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  • For those still in that juvenile period of declaring only blacks can play blues... grow up, it doesn't make you some exclusive elite musicologist. If Bloomfield was in Wolf's band in the 50s, you think you flakes would ever figure out he was white based solely on the records? Anyone even know that Muddys lead guitarist for a decade was white? So you'd tell the late Muddy himself that he hired a shitty guitarist since he's white, and therefore Muddy himself doesn't know "real" blues guitar?

  • OK, so moving past the very predictable and ignorant argument of whether white people can play blues, let me ask an actual relevant question...

    WHO IS THE LEAD GUITAR PLAYER??!! Most sources and witnesses confirm that it is NOT Hubert Sumlin, but either Buddy Guy or Freddy King.... but which one??!! Just based on listening, I lean towards Freddy....

  • What are you people fighting about??? Great music is great music. Howlin' Wolf is one of the giants. Don't rip him off - but there are lots of others, too Please just listen to music with your ears, and stop being ugly about it. Those of you criticizing - how old are you? 25? You know noting about Howlin Wolf's music.

  • racism is healed traveling, fascim is healed reading.

  • Who's the piano player on this? He's flaming them keys...

  • the best!

  • sick shit

  • One of best blues songs ever made.

  • this shit gangsta!

  • COULD BE A SPOONFUL OF SMACK!!!!

  • I hate pressing the replay button al the time, but damn, it is worth it!

  • Fantastic! I thought Cream did this. and now I find out 40 + years ago, Willie Dixon & Howlin Wolf wrote and performed it first. Thanks.

  • @Pfranklin28 I thought the same thing. These British acts that came over here I thought were all original but they have been covering old Blues tunes in a rock n roll ish way the whole time.

  • @cuznvinnie818 Yeah, the British guys were all bullshit. They loved the music but didn't have the talent or skills to reproduce it.

  • @flomurdock So to have the "rights" to enjoy good music you have to be just as good? With that logic, you don't have the rights to enjoy any movie or enjoy any painting unless you have the skills to make said movie or paint said painting? What? :/

  • @EliasFrostMusic There's quite a difference between enjoying something and performing it. I've never been a fan of the British invasion, that's all. (Nearly all of them have terrible voices.) And the comments from some of the people who believe the British originated this music are one of the reasons. I grew up listening to this music, and it irritates me when others get the credit for it.

  • Why is it that this genre seems to have the most aggressive youtube fanbase? *sigh*

  • @xBenjaxGuitar that's weird i pity you but you have now you know heavy metal can be trace back to the blues ecspicailly if you listen to black sabbath thier first album which is like the first heavy metal album ever has blues influenece's so i'm surprise

  • Howlin wolf, I LOVE YOUR MUSIC! THIS is so friggin real. I love Smokestack Lightening. Bought the album pictured on this song years ago.

  • Fukin' song !!! I love this

  • I am a huge fan of Heavy/Thrash Metal, but i gotta tell you.. this is awesome!

    Why haven't i heard Howlin Wolf before?!

  • @xBenjaxGuitar Because the powerful media/music moguls have always pushed little white boys as the "originators" of rock and roll. So wrong. You should listen to Thelonius Monk, the band from the 20's lead by Fletcher Henderson, a chemist by training, but unable to get work because he was black.... typical story.

    I hope you open your mind and listen to the origin of most music we listen to in the world.

  • @xBenjaxGuitar cuz you gotta fucking listen to the roots of music dude..

  • Dat spoon dat spoon dat spoon yeah! Everything a fight about a spoonful!!

  • f*ck i love this song

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  • the way music should feel.

  • R.I.P Wolf.

  • Thank  You Mr . Sumlin R.I.P

  • great stuff, thanks for putting it up...

  • R.I.P. Hubert

  • RIP Hubert Sumlin

    

  • I would of sworn this was Tom Waits

  • @fiendishfairies haha i thought that too, i was (still am) a big tom waits fan, and i heard howlin' wolf and was like, hmm this sounds familiar lol

  • Howlin' Wolf was a god of metal. This man was arguably the first metal vocalist. His gruff, somewhat aggressive delivery would play a MAJOR influence on the vocal style of metal.

  • a spoonful of blues.

  • this definitely isnt the spoonful that mary poppins was talkin about

  • (stay away from that sp. full. it's not sugar). love this song

  • The backing piano and percussion really brings in the feeling of this song better than the psychadelic/brit versions..

  • Love the "Wolf"...makes me think of my granddad!!! R.I.P Grand!!!

  • LUV this

  • 5 people have fork...BigLike

  • Phenomenal! Absolute classic!

  • Memo to: Everyone defending Led Zeppelin's plagiarism---It's one thing to re-imagine or re-arrange a vintage song, but it's something else entirely to deny the proper songwriting credit if and when it's available to the performer in question. Contrast: Cream covering Skip James's "I'm So Glad"---they gave him the songwriting credit and they made damn sure the man got paid his proper royalties. MAJOR difference, ladies and gentlemen . . .

  • Now that's some kickass blues!!

  • damn spoon....

    

  • he got some big hands.

  • now this is pure blues...any questions

  • Kinda better than Cream's version

  • lol i'm the 222,222th person! anyway this one is one of those beautiful songs.

  • Shit's ridiculoid

  • Go to Q65 spoonful - for the real thing !!!

  • cool

    

  • oh my. that is damn pure joygasm flowing into my ears.

  • Clearly influenced by Chalrie patton's song about different kinds of spoonfulls.

  • @milascave2 Charlie Patton's song was about cocaine.

  • @howlingsandy But he clearly echos Patton, right down to where he plays a couple of notes on his guitar instead of saying "Spoonful."

  • @milascave2 The point you're pushing isn't worth my getting into, except to say: Wolf continually credited Charlie Patton for inspiring him to pick up the guitar and learned from and then performed with him. But the usage notes in lieu of words can be heard all over the blues, i.e. Lightnin' Hopkins, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Mance Lipscomb, Muddy Waters, Sonny Terry, Son House et al. "Spoonful" in CP's great ragtime tune was patois then for medicinal and other cocaine tincture usage. SGS

  • @milascave2 That's my opinion too, though some dispute me.

  • Howlin´WOLF is my religion!!! BEST greets from Brazil!!!

  • 55 people need a spoonful of the blues

  • A1

  • Howlin' Wolf is incredible.

  • yeessss

    

  • no its about heroin..

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  • NEVER UNDERSTOOD WHAT THE SONG MEANS BUT IT IS COOL AS HELL.

  • @corey7797 Best I can figure its about how people aren't satisfied with what they got or that people will fight and lie about the smallest things. Or maybe a bit of both.

  • wow...neva thought this song would be so effin' cool!

  • Lets stop the discuss about white or black man who made what and go listen the music?

  • white americans have no culture of their own , poor them

  • @BlacknesUnforgivable You idiot, Chess Records belonged to white Polish inmigrants. If it wasn't for them, Howlin would have never been recorded.

  • @turokcalde Ok , but what does that have to do with white americans not having any culture?

  • @turokcalde actually he made many recordings before he went to chess, get your facts straight.

  • @BlacknesUnforgivable Johnny Cash?

  • thay say a deadman came outta the graveyard and tuned his guitar and he was howlin at the moon till the day he died

  • Why all the arguing? Life is too short. Just enjoy the music.

  • @howlingsandy - that's alright, my man, if these ignorant sllly little ***** can't take the time to do the research instead of spouting the **** from their ***** then screw them. Thanks for all your good work, you are indeed a lucky man. The Wolf lives in my heart and makes me a better person.

  • Tabs please?

  • “It was 1928, the 15th day of January, that’s when I decided I wanted to blow a harp and slam on the guitar. Then I went to meeting other musicians, Rice Miller, and went on to meet another guy named Charlie Patton. I 'likeded' his performing on guitar and that put me deep in the mind of wanting to play, y’know!” "He took a liking to me and... " (cont'd another time... transcribed from my interviews, revealing Wolf's early days, coming up... Later, was: soundcloud(dot-com)/howlin-san­dy/clip-4a

  • could someone please tell me what everyone is fighting about?

  • @guitarsoupify They are fighting over Led Zepplin. Apparently Led Zepplin stole a lot of their songs from Howlin Wolf and other Blues artists.

  • @Bryl25 thanks for telling me

  • @Bryl25 Exactly. Exhibit A: "The Lemon Song" - hook, line, and all. Come on, Led, what European says "I'm gonna leave my woman down on this killin' floor.?"

  • eargasam! never gets old

  • This is fucking sick! I've never heard anything like this!

  • Should add "Music" to the topic list you must be careful about, just like Sports, Religion or Politics. Guess is not funny when someone confront you beliefs but gettin some answer like OMG FGGT U PIECE F DPSHT not gonna help your case.

  • @isitrealgood I have none, we didn't like them when they came out - you clearly don't know who you're talking to - and are too arrogant & stupid to figure how to find out, before blabbering defenses. The "dissections" are abundant online, and done by many. So, no Zep crap in my collection, but oh... well, there's a tape we made when we jammed with them (and others) at a party, etc. when they came out here. NOTE: they could not look us in the eye when we brought up their blatant infringement!

  • @howlingsandy When "we" jammed with.... whom? You mean to tell me you, and the mice in your pocket, jammed with members of LED ZEPPELIN (and others) at a party? If you're going to make assumptions about me ("arrogant & stupid"), I'll make it a fair exchange and say you're delusional, for one thing, and, at best, one of those contrarians who would presume to defend these great bluesmasters against "those damned charlatans" Led Zeppelin, 'cuz it's cool to be contrarian.

  • @isitrealgood Hello MORON... why don't you learn who the fuck you're talking to... to make it really EZ you can just read my comments on this actual page.and see actual truth and maybe YOU think coolness is being "a contrarian" but whatever the hell you're trying to blabber, assume and believe..for whatever neurotic inner-pain shielding reasons.. it's just projection..nothing more ... so you and vanxhalen can get a room on that as you both have a long ride ahead to get yours out of ur ass.

  • @isitrealgood you're too mentally messed up to see how every single blabbering comment you put forth in stupidity & aggressive toxicity simply applies to YOURSELF..The pathetic self-image tower of babble you strive to attain just ain't gonna happen. You can't complain about invectives speaking in the fartese of your own, pretty much all you have ever offered. Well, actually, YOU can it seems. Fix yourself, a-hole. Maybe it's more so yourself you need to know.so as not to mess yourself in public

  • @howlingsandy I have to say this: the kind of negativity and animosity that you feel the need to bring to each of his videos here makes me very reluctant to come listen to the Wolf on YouTube - and that, more than anything, is a shame.

    I'd like to think of the Wolf as a bigger man than the kind of begrudging negativity you attribute to him would imply, but perhaps I'm wrong - you know him best, I suppose. I guess it would be safer, then, to focus on his musical genius, and to forget the rest...

  • @redkutai Your judgmental, pretentious, self-righteous, narrow-minded, self-fooling blathered assumptions & wrongful conclusions show no self-awareness to your "have to say"/"makes me" compulsiveness being a fear of truth, a selfish status quo enabling. Grow up! Your shame's inside YOU, and not the healthy kind. It's not negative or wrong to confront racism, plagiarism or jealous ignorant flamers! "Each of his videos?" Before you let your conflicted psyche attribute implications, take a breath!

  • @howlingsandy The fact remains that, while those instances of plagiarism have obviously brought people to the realisation of Howlin' Wolf's greatness, your posts regularly drive people from him, instead. Those plagiarists' legacies will include all those people who are now aware of the Wolf; and your legacy will include every person you've turned away from him.

    There are positive ways to share the Wolf's greatness - you choose negativity, instead. Your choice, but I feel he deserves better...

  • @redkutai No facts whatsoever in your vapid, classically delusional bullshit. Here's your choice: if after this you continue getting personal, enjoy a cyber libel suit as some others have, and for good reasons. Or if you prefer, worse. The anonymity you imagine here, babbling flaming farts off your keyboard, doesn't exist, and your new i.d. for the same old drunken yammering is about to bring you down! What you "feel" is a mess only a psychiatrist should have to put up with, because i won't.

  • Great thread full of intelligent insightful information, one of he best on the tube. I enjoyed the music and the read.

  • @Zboots Did you interview Wolf about meeting, learning from and then performing with "CP"? If not (will assume "not" is the factual answer, since I didn't see you there when I WAS) it "seems to me" that your glib rhetorical question is just carelessness used to hone your mind to wear blinders, the better to maintain some illusion of 'epic pinnacle". One can find many comments about Charlie Patton that Howlin' Wolf - throughout his career - gave to interviewers, friends & musicians! ~ SGS

  • @barrywilliamsmb check out my home page, barry - howlingwolfphotos in the browser should suffice to lead to it, and to hear a cool very personal personal moment we shared try this: soundcloud(dohtcom)/howlin-san­dy/clip-4a

  • Oh this one hurt so good.

  • See: soundcloud(dot com)/howlin-sandy/clip-4a to get a very good sense of one "white guy" (well, at least passing) who was very aware. It's me & Wolf, part of his harp lessons given me) When the Brit bands came around I didn't much like most as they turned their covers into a different thing from what was intended. There were some fine artists, just the covers were almost always very disappointing & weak. To those who never heard the originators, it was easier to identify with & like. ~ SGS

  • @howlingsandy My black great-grandmother also believed church (religious)music should not have been turned into blues music; She did not believe in guitars. She did not agree with the "new" kind of music.I understand how you are partial to what some may call "original" music, however each generation has added a new element to the previous. I am sure you are aware Blues comes from the heart, very deep with in the soul. There is NO special brew of how to re-create blues music.

  • @tastybrownsugar32 Wolf's mother: a 'religious' zealot who kicked him out at 9 and refused to come to his deathbed though offered any means to get there. Blues did not actually "come from" church music. IMHO there's a recipe what to AVOID if doing COVERS of ROOTS ORIGINALS. People's connection to heart/soul/truth vary, music influenced by marketing/control now more than ever. i.e. Write ORIGINAL songs. Don't riff-ify covers to lose the message, Don't make clueless rock songs out of 'Black Betty'

  • @howlingsandy I had forgotten that story about his mother - that was really sad. I saw that on a documentary, and on a lighter note, they also mentioned that Howlin' Wolf was drafted into the Army and then released as mentally unfit shortly thereafter. That always cracked me up, the image of the Army trying to deal with Howlin' Wolf and giving up. Anyway, I agree with your sentiments about writing original blues. If you have time check out my channel for some new raw blues...

  • @tastybrownsugar32 What I'm "partial to" per some comments I've made here, is that original creators not be ripped off, or when so, it's outed. Or, that they aren't dismissed by things like a harp-playing "bluze man" naming "Goin' Down Slow"(even with the SPOKEN parts imitated) in 'his' long-riffy upload simply, "Slow Blues" No writer's credits. I'M a published songwriter/singer/harp player too. I prefer original song but when covering one it was faithfully (but uniquely) & always credited SGS

  • in case some don't get it, seems theydont.. rip off does not mean cover or even imitate.. it means using original work unlicensed no royalties or fees or credits given to originators... and grabbing big bucks from the unknowing or uncaring purchasers of their stolen goods... The Stones did Wolf a nice turn, as did other UK bands.. a few ripped off a bit but Zep.. it was their thing. And to idiots who think am "jealous" Zeps slide work is first month on open tuning.. jeez. lol ~ SGS

  • @howlingsandy The blues guys used to tour the UK. Get paid better and none of that through the back door crap, albums sold over here they came to their audience. Thats what Led Zep, the stones, Clapton, Green etc.. grew up with (like me) so when they get to making it, theyre shocked that the rest of the world didnt know about it. So all that happens is the Brits sell the americans their own sh*t, and this time they take it cause it aint coming from a black man.

    Wolf is a LEGEND. IMMORTAL. GENIUS

  • @gonner212 It's not quite that way. First of all, not all non-blacks were ignorant of blues, i.e. the early Steve Miller (blues) band , Canned Heat, Paul Butterfield, Mother Earth, Big Brother/Janice Joplin, orig Charlatans (etc.) Mainstream whites without access to southern/mid-west air play were ignorant, as it wasn't marketed to whites, until Elvis covered my friend Arthur Crudup via Sam Phillips (mid 50's!) NOTHING excuses Zep's infringement. And, also, I know what Wolf told me~ SGS

  • @howlingsandy Sorry man. Im just parroting what my father told me, a guy who was born on this tiny little island. Though he was in the navy and saw John Lee Hooker play in Harlem. Just take my ignorance under advisement of the British perspective.

    Nice talking with you, and as long as Wolf is rediscovered by every new generation, he wins in the end.

  • @gonner212 that is important yeah.. i don't know if the Viagra commercial that uses the Smokestack Lightnin' riff and Wolf's howls full-length of commercial sound track ever credits Wolf.. but there will be an unusual and very cool HW CD coming out with some rare cuts before the end of this year that should help with both the rediscovery and beyond. Cheers

  • @howlingsandy You're a fag.

  • @mikeman988 only since you suck my dick and lick my anus, but hell, i need the money. are you proud to act the loser? blabber away you pathetic bastard. But the purported sanctity of your keyboard is another myth you believe, just an FYI.

  • @howlingsandy very well said, many white folks, mostly British but Americans too, knew and loved the blues. They couldn't begn to play it as well as the originators, but at least they helped to popularize these songs in the white community and hopefully inspired these kids to seek out the far superior originals.

  • @howlingsandy I watched a document on Led Zeppelin. The whole doco was about blues. If you labelled the doco "history of blues" then it would've made more sense. The likes of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson, Blind Willie Johnson, Sonny Boy Williamson etc have been great influences over the time of Page & Plant's careers. I would say that they took their songs and made it into their own, rather than trying to just be like their heroes... Kudos to Led Zep

  • @MetalAndRockGuru go learn a few things, such as meaning of infringement and of plagiarism. One does not rip off their heros. Zep was a pile of exploitive opportunists who (unlike many others and like some others) just flat out took someone else art and pretended they came up with it. For those who like their thin whiny-voiced often pretentious riffs (some also taken) I'd say they likely did that because that was all they could do, generally detracting from the quality of what was lifted. (c)SGS

  • @howlingsandy You made some good points in your comments, but I think that the majority of British acts had honourable intentions. Jimmy Page should have given credit where credit was due, but that's another story....

  • Lots of UK bands covered Wolf and other US artists. The serious non-crediting rip offs from beginning to long overdue end were Led Zep (thieving magpies) and could not reply looking me in the eyes when I jammed with them. Only Wolf and WIllie Dixon had it together enough to sue and to win and to then be force d to sue their own publishing company to get the award. There is NO excuse for whiney barely talented soulless wannabes LZ that's fact dont waste my time to argue Find your soul instead

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  • Could anyone give me a tab, sheet music or anything else for this song please?I've searched it everywhere, but I can't find.

  • I'm going to be humming this bassline for a few days now.

  • I dedicate this to my best friend lou who just died he loved the Blues hes in a beter place now hes probably shaking Howlinwolf's hand as we speak.

  • Four people that don't have a SPOON can go FORK themselves

  • Could be a spoonful of wonder or could be a spoonful of fear,

    But all it is - is a wee bit of our friend, Mr. Nuclee-ear.

    Men lie about it. Some people dies about it. We all why's about it.

    Sorry, it was the groove what made me do it, yuh honor...

    A million thank yous for uploading this, buckinny. Oh, and thanks to Wolf, too.

  • @barrywilliamsmb who are you and how in the **ck did you find this...you're probably some 20 something white guy who has no racial or societal issues about music

  • @btlayt You're pretty close, friend. I'm a 54 something pale face who has lots of issues about this music on account of I'm addicted to the Wolf and his ilk.

    What brought you to the Wolf, btlayt?

  • @btlayt Any need?

  • Would have ranted if it were not for Prelude1383

  • Metal and blues, two sides of the same coin, both incredibly powerful when good. This is brilliant, so its power is incredible.

  • @ennuiandthensome Metal is a joke.

  • @sthoma07 Not if you have an open mind and can handle some variety every now and then. I mean atleast metal musicians still use REAL instruments, auto tune is a joke. If you look in the right places metal can be GREAT and have just as much soul as any classic rock or old blues musician. Check out Devil Take Tomorrow by Marty Friedman or Blue by Jason Becker. As always though respect the classics and DON'T develope " tunnel vision- music edition," open minds are always more fun for everyone!

  • @Prelude1383 Well put - good points. Not my cup of tea, but each to his own!

  • mistrets

    

  • Charlie Patton then Howlin Wolf then Captain Beefheart then the Black Keys four generations of influence and great music

  • alright.. look, this is ONLY THE BEST BLUES SONG EVER ... by Music's first, and baddest bad ass EVER

  • Being a guy that loves rock and metal, you really have to appreciate this type of music because this is what todays rock expanded from.

  • Brilliant. What a voice. Brooding' man!!!!!

  • iam so sad for the comments on this video please enjoy the music do not defile this amazing artist

  • Watch out or THE WOLF will cut you down. Ain't no one got the mojo like da wolf. Stand back and shiver. He cuts like glass.

  • Preach Wolf Preach....

  • its so dark and mean! music of today is totaly missing this!

  • i see 4 people only had a fork

  • How can people bicker with one another while listening to this song?

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  • @HumanBornFree And yet you do that which you criticize, by bothering to comment, though clueless to that, in*this case,* the issue is far from "bickering" but required confronting and generated a lawsuit & criminal charges pending against that person. That I made songs with Wolf and much more may explain "how. That some psychopath sought to diminish Wolf's legacy + specific in-writing hopes our work be credited to me when our co-created photographic image and his deranged personal slander is why

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  • nice

  • Brilliant!!!

  • This guy's got soul.

  • Hubert Sumlin is one of the greatest unsung guitar players of all time.

  • @FenderTele61 chek out sammy lawhorn , same vintage ,played with koko taylor

  • @FenderTele61 ever influential and not yet inducted into the Rock Hall, in Influences section, but then neither is actual father of Rock & Roll Arthur Big Boy Crudup. Hubert Sumlin with Howlin' Wolf are almost singularly responsible for inspiring the Brit Rock Invasion. Mojo Mag #27 UK's premier music mag is dedicated to this. Yes, they had the good taste to use my image of Wolf on the cover, but beyond that the article is very well researched. The reporter drove 16,000 miles finding people.

  • this dudes voice was amazing truly one of a kind

  • There may have been something behind the scenes other than the race records business, maybe the Chess bros. did not want their artists getting away from them, remember they profited off the British bands covering those song, and if they did not then they did more harm than good. I think the real song writers got paid, certaintly when Led Zepplin tried to take Whole Lotta Love, Willie Dixon's lawyers said hold it...and if you said I can't play the harp cuz Iam white well you and me have a problem

  • @thefabb ZEP (A K A The Thieving Magpies) stole from HUNDREDS of USA black blues artists. They and backers made billions while most original artists couldn't get it together enough to generate a lawsuit. It's not easy,. even these days. Dixon and Wolf did sue, winning. But Wolf had to sue his own publishing agents to get his portion, about $45,000. Wolf's estate also sued Chess and won. I'm Wolf's great friend, harp student, photographer (at howlingwolfphotos) ZEP = SHAMEFUL EXPLOITERS

  • @TheSlickLeg FACT US, YOU YAMMERING DICKWIT (ADDED UR NICEST ASPECT-LABEL AS YOU SEEM TO DIG TALKING IN FARTESE -> ZEP STOLE! ALMOST EVERY FUCKING WHINY, OVER-EXTENDED, RIFF VS MESSAGE ORIENTED, EGO-SODDEN SOUL-LESS FINAL PRODU, CT HYPED UP THING THEY EVER DID IN THEIR WAY, LAME ASS NON-ORIGINAL, STOLEN , LIFTED , PLAGIARIZED UNCREDITED. SO YOU SEE I CLEARLY DO RECOGNIZE THEIR ORIGINALITY AND CONTRIBUTION.. AND AS FOR UR "END OFF"` YES URS BE, ALL RIGHT BUT YOU GOTS UR HEAD TO PLUG IT, AS EVER

  • @TheSlickLeg So much you don't realize, kid. Ur childish aggressive babble = ignorance + foolish delusions, rubbing a weak boner for drama queen games, meaningless rudeness just PRAYERS to be right (but only right out of ur mind - and league) Keyboard warrior? Too inept to locate my PUBLIC record? No way ur farted derangement i.e. your pain projected outward. Ask, and you can hear it direct from mates, the few RM50s qualifying: 200 Recondos 9 countries, cross-trained CQC in Moscow after Glasnost