I can't stand the blues
- Heston
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I can't stand the blues
Should I feel bad about this? I know it's influential and all that, but it just does nothing for me. No interesting melodies and the purveyors are usually really fat and ugly or Eric Clapton. As for the interminable guitar solos, just fuck right off.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
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Re: I can't stand the blues
No, taste is taste. Hell, CK has railed against the blues here on more than one occasion. There are a lot of different kids of blues though, not just white man electric blues. I'd think you might be interested in some of the old delta stuff or perhaps some of the blues-punk hybrid (like the Neckbones) stuff that gets kicked around these days.Heston wrote:Should I feel bad about this? I know it's influential and all that, but it just does nothing for me. No interesting melodies and the purveyors are usually really fat and ugly or Eric Clapton. As for the interminable guitar solos, just fuck right off.
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Re: I can't stand the blues
If it doesn't speak to you, you're not the audience. I can appreciate the historical importance of the blues, but generally it doesn't do anything for me either. Especially, as you mention, the fucking solos. Yay, good for you and your talent, but I'm bored.Heston wrote:Should I feel bad about this? I know it's influential and all that, but it just does nothing for me. No interesting melodies and the purveyors are usually really fat and ugly or Eric Clapton. As for the interminable guitar solos, just fuck right off.
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Re: I can't stand the blues
I thought it was just the Pogues and Johnny Cash that CK railed against.Flex wrote:No, taste is taste. Hell, CK has railed against the blues here on more than one occasion. There are a lot of different kids of blues though, not just white man electric blues. I'd think you might be interested in some of the old delta stuff or perhaps some of the blues-punk hybrid (like the Neckbones) stuff that gets kicked around these days.Heston wrote:Should I feel bad about this? I know it's influential and all that, but it just does nothing for me. No interesting melodies and the purveyors are usually really fat and ugly or Eric Clapton. As for the interminable guitar solos, just fuck right off.
Nah, I'll never be converted, there's just not enough chord changes or melodic shifts for me, I'm afraid.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
Re: I can't stand the blues
I like some vocal-oriented blues, or where it melts into outsider music.
Overall, though I'm a jazz fan for a reason: gotta mix it up!
Overall, though I'm a jazz fan for a reason: gotta mix it up!
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Re: I can't stand the blues
Okay, I do need to clear up one thing before this train keeps a-rolling: those solos your guys talk about are endemic to one particular subgenre of the blues and are not characteristic of the genre as a whole.
It would be like saying Punk sucks because you can't stand bands like Blink 182 and Sum 41.
It would be like saying Punk sucks because you can't stand bands like Blink 182 and Sum 41.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
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Re: I can't stand the blues
What Flex said. Delta Blues and early electric blues don't have those kind of solos.Flex wrote:Okay, I do need to clear up one thing before this train keeps a-rolling: those solos your guys talk about are endemic to one particular subgenre of the blues and are not characteristic of the genre as a whole.
It would be like saying Punk sucks because you can't stand bands like Blink 182 and Sum 41.
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Re: I can't stand the blues
Yep. Delta and early electric = before the blues got heavily formalized. The solos you'll find in the old stuff are generally weird and bent. Like Hubert Sumlin, who was an influence on Ribot.Wolter wrote:What Flex said. Delta Blues and early electric blues don't have those kind of solos.Flex wrote:Okay, I do need to clear up one thing before this train keeps a-rolling: those solos your guys talk about are endemic to one particular subgenre of the blues and are not characteristic of the genre as a whole.
It would be like saying Punk sucks because you can't stand bands like Blink 182 and Sum 41.
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
- Heston
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Re: I can't stand the blues
But were they still complainin' about their baby being gone or losing their job?Wolter wrote:What Flex said. Delta Blues and early electric blues don't have those kind of solos.Flex wrote:Okay, I do need to clear up one thing before this train keeps a-rolling: those solos your guys talk about are endemic to one particular subgenre of the blues and are not characteristic of the genre as a whole.
It would be like saying Punk sucks because you can't stand bands like Blink 182 and Sum 41.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
Re: I can't stand the blues
Sometimes people touch a mojo hand what ought not touch a mojo hand.Heston wrote:But were they still complainin' about their baby being gone or losing their job?Wolter wrote:What Flex said. Delta Blues and early electric blues don't have those kind of solos.Flex wrote:Okay, I do need to clear up one thing before this train keeps a-rolling: those solos your guys talk about are endemic to one particular subgenre of the blues and are not characteristic of the genre as a whole.
It would be like saying Punk sucks because you can't stand bands like Blink 182 and Sum 41.
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
- Heston
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Re: I can't stand the blues
It sure doesn't get my mojo working.eumaas wrote:Sometimes people touch a mojo hand what ought not touch a mojo hand.Heston wrote:But were they still complainin' about their baby being gone or losing their job?Wolter wrote:What Flex said. Delta Blues and early electric blues don't have those kind of solos.Flex wrote:Okay, I do need to clear up one thing before this train keeps a-rolling: those solos your guys talk about are endemic to one particular subgenre of the blues and are not characteristic of the genre as a whole.
It would be like saying Punk sucks because you can't stand bands like Blink 182 and Sum 41.
What the fuck does mojo mean by the way? They were penny sweets where I'm from.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
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Re: I can't stand the blues
It's voodoo, honeychile.Heston wrote:It sure doesn't get my mojo working.eumaas wrote:Sometimes people touch a mojo hand what ought not touch a mojo hand.Heston wrote:But were they still complainin' about their baby being gone or losing their job?Wolter wrote:What Flex said. Delta Blues and early electric blues don't have those kind of solos.Flex wrote:Okay, I do need to clear up one thing before this train keeps a-rolling: those solos your guys talk about are endemic to one particular subgenre of the blues and are not characteristic of the genre as a whole.
It would be like saying Punk sucks because you can't stand bands like Blink 182 and Sum 41.
What the fuck does mojo mean by the way? They were penny sweets where I'm from.
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Re: I can't stand the blues
I knew it was some Deep-South mumbo jumbo.Wolter wrote:It's voodoo, honeychile.Heston wrote:It sure doesn't get my mojo working.eumaas wrote:Sometimes people touch a mojo hand what ought not touch a mojo hand.Heston wrote:But were they still complainin' about their baby being gone or losing their job?Wolter wrote: What Flex said. Delta Blues and early electric blues don't have those kind of solos.
What the fuck does mojo mean by the way? They were penny sweets where I'm from.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
Re: I can't stand the blues
Mojo's a kind of hoodoo charm bag. You put the roots and the concerns in it, and you feed it every week.
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
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Re: I can't stand the blues
Also, you should paint your porch roof haint blue to keep the ghosts away.eumaas wrote:Mojo's a kind of hoodoo charm bag. You put the roots and the concerns in it, and you feed it every week.
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"