
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John Hoffman
I'm the D.C. of D.C. & Co. but around here I'll just go by "Dave", Hey checked out your site and the vids of the Blues fest. Congrats. on that, some very nice stuff going on all the way through. Keep doing what ya do!
Dave
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