Blue Plate Special's Page

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Artist (music), Musician, Production, Songwriter

Myspace Page:

http://myspace.com/blueplatespecialband

Website

http://www.bpsblues.com

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WHAT DOES BLUE PLATE SPECIAL BRING TO THE TABLE ?

On Radio:

Blue Plate Special has had 24 songs hit the #1 chart position on Blues Radio stations around the world in the last two years!!
These songs are all from their 3 most recent released CD's.
Who's writing the new Blues favorites? Blue Plate Special is one answer to that question!!!

Live Performance:

Energetic- Electric Blues that begs you to react!! Energized audiences, moving and shouting along with the newly rediscovered voice from the Chicago Blues scene.
Blue Plate Special asks it's audiences every night- "CAN YOU DIG IT !" and they respond with a resounding "HELL YES !!". R.P. Michaels gives a wink and shouts back "I knew that you could !". Marty Macmillan follows with a few BLAZING RIFFS on the guitar that make you think FREDDIE KING was still around.
Right away you know your gonna be entertained by a Band with it's feet firmly planted in the power of past Blues greats. Then they're off and runnin' with "I Like It Like That" or "Hard Enuff"and you find yourself saying "wait, this is new- but my body is grooving !" The Rockin' Blues is happenin' and you can't keep still.

BLUE PLATE SPECIAL - DINNER IS SERVED !!

Just the way you like it ! ...and you'll like it like that !!

HISTORY:
Although some artists like to hang the name Chicago on their billing, this group truly has played almost every major and minor club throughout Chicagoland.
Blue Plate Special, formed in1969 by R.P. Michaels, was there at The Cellar in Arlington Heights, Illinois in '69-'72 opening for Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon's Chicago Blues Allstars, Zephyr w/Tommy Bolin on guitar and The Bob Seger System.
They were among the artists that played at the Otis Spann Memorial Benefit where Willie Dixon and Buddy Guy introduced the Blues community to Koko Taylor singing Wang Dang Doodle.
They were one of the first bands to lead the famous Blue Monday Jam session at Chicago's Kingston Mines (with Studebaker John on the harp).
Blue Plate was the house band for two years at John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd's Blues Brothers Bar on Wells Street.
They have entertained at the Chicago Bears Fan Convention and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Convention and Sears Corporate shows.
Over the years, Blue Plate Special has shared the stage with Charlie Musselwhite, Paul Butterfield, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Siegal-Schwall Blues Band, Heartsfield, Leon Russell, Edgar Winter, Lonnie Brooks, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials, Mitch Ryder, The Kinsey Report, Larry McCray and Wayne Baker Brooks.

Our new album "Can You Dig It" was released to Radio in 2006/07 and since then all 14 songs have been on the air worldwide. During the months of March and April, 2006 the songs "I Like It Like That", "Hard Enuff" and "Feel So Good" went #1 on ElectricBlues Radio 56 & 16. The songs"Yer' Bad Behind" and "Workin' on Love" "Hard Enuff" and "Luck Runs Out" went to #1 on Midnight Special Blues Radio, France. At this printing FIVE songs from our previous CD "The Blues Ain't Pretty" have also gained #1 slots (Tell the Truth, Not In The Mood, Knock Knock, Get Some Fun Out Of Life and The Phone Call). 8 other songs from the album "Can You Dig It !" are in other various Top 20 ratings. Thank you to all the Blues fans worldwide that voted Blue Plate Special up the charts. Blue Plate Special's first album on Prime Records "No Place To Fade" is now also gaining renewed interest and the songs "Stand", "Homework" and "Dippin' In" have gone #1 in 2007.


In response to the worldwide radio appeal of "Can You Dig It!", we feel now is the time to reach out beyond our Chicago roots. The Blues Radio listeners and Blues Festival attendees are one and the same. The current hit songs, powerful sounds and all-around good vibe of Blue Plate Special makes them a great addition to your Blues Festival; an honest homage to the past mixed with the new blood of the present and the determination to Bring The Blues into the Future!

Influences

Muddy Waters, John Hiatt, Ray Charles, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Freddie King, Pacific Gas and Electric, Charlie Allen, Paul Butterfield.

Who to contact for booking

Prime Entertainment
bluesist@aol.com
bpsblues.com
630 207 0340

Online Booking thru: www.gigmasters.com/liveband/blueplatespecial